The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-02-07
BOOT AND SHOE
LAST TRUST S
NOW DISSOLVED
Federal Government Breaks
Up Combine in Quick
Time Today.
LICENSE COMPAcTs
ARE TERMINATED
inas Is Insofar rs they Fixed Price of
unpatented Lasts-Club. Through
Which Alleged Violation Of I.aw xvas
Accomplished, is Broken Un

9etrolt' Mich. Feb. THE 'boot
ana shoe last trust" fixing. it Is alleg-
go; the price Of practically every last
eI eS III ene United States was dissolv-
ment in quick time. immediately FOL
lowing the filing of a civil antitrust
SUI against the Krentlcr-Arnoid
ainse Last company and numerous
oIner last manufacturers with whom
y s. vas allied by agreements, United
=, StateS District Judge Arthur J, Tut
s.s entered an agreed decree termin.
sLs ans license agreements in 80 Tar as
@ eney 5xed the price of unpatented lasts
!ne alleged violation of the Sherman
law was accomplished,
ns oecrse IN effect. lays down the
uIoao principle that 1t is unlawful TO
eie together patented and unpatented
articles so as to fix the price of the
unpatented commodity. Neither the
governments petition nor the decree
questions the right Of a patentee to
ia Tie price OF a patented last.
The Defendants.
defendants to the suit were named
as follows: ''sN
Krentler- r-Arnold Hinge Last COM
pany. lnay. tDetroio: Krentler- -Broscomp.
SDetrott); Crawford. McGregor and
Candy company. dayton. ohioI:
Rebhun company. lcincinnati5; St.
Louis Last company. (st. Louis): Chi
gago Last and Die company; Boston
Last company: Rochester Last works:
woodward and Wright Last company.
yCampello. Mass.); George e. Bslcher
Last company. (Stoughton. Mass.);
MaMh,nny sias Last company. (Brockton,
Mass:): sH): Goidbert Last company.
company. Marlboro. Mass: New York
LAST company John Pell and Sons.
Newark. \. J): Stewart and Potter
company. (New York City); r. s. Nc
Sei!l company. brooklyn, N. w:
Phtladelphia Last and Pattern COM
pany: vulcan Box Toe Process COM
Pany. lportsmouth. Ohio): Nathaniel
=. Arnold and George F. Atwood.
Vanpelt. Chicago: f. ". Stuart. Be-
verify. Mass; Thomas W. Gardner. n.
k. Gardner, and H L Wood. Lyon,
Mass: Frederick Drew and Augustus
a: Delano. Brockton. Mass: W. z.
bieelow. Worcester. Mass: C. C. Kemp
ton. s. S. Redifer. Oscar Redifer and
william c. Root, Philadelphia. L. G.
Madleigh and J. H. Horey. Haverhill,
MASS; MASS; Edwin Q. Krentler. Detroit:
william H. Crawford. Dayton. Ohio:
Charles S. Dennis. Chicago and Fred
Drew. Brockton. Mass.
The defendants manufacture. it IL
declared. rs to so per cent Of all shoe
and boot lasts in the United States and
thus dominate and control so far as
price Is concerned. the entire inter-
state commerce.
Alleged Unfair Prices.
Instead Of manufacturing its patent
ed lasts and their parts exclusively
krentler-Arnold Hinge Last company
issued license agreements to other
manufacturers in which the latter
agreed. 1t is said. to maintain the pric-
es of all lasts in accordance with a
schedule of prices furnished by the
former. The purpose of these agree
ments. 1t is charged. was to fix arbi-
trarily and unfairly high the price Of
both patented and unpatented lasts
the latter forming about fifty per cent
Hinge Last company to exact an ex-
orbitant price for its patented lasts.
Prices are fixed and unreasonably
high profits obtained. 1t is declared.
largely through an organization
known as the Cary club. composed en-
tirely Of the licensees of the Krentler.
Arnold Hinge company.
By the agreed decree. in which the
defendants disclaim all intention Of
the Sherman law, they are
restrained from continuing the alleged
unlawful features of their agreements
and from further maintaining the
Cary club.
The governments petition signed by
Attorney General Wickersham. James
A. Fowler. assistant to the attorney
general. and Malcolm A. Coles. special
assistant, was filed by United States
Attorney Clyde I. Webster.