Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1921-09-30
Heads of Practically All Terra
Gotta Plants in Vicinity
Are Included
FIRMS AS WELL AS MEN
Federal Grand Jury Charges
Price Fixing--M Monopoly is
Also Alleged by U. S.

Accused of monopolizing the ter
ra Gotta business of the United
States and of increasing prices from
$40 to $400 a ton. twenty-five cor
porations and twenty-seven indiVld-
uals, had been indicted by the Fed
eral Grand Jury on charges of Grim
inally violating the Sherman Anti
Trust law, Colonel William Hayward,
United States Attorney for the South
ern District of New York, announced
Yesterday. Among the firms and in
diyiduals indicted appear the names
of firms in this city, Woodbridge,
South Amboy and other points in
New Jersey.
Among the defendants are:
Atlantic Terra Gotta Company, of
Tottenville, N. Y; Perth Amboy and
Rocky Hill, n. j.
3, Federal Terra Gotta Company, OF
Woodbridge.
The New Jersey Terra Gotta Com
pany, Perth Amboy.
The South Amboy Terra Gotta
Company, South Amboy.
William H. Powell. president OF
the Atlantic Terra Gotta Company.
H., B. Wey. vice president of the
Atlantic Terra Gotta Company.
De. Forest Grant. president of the
Federal Terra Gotta Company.
Hairy Lee King. assistant secre-
larry of the Federal Terra Gotta Com
pany.
e. ". Eskesen. president and gen
eral manager of the New Jersey
Terra Gotta Company.
Karl Mathiasen, Jr.. secretary OF
the New Jersey Terra Gotta Com
pany.
Peter c. Olsen, secretary of the
South Amboy Terra Gotta Company.
The indicted men will be notified
within a weeks time where they
may appear for pleading.
The defendants comprise mem.
bers of the National Terra Gotta
Society and the Atlantic section
known as the Eastern Terra Gotta
Association. There were two indict-
ments, the members of each asso-
citation being indicted separately
The indictments followed nation
wide investigation extending from
coast to coast under the direction
of David L. Podell, assistant to
Colonel Hayward.
Declaring this to be a very ag-
gravated case, Colonel Haywood
said: '9rhese men got together
4 and divided the United States
into certain definite divisions of
territory as arbitrarily and with as
complete and definite discipline as
the German General Staff used in
dividing the western front into COM
bat sectors"
The investigation of the terra cot
la industry revealed a startling sit
suation, declared Mr.. Hayward. In
this, as in other branches of the
building trades, Samuel Untermyer
counsel to the Lockwood commit
tee, rather understated than over
stated conditions in the building
trades. he said.
TERRA Gotta may properly be
classed as next in importance tC
stedl and cement in the building in
dustry," he added. I'VE find that
this vast industry reaching from
here to the Coast has been within
the complete and arbitrary contro
of about twenty-three men through
out the United States. The mer
are \ banded together and operate
almost as one"
The first Indictment charges all Of
the, terra Gotta Manufacturers II
the United States with four viola
tions of the Sherman law. Prior Il
the organization of the trade asso
Citations, it was said, the terra cotts
manufacturers competed freel,
throughout the country. According
to Col Hayward. the national SO
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