New Britain herald., 1922-09-30

seal pending an investigation into a collateral industry
 The indicted potteries are engaged principally in the manufacture of porcelain and earthenware fixtures for bathrooms, Since n large proportion of their product goes into apartment houses, Col. Hayward said the action Is of vital concern to New York city and the country at large.
 Finds Prices Out of Reason.
 The indictment is in two counts, one charging Il price fixing combination and the other accusing the defend- ants of unlawfuly restricting their sales to specially selected Legitimate jobbers."
 It Is alleged that these defend- ants manufacture and sell upward of s5 per cent of all the sanitary pot tery manufactured in the United States; that through the medium of their association they refrained from competing with each other as to the prices at which sanitary pottery should be sold, and that by common anu COtlGNIltd dtllOl tHNy t6pSNNu uniform, arbitrary and non-competi- tive prices" Several overt acts are alleged in the southern district of New York.
 1 Regarding the second count Col. Hayward said the selling practices of the concerns tended to increase the price to the consumer beyond all req sonable proportions. He continued:
 This association had rule where | by it's members were barred from selling their merchandise directly to the builder or architect or contractor, except through the medium of a job
 Der or plumber. Tn other words, the
 manufacturer would confine his sales
 to so-calied Legitimate jobbers." The
 plumbers profit would be added and it would then go to the contractor.
 Each one of these groups was placed 1 in a position whereby it could, with out fear or competition, dictate its 1 own price and dictate its own profit"
 The case was presented to the grand jury by David l.. Podell, spe- cial assistant to the United States At torney, who said the defendants Nill be called for pleading within two weeks and that the case will go to trial at an early date.
 List of Defendants.
 The twenty-three companies and twenty-four individuals indicted are: , Abingdon Sanitary Manufacturing company, Abingdon, H., and James E. Slater. president and manager; Acme Sanitary Pottery company, Trenton, and James A. Dorety. Jr., secretary: B. o. T. Manufacturing | company, Trenton, and Bert O. Til- den, president; Bowers Pottery com pany, Mannington, W. Va, and John w. Bowers, president; Camden Pot tery company, Camden, and T. Nun roe Dobbins, president and treasurer: Chicago Pottery company, Chicago, | and Theodore H. Harker, secretary l treasurer; Cochran-Drugan & Co.,, Trenton, and Walter F. Drugan, vice. president; Eljer Company, Cameron, w. Va, and Ford City, Pa., and Ray 1 mond E. Crane. president; Kal- amazoo Sanitary Manufacturing com
 pany, Kalamazoo, Mich, and Edward | V. Brigham, vice. president and gen. eral manager; Kokomo Sanitary Pot tery Company, Kokomo, Ind, and G. E. Rhodes, general manager Key stone Pottery Company, Trenton, and Harry J. Lyons, president and treas- urer.
 Also Lambertville Pottery company l'ambertville, N. J., and Philip J. Fa- herty treasurer; John Maddock and Sons company. Trenton. and William E. Maddock, secretary; Thomas Mad docks Sons company. Trenton, and Archibald M. Maddock. president; Ma 1 tional-Helfrich Potteries company Evansville, Ind, and Harry F. Weaver secretary and general manager; Pa cif1c Sanitary Manufacturing company, Richmond, Cal, and Newton w. Stern, president; Resolute Pottery company, Trenton, and John F. Smith, treasur- CT; Sanitary Earthenware Speciality Co.,, Trenton, and Arthur Plantier, Sr., president and general manager; Standard Sanitary Manufacturing company, Kokomo, Ind, and Tiffin, Ohio, and A. c. Kalbfeisch and Sig mund B. Kling, factory managers, and W. c. Chamberlain, sales manager; Trenton Potteries company, Trenton, and Elzey S. Aitkin, general manager; Universal Sanitary Manufacturing company, New Castle, Pa; Wheeling Sanitary Manufacturing company, Wheeling, w. Va, and J. E. Wright, president and general manager, and Horton Pottery company, Chilicothe, O., and Chris Horton, president and