The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Little Known Report From Sweden Bdres
Oil Curtel Aqreements
By ALVAINE HAMILTON and CUSHMAN REYNOLDS
For Labor Press Association

For Labor Association
four & car TO bef fuel ess %n
price of the stuff burn the highways has been
n snsT we A used to- s 9e buy
f@ 9d budeeDg And don't price the
result of supply and demand
told Hidden away little pubiczed report sweden by
d ou ot The gasoline The
is about the everywhere
in $780, according to the report American Dutch and British oil
quotas the number of distributors Sweden But things
investigators finished probing Swedish operations they
had turned document called the AS s memo which appeared to
country which members of the cartel sold their oil and specifically
sGeIsd sDy petroleum. product ana f00S " 0e''
The agreement indefinite duration it, quotas
for each member in each country There
be local meetings to enforce the agreement month Proyis
for uniform bids contracts system worked out
outfits which ddG tines them addition ih rules govern
each discuss budgets for their distribution operations
9 @ S S be- set sof sf of s and saS
b @ ba % 5 auo adVe @ r
limited each country to avoid waste Any company which each
jersey Shell BP swedish distributing
local 5 @ Of the AS 5aE ss @ By a 1885, the T Ssas
schedule prices for motorists bus
% Pas he snd ali pVe
Tine % % n a annual f~t OIL @ to
funds In 1888 the five agreed to discourage the bqng
the kind competition enterprise boys keep screaming
The combine had underground in 1889 because Gulf and
ad y might sa get no SsT w6 o
turned they weren't really pulling of the combine for
Since the the oil companies have operated under set of sell
ues pretty the old arrangements
the Swedish committee decided that selling conditions actually
Sir Brian Trench alay them
had been alarmed by investigations cond
suit against Standard 81 other oil companies
ca ths country The 2 and the American Petroleum
Institute accused OF conprng monopoze the oil business
The Swedish committee had tough time wnging the infoma
they cried loud and hard when they heard the committees report
THAT publication the documents questions pointed
representative be justified condition
5 this pso a e SPeer R % soe
has existed this Industry d should , @ left out an % such as
yeam for the good old days when you shop
ped around for Of buying at the nearest because Of
suits brought the oil companies by the
partmen to break up these practices just remember that
any they did in Sweden
In Washington D. c. James B; Carey whose new Electrical
wagd s neS% ss w T9" c 2 S % Pres a 3
sao Ten years ago when & they last met over % table
out and passed around box Of expensive cigars Later that night
eo"d Obligated to cigars On R
b cod d S% @
E se eta S4cS Gs % sGd 8 P nd a Mr. %
package morning. Carey replied "Why yes
cigars The secretary guPed and said oh that's awful We've
officials of the tobacco
brush fires "Ths
leader cigarettes improving quality
bad they could hardly be lighted
they burns so we'll it is hard to them
who have long believed the
assembly line turns faster than before history
by figures turned The ame
output Motor produced
April IL this year-4633 Ford
in Chicago, arbitrator upheld argument
Manufacturing Co. full holiday
laid off during week which includes the holiday