Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-01 | Page 12 | Milk Trust Quiz Bares 'Big Stick'

MILK TRUST QUIZ BARES t BIG STICK W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Oct 1 A UP A story alory of or big stick sUck tactics by giant milk concerns to maintain list prices of rebates to chain stores and of a manipulation maneuver In New York whereby certain dairy farmers lost money at the rate of a year was told today in a federal trade commission report The commission also said it found round evidence of or price agreements among big firms and that the Borden Borden Borden Bor- Bor den company one of the largest at times refrained from competing ing with other companies The report dealt with conditions In the vast New York and discussed wide nation-wide milk J r. r products concerns The Borden company and National National Na Na- National Dairy Products corporation were ere named n. n as maintaining resale prices on their products The Borden Borden Borden Bor- Bor den it said in company was some l' l cases es threatened to cut of off supplies a f to distributors who sold for less lessI I t 1 th than n list prices 1 47 In discussing cooperatives cooperative commission commission com com- mission investigators said evidence t 7 t Indicated that the Sheffield Pr Producers Producers' Pro Pro- Cooperative association s i with a membership of or dairy dal farmers farmer is dominated and controlled controlled con- con trolled by its only cus mer Sheffield Sheffield Sheffield field Farms Farm company a subsidiary of National Dairy The commissions commission's account of the manipulation episode said sald The manipulation of sources of supply by shifting plants from one subsidiary of ot National Dairy to another caused farmers delivering milk to three plants In New York state to receive surplus instead o of f fluid milk prices as a result o of f which producers producer lost over during April 1935 or at the rate of over a year year