Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-03-18 | Page 2 | Jurors Indict Cheese Firms

JURORS INDICT CHEESE FIRMS March CHICAGO March 18 UP A UP-A A federal federal fed fed- eral grand Jury returned an antItrust antitrust antitrust anti antI- trust law indictment Wednesday charging cheese heese dealers processors processors proc proc- and distributors including 45 corporations and 56 6 individuals with COn conspiracy piracy to fix prices on American cheese neese and ancS cheese products products prod prod- to both producers and con con- conJ J sumers I The lne indictment alleged that prices were artificially fixed through token sales of or cheese each I Friday among the defendant cheese dealers at the Wisconsin cheese exchange Plymouth Wis It charged that membership in inthe the was confined fined I solely to the defendants and that prices allegedly fixed therein were used as a base for prices to be paid by producers and to be charged distributors distributors distributors dis dis- dis- dis and consumers through through- throughout throughout out the United States The indictment set forth that the corporate defendants handled more than 90 00 per cent of ot the total of pounds of ot American cheese produced each year in this country Four defendants National defendants N National a t Ion a 1 Dairy Products cor corporation p 0 rat ion through the Kraft Cheese company company company com com- pany and other subsidiaries the Borden company Swift Co Armour Co and their several subsidiaries subsidiaries handled handled a p p r o p x i I. 70 per cent of the American Ameri Ameri- can cheese production or about pounds the indictment added Defendants were ac accused used of ot controlling controlling con con- trolling prices paid aid t to some som dairy farmers for milk sold to approximately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately cheese facto facto- ries Corporate defendants named included in included included in- in Armour Co Chicago Armour Armour Armour Ar Ar- mour Creameries Inc Floydada Texas the Borden company New NewYork NewYork York Breakstone Brothers Inc New York Cudahy Packing Company Company Com Com- pany of Louisiana Ltd New Orleans Orleans Orleans Or Or- leans Fort Worth Poultry and Egg Co Inc Fort Worth Texas I Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company New York Pabst-ett Pabst corporation Chicago Wilson Co Inc Chicago I