Show I 1 NAMES OIL mm MARKETERS FEDERAL TRADE commissioner STATES DEALERS HAVE FORM ED PRICE COMBINE prompt notice given forthcoming advance and listing of retailers contained in 1 accusations Wits hington of tile inde pendent petroleum marketers Mark eters association ass ocla were charged ly by the federal trade commission friday with having agreed themselves to maintain the ali prices and soiling selling practices established in tile state ot of by the stand ard oil company of california the charges of tile commission wore era contained in tho the second section of its ita report to the equate into on price anti corn petI tIvo conditions in ili tile california oil industry tho commission declared that lov lo angeles officials of tho standard OH 09 company were notified promptly ui it 11 member of the marketers mark eters of 0 f understandings and agreements rel akivis to price maintenance within that thai association thereby placing the stand ari in it better position to know chev a new price advance would bo be bolow od ed the commission also assorted asserted tho re records corIs since silica 1015 disclose that ill tin standards prices in california been followed gener tilly by nil all ment mem berm of the marketers Mark eters association I 1 Is Is in declared that tile association find prepared a n list of peddlers and othel retailers who refused to sell ok na tin ills agreed prices and hold field the distributors distri buters responsible for that class claas of trade would mould not receive supplies until the re ballera maintained the list prices since the fall of 1015 the 0 co connola mints st slon continued certain onles bales tanna inana gers gera nud and local representatives of larg marketing companies particularly ol at tho the standard oil company and thi th union oil company frequently conferred berred and usually arrived ved nt at an un der ferstanding standing ns as to the it tile prices to bo ba clin ried and to vailous classes ot purchasers presidents of tile tho stan tiara and of the associated oil coin puny pany deny that these he 0 o practices were mera alther consented to or known of by the filcher of their respective coin coal vanies panics tho the doas report furt fur liar trier said tunit alit Stan darl olt oil interest men ivert 11 in it in the call fornin but quotel qt doted a lettel front it II K kingsbury president prest ilent of th ill Calif california ortila standard Stan ilard in fit which lie do sited as was waa rep reported oried to tile vom coni nils lills slon alon that ills his company was wag sibling bidding tc ta its holdings hy by gaining control of if tin the oil company about 20 per cent of tile tho stock of that company was ans boullit by the standard sir mr wrote in order to pro tact its oil supply against foreign interests said by tile coln pil slon to bo be the royal dutch group denial was waa mada by officials of tin the dutch shell interests however that they had bought or were seeking t U buy pacific oil stock tho the sot set form among the agreements which alch it claimed tc havo have found ono one covering bids of oil all re of the city of los IMS angeles in december 1910 1916 memorandum 0 of certain meetings of 0 of four compan companies les the standard the un ion the western anti anil the california oil and I oli showed owed the colli tills lon said bald libat they were to bid on tho requirements I 1 rein edits and that it wits was agreed all should bid 1 cent off opals tank wagon market price at tile time and place of delivery later records sho od wl tile commission added that three 1 I tho the compan comp coin rn les submitted bids nt at tb agreed price in december and another in ili january 1017 |