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Show ASK RE OPENING ANTI-TRUST SUIT Combine of Farm Implement Makers and Dealers Charged in Report j Washington, dco. 10. Re-open- inc of the government's anti-trust ! suit a8,liust the Internntional Harvester Harvest-er company and the Institution oi "judicial proceedings" against a mini-, mini-, her of associations having to do with farm implements is recommended by the federal trade commission' in it I annual report presented toda in the senate by Vic c I'residenl Marshall. The commission says the Increase Of ; "s per cent In f.irm Implements from I'll to 19 IS. is "In part due to p'rlci understandings or agreements between manufacturers and to a more limited extent the same Is true of dealers." Judicial proceedings against "the I associations who have in in active in restraining trade. " Is propo.-ed. the commlssiop naming the National lm-I lm-I nlement and Vehicle association, the , Southern Association of Wagon Manu-! Manu-! faeturers. the Carriage Biullders' National Na-tional association, the. -National Fed-j Fed-j eralion of implement and Vehicle j Dealers and the Eastern Federation of Kami Implement Dealers. With regard to the re-opehing ol the case against the Internationai Harvester company, the commission Bays this should lie done so that a plan of dissolution be arrived al thai I will restore competitive conditions in i Hi" harvesting machine business." oo |