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Show LOVE ON STAND General Sales Manager for Utah-Idaho Company Tells of His Activities SALT LAKE, April 10. Explanation Explana-tion of his relations with the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho and Amalgamted sugar com-j com-j panics as their sales representative be-j be-j fore the war, and his functions as manager of the Utah-Idaho district of tho activities of tho United States sugar equalization board during the period of government control, formed the bulk of tho testimony given ycatcr- day by Stephen H. Love, general sales manager tor the Utah-Idaho company, at the hearings of the complaint of the federal trade commission, charging charg-ing unfair suppression of competition In interstate trade. Tho two companies com-panies named, together with Ernest R. Woolley, E. F. Cullen and A. P. Coopc?, arc the defendants. Mr. Love stated In reply to questions ques-tions put him in cross-examination by Herbert R. Macmlllan, attorney for the Amalgamated, that so long as ho had represented the companies no! person or persons othor than the offl-j cers of the Amalgamated had ever, fixed tho prlco at which their product was to bo sold; that tho officials of tho Utah-Idaho Sugar company never j had knowlcdgo from Mr. Love as to what the Amalgamated was doing In Its sugar distribution, and vice versa.' Mr. Love emphasized that in his re-' i latlons as representative of both com-' panics, that he regarded the Interests? of each as separated absolutely from' tho Interests of tho other, and that to his knowlcdgo there had never been any agreement, written or verbal or otherwise, concerning either the price at which sugar was to be sold for or the amount of sugar to be sold. Mr. Love reiterated some of his previous pre-vious testimony regarding the domination domina-tion the market price of Cuban sugar exercises over the market for refined beet sugar, using, as an example, tho wlord fluctuations of tho past three months. Ho Informed tho examiner that spot sugar, that Is. sugar on hand for Immediate local delivery, sold in Chicago on Thursday for $21.60 per hundred-pound sack, as compared with the Utah price of ?13.73. In his testimony regarding the war control and tho period Immediately following, Mr. Love testified that un-dor un-dor the government direction he had had complete oharge of all beet sugar manufactured in the Utah-Idaho district; dis-trict; that after tho sugar committees wore disbanded, many of tho smaller companies asked him to contlnuo to handle their product. But when the market began to stiffen, Mr. Love said, and boforo tho government price control con-trol was lifted, tho smaller companies grow restless, and when he advised thorn to abide absolutely by the attorney attor-ney general's suggestions, that they began to sell their own sugar for what thoy could got, whllo tho Utah-Idaho, tho Amalgamated and tho Layton continued con-tinued to follow tho government price. Tho market price for sugar, Mr. Lovo again testified, is not within tho control of tho sugar beet manufacturers, manufac-turers, but duo to competitive conditions condi-tions in tho Industry, influenced by tho factors of total production of cane and feet, foreign demand, freight rates, domestic consumption, transportation trans-portation conditions and the many influences in-fluences which go to make up tho price in other stnplo commodities. Tho sales manager told how tho boot sugar men had recommended last year that tho sugar equalization board bo continued for a yoar, arid stated that the present runaway market is duo principally to tho lifting of restrictions re-strictions from tho distribution and bidding for Cuban raw sugars. Mr. Macmlllan repeated his objections objec-tions to testimony relative to the joint sales organization on tho ground that tho Amalgamated wlthdrow from the arrangement January 2. |