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Show MISTAKE SEEN IN PACKER BAN I California Canners Think Wholesale Grocers En joy-Food joy-Food Monopoly WASIHN'UTi )N ApiU --1 Mxtnl.o- al or radical modification of th k" -trhlhcnt'l injunction against the food distributing business of the Kreat purkors an a "dlsastroUH oronomlc mistake." placing a monopoly in thf I h a 1 1 J - i.if thr wholesale grocers' MSb-I MSb-I clatlons in asked by the California Cooperative Co-operative canneries In a petition pend-Miib pend-Miib today in tin- District of Columbia 'Huprrnio court. Tho petition, filed I with the court lnti Wednesday . bulges jlh.it Influence was broueht to bear oft former A-ttornoi Senoral Palmar by the National Wholesale Qro ers' oa-! oa-! soclitlon and th Southern Wholesale Gtroceri' aaaoelatlon to obtain iht- in- I Junction, and further that he misused Kritii'i Jury prpeessee to obtain lnfor-, lnfor-, in it ion for UM In gettlni: it. By removing the most rfricient i om-ietitor om-ietitor of th'- grocers' associations, the petition tllegi the injunction has j operated to place both "retailers and I consumers at their mercy" and accounts ac-counts "for the fact that food priOCS i remain high although growers of food are recelvInK low prices.' Th petition. peti-tion. aiTtinK tliat the iMil.n" ban neither a combination in restraint of trade imr a monopoly in tho sale of foodstuffs, asked thai the injunction either be dismissed or modified to p''1'-ihlt p''1'-ihlt the packers to restoi.- to produc-ers produc-ers their facilities of distribution on s commission basis or "in some other efficient way.' |