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Show Ff ACCUSES ' POTTERY FIRMS Plumbing Material Makers in Sales and Price Combine, Com-bine, Charge. N'RW YORK, Sept 10 An Indictment Indict-ment against approximately S5 per I eni ol tho corporations, firms and Individuals In-dividuals ehgagod in producing sanl-tarj sanl-tarj pottery in thia countr was made public Friday by William Hayward, United Stales attorney for the south- rn .iistriet of New York. The Indictment Indict-ment names 23 companies and 24 Individuals. In-dividuals. The firms and Individual named ore onRaic i principally In the mnnu- facture of porcelain nd earthenware fixtures for both rooms in apartment houses, both In NOW YorU and other . Itles Several of the Indicted firms also manufacture bathtubs and similar accessories. DNOSat TWO CHARGES f he in. II. tment Is In two ( ounts. Tho first accuses the defendants Of having be n engaged In a price-fixing combination. combi-nation. The second charges that tho defendants have unlawfully restrict odyand confined sales of their i m r -clsandlse t.. a special selected group of SO-called "legitimate jobbers." The pric. fixing count alleges that since the defendants manufacture and sell upwards or Sft por cent of all the sanitary pottery produced In the United Unit-ed States, they have been able, by concerted action, to exact uniform arbitrary ar-bitrary nnd non-competitive prices. As to the second count, Mr Hay-ward Hay-ward said the defendants had a rule wh reby members of the group were barred from selling their merchandise directly to the builder, the architect or the contractor. The manufacturer, according ac-cording to Hayward confined his Bales to the so-called legitimate Jobber, wlb. In turn, would confine his sales to "legitimate plumbers " The jobber and the plumber In each case, he said, would dictate his own prices without fear of competition 1, 1ST OR INDKTLR The companies Indicted are as follows. fol-lows. Ablngton Sanitary Manufacturing company, Ablngton III., Acme Sanitary Sani-tary Pottery company, Trenton, N. J.; li (. T. Manufacturing company, Trenton, N. J.. Rowers Tottery company, com-pany, Nannington, W, Va . Camden Pottery company, Camden. N. J.; Chicago Chi-cago Pottery company, Chicago. Ill ; ( 'ochran-DruKan & Co . Trenton. X. J.. Kljer company. Cameron, W .Va.; and Ford City, Pa.; Kalamazoo Sanitary Manufacturing company, Kalamazoo. Mich.; Kokomo Sanitary Pottery company, com-pany, Kokomo Ind.. Keystone Pottery company. Trenton, N. J.; Yambcrtville Pottery company Lamb SrtVl 1 1 S, J J.; John Maddock and company. Trenton. N. J., Thomas Maddocks & Sons' company, com-pany, Trenton. X. J ; Xatlonal Ilelfrlch Potteries company, JOvansvlllo, Ind ; Pacific Sanitary Manufacturing company, com-pany, Richmond. Cal ; Resolute Pottery Pot-tery company. Trenton, X. J.; Sanitary Manufacturing company. Kokomo, Ind.. and Tiffin, O., the Trenton Pot-tories Pot-tories company, Trenton, X J.; Universal Uni-versal Sanitary Manufacturing company. com-pany. Newcastle, Pa.; Wheeling Sanl-lar Sanl-lar Manufacturing company. Wheeling. Wheel-ing. W. Va.; and the Horton Pottery company, Chllllcothe, Ohio. |