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LESH CHARGES BIG STATEWIDE DAIRYTRUST IN ACTION ISouth Bend Firm Named De-fendant in Petition in Su- ° perior Court.INDIANAPOLIS, Ir.d., Aug 4—Ac- f( tion again** an alleged dairy products o trust operating- throughout Indiana n as taken by Atty. Gen. U. S. I.esh in ^ the superior court of Marion county 0 here today. vThlrtj'-eight producer* in 29 cities were named defendant* in the peti-11|t'.on which asked that each be per-manently enjoined from doing fur- c ther business and that receivers be „appointed to wind up the affairs of v each concern. 0This is the second trust busting” suit filed by the stiUe within the ia»t 1( few weeks, the other being against L an alleged ice combine centering in ^ Indianapolis, but actually of state g wide proportions. When the ice suit was field, Leah intimated others of ^ similar nature would fotlow soon. , The Indiana Manufacturers of Dairy Product3, an organisation1 of dairy men, was al*o named de- I fendant. It w*as charged that the de- | fenda.nl companies held get together” meetings to further their ^ price fixing scheme. using the nam° . of the Indiana Manufacturers of Dai it Products as pretext.Control Prices.By the combined power and concerted action of the several defendants,’ the petition said, they are able to and In* fact do arbitrarily control in a substantial and hurtful way the milk, butter, ice cream and allied product* in this state. They are able to and in fact do arbitrarily control and dictate the price to blt;» paid to the producers of milk and cream, and are and have been maintaining an unreasonable and unconscionable low level of price to the producers, and thereby ore dLv oou raging the farmers and dairy men in the production of milk and cream.The defendants named in the petition were:The Indiana Manufacturers of SDairy Products: J. A. Long Co..L'nion City; Clover I**af Creamery,Inc.. Huntington; F. H. George and 'Co., Ft. Wayne; Schlosser Bros,Frankfort: Indiana Condensed Milk j, Co. Lebanon; Bay and Arnold i Creamery Co., I»gan*port; Johnson y Butter Co.. Terre Haute; Nance’s V Creamery. Bra*11: Ballard Ice Cream „ Co., Indianapolis: Evansville Pure . Milk Co., Evansville; Vincennes Miikand Tee Cre«m Co.. Vincennes;Washington Milk and Ice Cream u ■ Co.. Washington: George Freese's I r’o , Nap,nnc€; Campbell Tee CreamC! and Milk Co., Muncic; Beatrice j I Croiown* Co . Munrle; Indiana Ice ^ and Dairy Co., Anderson; Whlte-^ J water Creamery Co.. Cannersvilte;„ 1 Purity Maid Products, New Albany: John's Products Co.. Marion: Ttob-I bin Dairy Co.. Noblesvtlle: Sanitary IJ Milk Predticts Co., Indianapolis; Hartley Co., Indianapolis; Jersey rrcanwry Co.. New Castle; Erl | River Valley Creamery Co.. North IManchester; Srvmour Ice and Cream *I Co.. Seymour; Wabor Milk Co., In - , r dianapolls; R. W, Furnas Ice Cream j r * Co.. Indlanapnli«: Jessup and An-|. | trim. Indianapolis; Polk Sanitary 1 ' Milk Co.. Indiana poll*; Sanitary iv1 Milk and Ice Cream Co., Peru; flJohnson Creamery Co. Blooming- ^* ton: West Sid.* Milk Co.. South ‘ Bend; Chamberlain Ice Cream Co. ^ '* Lafayette; TJherty Creamery Co . j 1 e Liberty : The Ideal Dairy Co. jEvansville: Furnas lee Cream Co.. I* T**rre Haute; Kokomo Sanitary I v Milk and Ice Cream Co., Kokomo, a and Turner’s Creamery, Orleans.
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South Bend News Times
South Bend, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 05, 1921
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