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he had reason to believe that oth^r retailer will sell lt In pints at *5.12, if he lowered the price.NANAGBR FEARS RETAILERSWOULD DO VIOLENCE.I'm afraid they would kill me and blow up the plant, he said.Walter A. Kane, manager of the Milk Producers* Co-operative Market-ing Company In Indiana with offices at Gary, was asked why the company did not bottle the skimmed milk and offer it for sale to the public at a price less than that demanded for the regular milk.That would cut down the sale of the regular milk, he said.Mr. Kane denied emphatically that the producers trust destroyed the milk of northwestern Indiana In order to keep the supply low enough to maintain high prices. He said there was no collusion between the 1 Milk Producers' Co-operative Market Company and the retail dealers.BOOKS OF ASSOCIATION SEIZED BY V. S. MARSHALS.As mig ago as 1919, United States District Attorney Clyne of the Chicago district charged that the Milk Producers' associations, Including the Milk Producers' Co-operative Marketing Company and the Milk Producers' Protective Association, were in a conspiracy with the retailers to fix the price of milk in violation of the Sherman anti-trust act and the Lever act. District Attorney Clyne ordered an investigation by the department of Justice. The books of the association were seised In simultaneous rams throughout Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. The federal grand jury examined the evidence but did not return indictments.Will United States Attorney Clyne consider the wholesale destruction of milk evidence upon which to base a new inquiry into the allaged combination in restraint of trade under the criminal section of the anti-Sherman trust act?FARMER ASSESSED TO PAY FOR DESTRUCTION OF MILK.Manager Kane said that tha farmer is paid i 2-S cents a quart for his milk, leaving the milk dealer a margin of 10 1-3 cents. The farmer receives 11.75 for a can of milk and the retailer will sell it in pints at 5.12, leaving him |3.37, or more than 6 cents on each pint. The salaries and overhead expense of the Producers' association, including the cost of maintaining the surplus milk plants'* are met by the farmer, he stated. Last month the farmer was assessed 10 per cent of his receipts for the upkeep of the association.The association only handles the milk supplied by its members and
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East Chicago Times
East Chicago, Indiana, US
Thu, May 12, 1921
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