Government files anti-trust suit against Porcelain Appliance Company and eleven porcelain manufacturers

GOVERNMENT FILES ANTI-TRUST SUIT

AGAINST PORCELAIN APPLIANCE COMPANY

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 - (AP) - The government filed an equity suit under the Sherman anti-trust law today at Cleveland naming the Porcelain Appliances company and sixteen other corporations manufacturing porcelain insulators.

The Porcelain Appliance Company is the patent holding and licensing company. The government alleges that the defendants have sought to eliminate competition between themselves, to establish uniform prices for their products, and that a violation of the anti-trust laws was finally achieved through the issuance of licenses to manufacture under certain patents which are described in the petition.

Defendants named included: Brunt Tile and Porcelain Company, Columbus, Ohio; Colonial Insulator Company, Akron, Ohio; Davidson Porcelain Co., East Liverpool, Ohio; Federal Porcelain Co., Carey, Ohio; Findlay Electric Porcelain Company, Findlay, Ohio; General Porcelain Co., Parkersburg, W. Va.; Mogadore Insulator Co., Mogadore, Ohio; National Electrical Porcelain Co., Carey, Ohio; J. H. Parker and Son, Parkersburg, W. Va.; R. T. Thomas and Sons Co., East Liverpool, Ohio; Wheeling Tile Co., Wheeling W. Va.; J. H. Parker, Parkersburg, W. Va.; R. G. Spencer, Carey, Ohio; H. R. Holmes, East Liverpool, Ohio; G. O. Anderson, Parkersburg, W. Va.; and J. E. Bicknell, Findlay, Ohio.