A plot to fix prices and restrain trade in kosher and kosher-style meats and in frankfurter and hamburger rolls was charged by a federal grand jury here yesterday against 14 distributor companies, 17 individuals and three trade associations. They do a business of $40,000,000 a year in the New York metropolitan area.
Morris Horn, business manager of Local 627 of the Provision Salesmen and Distributors Union of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, was named in all three indictments handed up by the grand Jury. The indictments in the meat cases charged that retail prices of the meats are fixed by pre-arrangement.
The indictments also charged that the processors refused to sell to any jobber who was not a member of the union nor to any retailer not approved by the retailers association. The grand jury said artificially high prices were maintained by the conspiracy. Each count of the three indictments carries a maximum penalty of a year in prison and a $50,000 fine for each individual convicted and a $50,000 fine for concerns and trade associations.
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