Raleigh Ice Manufacturers Indicted for Restraining Trade, July 17, 1925

Ice Manufacturers of Raleigh Are Indicted. . . Charged with Forming Combine to Restraint of Trade—Ice Prices Led to Indictment

By the Associated Press

Raleigh, July 17—Four ice manufacturing concerns operating in Raleigh were indicted by a Wake county grand jury late Thursday on charges of forming a combine in restraint of trade. The statute under which the ice companies were indicted carries a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine for each offense.

The bill of incitement against the four companies alleges that the same manufacturers and dealers “did knowingly and wickedly, willfully and unlawfully conspire, contract and agree among themselves and with each other and through agents and representatives to combine and control the entirely output of ice manufactured by them, and sell and distribute it through one channel, and did fix the price in said territory with the intent to increase and raise the price of ice at which it had been sold” to the consuming public.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, July 17, 1925

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