The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-07
Sixiesn Firms and Thirty Two Individuals Must
 Answer Charges
FOUR HUNDRED JOBBERS
 ARE UNDER CONTROL
Civil Suit Begun st Baltimore and Grim insi Proceesises at Detroit Are Instituted Under the sher-
 man Bnw

Detroit, December 6.-The anti-tr1,st
 campaign of Attorney General Wicker
 sham shifted to Detroit this week. with
 the result that indictments were returned
 oy the federal grand Jury today against
 Is firms and s2 individuals alleged 10 have
 secured control of s5 per cent of the an
 nual output of enamel iron ware bath tubs sinks, lavatories. etc, in the United States
 The criminal proceedings grow out of a civil suit to dissolve the alleged combina-
 ton begun by the government in the fed
 eral court at Baltimore, hearings being
 held in Chicago, Pittsburg and New York ! within the last 40 days
 The evidence adduced was presented 10
 the grand jury by Edwin P. Grosvenor.
 special assistant to Attorney General
 Wickersham. United States District At tcrney Frank H. Watson of Detroit, and Joseph Darling. special agent of the de- partment Of justice. Secret hearings be- gan yesterday and nothing was given out until the indictments were handed down today.
 Itsis charged that as result of the ten day meeting at Mount Clemens, Mich. last April. fund of s70o0 was subscribed | giving the defendants control of Is man
 ufacturers and nearly .OO iobbers, repre- senting output of approximately $lo- coo.00o year.
 Both the civil suit. started at Baltimore. and the criminal proceedings begun here have been instituted under the sherman anti-trust law. The defendant firms in the criminal proceedings are: The Defendant Firms
 Standard Sanitary company Pttshurg.
 A. Weiskettel X Sons company. Bati-
 more.
 The Barnes Manufacturing company. Mansfield, Ohio The cahil Iron Works, ehattanooea, lTenn.
 ] Coiwell Lead company, New York. . The Day-ward company. Parren. Ohio.
 The Humphreys Manufacturing com
 pany. Mansfield, Ohio.
 IIelner Manufacturing company. Pitts
 burg.
 The J. L. Mott Iron works.
 McVay & Walker. Braddock. Pa. 1 The McCI1lm- Howe;I Co. New York.
 The National Sanitary Manufacturing company, salem, o.
 Union Sanitary Manufacturing company. | Noblevillei Ind.
 L. Wolff Manufacturing company. | United States Sanitary Manufacturing company, Pittsburg. Theindvidual defendants are: l IsdividuaI Defendants Theodore A. Ahrens, Francis J. Tor
 rance, r. l.. Dawes and w. A. Pyles,
 respectfully president, first vice president
 ard second vice president and treasure Nf,x. .x,t,.
 company
 C. NJ voegle and T. R. Barnes, pres ident and secretary of the Barnes Manu- featuring company.
 Frank H. Caldwell and J. J. Mahoney, president and vice president of the Ca hill Iron Works.
 Jesse T. Durea and Burt O. Tilden, pres ident and secretary of the colwel Lead | company. l W. c. Winfield and A. c. Ward, pres icant and vice president of the Day 1 Ward company. 1 g. M Ford and Reid Carpenter. presi l dent and secretary of Humphreys Man l ufacturing company. l l, A Frauenheim, president and treas urer of the Kerner Manufacturing com l pany. y | Jordan l.. Mott and Max Goebel, presi dent and secretary of the J. L. Mott | Irou Works. New York | Thomas Walker and Alex c. Walker. | TcStuent ana O1FeClOT.- or McNdY & NHl- ker.
 Lloyd c. McCf1im and Howard T. Ciatea president and secretary of the McCrum- | Howell company
 Frank G. Borden and D. w. Davis. president and secretary. National Sani- tary Manufacturing company. L. c. Huesman and F. ". Brigham. president and secretary of the Union Manufacturing company.
 Charles r. Arrott and A. H. Cline, IT.. president and secretary of the United States Sanitary Manufacturing com parry.
 Anton weiskettel. president of A. l Wesikettel & Sons Co. I Ludwig Wolff and Herman NJ. Hoels- cher. president and secretary or the l.. | WoIn Manufacturing company. l J. F. Wright and George w. Franzheirl. president and secretary of Wheeling l Enameiled company l Gist of Indictments | Tho two indictments against each arc 1 of six ana four counts. respectively, an'l charge that the defendants, controlling S5 per cent of tho annual output. combined to restrain the trade of manufacturers and l jobbers of plumbing supplies by refusins; to sell to jobbers handling the goods os | so-caled independents; fixing of resale prices by the division of the United States Into Il zones and refusing to sell to joh- | bcrs who would not maintain the r. 1 l of the resale prices is to make the price tho same throughout the United States ! 'nrte competition of jobbers i as well as of manufacturers. sThe indictments also charge that tho l defendants compelled the ,obbers to ente. into uniform contracts, and that all tfe defendants refused to sell to any jobber unless he would sign such a contract. l The government officials took ths ground that the evidence taken in the civil | suits established that the defendants att | tempted to disguise their combination l,s- 1 the subtsrfuge of i.lrchasng the patents | oB certain tools and licensing ceraii l s,rns to use these tools. l -.4 Valuable. Testimony, | The government places weight on tho | testimony of Edwin l.. Waynan of Pitts burg who Is described as the licenser of the alleged combination, and whose tes.ls inony already giyen In the cvll suit has 1 -~~>---<~--~-~-4t3 4s l l tcoNTINyED ON PAGE is,