The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-11-10
SUIT IS BEGUN
AT MINNEAPOLIS
Government Takes Action
Against Lumber Trust
ALL OF SIMILAR NATURE

Complaint 10 Firth to Do Filed In Diff.
fsrsnt Sections Of the Country to Re.
strain Defendants From Continuing
Alleged illegal Aets-spselal Assist.
ant Attorney General Mekerehss
In Charge.
Minneapolis, Oct. 25.-The govern
ment's nth suit in it's fight to break
up the 90 called lumber trust was be-
gun in the United States courts here,
whore most Of, the defendants live.
The bill was flied by United States
District Attorney Charles c. Houpt.
1t is directed against the Northwest
Lumbermen's association, the Lumber
"ecretaries' Bureau Of Information, an
Illinois corporation already under fire
IN another suit against the trust
brought in Colorado; Luke w. Boyce.
owner Of = private detective agency at
Minneapolis. who IL charged with spy
ing on Independent lumber dealers
who had the temerity to violate trade
ethics" laid down by the alleged
trust, and the Lumberman Publishing
company, = Minnesota corporation
which issues the Mississippi Valley
Lumberman, . trade Journal, which
the government charges has been the
organ Of the trust in this section.
Plat b. Walker Of Minneapolis, edi-
tor Of the paper. ia made defendant. as
are the following a. being members.
ofnoers or directors In the Northwest
srn Lumbefman's association:
W. R. Wood, Parker, s. d.; Charles
Webster, Waucoma, Ia; Willard G.
Hollis. Minneapolis; George f.
ThoApson, Minneapolis: c. M. Porter,
Oskaloosa, Ia; Z. G. Finn, Minneap-
oils; O. M. Botsford, Winona, Mimi;
W. H. Day, Jr., Dubuque, Ia; M. T.
McNahoo, Fergus Falk, Mimi; G. A.
Nnkbine. Des Moinss, Ia, and Jokn
W. Barry, Cedar Rapids. Ia.
Alleged Unreasonable Restraint.
Az in similar suits now pending
against the Eastern States Retail
Lumber Dealers association, the Mich.
igan Retail Lumber Dealers. associa-
ton, the Colorado and Wyoming Lum-
bsr Dealers association, and the Lum.
her Secretaries Bureau of Information
the government alleges that the lum.
Der trade has been unreasonable re.
strained by illegal agreements and un.
derstandfngs which prevent the con
sumner from buying Of whom and
where he will: which absolutely forbid
competition for trade. and which have
divided the country into n%on-competi-
tive territories. 1t is also alleged that
the names Of lumbernen who have
violated the ethics" have been pub
lished to the trade in the Mississippi
Valley LlumberMan.
The bill relates in great detail the
governments allegations that dealers
who insisted on selling. to whomever
they pleased were constantly under
the surveillance Of the defendant.
Boycs, and his detectives, who report
Cd all Irregular business" to their EN-.
ploysrs-the Northwestern Lumber
Instrumentation; that the reports Of
aieh espionage were sent to the Lum.
her Secretaries' Bureau Of Informa-
tioa, through which they were sent to
the twenty or more territorial or.
xaaisations Of the 30 called trust, in
addition 10 being published in the Mis-.
sissiDpi Valley LuMborMan.
The government asks injunctions
restraining all the defendants from
esatinuiag the acts Of which complaint
II made. The salt II in charge OF
Clark NcKercher, special assistant 10
Attornsy Geasral Wickersham, who
has disscted the governments fight
against the alleged trust all over the
country.
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