Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-24
MORE LUMBER SUITS
Government in Further Effort
to Break Up Trust.
TRADE RESTRAINT ALLEGED
Action Directed Against Association
and individuals.
INJUNCTIONS ARE SOUGHT
Steps Taken to Prevent Defendants
From Continuing Acts of Which
Complaint Is Made.
TRADE RESTRAINT ALLEGED
NJUNCTIONS ARE SOUGHT

ST. PAUL, Mimi, October 24.-The
| governments fifth suit in it's fight to
break up the so-celled lumber trust was
] begun in the United States court here to-
| day. 1t is directed against the follow
! ing:
The Northwestern Lumberman's Asso-
citation, the Lumber Secretaries Bureau
OF Information, an Illinois corporation al
ready under fire In another suit against
the trust" brought in Colorado.
Luke w. Boyce. owner Of private
detective agency at Minneapolis, Mimi,
who Is charged with spying upon inde-
| pendent lumber dealers who are said to
have violated the trade ethics laid
down by the alleged trust. The Lum-
herman Publishing Company. a Mime
! sofa corporation, which issues the Mis-
| sissippi Valley Lumberman. a trade
| journal, which the government charges
has been the organ of the trust in
| that section.
Platt B. Walker of Minneapolis. editor
of that paper. is made a defendant, as
are also the following members, officers
or directors in the Northwestern Lumber
mans Associations. w. R. Wood, Parker,
s. D.; Charles Webster Waucoma, Iowa !;
Willard G. Hollis. Minneapolis: George F..
Thompson. Minneapolis: c.. NJ. Porter.
Oskaloosa, Iowa; f. G. Finn. Minneapo-
lis; o. NJ Botsford. Winona, Minn. w.
II. Day. jr.. Dubuque, Iowa; M. T. Nc
Mahon. Fergus Falls. Mimi; C. A. Fink
bine. Des Moines. and John A. Barry.
Cedar Rapids. Iowa.
Allege Unreasonable Restraint.
AS in similar suits now pending against
the Eastern States Retail Lumber Deal
ers' Association, the .hichigan Retail
Lumber Dealers Association. the Colo
RADIO and Wyoming Lumber Dealers AS
sociation and the lumber secretaries bu
reau of information. fourteen members of
the latter organization being under GRIM
inal indictments charging violations OF
the Sherman antitrust law, the govern
ment alleges that the LUMBER trade has
been unreasonably restrained by illegal
agreements and undertakings which pre-
vent the consumer from buying from
whom and where he will, which absolute
ly forbid competition for trade and viii n
have divided the country into non-com-
petitive territories.
1t is also alleged that names Of lum-
bermen who have violated the ethics
have been published to the trade in
the Mississippi Valley Lumberman-
The bill alleges many acts in pur-
suance to an alleged conspiracy COW
erlnS SeVeral years, ana tnat some OF
them were perpetrated and in form
ceased several years ago. but each act
Is alleged to have been part of a care
fully devised plan by which frst one
restriction and then another was fas-
tened upon the lumber trade. and when
once fixed was to all appearances
abandoned and substituted with one
less iniquitous.
The government asks injunctions re-
straining all the defendants from con-
tinuing the acts of which complaint
is made. The suit Is in direct charge
of Clark Mckercher. special assistant
to Attorney General Wickersham.