The New York herald., 1921-11-15
So OF TILE COMBINE
ADMIT CONSPIRACY
Plead Guilty to Restraint Of
Competition - Five Cases
Are Dropped.
JAIL SENTENCES URGED
Judge Van Fleet Indicates De-
sire to Speed Up All
IA Trials.

Fifty-three of the sixty-four individ-
uals and corporations who were indicted
on August 81 by United States Grand
Jury in connection with limiting Of COM
petition and restraint of trade in the
tile and mantel trades pleaded guilty to
the fourth count Of the indictments yes
terday before Judge William c. Van
Fleet In the United States District Court,
withdrawing former pleas Of not guilty.
The count charged that the defendants
''hindered, impeded and unreasonably
restrained and prevented any and all
competition between and among them
selves in the sale. shipment and delivery
of tiles from other States to. into and
through this Jurisdiction" The prac-
tees indulged in by persons and cor
porations, known as the tile and man.
tel combine consisted. according to the
indictments, of stop notices" ''protec-
ton cards" and keep off notices"
Through these notices other members
Of the combine were warned to refuse
to handle work for any person or con-
Germ which had been bid for or UNDER
taken by another member of the COM
bine.
Five cases were nolle pressed on the
motion OF William Hayward, United
States Attorney. They were Mart &
Lawton. Inc. the United Tile and Mar
BILE Company. Adolph Grant, Max Goebel
OF the J. l.. Mott Iron Works. and Sam
uel Tabolsky. The concerns and in
divduals who pleaded guilty are:
Alexander & Reid Company, Charles
X. Barnum & Son. Inc. Doty & Orr CO.,
v. Foscate Company, Inc /; Globe Tile
G
d. Grant, Inc, Howden Tile and Marble
Company, Inc, Edwin A. Jackson & Bro,
Inc.
William II. Jackson Company. Jack
sons Mantel and Crate Works, Inc. D.
H. McLarry Tile Company, Inc. /; Henry
Miles & Son, j. l.. Mott Iron Works.
John ii. Parry Company, Herman Petri,
Inc: Rudolph Schroeder. Inc. Morris
G.. Williams & Co, J.. p. Zurla Tie
Company, Charles c. Alexander, Charles
*. Barnum. William G. Orr, Lewis Vim
cent Foscato, William A. Shookoff, Will
lam ]. Addison, William d. Grant. Will
lam J. Howden, William Walter Jackson,
Frederick r. Lawrence, Arthur Shilstone.
Also Daniel II. McLaury. Arthur T..
Mart, George Miles, Charles Z. Ensign,
John II Parry, Herman Petri, Ernst II.
Strothoff, Morris G. Williams, Edgar p.
Harrison. Israel Lieberman Frank IL.
Noble. William Erath. I. Frank Felle-
man, Vincent De Lazzaro, Solomon To-
bias, Clifford S. Barnum, Charles IL.
Brown, Albert Schalle, Joseph M. Wells,
William Adshead. Frederick Crane.
Mario Ferraris John Gatty.
Col. Hayward said that he would urge
Jail sentences for those who had pleaded
guilty as we'll as those who may be con-
victed upon trial. He said that the
L.
and a year in prison.
The trial of the Atlantic Terra Gotta
Company was set for November 81 by
Judge Van Fleet. who denied Il motion
for a postponement until next year.
Former Governor Charles S. Whitman's
plea for postpopement for the Terra Gotta
Association was also denied. Judge Van
Fleet said he intended to speed up the
trials of all defendants in connection
with building or materials combinations.
Co-incident with the disposition and
pleadings of the tile combine, the an
nouncement was made by Samuel Inter
myer that the Investigations OF the Lock
wood committee would be resumed a.
the City Hall next Tuesday. 1t was
noted in court yesterday that two of the
attorneys, Henry l.. Stimson and Ken
meth NJ. Spence, who had been instru-
mental in aiding Mr.. Untermyer in his
Investigations of the Building Trades
Council and in the conviction of John
T. Hettrick. appeared for the defendants
In the tile combine cases. @s
Col. Hayward announced yesterday.
that he would push to early trial the
cases against those indicted In connec-
ton with building or material combines
and that he will have as assistants
David Podell. Susan Brandeis. Leland Il.
Duer. Raymond l.. Wise, former assist
ant to Samuel Untermyer; Benjamin S.
Kirsh and Nathan Probst, Jr.
The selection of jury to try thirty
four marble trade employers for con-
spiracy to violate the Donnelly antitrust
law was begun yesterday before Justice
John v. McAvoy in the criminal branch
of the Supreme Court.
The defendants were indicted as re-
suit Of the Lockwood housing committee
on March last. II is al
legged in the indictment that they were
members Of an association. with offices
at 1S5 Madison avenue. organized for
the purpose of fixing prices. destroying
o,,1 restraining trade