The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-05-10
PLUMBERS TRIED
TO SHAKE DOWN
j. S. GOVERNMENT
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Of the job.
Q. You mean they didn't iara start
labor troubles or strikes on him7 A..
they didn't dare start anything.
Knowing what We knew about them.
CASE WENT BY OWING TO wkR
PRESSURE.
Mr.. Unternyer went az some length
into the reasons why Assistant
United states Attorney Harold uar-
per failed to have the plumbers in
dicted by q Federal Grand Jury.
Earl Rarnes, chief OF stan 10 tho
United States Attorney said that
pressure OF oothcr wartime matters
prevented a thorough consideration
Of tho case.
Mr.. Untermyer invited Mr.. Barnes
to state formally 10 the committee
any explanation he cared to make re-
gardng Mr.. lIarpcr's failure 20 press
for an Indictment.
81 don apprehend In lha. the
United states District Attorney Is on
trial before this committee" said MI
Barnca.
Nj Jntcrmycr said he wasn't put
ting the United States Attorneys Of
flee on trial but he did want the
record to show that Commander
Brown again and again demanded
prosecution and offered evidence with
the only result that Nj Harper
wrote the Secretary O. tine Navy say
ing he wasn't sufficiently convinced
that an indictment would result In
conviction.
Franly $. IIanIey, Manager secro-
tary OF tho so-called open price"
combinations Of plumbers supply
dealers and manufacturers, added
himself to-day TO the list Of those
who have surrendered unoondition-
ally to the Lockwood committee.
NJ. IIanley promised 70 get out OF
ohe National Committee OF Confeder-
ated Supply Associations and the
Greater New York Association of job
bers. lie promised to urge them to
dissolve and disband and not to get
together in any other form Of organi-
cation.
"In other words" said Mr.. Inter
n1yer you arc tired OF living in the
legal twilight zone"
''I am" said Mr.. Hanley, solemnly,
but smiling
1t was stipulated that the Eastern
supply Association might continue
as Cradit Bureau
WATER METER COMBINE MUST
QUIT.
II was announced that u weeks ex-
tension Of time had been granted TO
A. A. Ainsworth, 80 whom thc COM
mittee gave until to-day to report the
dissolution or modification of his nine
open price organizations affecting
building, Mr.. Untormyer said that
the water-meter combination must
so out Of business altogether II had
no legal excuse for existence and no
reason for existence except to enforce
an unfair monopoly.
Mr.. Untermyer said ne thought IL
was the duty of the committee ito
learn whether the brick manufac-
turers who have pleaded guilty and
are asking clemency are not still
o-day-continuing their illegal prac-
tees"
1t was arranged that a sub com
mittee Of three should go to Buffalo
May % to take evidence there, with
Leonard Wallstein as counsel II his
duties as associate counsel TO the
Meyer committee permit.
Mr.. Untermyer said he wanted 10
be free TO put before the committee
more facts about the "Fire Insurance
Trust" which he described as con-
Quoting n hopeless, impossible reign
OF monopoly and despotsm" requiring
remedial legislation.
COULDN'T INSTALL PATENT
WAsH8oWLS.
The first witness to-day was An
thony Joyce, general sales agent Of
the Manufacturing Equipment and
Engineering Company OF Cleveland.
He told Ct his sorrows in trying TO
sell patented ready made washbowls
connected in series in New York City
The device was approved by the
Building Superintendents OF the fiv,
boroughs. 1t cost from so TO 60 POI
cent. less than tho ordinary wash,
bowl, but a general strike was threat.
ened in the Pathe Freres plant n
Brooklyn when the patent bowl
were delivered there. They wert
taken away for a time and put bact
after the rest OF the building wa
completed.
Then came friction with the Maste
Plumbers Association and the Jour
neyman Plumbers Union.
The master plumbers demande
that Mr.. Joyce cease selling connect
ing pipe and other fittings, thus inter
fering with the Master Plumber
volume OF business
The Journeymen plumbers, repre-
scented by Herbert Smith of tn
employing plumbers, demanded tina
abe under fittings OF the series Q
wash bowls cast in one piece be eac