New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-07
f'iiso1l Terms
Demanded for
Building Ring;
Lockwood Committee Gives
Untermyer Power to
Ask Drastic Penalties
for Nineteen ON Monday
All Pl a q e d Guilty
l3 Corporations Included
i'm AID Street Group;
"a More To Be Tried

The Lockwood committee yesterday
went on record as favoring substantial
prison terms for violators of the Dom
nelly antitrust Law.
With thirteen individuals and thirteen
corporations, alleged members of the
building ring, coming up for sentence
before Supreme Court Justice Vernon
M. Davis on Monday, the committee
authorized Samuel Untermyer. it's chief
counsel, to make such recommendations
to Attorney General Charles y. Newton
AS he may deem warranted by the
facts.'
The policy of the committee was
made known in a resolution adopted
late in the day following q discussion
which began Thursday, and which, for
q time, appeared to be deadlocked.
Seven members of the committee of
ten voted on the resolution, but no in
formation was forthcoming to how
they stood. 1t was reported, however,
the vote was not unanimous.
Three Didn't Vote
Assemblyman Edward Neary, Reuub-
lcan, who was appointed to the com
mlttee only yesterday, and Senator Sal.
vator Gothic, Democrat, asked to be
and were excused from voting, because
they were not familiar with all phases
or the committees recent activities,
Assemblyman Peter Leininger, Demo
crat. did not attend.
Adoption of the resolution resulted
from the request of MIR. Unte.myer
that the committee give him definite
instructions as to its attitude toward
punishment for offenders of the anti
combination act
The defendants who are to be SEN
fenced Monday pleaded guilty last
Tuesday. Among them is Joan A. Nc.
Carthy, head of John A. Mccarthy G.
Co, a business partner of the late
John Murphy, brother of Charles F
Murphy, ieader of Fsmmany Hall.
Regarding punishment for violators
OF the building laws, the resolution
"The experiences of the committee
have demonstrated that such Illegal
combinations cannot be abated and The
evils flowing from their operations
ended and the construction of building
revived and stimulated unless the guilty
individual offenders who are shown to
have actively, iagrantly, persistently
and knowingly violated the criminal
laws are punished by substantial prison
sentences
Thirty-four More To Be Tried
Discussion Of the resolution took
place in executive session in the office
OF Mr.. untermyer, 100 Broadway. Those
present were Assem- blyman Neary, who
succeeds Assemblyman Nicholas NJ.
Petite, recently appointed Assistant
District Attorney of Queens County;
Republican Senators Charles 9. Lock.
wood, William Carson and Ward Y.
Tolberts Republican Assemblyme n
James Caulfeld and Thomas A. Nc
Whitney; Democratic Senators John J.
Dunnigan and Gothic and Democratic
Assemblyman Peter A. Hamill.
Those upon whom sentence is to be
imposed Monday were referred to at
the committee hearings as the "Forty-
second Street group" 1t was alleged
that through the Builders Supply Blu
reau the combine fixed prices for build
ing. materials. Thirty-four other ma
terial men and sixteen corporations
under Indictment are expected to be
called for trial Nay Ii, if they do not
enter pleas of guilty before that time.