Show LE LETTERS TIE RS W PLOT FL 01 TO STIFLE COMPETITION Evidence in Master Plumbers Plumbers' Trial Tells of Attempt to Prevent Members Non From Filling Local Loca Public School Contract DAMAGING TESTIMONY INTRODUCED rp THE un strongest evidence c yet ct introduced by the government in support of I its conspiracy charges against the Master Plumbers Plumbers' nS association was that presented yesterday in the lIte form fonn of letters purporting to havo been written by the son Hos Higson iter company of Salt SnIt Lako Lake to a supply house of Chicago in an effort it is charged to keep keep a nonmember firm from filling a contract for tho thu Lon Longfellow public lic school of this cit city by preventing the contractors from obtaining tho material necessary I I In ono one instance the tho letters according to the tho prosecution showed that the I Chicago ChIcano supply 1 house on the plea of the Hi ion company r refused to sell ell Wright and Osborn except through tho the local company Lat Later r tho the thoI contractors threw up the Job In Iii the tho other through a R. J misunderstanding misunderstand lug ing Inon on the part o of a member of tho the association John Johny W. W Tobin obtained the fixtures but hut was charged 12 p pr r cent In advance of or th the tho price given to friends of or tho supply house houe One OnA of or tho first letters to bo ho Introduced introduced introduced intro Intro- in this connection is under the signature of C. C J J. Higson of the Hi- Hi son r company compan of Salt S Lal Lake e It I advises John B. B CloW Clou Sons ons of Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago that the th plumbing contract for forthe forthe forthe the Lon Longfellow rello school ha had been awarded award award- ed cd to Wright ht Osborn non members of the tho National Association of Master r Plumbers under tinder very cry peculiar circum stances Then the letter says nays The firm of or Ro worked with the architect to specify your our goods In the contract Under tho the above mentioned l circumstances wo we do donot donot donot not hello o you OU would bo ho Justified In selling those thosa goods to the above mentioned men firm Should they fall fal to obtain ob ob- ob tam tain them thor some other firm of the association asso would undoubtedly ly receive the contract anti and your our goods would be bo In Installed In- In stal stalled ell as specified In n the reply of James B B. Co Glow Sons Ros Rossiter are advised that it J would not open a 1 now new account In n Salt Lake an and nn es tho the firm of oC lUg HIS son aon son as local representatives from whom quotations might be bo re received received re- re tract 1 by tho firm holding the con con- Job Thrown UP tip A A. A II I Fulon Fulton representative o of James Jame B B. B Clow Sons la is shown in another letter to have been advised at Denver that Wright Osborn tad Shad thrown up their Longfellow school Job joh but that John W. W Tobin has taken taken the contract con con- tract tract The letter leter adds This Is 18 Just Justas as bad as it Jt was before ac Tobin Is a non Please nott notify the house to that effect In a postscript the letter letter letter let let- ter adds ards John W W. Yo Tobin told several Re people on the street toda today that ho would get e-ct tho the goods an and put them in In another leter letter bearing th tho signature signa signa- turo ture of ot C. C J J. J HI Higson son Mr Fulton lulon Is IB quoted as having haYing said In SIn all al fairness fairness fairness fair fair- ness to Clow Sons that they ma may not lose the bU business I would advise that you ou quote the firm who has hs the contract an advance on closets of 26 25 per cont cent or or give them a a lump figure of or 20 0 per cent advance ance 8 and turn the extra extra money over to the association The letter leter continues to recommend to Mr Ir Fulton Flon that ho he write to Wright Osborn that Rossiter Higson-Rossiter arc aro tho the representatives representative of or James B. B Clow Sons nn and will vill wil give glo them prices Then in conclusion the letter etter et r adds Should 1 p It I Quiet QUIM I think this will wl he to yours and our Interest Interest a as a In either case I can assure you ou that the tho association will wil stand tand behind you In recommending your Jour goods I have ha e not made mado this an nn nl association asso asso- o- o elation matter as I want to keep it quiet so as to keep It from the school chool board Failure in the tho alleged prevention of ot keeping tho the plumbing fixtures fled fied tod b by the architect of the low school at the behest of or Higson- Higson Rossiter om f rom Mr Tobin who finally toole took up the contract is recorded in a leter letter introduced In evidence c written August A 10 1341 b by the vice Ice president of ot James B. B Clow Sons to Higson- Higson printed elsewhere Those These letters are are- area a part of a large number of letters leters confiscated b by 1 special special cial Investigators of ot tho the department of Justice In developing charges against tho the master plumber plumbers Jn In reference to other alleged operations opera opera- of tho the plumbers plumbers' plumber association E. E A. A A MIdgley of Midgle Bro Bros Salt Sal Lake t testified that in order to continue a a certain contract In 1909 he paid Journeymen journeymen Jour jour- nemen plumbers 6 a n da day Ho said that the Journeymen plumbers then thon went wen on strike for tor a 6 16 a a. n da day wage and nd that ho continued paying his Journeymen Jour jour- nemen that wage wago for tor two twenty w Declare Unfair Order He Ito said that when the strike was settled the master maRter plumber plumbers jf t Salt Lake made tho union of or journe Journeymen men plumbers sign an nn agreement that icy ley ey Bros Brog be considered ere unfair and that union Journeymen Plumbers bo be re restrained ro- ro strained from working for MIdgley Midgie Bros Dros though the they paid the union scalo scab and observed union regulations Others Other who testified for tor tho tion ton yesterday representatives es of plumbing supply houses including Adolf Mueller of ot Decatur Il Ill W W. H. H Morse of Detroit Mich Uch and Harold G. G Cornelius Cornelus of Grand Rapids Mich while Martin J. J of ot Denver Donver testified as a n Jobber and AV W. y A A. McCollum Mc- Mc A Collum of Chicago Colum o a as a n former employee em em- of James B B. B Clew Claw Sons Identified Mr 11 McCollum m Identified correspondence correspond correspond- ence once which passed between the tho firm for which he hc worked and Ros Roa of ot Salt Sal Lako an and also alto of tho the correspondence correspondence cor cor- I of Mr Fulon Fulton Others told of ot methods of various supply houses which thep represented In selling goods to members member of the National As Association Association As- As of ot Master Plumbers and not to sell eel goods to such master plumbers as ns were vere not members of or the thc t tion 0 n. n of ot witnesses for the tho prosecution were made b by V W. W W. Ra Ray flay United State while while- Attorney I I. L. L S S. S Boyle oyle of Kansas Cl City directed C crots cross roes roes- exam i n at I ens Edward idward Holt Hoit Hol one of ot tho members of I the Jury Jun hearing the case became ill during yesterdays yesterday's session but hut he re recovered recovered re- re 1 covered and informed Judge Tiliman D. D Johnson Johnon that he would be able ablo to continue |