Show PLUMBERS FINED NOT TO APPEAL Federal Court Imposes Sen Sen- of Fines of From to Lo 1500 ELEVEN TEN MEN IN COURT One Defendant to Be Sentenced Sentenced Sen Sen- October 16 Trial I Costs Heavy Found guilty nine nino days ago of ot violating vio vie hating lating the Sherman antitrust law by forming a n combination lu In restraint of oC trade trade cloven cleven plumbers plumber were yesterday fined sums Bums ranging from H OO to 50 when thc they appeared before Judge Tillman Tilman Till- Till Til- Til man D. D Johnson In tho the federal district court cour for sentence Tho The fines tines Imposed d totaled Z O. O I Tho The eleven cloven men fined are aro Chris IrIng IrvIng Irving Ir Irv Irv- ing of Denver former president of or the National atonal Master Plumbers' Plumbers association 1500 Charles J. J of ct JIg on- on Ho Salt alt Lake 6 William Ulam lUg lUg- son son Bon Foster W. W Jones Henry Green William llam Hossler Parley larley G G. G James Frank Carthe Carthey nil all ni of ot Salt Lake and James MacBeth of ot Ogden each and John A. A Forsyth Forsth of oC Price Irico and A. A J J. J Atkin of ot Ogden each cacti Another plumber Will 11 flees nees who aho was 09 Indicted with his fellow leHow tradesmen and who was found fount guilty gult was Wa unable to appear owing to illness Sentence li In his ils case was sas Wl set for tor October 16 Mr r. depositions formed a part of ot th the evidence e adduced at at the trial After ACer the time court had pronounced de decision do- do it was announced that no appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal would be bo made Early Ear In the afternoon aft aft- aC- aC all aU tho the eleven men paid their fines lues It I was stated that tho the prosecution had iad cost the government about Of this tais sum Is named as the expense of ot the trial Involving counsel fees tees and expenses of ot wi witnesses some of ot whom had to travel a long d distance to o testify In addition to this expense certain sums Bums were disbursed previous lous to o tho the prosecution being formally B By this tho the government will willbo willo wU bo be o the tho loser Inasmuch as the tines fines Imposed Imposed Im Ira- posed will win moot meet only about half halt the expense Sentence In Is cd Chris Irving was the tho first defendant to o bo be called before the court court The cus- cus tomar omary tomary question queston as to why sentence should hould not be passed provoked a reply tram from rom Mr lr Irving to tho the effect that ho had iad little to add amid to the recommendation of ot tho the jury for tor merc mercy He lie le admitted that hat ho he had been Leen president oi ol o tho national na- na lonal association of ot master plumbers during luring the four tour years cars covered by the tho federal Indictment and that since that ane time Ime he ho had been more or less directly concerned with tho the executive affairs of ot the organization Judge Johnson said that tha ho recognized recognized that this was WS tho first time for tor them hem to appear charged with wih tho of- of tenso fonso named Continuing the tho judge said aid I am not unmindful of the Jurys Jury's recommendation of ot merc mercy I am glad glado to o hear that the defendants have havo die die- sedated themselves with the tho organization tion lon through which the they have havo felt tho the hand nand of ot the law But Dut ver very little however however how how- ever will wil be accomplished by b- the gov- gov O In this proceeding if I only these hese twelve defendants withdraw from the tho he association An Any sentence passed b by this court must stand as a warning to o the rest reel rest Tho The court then tined Lined Irving 1300 1500 and the other defendants followed In Inurn turn urn being assessed at tho the respective figures named above e William Rossiter ono one of the defendants defend defend- ants said last night that he had not heard that the tho State Master Plumbers Plumbers' association had disbanded He Hc did not see Bee eo how tho the members of ot that 1 body oy could disband until a meeting formally arranging such a detail was called He however thought that It was WS tho the Intention In- In tenton to disband The city association ion tion ho said alt had already disbanded ton |