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Show WHOLESALE PRODUCE MEN ARE FINED PORTLAND, Or. Feb. :z. Fifteen wholesaler pleaded guilty of violating the Sherman antitrust law before Judge Hean In the superior court yesterday, and promised to dissolve the Produce Merchant' Mer-chant' asaoclatton. They war flnd an aggregate of $84&0. Tha wholesalers In pleading guilty acknowledged ac-knowledged that they made a contract with brokers by which the brokers were to send out of town that produo which th produce Merchant' aaaoclatlon did not wish to buy and warned producer not to send product Into th market except when ao ordered by the association. |