Show TO BUST THE LUMBER TRUST government brings proceedings un der the sherman law as inter prated bythe byth by th the 1 e supreme court new york in the first federal antitrust proceedings brought under the sherman law as interpreted in the standard oil decision the department ot of justice filed in the united states court hero here friday a suit against constituent organizations of what la is pop known as aa the lumber trust alleging the exta existence tence of a widespread conspiracy unreasonably to restrain the lumber trade la in this country ten tea trade organizations and more than individuals are named as aa defendants fend ants the complaint alleges violation of the sherman antitrust anti trust law and seeks a permanent injunction restraining the defendants from continuing the conspiracy charged it is said the suit may bo be the first of a series pi panned nned by attorney general wickersham looking to the breaking up of alleged agreements between the retailers of commodities to maintain elgh prices to force all ultimate consumers tobay to buy from retailers and to blacklist wholesalers who sell to others than members 0 of t the retail I 1 organizations tho the elaborate ele borate system of blacklisting attributed to the alleged lumber conspirators copies or of circulars sent out by the organization classifying consumers as proper and improper extracts from reports threatening short shrift to dealers daring to violate the rules of the organization and branding such offenders as poachers sc alpers mavericks and Il legitimates are fully set forth in the governments petition it Is alleged that not only private consumers have been blacklisted but that a great many industrial concerns have been put under the ban by the lumber dealers the government bill aggregating words is replete with sensational allegations and in te resting exhibits |