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Show ' FOR CHEAPER BATHS SUIT BROUGHT AGAINST COMBI-NATION COMBI-NATION OF CAPITAL AND PATENT RIGHTS. Sherman Law Being Invoked Against Alleged Trust. Restraint of Trade Charged. Sixteen Concerns Are Said to Be Involved. Washington. Sixteen concerns , manufacturing sanitary enameled waro and their officers located In nlno states were proceeded against Friday by the department of Justice In a bill In equity filed against them at Baltimore, Balti-more, Md., under the Sherman antitrust anti-trust law. The concerns wore charged with being a combination In restraint of trade. It Is said to control 8G per cent of the output of washbowls, bath tubs, lavatories, drinking fountains and other sanitary enameled Ironware. Iron-ware. It was discovered, according to the governments bill, that the defendants had entered Into a combination for tho purpose of controlling the price and terms of sale of their product throughout tho United States. It Is alleged that thoy refusod to sell their goods to Jobbers who refused to sign contracts. It Ib stated that this suit differs from othor suits instituted by the government under tho Sherman law In that tho defendants havo attempted attempt-ed to conceal their purposes under the gulso of an ostensible licensing arrangement under a patent. |