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Show t-iDERAL ACTION AGAINST TRUST- LOS ANGELES, Cal , Dec. IS A suit to dissolve the so-called plumbing plumb-ing trust of the Pacific coast, witn the Coast Plumbing Supply association, associa-tion, an unincorporated oiganlaztlon with offices at San Francisco, an 1 the national committee of the Conteder-ated Conteder-ated Supplj association, a coiporaton of New Yoik rih, as the principal defendants, was f.led in the Unued States dist.ict court here today upon receipt of telegraphic Instructions from the department of justice at Washington. Theie are eighty-six defendants The suit Is practically a compromise, compro-mise, it havng boon understood that the government originally Jntended to institute criminal action against the I "trusL" Among the corporations named is ' the Crane company of Los Ange'es, San Francisco and Oakland, Cal.; Portland, Ore : Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane, Wash. The government asks that the defendants de-fendants he enjoined from publishing or circulating or using a "blue book;" from further bovcottln of members who might sell to others than members mem-bers of the association and genera'.lv restrained from continuing so-called trust methods. |