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Show ANTI LUMBER TRUST SUIT Denver, SepL 7. Sensatloual charges that the so-called Lumber trust completely dominates tho lumber lum-ber trade of al loast twenty states by maintaining a spy. system, blacklists, black-lists, divisions of territory and other , illogal methods, conducted through I a central agoncy in Chicago, called j the Lumber Secretaries' Bureau of Information, In-formation, are inado in an anti-trust suit rilcd in, the United Statos district dis-trict court here today by the department depart-ment of Justice. , This Is the government's fourth movo. in a nation-wide fight against tbo lumber vtrust.J' In addition to the criminal indictments alieady standing against the secrotories of fourteen separate sep-arate lumbermen's associations, antitrust anti-trust suits under the Sherman law are now pending against the Michigan ReCal) Lumber Dealers' association and the Eastern States Iletail Lumber Lum-ber Dealers' association. The Secretaries' bureau and tho Colorado & Wyoming Lumber Dealers' association are defendants in tho action ac-tion filed today. Tho government asks the court to enjoin the bureau from continuing espionage upon lumbermen lum-bermen by paid spies and circulating black llsrs and other "confidential Information." In-formation." It aska that the Colorado & Wyoming association be enjoined from contributing to tho aid of tho bureau. Lumber Dealers' associations In about twenty states are named In the bill as members of the Secretaries' bureau, but ore not named as defendants defend-ants In this suit, Fourteen secretaries secretar-ies of various lumber associations represented in the bureau were indicted indict-ed recently In Chlcapo under tho crlmo sections of the Sherman law. Tbo government charges that the operation of the alleged conspiracy between be-tween the lumbermen and tho Secretaries1 Secre-taries1 bureuu has eliminated all competition com-petition for the tnde of the consumer, consum-er, except among retail yards. It Is charged that a dealer Is prevented pre-vented from soliciting or competing for business in the territory of another; an-other; that contracting builders and other large consumers aro prevented from buying at wholesale; that lumber lum-ber dealers who have not obeyed tho "othlcs" prescribed by the organization organiza-tion have been watched by detectives from the central bureau and their "irregular" "ir-regular" sales published to other raombers df the association; that thev have blacklisted and have found IL difficult to continue business. The bill cites that dealers who have had the temerity to violate the rules have been posted as "poachers" and '"scalpers." The effect of all this, the government alleges, has been to fix prices and restrain trade. The bill Is replete with allegations of threats nnd intimidations said to havo been practiced upon manufacturers, wholesalers and so-called "unethical" dealers. It charges that tho "blue book" published In St. Louis and the "red book,' published In Chicago, have established so-called classifications of lumber dealers which allow members of tho organizations to extend credit only to lumbermen who obey this rule. |