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Show LUMBERMEN HAS . CODE OF ETHICS Seattle, Wash., Aug. 31. The Lumbermen's Lum-bermen's code of ethltcs as expressed in the reciprocity agreement betweon the retailors and the manufacturers was the subject of Inquiry in yesterday's yester-day's hearing of the government antitrust anti-trust suit against the Northwestern Lumbermen's association. Victor H. Bockman, formerly secretary of the Pacific Coast Lumbermen's association, associa-tion, testified that his association1 had Bignod the agreement when it was adopted by the trade, but that it was never observed by the manufacturers. manufactur-ers. Correspondence between Mr. Beekman and the secretaries of the retail association introduced in evidence evi-dence showed that the manufacturers complained that tho agreement waB a one-sided affair and worked to the benefit of tho retailers without being of any service to the manufacturers. Ampng the new provisions of the reciprocity agreement was one which Bald: "Manufacturers should not sell to parties who advertise to furnish lumber lum-ber to consumers at large or who solicit so-licit mail order business." Other sections dealt with similar regulations, the closing paragraph reading: "It is considered contrary to the ethics of the trade to sell to a firm or corporation whose members or stockholders are an aggregation of consumers whose efforts are to produce pro-duce lumber for consumers at wholesale." whole-sale." Mr. Beekman had decided views as to the right of consumers to buy wherever they could, but said if he were a manufacturer he woul sell to dealers only as a matter of good business busi-ness policy. He topk exception to tho reciprocity agreements provision regarding re-garding co-operative associations and declared that in his opinion, a farmers' far-mers' association was entitled to be considered as a retail organization Mr Beekman was the only witness examined during the day. |