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Show INJUNCTION IS GRANTE1 Eastern States Retai Lumbermen Enjoined Permanently. Now York. Jan. 9. The gover Imcnt'B petition for a permanent I Junction against the Eastern Stat Retail Lumbermen's association, s leL'ed to be a combination in r iRtralnt of trade, was granted tods by the federal district court. Fin arguments for and against the it Junction were heard a few weeks ag The defendants Include also 1 New York Luml-er Trade ossociatfl the Building Material Mens assocjj tlon. the New Jersey Lumbermen protective association. rhc R Lumbermen's association, the Rets Lumbermen's association of Paltltnoi the Lumber Rxchnnge of the Diatrl of Columbia and others. The government's nciltlon. filed 1911, alleged that, the defends! wore engaged in a conspiracy In straint ol Interstate trade, opera! through the Instrumentality ot bias lists, fines and expulsion from moo bershlp. and that b trade agrccmSjjS they arbitrarily fixed prices i hi the petition the government U cludi d itself as a consumer .'inn asl ed thai i1"' defendants b perpetfl lv enjoined from making- anv col tract or r in i n lion In fnrt herans of their conspiracy. By today's M clsion, this Is granted. |