Show DENY TRADE Defense in Plumbers Plumbers' Case Cae Presents Rebuttal Excerpts from reports and ad proceedIngs proceed proceed- Ings lags of ot the annual conventions of tho Master faster Plumbers' Plumbers Association o of America were Introduced In the of at the tho plumbers affiliated with wih the na tonal association charged with Uh violation vio vo o lation laUon of oC the tho Sherman antitrust la when the tho case ce was wa resumed before 4 Judge Tiilman 3 D. D Johnson Timan in the fed rC oral cral district court yesterday t The convention held In 1899 at at New Orleans was the bal basis sig of oC documentary evidence being introduced on both sl sides es The prosecution by certain ot of this evidence attempted to show that the tho plumbers had ha for tor their object the restriction of ot trade and the it shutting off of at competition r The e defense provided pro rebuttal evl- evl tending to show that the plumbers plumbers' national association has for its Is principal object the betterment off of sanitary conditions and that it does doe docil not r restrict competition or or trade bU bUt rather stimulates It iL It 1 Contra Contrary to custom tho the court cort will wi sit be resumed this morning when tho the case wn J Jr r |