Show PLUMBERS PLUMBERS' TRIAl NEAR NEAR Arguments Under Way Vay Suit Against Master Plumb Plum ers in United States Cour Court i GOES TO JURY TODAY TODA 11 1 Lawyers for Government i and Defense to End Jury Jur t Pleas This Morning milE THE suit sull Instituted b by the gore gov nl 54 sOen I I ment meat charging twelve master mastel 7 plumbers with wih violation or of tl th Sherman antitrust law lass b by antirust forming a u combination In 11 restraint of ot trade an and which has hns occupied the attention o ot tho the federal district court presided over b by Judge Tillman Tiilman D D. Johnson for tor two weeks will wi go to the Jury jur t today oc a Court was adjourned yesterday a aft until this morning after af on one nS counsel for tor tho the prosecution and on counsel for the defense had been heard hear while I. I L. L C C. I. I Boyle Bolc making tile the second address for lie tho defense was In th I midst o of ot his argument Mr Ir Boyle Bole wilt will conclude hi his hla address to tho tIme juT Jur Jury after which W. W W. W Ra Ray United tody district attorney will wil close time the c ca caz for tho time government o Mr Ill Boyle DoYle In his ar argument said I ii It was not given to mortals to search sal oti au a human heart but to see sec I its working manifested hi by a mans man's acts Ho lie chaN I lenKel that not one of ot tho ho twelve ac i at men was sult guilty guilt at heart for Cor an anil orense offense an and his acts showed no imo Intent to commit on any offense n against his tel fel low man maim be no ho a 1 member ot of the tho Mat Ia fe tar tor Plumbers Plumbers' association or 01 not not v c Ho lie then went on to recite a history history dealing with wih the formation Ht 0 o tho the plumbers plumbers' organizations through throughout out the tho countr country In 1883 a few fow seem men met In Now York and und organized a an ai a association In that year ear thero there wa no Sherman la law lass Thy The following yea e c n the tho Baltimore resolution was passed This resolution provided pro that plumbers pase should bu buy goods good only from Crom houses which sold soM to the trade and al should not patronize tho the firms hl sold Bold to consumers 1 In 1890 Congress passed tho the Sh law la and the resolution Ion became ll leral ra a fc In 1899 tho the Now low Orleans resolution was passe passed That resolution was tb legal lesal ho said because It I violated wa the thai 1 te law provisions provision contained In tho the Sherman Sn-H Sn M Ignorant Mr Jr Boyle Doyle emphasized that th tho plumbers slId did eJel not know It was Illegal I It I was as vastly asty Important to determine whether the tho men had an any ammy Intention of DC violating tho the law Ho He assorted asserted that there was as nothing In the tho attitude of oC the thc accused or In their actions to support support support sup sup- port an any contention that might be be- made that the tho men who did not riot know I Ithe the law were sult guilty of ot o anything but right dealing ng am themselves and the time members of ot their croft craft anI Counsel declared that thero there was no no conspiracy Tho The evidence ho claimed did not prove provo It I. I claimed In 1902 the National Association ot Master Plumbers passed assed a n resolution that manufacturers should n assist th the or organized plumbers Thero There wa was mention mention menton men men- tion ton made of or preclusion of or the lie co COQ coo sumer turner but nonmembers were not men toned Ho lie declared that the j tim tion ton had failed tied to show that the rem rem- mem- mem berg bars had shown an any antagonism to the nonmembers nonmembers Attorney n Replies I E. E L. L Humes Hume district attorney for Cor or orthe the western jurisdiction of or Penns Pennsyl Pennsyl- vanla vania who Is assisting Mr Ir Ray nay in the tha prosecution Jed hod with wih the tile opening ar argo- argo u- u ment mont Ho lo characterized the tho Longfellow Longfellow low school Job which formed an Item Iem frequently referred to In evidence Ma M as a. a a local scandal scandal C. C B. B Critchlow of or counsel for the I defense followed He lIe le said that a CIU cats cass could not hot rest on a suspicion of oC proof There was need neel to have proof and he hesi dill did not think It had been submitted d In this title case ease He claimed cl no no ac ncy acy had been shown by tho the of ot the association Owing to Will YI Rocs Rees a plumber aMone and aM ono one of or tho ho witnesses for Cor the tho being ill 1 his lila depositions were taken at his b bedside b by l K l. M. M 1 Garnett Garnett ir r na Ray flay representing the prosecution and anti Mr Jr Crichlow tho tile defense d. Mr Ir Reese who Is 18 5 52 years oh old said aid that lint ho lie had been beon In business as M a a plumber In Salt SaIL Lake for tor twenty five twenty years ears and had once acted as president association n of ot tho the I lIeges ht ft I He lie said that ho he did not trade with I J firms which sold sol only to members or of ortho at tho the association He lie le traded trade where I. I Ii n I thought best Irrespective of ot friendliness friendliness ness or otherwise of ot tho time supply I to the time association There was ho he he silo salti I a feeling of at hostility toward Id e. e and Tobin following the tho strike Ml lf ly lv anti and Tobin ar arc ard government rand arid and ane are aro alc alleged ed b by the defense to hm double crossed crossel the members of at tn the t l association Mr Ir Rees flees said that the local organization had clone nothing to to s restrict the sales of or a supply cone hou houw to toa to a nonmember Mr Ir Rees Rees' e WAS 13 n 1 read rend sion slon on to the tho court court at the morning morning ses ae- ae f l' l Evidence similar to that given 0 on da b defense defenso previous days s by s that the association made no effort to to interfere with the tho businesses of ot nonmembers non wih members and that time the association I Ithe ie e the main stood for educational ad among amons plumbers was give l b by John A A. Forsyth Forsth Arthur IL I. I Ta Tay T lor br Fred Ired C. C Sanford George P. P Sl and V. V W. W I A. A J |