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Show TRADE RESTRICTION CHARGE IS DENIED Witnesses Declare Master Plumbers j Made No Effort to Boycott j Supply Houses. DES MOINES, Iowa, Fob. 20. Mem-; Mem-; bers of the National Association of Master Plumbers of American, non-members non-members and . supply house men, testified testi-fied today in tho federal court trial of the thirty-six master plumbers, under indictment charged with violating the Sherman law, and declared that the ; association made no effort to restrain , trade. Neit her did it endeavor to in- fluence. plumbers against jobbers, or jobbers and manufacturers in their business methods, they said. Herman G- Hestrum, of Eau Claire, , Wis., gave what the counsel for tho de-1 de-1 fense called valuable evidence along this line. On cross-examination tho witness denied that he had ever taken up any so-colled "complaints" with the president of the association. He had purchased supplies from hous whether they sola to non-members or not. L. H- Johnston, an association member mem-ber of Minneapolis, admitted on cross-examination cross-examination that he had not been subpoenaed, sub-poenaed, but had" juFt come to Dcs j Moines to "help his friends out." F. -T. Springs, of St. Paul, and G. K. Beldon, of Minneapolis, testified along the lines of the evidence of nostrum. The case will probably extend well into next week, according to statements of attorneys tonight. |