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Show HE TILLS IN ' mm m Witnesses Testify as to Alleged Al-leged Unfair Methods of Master Association. T!io i'U-nti flea: ion of correspond.? ive I Laving to do with the operations of the I Master l'himbers' as-so-'iat ion and tlu-ir ! relations w lUi the nut nui'aeturers and , jnijln.Ts, together wl!ji the. testimony of a number of witnesses support iny the con-I con-I lention of the government that a num-I num-I her or' lo' al plumbers were eimatp.-d in the 1 re s t a i n t of t '; i e p 1 u i n i j i 1 1 x trade of this ! city, occupied all of yesterday in the I trial nf the plumpers in the icder.il court. The acts ii licked by the government are In violation of the Sherman anti-I anti-I trust law and tlie trial in this city Is j one of a number which have been tried, j I or will lie tried later, In other parts of , : the ITnited State;?. I i r; eor.R e H. Murdoek and P. C Betje- 1 1 man, special agents of the department of I j Justice, were called for the purpose of Identifying a lare number of exhibits, consi-stiiiK of corresponiience, offered by the government in evidence. Peter Menzles of tJenver, ex-secretary of the Colorado branch of the Master Plumbers' association, testified that in 1912 tlie firm of I,. Woolf & Co. had t hfe "Indiscretion" to show an architect In Pueblo a "net price." This happening was next heard of in the intennoun- ' lain states' convention at Cheyenne and later in the national convention tn Salt j i Luke City. It eventually readied the 1 ears of National President Frank J. Fee ; ' in Xew York City. " i Gustavus T. Brooke and Thomas J. ; Thomas testified in corroboration of each I otiier thnt while they were In Ofyden in ; ! August, lf12. two of the defendants, j Atkin and Macbeth, officials of the asso-j asso-j elation, notified them that in 1913 they ! would cut the Crane company out unless j the company confined its sales to members mem-bers of the association, and in 1915 the association notified Brooke that the boycott boy-cott had been raised. A. J. Sullivan of Denver testified that It was the policy of the Woolf Manufacturing; Manufac-turing; company to confine Its sales to members in those districts where the purchasing power was vested In the association. as-sociation. . C. Frank Osborne of Pocatello testified testi-fied that he had a contract to do work in the? Longfellow school in this city and I ho was forced to throw it up on account : of inability to secure the supplies called j for In tlie specifications. Me stated that in the event he could secure the goods i called for the contract would have been a profitable one. 1 The trial will be resumed Monday , morning at 10 o'clock. |