Accounting, uniform system of, ASSOCIATIONS, certain meetings
recommended, 354.
Æsthetic efforts, 43.
Aggregation of labor discussed, 298.
Almond Growers' Exchange, 331.
of, not illegal, 124; indirect agreements of, 124; meetings of, for luncheon, 123; of rail- road employes and shippers suggested, 316; under pro- posed Federal Law, 356.
Altruism and generosity found- Balance of trade, 42.
ed on coöperation, 29. Amalgamated Association of I. & S. workers opposed to shorter hours, 169 note. American Society of Equity, 36 note.
American Sugar Refining Co.,
American Federation of Labor, 323.
Anarchism and certain trade maxims, 212.
Anarchist in trade, 121. Annihilation, competition and struggle for, 20. ANTI-TRUST LAWS, see TRUSTS; amendments to, proposed, 36; contrary to spirit of age, 47; drawn along the lines of least resistance, 352; not en- forced against certain classes, 329, 346; theory of, 205. ASSOCIATION, see OPEN-PRICE
Baldwin, Prof. James Mark,
Bargain days, 57.
Beauty not a wholesale propo- sition, 43.
Beyer, David S., 165 note. BIDS, calling for, with no in- tention to let to lowest, 196; false representations concern- ing, 199; method of govern- ment purchases and contracts
on, criticized, 228. Biological competition, 11, 21. Black list, use of, 56, 355. Bricklayers and Masons' In- ternational, 323.
Broom-corn combination, 37
BRUTAL BUYING, see BUYING; government purchases and, 228.
BRUTAL COMPETITION, see Сом-
PETITION, BRUTAL.
Burley Tobacco Society, 37
Burton, Senator Theodore E., 63 note.
BUSINESS, a lottery, 192; re- ducing the speculative ele- ments of, 224.
BUYERS, all men both buyers and sellers, 52; secret price policy and, 112; sellers and, most men both, 33; two classes of, 215; who have fixed incomes, 37; open-price association of, 153. BUYING, BRUTAL, 190.
Buyers' open-price associations, 153-155.
California and oriental labor, 5.
Calwer, Richard, 370. Canada, conditions in, 359.
TRUSTS; and pools in Eng- land and Germany, 127; and unfair competition, 63; con- flict between, 54; forms of, 45; fruit growers', 54; great era of, 34; here to stay, 10;
Capital and labor, conflict be- tween, 4; misuse of term capital, 336.
Capitalists, combinations of, and politicians and judges, 9.
Carnegie, Andrew, 168. Carnegie Company, 104. Carpenters, association of, 105. Cartels in Germany, 368. Census statistics inadequate, 168.
City of London case, 7. Clark, Prof. John B., The Con- trol of Trusts, 14. Class discrimination by indirect methods, 329.
CLASS LEGISLATION and fair play, 328; no distinction be- tween combination of farm- ers and labor and combina-
inevitable, 35; large and friendless, 63; marketing or- ganizations, 54; of employ- ers, 53; of labor and farm- ers, 53; of railways, 53; of sellers, 53; old line and open- price associations, 147; on a selfish basis, 54; question of mere size, 349; to advance prices, effect of, 157; which include customers, 57. Commerce, international dump- ing of goods, 261 note 1. Commonwealth vs. Strauss, 77
COMMUNITY, all losses unpro- ductive enterprises borne by,
252; and wasteful competi- tion, I; attitude of, toward industries and men who are waiting for a normal de- mand, 262; economic organ- ization of, wasteful, 256; in-
difference of, towards fail- ures, 265; must prevent strikes, 204; should control certain so-called economic laws, 249.
COMPETITION, a fetish, 2, 22; a relentless force, 11; and bar- baric conditions, 10; and its professed friends, 80; and labor unions, 8; and politi- cians, 5; and secret prices and rebates, 101; and struggle for annihilation, 20; as af- fected by trusts, 51; attitude of labor unions towards, 2; attitude of the public towards, 16; attitude of socialists to- wards, 3; benefits of, 27; be- tween retail merchants, 91; between towns, 38; biolog- ical, 11; blind, vicious, un- reasoning, 2; blind worship of, 26; cause of distress, 7; collusive, 97; competitive or coöperative basis of, 35; contracts to prevent un- healthy, 6; cut rate drug stores and, 31; cutthroat, 31; death of trade, 1; definitions of, 19; destructive, 29; disap- pearance of small competitor in, 64; disintegrating force, 26; essence of the old, 73; excessive, 6; extensive, 40; in products of the soil, sup-
pressed, 9; in the labor world, 89; in Tin Plate in- dustry, 208; independent, against an integrated indus- try, 282; intensive, 40; is in- human, II; is war and war is hell, 23; leads to combina- tions, 44; life of trade, 1; line of normal, in industries, 279; lumber companies and, 65; mail order houses and, 31; moral and economic rights of, 65; mother of trusts, 50, 104; nature's, 15; new, court decree bearing upon, 69; new, interest of third party and, 73; new, versus old, 62; not the life of trade, 7; of isolation, 5; old fashioned, 285; piratic, merciless, cutthroat, 5; pro- duction of quantity and, 44; real and beneficial, 86; reck- less and ignorant, 94; rivals in a race, 85; suppressed, 95, 109; suppressed, and fixed prices, 116; suppressed, gen- tlemen's agreements and, 101; survival of the fittest and, 13; synonymous with struggle, contest, rivalry, 21; wasteful, and the community, I; what is, 12; when buyers would prefer to have prices fixed, 99; will the fittest survive? 32.
COMPETITION, BRUTAL, 59; and Congress, 61; and size of a trust, 80; and vicious, 60; and the courts, 80; between blacksmiths, 61; instances of,
64; is natural and instinc- tive, 61; progress toward higher ideals, 62; time hon- ored practice, 59; to small competitor, 60.
COMPETITION, FALSE, 85, 86, 95, 97; and secret prices, 116; basis of, secrecy, 105; be- tween blacksmiths, 90; be- tween carpenters, 87; be- tween crane builders, 92; bidding in the dark and, 93; in the contracting and manu- facturing world, 89; oriental method of, III; shoddy and adulteration logical results of, 216; wide differences in bids in, 93.
COMPETITION, TRUE, See OPEN- PRICE ASSOCIATIONS; and open prices, 116; as com- pared with old, in theory, 227; conditions of, 87; eliminates secrecy, 91; factors of, 67, 94; helps the small producer, 114; knowledge, 94; prices more nearly alike in, 89; re- sults of, 109.
many against, 372; mail or- der and department stores and, 60; Massachusetts law against, 76; misrepresenta- tions in, 102; practices of the individual in, must be sup- pressed, 351; secret prices and, 102; under-selling rivals and, 74. Conflicts worldwide, 41. Congress and brutal competi- tion, 61; and corporations, 80. Consolidations, 52. Constitutional law, Massachu- setts, against unfair competi- tion, 76.
Constitutionality of all class legislation, 324 note. Consumer interested in coӧр- eration, 54.
Consumer, the ultimate, 218. Constructive legislation, 347, 350.
Contest and competition, 21. Contractors generally, unfair practices by, 195. CONTRACTS, constitutional right to make, 77; illustrating brutal buying, 192; in re- straint of trade, 33; standard forms a provision, 201. COOPERATION and buyers and sellers, 53; and integration of labor, 297; and over ca- pacity, 261; and state super- vision, 80; basis of altruism,
COMPETITION, UNFAIR, 32, 59; and monopolies, 79; between country dealers, 60; between jobbers and manufacturers, 60; between peddlers, 60; by integrated industries, 283; business methods in, must be suppressed, 67, 353; decree against, 68; false statements and disburse- ments and, 56; favored cus- tomers in, 102; goods "just as good" in, 67; law in Ger-
29; basis of our national ex- istence, 24; cannot be pro- hibited, 125; constructive, 29; danger is towards larger and
larger, 345; era of, 5; forms of, 45; foundation of prog- ress, 18; foundation of so- ciety, 24; growth of, 38; is progress, 11, 24; is trade, 10; broader outlook, 157; midway between selfish individualism and socialism, 164; more of, needed, 103; of labor, farmers and manufac- turers here to stay, 333; pro- duction and prices and, 49; promoted by true competi- tion, 30; railway associations and, 53; rise and fall of, in history, 25; sellers' organiza- tions and, 53; societies for, urged by President Taft, Colonel Roosevelt, 37 note; suppressed by anti-trust laws, 28; to reduce prices, 52; to reduce speculative elements of business, 214; to take in consumer, 54.
CORPORATIONS, see also TRUSTS; and brutal competi- tion, 61; laws limiting size of, 48.
Cost, a scientific system, 153; selling below, 82, 267-270; false statements regarding, 356; no man should sell goods below, 203; of living, 67; price should never fall below, 265; relation of, to a fair price, 243; rise and fall of price with relation to, 256; rules should be established for sci- entific ascertainment of, 267; selling at or below, punish- able, 355; selling goods below,
57; the element of labor and, 163; Texas law against sell- ing below, 75; uniform system of, recommended, 354. Cote vs. Murphy, 344. Cotton growers' organizations, 332.
Cotton growers restrain com- petition, 9.
Coulter, J. L., 330. COURTS, and brutal competition, 80; attitude of English, to- wards combinations, 363; attitude of German, towards unfair competition, 372; at- titude of German, towards trusts, 370; being terrorized, 323; class legislation uncon- stitutional, 324 note, 328 note; have already approved combi- nations of labor, fixed wages, 340; opinions of, referring to competition, 6; Sugar Refin- ing Co. case and, 6. Crane builders, competition be- tween, 92.
Curran vs. Galen, 341. Customers, relations with, 158.
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