Fair Trade: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2384, Fair Trade Repeal, March 25 and April 10, 1975U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - 200 sider |
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Side 144 - An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies...
Side 191 - The waiting period required under subsection (a) of this section shall (A) begin on the date of the receipt by the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General...
Side 31 - Food Chain Selling Practices In The District Of Columbia And San Francisco...
Side 192 - ... brand, or name of the producer or owner of such commodity and which is in fair and open competition with commodities of the same general class produced by others shall be deemed in violation of any law of the State of California by reason of any of the following provisions which may be contained in such contract: 1.
Side 38 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend, arbitrarily, those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy ; because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires, it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by Courts of justice.
Side 41 - ... b. Because, immediately after that combination and the increase of capital which followed, the acts which ensued justify the inference that the intention existed to use the power of the combination as a vantage ground to further monopolize the trade in tobacco by means of trade conflicts designed to injure others, either by driving competitors out of the business or compelling them to become parties to a combination...
Side 38 - If there is one thing which more than any other public policy requires, it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice. Therefore, you have this paramount public policy to consider, that you are not lightly to interfere with this freedom of contract.
Side 47 - Americans should be under no Illusions as to the value or effect of price cutting. It has been the most potent weapon of monopoly — a means of killing the small rival to which the great trusts have resorted frequently. It is so simple, so effective.
Side 37 - Primitive barter was a contest of wits instead of an exchange of ascertained values. It was, indeed, an equation of two unknown quantities. Trading took its first great advance when money was adopted as the medium of exchange. That removed one-half of the uncertainty incident to a trade, but only one-half. The transaction of buying and selling remained still a contest of wits. The seller still gave as little in value and got as much in money as he could. And the law looked on at the contest, declaring...
Side 41 - The process of exterminating the small independent retailer already hard pressed by capitalistic combinations — the mail-order houses, existing chains of stores, and the large department stores — would be greatly accelerated by such a movement.