...that section 5a requires that docket notice be given of all rate proposals because, without notice, the free and unrestrained right to take independent...before or after any determination arrived at through collective procedures is absent. In reply, the western railroads take issue with the contentions of...

...independent action has not been infrequent. . . We conclude that the agreement accords to each party the free and unrestrained right to take independent...before or after any determination arrived at through the procedures provided by the agreement." The commission next proceeded to a discussion of considerations...

...association; incorporating applicant's bylaws and rules of tariff publication procedure which accord to each party thereto the free and unrestrained right to take independent action either before, after, or during any determination made through procedures established by the agreement; and limiting...

...carriers. — Id., p. 216; North Atlantic Port Railroads, Coal Demurrage-Agreement, 278 ICC 525 (528). "Free and unrestrained right to take independent action either before or after any determination" guarantees that each carrier party to agreement shall have the right to elect whether it will place...

...Article III of the agreement, hereinbefore quoted, which reserves to each member of the association the free and unrestrained right to take independent action either before or after any determination under any procedure provided for in the agreement. They are to apply in instances where a carrier has...

...postponed for such period as the Commission determines to be reasonably necessary to avoid undue hardship. right to take independent action either before or after any determination arrived at through such procedure. "(8) No order shall be entered under this section except after interested parties have...

...interest to be guarded against by the antitrust laws; and (2) that the agreement does not actually accord to each party thereto the free and unrestrained right to take independent action as required by paragraph (6) of section 5a. These objections will be discussed in the order named....

...through joint consideration unless it finds that under the agreement there is accorded to each party the free and unrestrained right to take independent...before or after any determination arrived at through such procedure. An agreement of bureaus or comnittees representing two different types of carriers,...

...through joint consideration unless it finds that under the agreement there is accorded to each party the free and unrestrained right to take independent...before or after any determination arrived at through such procedure. "(7) The Commission is authorized, upon complaint or upon its own initiative without...

...through joint consideration unless it finds that under the agreement there is accorded to each party the free and unrestrained right to take independent...before or after any determination arrived at through such procedure. (7) The Commission is authorized, upon complaint or upon its own initiative without...