Fair Trade, Hearings ..., on S. 1722 ..., July 25, Aug 28, 19611961 - 165 pages |
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A. S. MIKE MONRONEY antitrust laws bicycle dealer brand name chains Chairman committee compete Competitive Practices Act competitors Congress contract cost customers damages department stores discount houses distribution distributor drug drugstore products economic effect enacted enforce established Fair Competitive Practices fair trade laws fair trade legislation fair trade price fair-trade Federal court Federal Trade Commission fixed prices free and open Government identified merchandise increase independent bicycle dealer independent retailer interest loss leaders manufacturers MASHAW merchant MERMEY million monopoly national brands nationally advertised NOLEN open competition operation percent permit pharmaceuticals prescription price competition price fixing price-fixing fair trade private brands profit proprietor protection resale price maintenance Schwegmann sell seller Senator MONRONEY Senator PROXMIRE Senator SCHOEPPEL small business small businessmen small independent small retailer sold statement subcommittee tion trade name trademark U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court unfair United wholesale and retail
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Page 2 - Columbia, which in substance provides that willfully and knowingly advertising, offering for sale, or selling any commodity at less than the price or prices prescribed in such contracts or agreements whether the person so advertising, offering for sale, or selling is or is not a party to such a contract or agreement, is unfair competition and is actionable at the suit of any person damaged thereby.
Page 2 - ... brand, or name of the producer or distributor of such commodity and which is in free and open competition with commodities of the same general class produced or distributed by others, when contracts or agreements of that description are lawful as applied to intrastate transactions, under any statute, law, or public policy now or hereafter in effect in any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia in which such resale is to be made, or to which the commodity is to be transported for such resale...
Page 127 - I cannot believe that in the long run the public will profit by this court permitting knaves to cut reasonable prices for some ulterior purpose of their own, and thus to impair, if not to destroy, the production and sale of articles which it is assumed to be desirable that the public should be able to get.
Page 145 - Acts shall render unlawful any contracts or agreements prescribing minimum or stipulated prices, or requiring a vendee to enter into contracts or agreements prescribing minimum or stipulated prices, for the resale of a commodity which bears, or the label or container of which bears, the trade-mark, brand, or name of the producer or distributor of such commodity and which is in free and open competition with commodities of the same general class produced or distributed by others, when contracts or...
Page 105 - The subsection would apply only if: (1) the product is in "free and open competition" with products of the same general class manufactured, distributed, and sold by others; (2) the licensee is in "free and open competition...
Page 2 - Unfair methods of competition in commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce, are hereby declared unlawful. "(2) Nothing contained in this Act or in any of the Antitrust Acts shall render unlawful any contracts or agreements prescribing minimum or stipulated prices, or requiring a vendee to enter into contracts or agreements prescribing minimum or stipulated prices, for the resale...
Page 134 - S. 1083 by striking out the semicolon after the word "court" in line 24 on page 8 and adding the following : ", or by any person in mitigation of damages or enforcement of a lien or other secured interest therein, or when the advertising, offering for sale, or sale is made by any person not primarily engaged in the distribution of merchandise by resale.
Page 130 - 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 most frequently. It is so simple, so effective. Far-seeing organized capital secures by this means the cooperation of the shortsighted unorganized consumer to his own undoing. Thoughtless or weak, he yields to the temptation of trifling immediate gain; and, selling his birthright for a mess...
Page 2 - ... (4) Neither the making of contracts or agreements as described in paragraph (2) of this subsection, nor the exercise or enforcement of any right or right of action as described in paragraph (3) of this subsection shall constitute an unlawful burden or or restraint upon, or interference with, commerce.
Page 4 - ... (C) When the goods are altered, second-hand, damaged or deteriorated and plain notice of the fact is given to the public in the advertisement and sale thereof, such notice to be conspicuously displayed in all advertisements and to be affixed to the commodity; (D) By any officer acting under an order of court.