Antitrust Legislation: Speeches in the U.S. Senate and House of Rep's 63d CongressU.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 |
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... regulation of all business institutions with which banks are constantly doing business , and not only will banks be undergoing , as they are undergoing , a complete change of methods , but the business with which they are constantly in ...
... regulation of all business institutions with which banks are constantly doing business , and not only will banks be undergoing , as they are undergoing , a complete change of methods , but the business with which they are constantly in ...
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... regulation of the business as is practiced with respect to carriers . telegraph companies , water companies , etc. The coal producer , like other merchants , has always discriminated , and I think must always be permitted to ...
... regulation of the business as is practiced with respect to carriers . telegraph companies , water companies , etc. The coal producer , like other merchants , has always discriminated , and I think must always be permitted to ...
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... regulate commerce , to regulate these particular contracts which do not in effect impede com- merce or create a monopoly ? Mr. AVIS . I do not . Mr. BARTLETT . Is it not taking away from the citizen the right to make a contract to sell ...
... regulate commerce , to regulate these particular contracts which do not in effect impede com- merce or create a monopoly ? Mr. AVIS . I do not . Mr. BARTLETT . Is it not taking away from the citizen the right to make a contract to sell ...
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... and unequivocally oppose the exception . But I am far from being persuaded that labor unions can be classed with industrial combinations and so brought properly within the purview of a law intended to regulate such 48120-13533 11.
... and unequivocally oppose the exception . But I am far from being persuaded that labor unions can be classed with industrial combinations and so brought properly within the purview of a law intended to regulate such 48120-13533 11.
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... regulate such combina- tions . It should be observed that those most vehement in denouncing the creation of a special ... regulation of these trusts . We leave their privi- leges unchallenged . But we say to those possessing them that ...
... regulate such combina- tions . It should be observed that those most vehement in denouncing the creation of a special ... regulation of these trusts . We leave their privi- leges unchallenged . But we say to those possessing them that ...
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Page 19 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 17 - But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 3 - That the labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof...
Page 18 - ... it shall be the duty of every carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to provide and furnish such transportation upon reasonable request therefor, and to establish through routes and just and reasonable rates applicable thereto.
Page 24 - It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.
Page 18 - All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property and for the transmission of messages by telegraph, telephone, or cable, as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, shall be just and reasonable; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service or any part thereof is prohibited and declared to be unlawful: Provided.
Page 4 - ... instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade, under the antitrust laws.
Page 13 - ... irreparable injury to property, or to a property right, of the party making the application, for which injury there is no adequate remedy at law...
Page 14 - No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty ; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which, if surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they, and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them, till all of liberty shall be lost.
Page 33 - That no part of this money shall be spent in the prosecution of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in furtherance thereof, not in itself unlawful : Provided further.