. The National Civic Federation review . salers from selling, not only proprietary articles,but sponges, drugs, chemicals and everything tothose who cut prices. This was not accomplishedin New York, but was in Philadelphia. The ShermanAct was appealed to and out of that unfortunateconcession in Philadelphia the whole drug tradehas been enjoined from making any three-partyagreement—any agreement, that is, between themanufacturer on the one hand, the distributor (thejobber) in the middle, and the retailer on theother hand. In answer to a question, Mr. Schieffelin statedthat in his judgment the P
. The National Civic Federation review . salers from selling, not only proprietary articles,but sponges, drugs, chemicals and everything tothose who cut prices. This was not accomplishedin New York, but was in Philadelphia. The ShermanAct was appealed to and out of that unfortunateconcession in Philadelphia the whole drug tradehas been enjoined from making any three-partyagreement—any agreement, that is, between themanufacturer on the one hand, the distributor (thejobber) in the middle, and the retailer on theother hand. In answer to a question, Mr. Schieffelin statedthat in his judgment the Philadelphia scheme wasabsolutely improper. The complaint of the drugtrade is that the terms of the injunction are sosweeping. We would have been perfectly satisfiedif any sort of an agreement involving a boycott,involving a blacklist and refusing anything, wasenjoined, but the United States Court has enjoinedus from making any kind of an agreement and fromusing any kind of persuasion. 4 The National Civic Federation Review May, 1908 I. The Chairman of (he committee asked a variety ofquestions from the standpoint of hie departmentstores, leading up to whether legislation was wantedto prevent the department stores from selling to itscustomers and consumers at prices less than re-tailers sell for. This Mr. Schieffelin admitted was the believed that the majority should have the rightto compel business to be done in the way in whichthey wanted it done. It has been said that you cannot indict a wholenation, but here the United States Court has en-joined an entire trade, five or six hundred whole-salers and forty-two hundred retailers. By the termsof the injunction It did not cover members of theassociation only. It applied to any one who signedthese three-party contracts and thus includespractically all the retailers throughout the country. Mr. Schieffelin: In view of the fact set forth, wedesire to propose an amendment. Page 9 of the billreads in part as follows: Anythi
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