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Labor Activities And Anti-Monopoly Legislation, Robert A. Purdue Nov 1942

Labor Activities And Anti-Monopoly Legislation, Robert A. Purdue

Washington Law Review

The uproar of the ancient market place was the symbol of competition until contemporary times. Each purchase or barter was a thing of its own; each buyer was to be treated according to "what this part of the traffic will bear"; each seller was to be heckled until the price would be cut no lower. Although "survival of the fittest" was the keyword, by and large the majority survived. Contrary to popular opinion, however, history has numerous examples of ancient and semi-modern attempts to control some of the unwanted effects of the competitive system. Furthermore, while early civilizations may have …


Labor Law - Application Of The Antitrust Laws To Labor Combinations, Eric Stein Jun 1942

Labor Law - Application Of The Antitrust Laws To Labor Combinations, Eric Stein

Michigan Law Review

In an indictment under the .first paragraph of the Sherman Act the government charged the defendant union of electrical workers with forming an illegal combination to boycott electrical equipment manufactured in other states whereby such products were either totally excluded from the local market, or restrictions as to rewiring or reassembling were imposed upon their use such as to constitute an undue burden on interstate commerce. In a separate indictment the United States accused the same union of unlawfully conspiring with the associations of contractors and local manufacturers of electrical equipment for a similar purpose and with a like effect …