Capper-Kelly Fair-Trade Bill: Hearings, Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-second Congress, First Session, on S. 97, a Bill to Protect Trade-mark Owners, Distributors and the Public Against Injurious and Uneconomic Practices in the Distribution of Articles of Standard Quality Under a Distinguishing Trade-mark Brand, Or Name, Volume 1

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Page 1 - No contract relating to the sale or resale of a commodity which bears, or the label or content of which bears, the trade mark, brand, or name of the producer or owner of such commodity and which is in fair and open competition...
Page 1 - California by reason of any of the following provisions which may be contained in such contract: 1. That the buyer will not resell such commodity except at the price stipulated by the vendor. 2. That the vendee or producer require in delivery to whom he may resell such commodity to agree that he will not, in turn, resell except at the price stipulated by such vendor or by such vendee.
Page 2 - ... such dealer, by written offer at the price paid for the same by such dealer and that such vendor, after reasonable opportunity to inspect such article or articles, shall have refused or neglected to accept such offer...
Page 53 - UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 o'clock am, pursuant to adjournment on yesterday, in room 212, Senate Office Building, Senator James E.
Page 1 - Such provisions in any contract shall be deemed to contain or imply conditions that such commodity may be resold without reference to such agreement in the following cases: (1) In closing out the owner's stock for the purpose of discontinuing...
Page 114 - Rankin bill which passed the House of Representatives in the last session of Congress...
Page 1 - Washington, DC The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10.30 o'clock am, in room 326, Senate Office Building, Senator George W. Norris presiding. Present: Senators Norris (chairman), McNary, Capper, Keyes, Gooding, Smith, Ransdell, Heflin, and Ferris. The CHAIRMAN.
Page 2 - 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 2 - Section 1 of this act, whether the person so advertising, offering for sale or selling is or is not a party to such contract, is unfair competition and is actionable at the suit of any person damaged thereby. "Section 3. This act shall not apply to any contract or agreement between producers or between wholesalers or between retailers as to sale or resale prices. "Section 4. The following terms, as used in this act, are hereby defined as follows: " 'Producer' means grower, baker, maker, manufacturer...

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