This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...sir. The principle about conspiracies to raise the prices of things by agreeing not to sell them except for a certain price has been ruled upon both ways by the courts. Mr. Parker. Would this apply to that sort of thing? Mr. Ralston. No, sir. It has no relation to cases of that kind. Continuing the argument I had in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...sir. The principle about conspiracies to raise the prices of things by agreeing not to sell them except for a certain price has been ruled upon both ways by the courts. Mr. Parker. Would this apply to that sort of thing? Mr. Ralston. No, sir. It has no relation to cases of that kind. Continuing the argument I had in mind, I have stated, I think correctly, the law under this act of 1875. Now, the trades-union act was followed in Maryland in the act of 1884. I have here the Maryland act as it was incorporated in the Code of 1888. The language is as follows: An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy, if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as an offense; nothing in this section shall affect the law relating to riot, unlawful assembly, breach of the peace, or any offense against any person or against property. That is, as 1 say, the language of the Maryland act of 1884. Mr. Parker. And that was the language of the English act of 1875. Mr. Ralston. Almost identically the language of the English act and the language which has been followed in the bill now before the committee. Mr.. Parker. Is that the act you want put before us? Mr. Ralston. Yes, sir; but there is one exception in the bill before us, namely, that it shall not apply to a combination of persons. It of necessity is longer. There is one reason for the exception that I would suggest to the committee, and that is that Congress has nothing to do with unlawful assembly, breach of the peace, or any offense against person or property. The Chairman. Why not? Mr. Ralston. Those are purely matters for the State to deal with. T...
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