The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-27


 such defendant in any suit or proceed ing brought by any other party against such defendant under said laws as to all matters respecting which said judg- ment or decree would be an estoppel as between the parties thereto: Provided, That this section shall not apply to consent Judgments or decrees entered before any testimony has been taken: Provided further, That this section shall not apply to consent Judgments or de cEees rendered in criminal proceedings or suits in equity now pending in which the taking of testimony has been commenced but has not been con cluded, provided such judgments or decrees are rendered before any fur ther testinony is taken.
 Whenever any suit or proceeding in equity or criminal prosecution is in- stituted by the United States to pre- vent, restrain, or punish violations of any of the antitrust laws the running of the statute of Limitations in respect of each and every private right of ac- tion arising under said laws and based in whole Or in part on any matter complained of in said suit or proceed ing shall be suspended during the pendency thereof.
 Sec. 6. That the labor e6 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 or ganizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having cap ita1 stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual mem 
 fully. carrying out the legitimate ob- jects thereof; nor shall such organixa ti0rs, or the membefs thereof, be held or construed to be illegal examinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade, under the antitrust laws.
 Sec. r That no corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part 0f the stock or other share capital of am other corporation engaged also in com merce where the effect of such acQu- sttton may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the. corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any sec ton or community, or tend to create q monopiy Of any line of commerce.
 Stock In Other companies-
 No corporation shall acquire, direct ly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of two or more corporations engaged in commerce w3ere the effect of such ac- Qt1isition, or the use of such stock by the voting or granting of proxies or otherwfse may be to substantially lessen competition between such cor porations, or any Of them, whose stock or other share capital is so acquired, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to ere ate monopoly of any line of com merce.
 This section shall not apply to cor p6rations purchasing such stock solely for investment and not using the same by voting or otherwise to bring about, or in attempting to bring about. the substantial lessening of competition. Nor shaIi anything contained in this section prevent corporation engaged in commerce from causing the lorna lion of subsidiary corporations for the. actual carrying on of their immediate lawful business, or the natural and legitimate branches or extensions thereof, or from owning and holding all or a part of the stock of such sRb- sidiary corporations, when the effect of such formation is not to substap- 1ally lessen competition.
 Nor shall anything herRfn contained be construed to prohibSt any common. carrier subject to the laws to regulate commerce from aiding in the construc tion Of branches or short lines so To- cated as to become feeders to the main line of the company so aiding in such construction, or from acquiring CT own ing all or any part of the stock of such branch lines, nor to prevent any such common carrier from acquiring and owning all or any part of the stock of branch or short line con structed by an Independent company where there is no substantia1 competi- tion between the company owning the branch line so constructed and the com pany owning the main line acquiring the property or an interest therein, nor to prevent such common carrier from extending any of it's lines through the medium of the acquisition of stock or otherwise of any other such common carrier where there is no substantial competition between the company ex- tending it's lines and the company whose stock, property, or an interest therein Is so acquired.
 Nothing contained in this section shall be held to afrect or impair any right heretofore legally acquired: Pro vided, That nothing in this section shall be held or construed to authorize or make lawfuI anything heretofore pro hibited or made illegal by the anti trust laws. nor to exempt any person from the penal provisions thereof or the civil remedies therein provided.
 No Intoxicating Direetorates.
 Sec. & That from and after two years from the date of the approval of this act no person shall at the same time be director or other officer or. employee of more than one bank, banking association, or trust company organized or operating under the laws