Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-21
FINISH LABORS
IN REVISION Of
CLAYTON BILL
Senate Committee About to Re-
port Measure With lmpor-
tant Changes.

WASHINGTON, July 2t.-The adj
ministration's antitrust program was
nearing completion today in Senate
committees. Revision of the Clayton
bill had been agreed upon in the judi
ciary committee, and the railway se-
curities bill was receiving It's finishing
touches in the interstate commerce
committee.
Important changes were made by
the judiciary committee in the Clay
ton bill, as 1t passed the House. One
of the most important was one pro-
viding for court review of orders is
sued by the Interstate Commerce
Commission or the proposed Federal
trade commission against corpora
lions found to have violated the trust
laws.
The leaders were determined today
to press more vigorously for prompt
action when the full trust program
comes before the Senate. To that end
they may insist upon longer sessions
with the possibility of night sessions.
Some of. the changes noted in the
House bill are as follows:
Some Important Changes.
Section 2, providing price discrirni-
nations, permits discrimination in
price in the same or different com.
munities made in good faith to meet
competition and not intended to Gre
ate a monopoly.
In Section 4 the words patented or
unpatented" have been added. maxi
ing 1t unlawful to fix o prlce or dis
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chaser shall not deal in the goods of
a competitor.
Section s, relating to suits under the
antitrust laws, have been entirely re-
written. 1t makes final Judgment
or decree In suits brought on behalf
Of the government to effect that O
defendant has violated the trust law,
prima facie evidence against such de-
PENDANT in any suit brought by any
other party. The statute OF limita-
tions with respect to offenses against
the antitrust acts is extended to six
years. Whenever suit is brought
by the United States to prevent or
restrain violations of the ANTITRUST
laws, the running of the statute of
limitations in respect of each and
every private right of action Is sus-
pended during the tendency OF such
proceeding.
Labor Unions Exempted.
Section I, one of the important fea-
lures Of the bill, now reads That
nothing contained In the antitrust
laws shall be construed to forbid the
existence and operation OF labor. agri-
cultural or horticultural organizations
instituted for the purposes of mutual
help, and not having capital stock or
conducted for profit, or to forbid or
restrain individual members of such
organizations from lawfully carrying
out the legitimate objects thereof.
nor shall such organizations or mem
bers thereof be held or construed to
be illegal combinations or con
spiracies in restraint of trade, unden
the anti-trust laws
Section 10, dealing with restraining
orders and injunctioiis in cases be-
tween employers and employees,
strikes out all reference to picketing
In the exemptions granted to labor.
1t provides that no order shall pro-
hibit any persons whether singly or
In concert" from terminating any re-
lation of employment or from rec
ommending, advising, persuading
other by peaceful means so to do; or
from peacefully persuading any per-
son to work or abstain from working;
or from Withholding their patronage
from any party to such dispute, or
from recommending, advising, per-
suading others by peaceful and lawful
means SO to do; or from paying or
giving to, or to Withholding from, any
person engaged in such dispute any
strike benefits or other moneys or
things of value; or from peaceably
assembling in a lawful manner and
for lawful purposes; or from doing
any act or thing which might law
fully be done In the absence of such
dispute by any party thereto; nor
shall any of the acts specified in this
be considered or held to be
violations of the antitrust laws"
Limiting Common Carriers.
The section dealing with interlock-
ing directorates provides that after
two years from the approval of the
act no common carrier In interstate
commerce shall make purchases
amounting to more than $4,000 in any
one year from any concern or from
any of its officers or directors unless
the purchases shall be made through
competitive bidding after published
notice.
To meet conditions disclosed in the
New Haven expose a new section has
been added which provides that every
president, director, etc, of any firm,
corporation, ETC., engaged in COM
meree as common carrier "who en-
bezzles, steals, abstracts or wilfully
any Of the moneys, funds,
credits, securities, property or assets
of such firm, association or corpora
ton, or wilfully or knowingly con-
verts the same to his own use or to
the use of another, shall be deemed
guilty of a felony" punishable by a
fine of not less than $500 or confined
in the penitentiary for not less than
one nor more than ten years, or both.
Prosecutions in such cases may be
in the District Court of the United
States for the district where the Of
Tense is committed.
Authority to enforce compliance
with the law when it relates to COM
mon carriers is vested in the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, at
Were applicable TO all other char
aoter of commerce, in the trade COM
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