Show When All the Manufacturers Engaged in a Given Industry Com Combine ine By WILLIAM HAYWARD U. U S. S Attorney New York While some features of the trade a association are genuinely beneficial beneficial beneficial bene bene- to their respective industries most of their activities such as th the price open system price-fixing price and numerous others have r resulted in gouging the public particularly in the bu building industries out of millions million of dollars annually When all the manufacturers engaged in a given industry combine they are arc unquestionably in a position arbitrarily to exact whatever price the themay they may demand The public is is helpless particularly in n a 0 situation where the tariff b prevents competition from abroad Judge Knox's decree concerning the Gypsum Industries association i is unique in the respect that it practically destroys the trade association and its regular weekly or monthly meetings at which opportunities were afforded for open or illicit price-fixing price by the group for arrangements for the curtailment and limitation of production and for devising many other abuses that have resulted from such trade association meetings 25 5 45 4 5 Sp 5 S 5 5 44 S 4 Sp |