| Show Ii THE DRUB IS 5 UE perpetually Enjoined by United states Slates Court From Continuo Continuing ing i Its Operations d NO CONSPIRACY IN FUTURE o More Combining I In Ji by A or III ns ot or Ind InI May 9 IThe The BO perpetually on ell trust joined today lodl continuing Us Its Ulon by b tho decree In the united court In III of Indiana upon complaint of or tho United government tiled by Joseph U n Kent United States district attorney Tho CU In numb I who sire uru tho thu members directors agents and attorneys of or the tho National Association of o Druggists Ihu National Wholesale Druggists association lion tion proprietors Manufacturers direct contract wholesale pro pio C mo 1110 perpetually from combining com 1111 ing and conspiring to 10 restrain tho salo Ralo ot oC drugs by agreement Wack list II I who cut prices or M orto Mt to t refuse to sell any nn retailer on Oil equal terms All 11 publication of black lists is forbidden and an nil contracts mid agree covered hy b tho charges de do declared void old Tho direct contract serial number plan Is prohibited as well ns the securing celli ing Illg of or the tho adoption of schedules for 11 tho sale sule ot or drugs hat left C Baumbaugh was charged in the bill of o being on ell In III ln 11 railed black lists which contained the names of 0 druggists throughout the country who ho sold proprietary articles and medicines tit lit prices loss less than those thOM the tho alleged l combination ordered As charged ha lid would send n a list each cach month to every eor retail and all wholesale druggist lug In the thc States who be bo belonged longed cJ to the tho a s of o ac aci i us of cutting and an a re Ib result sult of this Ihla these cutters ns they were tro Called could not buy bu buoo goods oo 11 It further urthel charged that those ac accused cU Id of ot cutting prices on proprietary medicines were In tumble una hie to purchase p a of or drugs from the tho members of tho associations All such practises l lII are II perpetually enjoined The decree entered today toda wan dic dictated le let t 1 led by h the government attorney 11 to 10 by b the defendants With lIh tho thoi i ot f the decree the litigation raIl to III an un end Ind complete victory for tor The government TEXT rI OF THE DECREE DI The decree entered In tho United Plates circuit court In the drug 1 case provides that tho defendants and earn ench and nil all of oC them their director committees agents em servant and nil III persons acting under or through them or N In III their be bo behalf half or 01 claiming so to act or 01 01 11 associated with them uin 1110 1 Iy and prohibited from doing any 1111 act In pursuance of or or fm for the pul IJ pose of oC carrying eI out tho conspiracy Iray and agreement i In of o and 1 1111 monopolizing said Raid trade and com commerce merce rc us alleged In the Ih bill of oC com That the tho National Association o Re Idl Druggists anil nil all members otc etc cf 1 the association aE are perpetually en j d from rom by b promises threats ridi ridicule cule or OJ determination inducing forcing nr 1 compelling any nn manufacturer of ot articles article pharmaceutical preparations I surgical supplies plasters or druggists to enter Into luto any nn contract 1 figment I or 01 understanding In nn of tho th combination rind i y us alleged In III tho bill regarding i Ing to the articles and commo of ot his profession or Inducing Ing or compelling any such mallu fi Hirer to adopt any an plan for tor li I K tin th article of or his Its lis manufacture ture tUIl jn n of ot combination s II as alleged In the tho bill 11 to bo be ol aid l II a lit In any all wILy way In the publication of oC 11 nr or other documents purporting to tu 1 tin 1111 tl 11 names of ot persons corpora I or r adhering to their I t Is t or maintaining or III refusing t o prices and In furtherance Ot of tho combination or conspiracy al alleged alleged In III the thc bill from securing or aid Ahl aiding lUg ing In securing the tho adoption of and aiding In enforcing the ot of any schedule for or the sale oC or and commodities by the retail dealers of market arlet to the con COli consumers sumers ol oC said Hillel market and nil V urh uch lists documents schedules contracts agreements and nn understandings aro here h declared unlawful And nd U It Is III ordered that the last named nam d defendants and all ull committees agents elIm of oC the National Association tion of Retail Druggists and each c and every ono of oC them do forthwith re It release lease each ami overy manufacturer of oC 1 medicines drugs medicines pharmaceutical druggists sundries from every contract agreement or 01 In lu furtherance At de the combination anti and conspiracy as alleged In the bill re 10 returning turning to or relating to articles and commodities of o his or its do forthwith release ICI such manuta even overy such or 01 understanding as the adoption lion tion of any plan for 01 marketing the ar articles articles of his or Us Ita manufacture and 1111 1 that the last Haiti named defendants and Ind all 1111 other members or 01 em committees agents servants and attorney for 01 Ow hi National Association of or Retail Druggists not on their thelt part perform any such contracts agreements or 01 understandings relating to tu said articles It is lR further ordered that wild de dc defendants fen do forthwith recall any ami nil all such uch lists documents and publications anti and do forthwith annul cancel unil set any such h of prices In whose adoption maintenance or enforcement defendants or any Of o then In nn way pur pursuant to Iu or 0 In of o the con conspiracy ns III alleged In III the bill hili of or cum corn plaint Paragraphs J a e Incorporated In III the tho decree entering the Himo perpetual In Injunction Injunction junction against the National Whole salo Druggists loellon nl Charles C proprietors and macle List LIHI manufacturers Tho rho defendant Charles C Baum Baumbaugh baugh Is perpetually enjoined from publishing ot 01 causing to be bc published any II n lUts of o names or 01 persons or cor corporations or III not adhering to contracts or maintaining or refusing to maintain pi lets an alleged In the bill of at complaint All lists contracts or 01 agree agreements ments in relation to 10 the same saine are an de declared larOO unlawful and it Is ordered or that i they tho be annulled and each nerson be he released reI cased from fUn any such lIuch agreement or 01 understanding The proprietors are per perpetually enjoined from entering into luto un ny agreement with themselves or 01 any of Q the other defendants by 1 which they the might ns as alleged d refuse to sell or dis discriminate ci criminate In their sales to persons or corporations whose names have ap appeared app p on Oil any list or document pub puh published or Issued by of the defend defendants ants purporting lu Iu contain tho names ot of persons refusing to maintain prices They aio aro also from flom fixing the tho at It which the tho articles of or their manufacture shall ahall ho sold fold by the DIG wholesale dealer ealer to the he consumer and from tl m Including terms oC or Halo alo tho ca or 01 adopted by of ot the Iho retail dealers d In 11 tho market h contracts lire are declared void old and Ill all persons are declared to Lo bo he released from them Thc Tho iamo Injunction Is entered against nIra the Black manufacturers Tho direct contract proprietor are arc enjoined from continuing the tho direct contract serial ellal plan and from cooper cooperating with any un other defendants ants In III car carrying out such plan They The are ure en from rom any an dealer to en enter enter ter Into a IL contract restraining trade tra e In Inthe till the articles of their manufacture and from placing serial numbers In III retail proceedings for tor tho purpose of or 1 records of o and tracing sales and In from Irom requiring vendee to Itce records of 01 and report sales by 11 serial numbers All 11 acts tending to restrict the free trec pur purchase chase choso of at the tho articles ot of their thelt manufacture ture tUlO aro al forbidden Tho Th Bamo auno prohibitions are ordered against the contract pro 1110 proprietors they are un further from securing the adoption of o i for tho Iho sale nit of the of ot their I manufacture und and of o other articles In uny market mArlet I |
