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...famed Swedish match king, shot himself in a Paris apartment 14 years ago, but the evil that he did lived after him.* Not until this week were the effects of his slick cartel-making wiped out in the U.S. The end came in a consent decree in the Government antitrust suit against Kreuger's old Swedish Match Co. and six companies dominated by secretive U.S. Match King William Armstrong Fairburn. A Federal court in Manhattan ordered a stop to such cartel practices as: ¶ Dividing the world into noncompetitive markets. ¶ Restricting production. ¶ Fixing prices on matches, match...
...Jackson Park Theater could. The four well-heeled sons and daughters of Millionaire Builder Edward I. Bloom, who own and operate the theater, started suit in 1942 under the antitrust act. They claimed that they could not bid on first-run films in a free market...
...major Hollywood studios will now be wide open to a swarm of new and costly damage actions, just when they cannot afford more trouble. Soon a special court will rule on the Federal Government's antitrust suit to divorce theater operation from production and distribution...
...monopoly union, dealing with substantially all production in the industry, asserts as its future policy that it aims to settle the problems of wages, prices and profits for the entire industry around the bargaining table. ... [If this happens] our antitrust laws, which require competition and forbid collusive combinations between labor and management, must fall...
...After 1902's famed Danbury Hatters strike, Lawyer Merritt sued the A.F. of L. hatter's union under the antitrust laws, won the company a judgment of more than $200,000 against 191 union members...