Word: cartelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, trying to regain ground and to stall off further trouble, the Laniel government reached an agreement with Paris butchers for a 10% price reduction on steaks and cheaper cuts of meat. By means of similar deals with cartel trade associations, the government hopes to get 5% to 10% price reductions on other food, household goods, linen and clothes...
...Italy, which still has to depend on high-priced foreign scrap, gets a subsidy from the other Schumania nations to make up the difference. At first, France's government tried to buck the common market with its own cartel designed to limit exports, but yielded when Monnet put his foot down...
...accept his ECA associations uncritically. He has denounced Europe's capitalists as "cartel-ridden," attacked Point Four as "a Mad Hatter's race" ("Our billions will be wasted for lack of an existing entrepreneurial class in the backward countries"). He looks askance at Europe's Schuman Plan for pooling steel resources, considers it an incentive to "socialism...
...steel with German coal supplies, the Flick-De Wendel deal seems, at first blush, to hasten the pooling of Western Europe's heavy industry, which is the object of the Schuman Plan. Already, however, there are fears that it may create an international version of the old Flick cartel that the Allies had undone and Schuman Plan authority has promised not to reestablish...
...stop this bickering, a cooperative film management plan has been suggested. Directed by a board made up of representatives of all film-showing organizations, it would show all movies and split the profits between the groups. But, to make a bad pun, this seems like putting the cartel before the horse. Any piece of new machinery will fall apart as long as a spirit of cooperation between the components is not present. And if this sprits can come about, such a directorate is not necessary. Unless each group, then, realizes that the excesses of competition will end the opportunity...