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...this poor year the can makers unanimously blamed the Robinson-Patman Act, which forced revision of their contracts with can users. For once that much-debated measure brought lower instead of higher prices to consumers. Since the law tends to make big and little customers pay the same prices, the general rule is to bring quotations in line by boosting prices to the big customers. In the can business, where the big customers are very big, this rule apparently could not be applied. It is too easy for the big canners to make their own cans, as Heinz and Phillips...
...felt they were being pushed into something about which they knew very little. And among some the conviction was growing that after all uniform Federal regulation for industry as a whole might be better than a hodge-podge of State laws or special-interest Federal laws like the Robinson-Patman Anti-Price Discrimination Act aimed directly at retailing...
Namm raged last week: "The only reason or excuse for this measure was to enable smaller and less efficient merchants to compete on equal terms with their larger and more successful competitors. . . . The Robinson-Patman bill would have been beaten to a frazzle if these stores had enlisted the aid of their customers." When the Dry Goods platform finally emerged from the resolutions committee on the fourth day of the convention, it had become a pious resolution approving "the objective toward which the general principles are directed." This was approved unanimously. Having thus sidestepped the issue completely, they turned...
...articles on the Robinson-Patman Act and an article dealing with the Social Security Act are included. The first essay on the Robinson Act, by Edmund P. Learned, associate professor of Marketing, and Nathan Isaacs, professor of Business Law, examines the legal questions involved in the act, and its effects of pricing, and sales policies...
...second Robinson-Patman article, by Melvin T. Copeland, professor of Marketing deals with the act from an administrative standpoint, and emphasizes the necessity of careful enforcement, so as to submerge the politically minded features...