Discrimination Against Members of Farmer Cooperatives: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session, Part 1 |
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... deal with . The farm crops which are most affected by certain buying practices of coercion and intimidation are perishables . Farmers cannot afford to hold on to these crops after maturity and must move them promptly into the ...
... deal with . The farm crops which are most affected by certain buying practices of coercion and intimidation are perishables . Farmers cannot afford to hold on to these crops after maturity and must move them promptly into the ...
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... deal with a grower on an individual basis rather than deal with a group of growers who have volun- tarily joined together to market their crop . Processor actions intended to discourage , and interfere with , association mem- bership ...
... deal with a grower on an individual basis rather than deal with a group of growers who have volun- tarily joined together to market their crop . Processor actions intended to discourage , and interfere with , association mem- bership ...
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... deal effectively with certain unfair trade practices which are carried on by some food processors . I have a farm constituency which is keenly and vitally aware of this problem and the farm community generally is becoming quite aroused ...
... deal effectively with certain unfair trade practices which are carried on by some food processors . I have a farm constituency which is keenly and vitally aware of this problem and the farm community generally is becoming quite aroused ...
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... deal with their growers , as they call them , on an individual basis rather than deal with a group of growers who have voluntarily joined together to market their crop . This attitude on the part of top management creates a fear that ...
... deal with their growers , as they call them , on an individual basis rather than deal with a group of growers who have voluntarily joined together to market their crop . This attitude on the part of top management creates a fear that ...
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... deal from farmers for their company . Mr. LEWIS . That is right . Senator JORDAN . You say this fellow signed up behind the barn ? That reminds me of a story I heard a long time ago . This boy work- ing on the farm said , " I am being ...
... deal from farmers for their company . Mr. LEWIS . That is right . Senator JORDAN . You say this fellow signed up behind the barn ? That reminds me of a story I heard a long time ago . This boy work- ing on the farm said , " I am being ...
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action agricultural commodities Agricultural Marketing agricultural products Agriculture and Forestry ANGEVINE Arkansas Arkansas Poultry association of producers bargaining associations believe bill boycott broiler growers buyers Canners Association Capper-Volstead Act Chairman cherries co-op coercion Committee on Agriculture competitive competitors CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contract cooperative associations cotton court crop dairy deal Department of Agriculture discrimination ducers DUNKELBERGER enactment EVERETT JORDAN Farm Bureau farmer cooperatives Federal Trade Commission glad Hale handler hearing HELMBRECHT individual industry interfere intimidation join June 14 LAHR legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS livestock market Marketing Association membership NADEN National Canners Association National Tax Equality Ohio operation organization Packers and Stockyards poultry President processing processors producers of agricultural prohibited protection purchase Senator AIKEN Senator ELLENDER Senator JORDAN Senator YOUNG September 28 Starke Taylor statement subcommittee Tax Equality Association testimony Thank tion tomatoes U.S. Senate unfair unlawful violation
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Page 33 - That persons engaged in the production of agricultural products as farmers, planters, ranchmen, dairymen, nut or fruit growers may act together in associations, corporate or otherwise, with or without capital stock, in collectively processing, preparing for market, handling, and marketing in inter-state and foreign commerce, such products of persons so engaged.
Page 121 - That the labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof...
Page 177 - If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the act and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 113 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 79 Stat. 437, 42 USC § 7973 AN ACT To enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known as the "Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Page 116 - When construing and enforcing the provisions of this Act, the act, omission, or failure of any...
Page 205 - It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise...
Page 34 - Unfair methods of competition in commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce, are hereby declared unlawful. "The Commission is hereby empowered and directed to prevent persons, partnerships, or corporations, . . . from using unfair methods of competition in commerce and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce.
Page 54 - States for the purpose of destroying competition, or eliminating a competitor in such part of the United States ; or, to sell, or contract to sell, goods at unreasonably low prices for the purpose of destroying competition or eliminating a competitor.
Page 116 - An Act to amend sections seventy-three and seventysix of the Act of August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled 'An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes,' " approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and thirteen; and also this Act.
Page 117 - ... may cooperate with any department or agency of the Government, any State, Territory, District, or possession, or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof...