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FEDERAL REGISTER, Tuesday, August 1, 1939
TITLE 16COMMERCIAL PRACTICES after service upon it of this order, file with the Commission a report in writing, f e d e r a l t r a d e c o m m is s io n setting forth in detail the manner and form in which it has complied with this Docket No. 3201
order.
I n the M atter of C h en il l e C orporation By the Commission.
of A merica seal
O t is B. J o h n s o n , Secretary.
3.6 m 10 Advertising, falsely or misleadinglyManufacture: 3.69 b F.
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Filed, July 31, 1939;
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goodsGoodsManufacture. Using, in connection with offer, etc., in commerce, of rugs, terms hand-made or handDocket No. 3380
hooked or any other terms of similar import or meaning, to designate, de I n t h e M atter o f G old M edal F arms , scribe or refer to rugs which have not I n c ., et al.
been made entirely by hand labor and 3.24 d 10 Coercing and intimidat hand craft, prohibited. Sec. 5, 38 Stat.
719, as amended by Sec. 3, 52 Stat. 112; ingSuppliers and sellers: 3.33 e 15 U.S.C., Supp. IV, sec. 45b Cease Cutting off Competitors supplies and desist order, Chenille Corporation Threatening withdrawal of patronage:
of America, Docket 3201, July 21, 1939 3.76 Opposing, unfairly or deceptive ly, government fostered distributive mechanisms and programs. Deceiving, United States of AmericaBefore coercing or intimidating, in any manner Federal Trade Commission or by any means or method, in connec At a regular session of the Federal tion with purchase, receipt, sale or dis Trade Commission held a t its office in tribution of milk in any form in inter the City of Washington, D. C on the state commerce or in District of Colum 21st day of July, A. D. 1939.
bia, and on the part of respondent cor Commissioners:
Robert E. Freer, poration, its successors, etc., and re Chairman; Garland S. Ferguson, Charles spondent individuals, officers thereof, H. March, Ewin L. Davis, William A. acting individually, or through or by Ayres.
means of said corporations, or any other dealer or distributor of milk or milk ORDER TO CEASE AND DESIST
This proceeding having been heard 1 products, or any group, association or of dealers or distributors, by the Federal Trade Commission upon combination the complaint of the Commission, the or any other agency, any milk producer answer of respondent, testimony and or producers from whom any of the re other evidence taken before A. F. Thomas spondents purchase or receive, or may and Miles J. Furnas, examiners of the hereafter purchase or receive, milk in form whatsoever, with intent or re Commission, theretofore duty designated any a of preventing said producer or by it, in support of the allegations of said sult from assisting in orga n iz in g , complaint and in opposition thereto, producers or from forming, joining, or becoming brief filed by counsel for the Commission a member of,or affiliated with, any milk respondent not having filed brief and producers cooperative association, or oral argument not having been re b of causing said producer or pro quested ; and the Commission having ducers to assist in organizing, or in made its findings as to the facts and its joining, or becoming a member conclusion th at said respondent has vio forming, lated the provisions of the Federal Trade of or affiliated with, any milk producers cooperative association, prohibited.
Commission Act;
Sec.
5, 38
Stat.
719, as amended by Sec.
It is ordered, That the respondent, Chenille Corporation of America, a cor 3, 52 Stat. 112; 15 U.S.C., Supp. IV, sec.
45b Cease and desist order, Gold poration, its officers, representatives, Medal Farms, Inc., et al., Docket 3380, agentsand employees directly or through July 21, 1939; Commissioner Davis dis any corporate or other device, in con nection with the offering for sale, sale senting 3.24 d 10 Coercing and intimidat and distribution of rugs in commerce, as commerce is defined in the Federal ingSuppliers and sellers: 3.33 e Trade Commission Act, do forthwith Cutting off competitors s u p p l i e s
Threatening withdrawal of patronage:
cease and desist from:
3.76 Opposing, unfairly or deceptively, < Using the terms hand-made or government fostered distributive mecha hand-hooked or any other terms of nisms and programs. Threatening, in similar import or meaning to designate, connection with purchase, receipt, sale describe or refer to rugs which have not or distribution of milk in any form in been made entirely by hand labor and interstate commerce or in District of hand craft.
. Columbia, and on the part of respondent It is further ordered, That the re corporation, its successors, etc., and re spondent shall, within sixty 60 days spondent individuals, officers thereof, acting individually, or through or by 3 F R . 545 DI.
means of said corporation, or any other
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dealer or distributor of milk or milk products, or any group, association or combination of dealers or distributors, or any other agency, reprisals in any man ner or form, against any milk producer or producers from whom any of the re spondents purchase or receive, or may hereafter purchase or receive, milk in any form whatsoever, as a penalty for, or as a result of, a any attempt by said producer or producers to assist in organ izing or forming any milk producers cooperative association, or b any such producer or producers joining or becom ing a member of, or affiliated with, any such association, or c the failure of any such producer or producers to assist in organizing, or forming any such asso ciation, or f his or their failing to join or failing to become a member of, or fail ing to become affiliated with, any such association, prohibited. Sec. 5, 38 Stat.
719, as amended by Sec. 3, 52 Stat. 112;
15 U.S.C., Supp. IV, sec. 45b Cease and desist order, Gold Medal Farms, Inc., et al., Docket 3380, July 21, 1939; Com missioner Davis dissenting 3.24 3.76 Opposing, unfairly or deceptively, government fostered distributive mecha nisms and programs. Interfering, in connection with purchase, receipt, sale or distribution of milk in any form in interstate commerce or in District of Columbia, and on the part of respondent corporation, its successors, etc., and re spondent individuals, officers thereof, acting individually, or through or by means of said corporation, or any other dealer or distributor of milk or milk products, or any group, association or combination of dealers or distributors, or any o tte r agency, by means of de ception, coercion or intimidation in any manner or form, with the free and un impeded exercise of choice a by any milk producer or producers from whom any of the respondents purchase or re ceive, or may hereafter purchase or re ceive, milk in any form whatsoever, in the determination by said producer or producers as to whether said producer or producers shall or should form, organize, join or become affiliated with any pro ducers cooperative association, or b by any milk producers cooperative asso ciation in its determination of whether or not such milk producers cooperative association shall or should join or be come affiliated, in any manner or form, with the Metropolitan Cooperative Pro ducers Bargaining Agency, Inc., or any milk producers cooperative bargaining organization or agency, authorized by law, prohibited. Sec. 5, 38 Stat. 719, as amended by Sec. 3, 52 Stat. 112; 15
U.S.C., Supp. IV, sec. 45b Cease and desist order, Gold Medal Farms, Inc., et al., Docket 3380, July 21, 1939; Commis sioner Davis dissenting