Pursuant to House Resolution 95, Eighty-second Congress, first session, the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary appointed the following members to act as the Subcommittee on Study of Monopoly Power and to carry on the investigations and submit the reports authorized by this resolution: Emanuel Celler (New York), chairman; Joseph R. Bryson (South Carolina); Thomas J. Lane (Massachusetts); J. Frank Wilson (Texas);1 Edwin E. Willis (Louisiana); Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (New Jersey); Byron G. Rogers (Colorado); Chauncey W. Reed (Illinois); Kenneth B. Keating (New York); William M. McCulloch (Ohio); Angier L. Goodwin (Massachusetts); Patrick J. Hillings (California).

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1 Representative J. Frank Wilson resigned from the subcommittee on August 10, 1951. 2 Representative Byron G. Rogers was appointed to the subcommittee on August 10, 1951.

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PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON STUDY OF MONOPOLY POWER

A. Hearings

(81st Cong., 1st sess.)

SERIAL 14, PART 1, hearings of July 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27, and 29, and August 1, 3, 5, and 24, 1949-general hearings on monopoly problems including report by the Federal Trade Commission on concentration of productive facilities and a summary of existing antitrust laws.

SERIAL 14, PART 2 (A and B), two volumes of hearings containing testimony of October 25, 26, 27, November 2, 3, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 25, 28, 29, 30, and December 1, 1949, as well as a special report based on the Census of Manufacturers, 1947; a report of the Securities and Exchange Commission on the Public Utility Holding Company Act; and selected investment data on 100 largest life-insurance companies.

(81st Cong., 2d sess.)

SERIAL 14, PART 3, hearings of February 1, 8, 15, 23, 24, and March 1, 1950, on a bill to increase the criminal penalties of the antitrust laws; a bill to provide for periodic reports by the Attorney General on consent decrees in antitrust cases; and a proposed bill to amend the Webb-Pomerene Act, including a report by the Justice Department on strengthening the remedies in the antitrust laws and the decision in the case of United States v. U. S. Alkali Export Association (86 F. Supp. 59 (1949)).

SERIAL 14, PART 4 (A and B), two volumes of material resulting from the subcommittee's investigation of steel. Volume A contains testimony of April 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and May 3, 5, 9, and May 11, 1950, at which dates representatives of Government, the steel industry, and other interested persons presented various views on the iron and steel industry. Volume B contains exhibits introduced during the hearings.

SERIAL 14 PART 5, containing the hearings of May 8 and 10, 1950, on a bill designed to provide a uniform statute of limitations for private triple-damage actions and to allow the United States Government to sue as a private suitor for damages suffered by reason of violations of the antitrust laws. SERIAL 14, PART 6 (A and B), two volumes of material resulting from the subcommittee's investigation of newsprint. Volume A contains testimony of June 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30 and July 10, 11, 13, 18, 19, and 20, 1950, at which dates representatives of Government, the newsprint industry and other interested persons presented various views on the newsprint industry. Volume B contains exhibits introduced during the hearings.

(82d Cong. 1st sess.)

SERIAL 1, PART 1, hearings of January 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, February 1, 2, 5, 7, and 9, 1951, on aluminum, at which dates representatives of Government, the aluminum industry, and other interested persons testified.

SERIAL 1, PART 2, containing testimony of the Federal Trade Commission in two reports. The Divergence Between Plant and Company Concentration, 1947 (presented December 12, 1950, 81st Cong., 2d sess.); Interlocking Directorates (presented March 7 and 8, 1951).

SERIAL 1, PART 3, hearings of April 9, 11, 13, May 3, and June 7, 1951, on H. R. 3408 to amend the Clayton Act by granting a right of action to the United States to recover damages under the antitrust laws, establishing a uniform statute of limitations, and for other purposes.

SERIAL 1, PART 4, hearings of May 21, 23, 25, June 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 25, 28, 29, July 16, 17, and 26, 1951, on the mobilization program, at which dates representatives of Government departments, Congress, and industry testified. SERIAL 1, PART 5, containing the hearings of July 11, 12, 13, and September 13 and 14, 1951, on a bill (H. R. 2820) designed to clarify the right of sellers to engage in competition by in good faith meeting the equally low price of a competitor and a bill (S. 719) to establish beyond doubt that, under the RobinsonPatman Act, it is a complete defense to a charge of price discrimination for the seller to show that its price differential has been made in good faith to meet the equally low price of a competitor.