Social:Bathtub Trust
The Bathtub Trust was when the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company and forty-nine other companies were charged with engaging in anti-competitive practices (price fixing etc). The trust had been around in some form or another since at least the turn of the century. A suite was filed against them, at the urging of President William Howard Taft, that began in Baltimore.[1] It reached the Supreme Court of the United States as Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. v. United States and the trust was broken.[2][3] Joseph R. Darling was a special agent of the United States Department of Justice who prepared the case.[4] In 1915 he wrote "Darling on Trusts" a legal treatise.
A subsequent criminal case was brought in Detroit, and in February 1913, members of the now-broken trust were found guilty of criminal conspiracy to restrain trade.[5]
References
- ↑ "Bathtub Suit Began Here". The Baltimore Sun: p. 7. November 20, 1912.
- ↑ "Seller of Patent Can't Prescribe Prices or Sales of Product, Says Supreme Court.". The New York Times. November 19, 1912. https://www.nytimes.com/1912/11/19/archives/bathtub-trust-case-won-by-government-seller-of-patent-cant.html.
- ↑ "Bathtub Trust Order Is Signed". The Evening Sun: p. 12. November 27, 1911.
- ↑ "Joseph R. Darling Resigns". The Christian Science Monitor. December 1, 1913. https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/207997852.html?dids=207997852:207997852&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Dec+01%2C+1913&author=&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=JOSEPH+R.+DARLING+RESIGNS&pqatl=google.
- ↑ "Bathtub Trust Guilty". The Baltimore Sun: p. 5. February 15, 1913.
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