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 Wilson1 (Texas); 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).

1 Mr. Wilson resigned from the Subcommittee on Study of Monopoly Power on August 10, 1951. Mr. Rogers was appointed to the Subcommittee on Study of Monopoly Power on August 10, 1951.

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PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON STUDY OF
MONOPOLY POWER

(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 Manu-

facturers, 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 pro-

vide for periodic reports by the Attorney General on consent decrees in anti-

trust 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 sub-

committee'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 sub-

committee'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 repre-

sentatives of Government departments, Congress, and industry testified.

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