Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1928, Page 42

RADIO TRUST CASE ORDERED DISMISSED Federal Trade Commission Decision Upholds Legality of Cross-Licenses. By MARTIN CODEL Five years of inquiry into the organization and operation of the so- called “Radio Trust,” with the Radio Corporation of America as its fountain head, have resulted in a sweeping de- cision by the Federal Trade Commis- sion dismissing all charges of monopoly and unfair competition in the manu- facture and sale of radio devices and in the field of radio communication. ‘The action of the virtually upholds the legality of the cross-licensing arrangement, whereby eight great companies have acquired and pooled patents to make up the largest producing, distributing and operating aggregation in the radio in- dustry. Commissioners Abram F. Myers, William E. Humphrey, Garland 8. Ferguson and C. W. Hunt voted to dismiss. Commissioner Edgar A. Mc- Culloch alone voted against dismissal. No formal comment was made in dis- missing the case, except for a state- ment by Chairman Myers that he con- curred because the commission was without jurisdiction to enter an effec- tive order. Mr. Humphrey, former commission | chairman, said he did not regard the great radio organization as an illegal combine, Eight Respondents. Respondents in the case were the General Electric Co., the American | Telephone & Telegraph Co., the West- |ern Electric Co., the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., the International Radio Telegraph Co., the United Fruit Co., the Wireless Specialty Apparatus Co. and the Radio Corpora- tion of America. Each is a large holder of radio patents which combine to make up modern transmitting and receiving apparatus. The complaint was entered against them in January, 1924. Hearings began in New York and were later held in Boston, Washington, Chicago, New Orleans, Seattle and San Francisco. ‘The complaint charged that the eight | companies had “combined and con- | spired, with the effect of restraining competition and creating 2 monopoly in the manufacture, purchase and sale of radio apparatus and other electrical devices and monopolizing radio com- munication.” Dismissal was sought by the respond- | ents’ counsel last June. They argued | lack of sufficient proof and claimed the subject matter was not within the com- | mission’s jurisdiction. The commis- | sion’s decision, while rendered without opinion, is in effect an acceptance of | both points. Chairman Myers waz alone in implying that he had not ruled upon the merits of the case. ‘Want Licenses Revoked. ‘The sector of attack upon the alleged trust now shifts to the Federal Radio Commission, where an effort is being made to obtain the revocation of all broadeasting and communication M- censes held by the Radio Corporation of America and affiliated companies on the ground that they are violating a section of the radio act which makes THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, AERONAUTICAL CLASSICS DATES ARE ANNOUNCED National Association, Headed by Orville Wright, Meets Here and Arranges Race Events. Dates and locations for the annual aeronautical classics of 1929 have been announced by the contest committee of the National Aeronautical Assoclation, of which Orville Wright is chairman, following a meeting here. The national balloon race, to select United States contenders for the Gor- don Bennett international trophy race, will be started from Pittsburgh about May 4. The international trophy race is to start from St. Louis about Oc- it unlawful for any company interested in a radio station to restrain commerce in international communication by owning or controlling assets of any telephone or other wire company. The Radio Protective Association of Chicago, a group of independent set and tube producers, is behind this complaint. This organization has been the prime mover against the alleged trust, and its attorneys were responsible for the vic- tory over the R. C. A. in the recent tube case. With the Federal trade body holding that there has been no violation of the Federal Trade Commission act, the Chicago group is alte expected to seek action bv the Department of Justice on the basis of the anti-trust laws. The Attorney General has con- sistently refused to consider the trust charges while the matter was before the Federal Trade Commission. (Copyright, 1928, by North American News- paper_Alliance.) 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