Brief for the United States (1914)

Record Details:

Title:
Brief for the United States
Date:
1914
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States. Government Printing Office. Office of the Public Printer
Volume:
Brief for the United States
Leaf #:
000218
Language:
English
Collection:
Government & Law and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
{"Media History Digital Library","Richard Koszarski",Domitor}
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
June 06, 2024
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206 PABXilX. In the latter part of July, 1914, this verdict of $20y42A was affirmed by the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Pennsylvania. WILLIAM H. SWANSON: This witness was the owner of William H. Swanson & Co., with branches in Chicago, New Orleans, Omaha, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In the beginning of 1909 he had between 600 and 700 customers, being perhaps the largest exchange in the United States. (I, 296, fols. 1-2.) At the meeting in New York, January, 1911, Swanson opposed the 14-day clause and the imposition of the $2-a-week royalty on exhibitors, and headed a committee of exchange men who sought, but unsuccessfully, to persuade the manufacturers to eliminate these features from the agreements. (I, 300-304.) About the middle of February, 1909, he attended a meeting of Chicago exchange men, at which defendants Selig, Kleine, Spoor, and Rock, and representatives of the Edison, Pathe, and Kalem companies were present. (I, 308, fol. 4.) The purpose of the meeting was the discussion of the royalty on projecting machines which dealers w^anted removed. (I, 309, fol. 1.) Swanson, as chairman, made a speech presenting the purposes of the meeting. Kleine opposed him. (I, 309, fol. 4.) The controversy became bitter. The next day Spoor, Selig, and Kleine went to New York, and the following day Swanson received a telegram, signed J. J. KeiuKHly, treasurer, stating that his license