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THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY
Published in the interests of
EDISON PHONOGRAPHS AND RECORDS
BY THOMAS A. EDISON, Inc. ORANGE, N. J., U. S. A.
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO., LTD., VICTORIA ROAD, W1LLESDEN. LONDON, N. W.
THOMAS A. EDISON, LTD. 364-372 KENT STREET, SYDNEY, N. S. \V.
COMPAN1A EDISON H ISP ANOAM ERIC AN A, VIAMONTE 515, BUENOS AIRES.
EDISON GESELLSCHAFT, M. B. H. 10 FRIEDRICHSTRASSE, BERLIN.
COMPAGNTE FRANCAISE DU PHONOGRAPHE EDISON, 42 RUE DE PARADIS, PARIS.
Volume 10
MAY, 1912
Number 5
Have You Protested ?
HAVE you acted upon Mr. Dyer's suggestion that you telegraph or write your Senators and Congressman protesting against the proposed amendments to the patent laws by Congress? About sixty bills affecting the patent laws have been introduced. The purpose of two of them is to take away from manufacturers of patented articles like ourselves the right to use patents as a means of enforcing a unform retail price.
This means that if the bills pass we cannot prevent price-cutting. We will still have the right to fix prices on our goods to Jobbers, and possibly to Dealers, but we cannot, by means of the patent laws, maintain retail prices. Your investment in talking machines and all other patented goods will be at the mercy of indiscriminate competition, both by large local concerns, as well as catalogue houses and department stores.
All good business men approve the principle of price maintenance. It is one of the things that
have built up the talking machine business to its present magnitude and have made it most desirable from a retail standpoint. It has given every Dealer a feeling of security that his stock always had a definite fixed value. If retail prices cannot be maintained, the value of a Dealer's stock will depend wholly upon the extent of price-cutting in his territory or the agressiveness of catalogue houses.
Mr. Jobber and Mr. Dealer, this is a subject of vital importance and you ought to do what you can to head off the proposed legislation.
Write or telegraph at once to your Senators and Congressman and tell them that your interests will suffer if retail prices cannot be maintained by manufactures of patented goods. If your Senators and Congressman do not hear from you they may think that you favor the passage of the bills. They are sent to Washington to represent you and you have the right to write to them as often as you like. Act now. Delay may be serious.