TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IX 397 



ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAAV. 



Prior to the season of 1909, numerous complaints came to this 

 department from local creameries alleging that outside competi- 

 tors made a practice of temporarily offering for butterfat a price 

 higher than that usually paid either by the local creamery of the 

 price paid by the outside creamery elsewhere, and it was alleged 

 that competition of this kind had succeeded in closing up a num- 

 ber of local creameries that would not have been so closed if com- 

 petition had been on a fair basis. This condition was not found 

 alone in Iowa, but in all the states where both local and centralized 

 creameries were found. 



The states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota have stat- 

 utes similar to the following Iowa law enacted by the legislature 

 of 1909. The statute became effective July 4th of the current year : 



CHAPTER 222, ACTS OF THE THIRTY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 



Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 



Section 1. That the law as it appears in section five thousand twenty- 

 eight-b (5028-b) of the Supplement to the Code, 1907, be amended by add- 

 ing after the period at the end of said section the following. 



Any person, firm, company, association or corporation, foreign or domes- 

 tic, doing business in the State of Iowa and engaged in the business of 

 buying milk, cream or butter fat for the purpose of manufacture or of 

 buying poultry, eggs or grain for the purpose of sale or storage, that s?!all 

 for the purpose of creating a monopoly or destroying the business of 

 a competitor, discriminate between different sections, localities, com- 

 munities, cities or towns of this state by purchasing such commodity or 

 commodities at a higher price or rate in one section, locality, community, 

 city or town than is paid for the same commodity by said person, firm, 

 company, association or corporation in another section, locality, com- 

 munity, city or town, after making due allowance for the difference, if 

 any, in the grade or quality, and in the actual cost of transportation from 

 the point of purchase to the point of manufacture, sale or storage, shall 

 be deemed guilty of unfair discrimination which is hereby prohibited and 

 declared to be unlawful; but prices made to meet competition in such 

 locality shall not be in violation of this act, and any person, firm, com- 

 pany, association or corporation or any officer, agent, receiver or member 

 of any such firm, company, association or corporation found guilty of 

 unfair discrimination as defined herein, shall be punished as provided in 

 section five thousand twenty-eight-c (5028-c) of the Supplement to the 

 Code, 1907. 



The penalty fixed in section five thousand and twenty-eight-c (5028-c) 

 is a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, or imprisonment in 

 the county jail not to exceed one year or both penalties. 



