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legally, but are so disagreeable or disreputable that connection with them
would hurt the entire group. I can see no reason why concerns in business in
this country should not be admitted to the combinations provided they were
working for the export of goods from this country, through which the country,
its citizens, its workers would benefit. .

Open to all limited by reputation of member, but not by size of
prganization.—An export manager of a company dealing in steel
products states that:
They should be open to all manufacturers in the United States in their respective
 lines, regardless of size. No one concern should be excluded, unless
“he standing of the concern, or its product, fail to come up to clearly defined
standards of the organization, and liable to injure the interests of the whole,
Open to all at discretion of Federal Trade Commission.—A prominent
 Chicago attorney proposes that such export combinations
should be—

So far as practicable, open to all manufacturers, but this ought not to be a
statutory provision; the matter might properly be left to the discretion of the
Federal Trade Commission.
Reasonable regulations should govern—A fruit producer, exporting
 a large part of his products, answers:
Don’t see any reason why such combinations should not be available to all
manufacturers or producers who come within the requirements of reasonable
regulations governing the manufacture and packing of the product, whatever
It may be. If in a competitive line of goods, I would consider it all the more
important to organize in order to develop our industries not for the purpose
of raising prices but for the purpose of maintaining a fair margin, reducing
the selling cost, or unnecessary margins that frequently exist, and to supply
the trade at prices at which they can consume a maximum quantity.
Open membership would control the ambitions of the few.—An
exporter who has come in personal contact with buyers from the
Eastern Hemisphere concludes .that—

Such a combination should be open to all reliable manufacturers in their respective
 lines, and it should certainly not have the right to exclude any concern
 at its pleasure. If this were the case, the organization might soon be used
to further the ambitions of a select few. Any reliable and go-ahead manufacturer
 should have the right to enjoy all the benefits of such an organization.
Business honesty necessary to membership.—The export manager
of a company engaged in the manufacture of men’s clothes, who has
made a special study of conditions, circumstances, etc., in the different
 foreign markets, believes:
Combinations should be open to all American manufacturers who operate
properly, and treat their customers, foreign and domestic, honestly. The combination
 should not be allowed to refuse any manufacturer admission to the
organization unless it could be shown that he could not or would not take
care of his orders and obligations. By acts of omission or commission he
might cause the organization to be poorly thought of.
Business momentum would be gained.—An officer of a large concern
 manufacturing railway equipment points out that—
Unrestricted participation by all manufacturers for export business would
doubtless prove most beneficial for the reason that the greater the number that
may be attracted, the more effective would be the campaign inaugurated to
obtain such business.

2. TYPICAL REPLIES FAVORING EXCLUSION OF MEMBERS AT PLEASoRE.—About
 one-fifth in each of the different classes of informants
favor combinations which have the right to exclude any concern at