APPENDIX 2 CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES EXPLANATORY NOTE The Classifications of Activities have for their purpose to list and classify in all practicable detail the specific activities engaged in by the several services of the National Government. Such statements are of value from a number of standpoints. They furnish, in the first place, the most effective showing that can be made in brief compass of the character of the work performed by the service to which they relate. Secondly, they lay the basis for a system of accounting and reporting that will permit the showing of total expenditures classified according to activities. Finally, taken collectively, they make possible the preparation of a general or consolidated statement of the activities of the Government as a whole. Such a statement will reveal in detail, not only what the Government is doing, but the services in which the work is being performed. For example, one class of activities that would probably appear in such a classification is that of "scientific research." A subhead under this class would be "chemical research." Under this head would appear the specific lines of investigation under way and the services in which they were being prosecuted. It is hardly necessary to point out the value of such information in planning for future work and in considering the problem of the better distribution and coördination of the work of the Government. The Institute contemplates attempting such a general listing and classification of the activities of the Government upon the completion of the present series. CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES 45 I. Quasi-judicial 1. Prevention of unfair methods of competition 2. Acting as master in chancery in anti-trust cases when so designated by the court. (So far the commission has not been called upon to perform this duty.) 2. Economic 1. Collection of current reports from corporations engaged in interstate commerce. 2. Investigation, on its own initiative, of any corporation engaged in interstate commerce. 3. Investigation, upon direction of the President or either house of Congress, of any corporation alleged to be violating the anti-trust acts. 4. Investigation, either on its own initiative or on the request of the Attorney General, of the manner in which a court decree dissolving a trust is being carried out. 5. Investigation upon the application of the Attorney General of any corporation alleged to be violating the anti-trust acts and recommendation of the readjustment of the business in order that the corporation may maintain its organization, management, and conduct of business in accordance with law. 6. Publication of such information collected as deemed to be in the public interest and using it as a basis for recommending legislation to Congress. 7. Supervision of export trade associations formed under the provisions of the Webb-Pomerene Act. APPENDIX 3 PUBLICATIONS Annual Reports. The Federal Trade Commission is required by law to submit to Congress an annual report covering the work done during the fiscal year. These reports contain not only administrative details but also much material of general interest. Of particular importance is the list of all the formal complaints issued, with a brief description of each giving the names of the parties complained of, the charges and the status of the complaint. Reports of Economic Investigation. The following list contains all the reports of economic investigations that had been printed up to April 1, 1921. They afford an insight into the economic conditions in many fields of activity. It is possible to purchase these publications from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 66 4. : 66 66 66 66 Alabama, Tennessee & Kentucky 5. Ohio, Indiana and Michigan 6. Maryland, West Virginia & Virginia 7. Trans-Mississippi States Coöperation on American Export Trade Copper Costs Commercial Wheat Flour Milling Causes of High Prices of Farm Implements Report Fertilizer Industry Flour Milling and Jobbing Fundamentals of a Cost System for Manufacturers Grain Trade Vol. 1. Country Grain Marketing 66 66 66 2. Terminal Grain Markets and 3. Future Trading Operations Leather and Shoe Industry Maximum Profit Limitation on Meat Packing Industry Meat Packing Industry Part I. 66 2. 66 Extent and Growth of Power of the Evidence of Combination among Packers The Five Larger Packers in Produce and June 30, 1919 Profits of the Packers June 28, 1919 66 6. Growing, Fattening and Marketing of Livestock June 30, 1919 66 4. Newsprint Paper Industry Petroleum Industry of Wyoming Advances in Prices of Petroleum Products Pipe Line Transportation of Petroleum. Price of Gasoline in 1915 Prices of American Flags Private Car Lines Southern Livestock Prices Sugar Supply and Prices System of Accounts for Retail Merchants Resale Price of Maintenance Trade and Tariffs in South America Wheat Prices in 1920 Wholesale Marketing of Foods Woolen Rag Trade Commercial Bribery June 13, 1917 March 26, 1920 Feb. 2, 1920 Nov. 15, 1920 July 1, 1916 June 30, 1919 June 30, 1916 Dec. 13, 1920 June 30, 1919 March 18, 1920 June 30, 1919 Other Publications. Findings, Orders and Conference Rulings of April 15, 1920, Federal Trade Commission, Vol. I. Findings and Orders of Federal Trade, June 30, 1920, Commission, Vol II. Discussion of and Practice and Procedure under the Export Trade Act. Extracts from the Trading with the Enemy Act and Executive Order of October 12, 1917. Creation APPENDIX 4 LAWS (A) INDEX TO LAWS Federal Trade Commission established 38 Stat. L., 717, Sec. 1. Bureau of Corporations abolished..... 38 Stat. L., 717, Sec. 3. Personnel Attorney, special experts and examiner 38 Stat. L., 717, Sec. 2. All other employees Salaries of Commissioners Secretary 38 Stat. L., 717, Sec. I. 38 Stat. L., 717, Sec. 2. 38 Stat. L., 717, Sec. I. 38 Stat. L., 717, Sec. 2. 38 Stat. L., 717, Sec. 2. 38 Stat. L., 717, Sec. 2. 38 Stat. L., 717, Sec. I. 38 Stat. L., 717, Sec. 6. 38 Stat. L., 717, Sec. 6. Special investigations Supervision of Export Trade Assoc's 40 Stat. L., 516, 1914-Act of September 26, 1914 (38 Stat. L., 717)—An Act To create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes. |