But even although the establishment of oil industry refining quotas in the URA experiment was not an issue in the court proceedings which followed, steel executives have felt there was some risk that the system of priorities, allocation of tonnages, or temporary regrouping of productive facilities which may become necessary in the steel industry might run afoul of the anti-trust laws.
On the authority of Attorney General Jackson himself, the steel industry did not ask and the Department of Justice did not grant any immunity from prosecution under the Sherman Act in the recent discussions which brought the new Defence Committee into existence. All the steel men have to go on is a letter from the Attorney General outlining his department's views on what is proposed to be done and what the law is. Each steel company's own legal department has the responsibility: of advising the management what it can or cannot do.
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