Montana Trade Commission records 1937-1973

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Montana Trade Commission records 1937-1973

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These Montana Trade Commission records (1919, 1937-1973) consists of documents for the Board of Railroad Commissioners and the State Board of Food Distributors in their capacity ex officio as the Montana Trade Commission. Records include general correspondence, filed alphabetically by correspondent, subject, and town; records of public hearings; and a gasoline price survey.

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Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives

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Montana Trade Commission

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The original Montana Trade Commission was formed in 1919 as an ex officio body of the Board of Railroad Commissioners to regulate public mills. Later that same year the extraordinary session of the legislature gave the Montana Trade Commission the added responsibility of regulating prices of commodities and food. When the extreme inflation of 1919 passed, this responsibility was removed from the Commission. The 1937 state legislature passed the "Unfair Practices Act" to ...