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Co., at "discriminatory" prices. The action was taken under the 1936 Robinson-Patman Anti-Price Discrimination Act. Refused to pass on a decision by the Seventh Federal Circuit Court holding a group of stockholders of Chicago's Central Republic Trust Co., now in receivership, liable on a Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan made to the bank while Charles G. Dawes was chairman of the bank's board of directors and just after he had retired as president of the R. F. C. The amount unpaid when suit was started was $56,559,746. Denial of a review by the high tribunal means that the decision of the lower court remains in effect. Oral argument will be heard later in cases on which the court agrees to pass. In the Pacific Coast longshoremen case, Government attorneys filed a brief siding with the C. I. O. and against the Federation. They joined the Federation, however, in asking the tribunal to review the controversy. The Labor Board certified the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union as a bargaining agent over the protest of the A. F. L. The International Longshoremen's Association and Pacific Coast District International Longshoremen's Association No. 38. The A. F. L. and its affiliates contended that the order unlawfully deprived them of their status as representatives of thousands of longshoremen on the West Coast. Failed of Majority. The Consumers' Power Co. controversy resulted from an election which failed to produce a majority for either the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A. F. of L.) or the Utility Workers' Organizing Committee (C.I.O.). At the request of the C. I. O. union, the Labor Board last March 1 directed that a run-off election be held. The vote was to be on whether the employes desired to be represented by the C. I O. organization. The Federation unit said that em-