Word: sherman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indicted, these groups (representing 12,000 farmers from four States, 5,000 milkwagon drivers), fought the case before District Judge Charles E. Woodward in Chicago. On July 28 of this year Judge Woodward quashed the case. He saw the situation thus: that the purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was to protect individualism and unrestrained competition; that in the 50-odd years since the Act's passage, a contrary philosophy had grown up-through the Clayton, Capper-Volstead and Marketing Agreement Acts-which held that such associations as the Chicago milk groups were not illegal...
Before the Supreme Court on November 15 the Government argued the opposite: that the acts since the Sherman law merely allowed farmers and workers to organize, in order to attain their ends, but did not in any case grant them immunity from prosecution for conspiracy in restraint of trade...
Left untouched was the question at keenest issue now: whether labor unions as such may be prosecuted under the Sherman Act.† The Chief Justice said the question was not presented, despite the milkwagon driver defendants. Thus President William Green of the American Federation of Labor found no clue in the Supreme Court decision to the future of his building-trade unions-now widely indicted in the Justice Department's drive against trade restraints in the construction industry...
...Last week the Third Circuit Appeals Court ruled that the Sherman Act could not be invoked against a C. I. O. union by Philadelphia's Apex Hosiery Co., returned a triple-damage fine of $711,932.55, gave unions hope they are as yet beyond the purview of anti-trust laws...
...General William Tecumseh Sherman, American, declined the Republican nomination...