Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers
The labor unions.
The 1914 Clayton Antitrust Act Labor excluded unions and agricultural cooperatives from antitrust laws
The Clayton Antitrust Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
labor unions and farm organizations.
The Act prevented unions from being treated as trusts.
No, the Clayton Antitrust Act exempts unions, specifically distinguishing them from trusts. Section 6 of the Clayton Act provides safe harbor for Labor unions and agricultural organizations. Therefore all peaceful forms of labor actions are not regulated by the Clayton Act. On the other side injunctions by a company is also legal to settle labor disputes.
The Clayton Act exempted labor unions from mergers and monopolies so boycotts, strikes and picketing can be used for labor disputes.
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The Clayton Act exempted labor unions from mergers and monopolies so boycotts, strikes and picketing can be used for labor disputes.
Clayton Antitrust Act, legislation passed by the United States Congress in 1914 to prohibit certain monopolistic practices that were then common in finance, industry, and trade (see Monopoly). Sponsored by the Alabama congressman Henry De Lamar Clayton, the Clayton Antitrust Act was adopted as an amendment to the Sherman Antitrust Act. Designed to deal with new monopolistic practices, the act contained three distinct types of provisions, covering corporate activities, remedies for reform, and labor disputes.