§ 17. Antitrust laws not applicable to labor organizations

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1914

   Pub. L. 63–323 § 6 · 38 Stat. 730

   Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 17

   (Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 6, 38 Stat. 731.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 6, 38 Stat. 731.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 6. That the labor of a human being is not a commodity or Labor not a commodity, etc. Labor, etc., organizations not forbidden. article of commerce. Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from Rights of individual members. lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; nor shall such Legality of organizations. organizations, or the members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade, under the antitrust laws.

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