United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United States (330 U.S. 395)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 10, 1947 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 330 U.S. 395 · 67 S. Ct. 775
- Docket
- No. 6
- Argued
- March 8, 1945; reargued October 15, 1946
- Decided
- March 10, 1947
- Term
- October Term 1946
- Vote
- 5–3
- Majority author
- Justice Reed
- Issue area
- Unions
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
How the Justices voted
- Majority
- Justice Douglas, Justice Reed (wrote), Justice Black, Justice Rutledge, Justice Murphy
- Dissenting
- Chief Justice Vinson, Justice Burton, Justice Frankfurter (wrote)
Opinion excerpt
Mr. Justice Reed delivered the opinion of the Court. These are criminal cases in which conviction of various defendants has been obtained in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, Southern Division, and affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 144 F. 2d 546. They were charged with conspiracy to violate the Sherman Act, § 1. The parties to the alleged conspiracy were of two groups: on the one hand, local manufacturers of and dealers in the commodities affected and their incorporated trade associations and officials thereof; and, on the other, unincorporated trade unions and their officials or business agents. The indictment charged that the defendants below unlawfully combined and conspired together, successfully, to monopolize unduly a part of interstate commerce in mill-work and patterned lumber. The purpose and effect of the conspiracy was alleged to be to restrain out-of-state manufacturers from shipping and selling these commodities within the San Francisco Bay area of California and to prevent the dealers in that area from freely handling them. It was alleged that the conspiracy also sought to raise the prices of the products affected. To achieve the purpose, a contract was entered into between the defendants for a wage scale for members of labor unions working on the articles involved, combined with a…
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