Court Opinion

ID: 9653257
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 17:42:13.112388+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:57.403289
License: Public Domain

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge (concurring).
*194I- concur with the majority because of the controlling decisions of the Supreme Court in Duplex Printing-Press Co. v. Deering, 254 U. S. 443, 41 S. Ct. 172, 65 L. Ed. 349,16 A. L. R. 196, and Bedford Cut Stone Co. v. Stone Cutters’ Association, 274 U. S. 37, 47 S. Ct. 522, 71 L. Ed. 916, 54 A. L. R. 791.
The District Judge relied on United Mine Workers v. Coronado Coal Co., 259 U. S. 344, 42 S. Ct. 570, 66 L. Ed. 975, 27 A. L. R. 762, United Leather Workers’ Union v. Herkert & Meisel Trunk Co., 265 U. S. 457, 44 S. Ct. 623, 68 L. Ed. 1104, 33 A. L. R. 566, and Industrial Association v. United States, 268 U. S. 64,45 S. Ct. 403, 69 L. Ed. 849. But these decisions do not, in my opinion, support the conclusion reached. Mining is not interstate commerce. United Mine Workers v. Coronado Coal Co., supra. Manufacturing is not interstate commerce. United Leather Workers’ Union v. Herkert & Meisel Trunk Co., supra. Building is not interstate commerce. Industrial Association v. United States, supra. In all of these cases the interference was at a point where interstate commerce was not in operation, and not, as here, at a point where in contemplation of law it continued to exist.
The fact that the installation of the organs was interstate commerce required that such installation (in the same way as transportation) should be free from unlawful interference. Because of the decisions in Duplex Printing-Press Co. v. Deering, and Bedford Cut Stone Co. v. Stone Cutters’ Association, supra, we must hold that the interference here was unlawful and was a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law (15 USCA §§ 1-7, 15).