United States v. Employing Lathers Ass of Chicago and Vicinity
| Decision Date | 08 March 1954 |
| Docket Number | No. 439,439 |
| Citation | 74 S.Ct. 455,347 U.S. 198,98 L.Ed. 627 |
| Parties | UNITED STATES v. EMPLOYING LATHERS ASS'N OF CHICAGO AND VICINITY et al |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Mr. Charles H. Weston, Washington, D.C., for appellant.
Mr. Leo F. Tierney, Chicago, Ill., for appellees Employing Lathers Ass'n et al.
Messrs. Lester Asher, Nathan M. Cohen and Robert S. Fiffer, Chicago, Ill., for appellee Local No. 74, etc.
This civil action was brought by the Government in a Federal District Court of Illinois against appellees, a trade association of Chicago lathing contractors, two of its member contractors, and a local labor union composed of lathers. The complaint charged a violation of § 1 of the Sherman Act which forbids combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade or commerce among the states. 15 U.S.C. § 1, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1.* The District Court dismissed the complaint on the ground that it failed to state a cause of action on which relief could be granted. At the same time and for the same reason it dismissed a similar complaint charging a Chicago plasterers' association and a local plasterers' union with violating § 1 of the Sherman Act. Both cases were brought here on direct appeal by the Government under authority of 15 U.S.C. § 29, 15 U.S.C.A. § 29. We have just reversed the District Court's dismissal of the complaint against the plastering group, United States v. Employing Plasterers' Ass'n of Chicago, 347 U.S. 186, 74 S.Ct. 452. Despite some differences in the two complaints, the reasons for reversing the plasterers' case are equally applicable here.
This complaint shows:
A substantial quantity of lathing material used in Chicago jobs is produced in states other than Illinois, sold by the producers to Chicago building material dealers, shipped interstate either to the Chicago dealers or to their plastering contractor customers, and finally delivered by the plastering contractor to his lathing contractor for use on local building jobs. The alleged conspiracy here is among these lathing contractors and the union whose members do the actual lathing. This combination, according to the complaint, has achieved almost complete mastery over the lathing business in the Chicago area. It limits the number of lathing contractors, prescribes their qualifications, decides who meets the standards prescribed, excludes persons from the business on varied grounds, including arbitrary racial standards, and...
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