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§ 6 Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 17
Antitrust laws not applicable to labor
organizations
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or
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 lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects
thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be held or
construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade,
under the antitrust laws.