Solar Fuel Company v. United Mine Workers of America

OPINION AND ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR JUDGMENT NOTWITHSTANDING THE VERDICT OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE FOR NEW TRIAL

KNOX, District Judge.

This case is another in the series of actions against the United Mine Workers of America (herein called U.M.W.) for alleged violation of the antitrust laws as the result of the inclusion in the National Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement by amendment effective December 1, 1958, of a so-called protective wage clause, whereby the union agreed not to make any agreement or understanding with any signatory as to wages, hours or other conditions of work except on the basis…