United States v. San Francisco Electrical Contractors Ass'n

YANKWICH, District Judge.

The indictment, returned on March 2, 1940, charges, in substance, that certain unions combined with their employers to fix prices on electrical equipment moving in interstate commerce, to exclude such equipment from the San Francisco market and to increase the cost of electrical equipment moving in interstate commerce in that market in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1. More particularly, it is averred that the defendants have been engaged continuously from January 3, 1938, to the date of the indictment “in an unlawful combination…