Ramsey v. United Mine Workers of America

OPINION

FRANK W. WILSON, District Judge.

These two lawsuits involve antitrust actions instituted against the United Mine Workers of America by a number of coal operators from the Southeastern Tennessee coal fields. The lawsuits, like the economic struggle of which they are a part, have been long and hard fought. The issues here involved are basic issues. They involve a basic commodity in the American economy — coal. They involve basic principles of American labor-management relations — the manner in which labor and management may lawfully seek their respective aims and goals. They involve basic…