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[CITE: 15USC17]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
      CHAPTER 1--MONOPOLIES AND COMBINATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE
 
Sec. 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.

(Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 731.)

                       References in Text

    The antitrust laws, referred to in text, are defined in section 12 
of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 18 section 1951; title 29 
section 186; title 47 section 606.
