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In order to preserve to each man the right to do such work as he pleases and for whom he pleases and the right to payment in proportion to services rendered, to preserve the natural and constitutional right of individual contract, to preserve to each individual the fruits of his own labor, and to promote the interests of both parties hereto, _____ company, _____ employer, and _____ employee, agree as follows:

That employer hereby employs employee to work at its coal mine, and employee accepts such employment, and that so long as the relation of employer and employee exists between them, the employer will not knowingly employ, or keep in its employment, any member of the United Mine Workers of America, the I.W.W., or any other mine labor organization, and the employee will not join or belong to any such union or organization, and will not aid, encourage, or approve the organization thereof, it being understood that the policy of said company is to operate a non-union mine, and that it would not enter into any contract of employment under any other conditions, and if and when said relation of employer and employee, at any time and under any circumstances, terminates, the employee agrees that he will not then or thereafter, in any manner molest, annoy, or interfere with the business, customers, or employees of the employer, and will not aid or encourage anyone else in so doing.

Witness the following signature this, the _____ day of 192_.

(Company)

________________

________________

By officer or agent

(Employee)

________________

Witness:

________________

The contract used by Red Jacket Consol. Coal and Coke Co. embodied the above language in the form of a non-union oath, 2 Conditions in the Coal Fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, Hearings pursuant to S.Res. 105 Before the Senate Comm. on Interstate Commerce, 70th Cong., 1st Sess. 1846 (1928) [hereinafter cited as Conditions].

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31. Eller, Industrialization, supra note 15 at 194; see 2 Conditions, supra note 29 at 1847 (reprinting text of the housing lease form used by the Red Jacket Company during the 1920s).

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37. Ibid. at 43–45.

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43. Brief for Appellees at 234, Red Jacket.

44. Statement of Walker, supra note 40.

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49. Corbin, Rebellion supra note 22 at 246.

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57. W.Va. Annot. Rep., supra note 55 at 131.

58. Ibid.; 1 Transcript of Record at 5, Red Jacket.

59. 3 Transcript at 789-a, Red Jacket.

60. Ibid. at 1960-a.

61. Ibid. at 761-a to 762-a.

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63. Ibid. at 53; 1 Transcript of Record at 136, Red Jacket.

64. Ibid. at 224.

65. Ibid. at 27, 224; Rankin, When Civil Law Fails, supra note 38 at 129–36 (commenting on aspects of martial law existing in Mingo County during 1920–21).

66. 1 Transcript of Record at 224, Red Jacket.

67. Ibid.; Corbin, Rebellion, supra note 22 at 201–206.

68. Corbin, Rebellion, supra note 22 at 200.

69. Lee, Bloodletting in Appalachia, supra note 62 at 73; Corbin, Rebellion, supra note 22 at 205.

70. Corbin, Rebellion, supra note 22 at 217.

71. The number of participants counted depended on when and where the estimate was made. Corbin, Rebellion, supra note 22 at 219, estimated that the total number of those who participated in the union campaign at any one location reached 15,000 to 20,000. However, the actual number of participants at any single moment was much less, perhaps as low as 5,000 to 7,000 as stated in Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 841.

72. Lee, Bloodletting in Appalachia, supra note 62 at 94–96; Corbin, Rebellion, supra note 22 at 218.

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75. Delos Walker File, supra note 16 at 2.

76. Eller, Industrialization, supra note 15 at 238.

77. Mineral Resources, supra note 45 at 413; Dubofsky and Van Tine, John L. Lewis, supra note 50 at 76.

78. Mineral Resources, supra note 45 at 328, 403, 411; Dobofsky and Van Tine, John L. Lewis, supra note 50 at 135; Lambie, Mine to Market, supra note 33 at 209; on the performance of the Red Jacket Company, see Bell, Landon C., Southsider—A Lawyer's Life: Law, Lumber and Coal (Richmond, 1954)Google Scholar.

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80. Lee, Bloodletting in Appalachian, supra note 62 at 80.

81. See Brief for Appellants at 7–14, Red Jacket.

82. Nominated on July 19, 1921, reported in 61 Congressional Record (67th Cong., 1st Sess.) at 4051; confirmed on July 25, 1921, ibid. at 4262.

83. Letter from Edward W. Knight to Fred A. Howland (July 2, 1925), Dep't of Justice Records, Record Group 60, Appointment Files for Judges of Circuit Courts of Appeals, 1903–29, Circuit 4, Box 334 (available at National Archives, Washington, D.C.) [hereinafter cited as Appointment Files].

84. Telegram from James Riley and Fred Mooney to Harry M. Daugherty (Mar. 17, 1921), ibid.

85. Memorandum from Harry M. Daugherty to Warren G. Harding re: ‘Telegram and letter from Henry D. Hatfield—ex-Governor of West Virginia for Southern District of West Virginia’ (July 11, 1921), Warren G. Harding Papers, file 208D, microfilm roll 190 (available at Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio); see also Karr, Carolyn, ‘A Political Biography of Henry Hatfield’, West Virginia History 28 (1966) 35–63Google Scholar, (1967) 137–70.

86. Letter from J. Bernard Handlan to John G. Sargent (July 7, 1925), Appointment Files, supra note 83, Box 332; letter from John C. Rose to John Marshall (July 15, 1925), ibid.

87. Minutes, ‘The Annual Conference of the Senior Circuit Judges was called to order by the Chief Justice shortly after 10 o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, June 9, 1925’ at 26 (statement of Edmund Waddill, Jr.) (available at Admin. Off. U.S. Cts., Washington, D.C); see also United States ex rel. Lark v. McClintic, 19 F.2d 1023 (4th Cir. 1927) (denying petition for a writ of mandamus against Judge McClintic on Jan. 12, 1927, and a supplemental petition on Apr. 14, 1927). President Harding promoted Judge Waddill from the United States Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to the Court of Appeals by nomination on May 26, 1921, 61 Congressional Record (67th Cong., 1st Sess.) 1794; confirmed on June 2, 1921, ibid. at 2032.

88. Letter from Jerome Davis to William E. Borah (Apr. 15, 1930), William E. Borah Papers, Box 300 (available at Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) (Davis had been an investigator for the U.S. Coal Comm'n, see Zechariah Chafee, ‘Company Towns in the Soft-Coal Fields’, supra note 22 at 173 n.l).

89. 1 Transcript of Record at 319–21, Red Jacket.

90. Dubofsky and Van Tine, John L. Lewis, supra note 50 at 79 (reporting that aside from spending millions on strike relief measures, the UMWA in 1920 spent over $150,000 for litigation purposes, the next year nearly $460,000, and less than $100,000 only once during the decade).

91. 7 Clerk's Official Term Dockets (Apr. term 1926) 56–64 (available at Clerk's Office, 4th Circuit, Richmond Va.) [hereinafter cited as Clerk's Dockets]. The Clerk assigned consecutive docket nos. 2492 through 2503 to the twelve separate Red Jacket cases.

92. ‘Presentation of Portrait and Memorial Proceedings: Edmund Waddill, Junior’, 56 F.2d 15 (1932); Virginia Journal of the House of Delegates (1885–1886 Sess.) 18; ibid. at 69, 388, 476 (1887-,1888 Sess.); ibid. at 39, 100–101; Leon Fink, ‘Irrespective of Party, Color or Social Standing: The Knights of Labor and Opposition Politics in Richmond, Virginia’, in Magol, Edward and Wakelyn, Jon L., eds., The Southern Common People: Studies in Nineteenth Century Social History (Westport, 1980) 304Google Scholar.

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94. Charlotte Observer, Oct. 30, 1919, at 5; ibid. Oct. 23, 1919 at 4; ibid. Nov. 18, 1919, at 9; ibid. Nov. 22, 1919, at 4; ibid. Nov. 23, 1919, at 3.

95. Letter from John C. Rose to Theodore Roosevelt (Oct. 19, 1906), Theodore Roosevelt Papers, microfilm roll 69 (available at Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.).

96. Dickson Construction & Repair Co. v. Int'l Assoc. of Machinists, (D. Md.) (equity No. 281) and Western Maryland Ry. Co. v. Int'l Assoc. of Machinists, (D. Md.) (equity No. 282), Records of U.S. Dist. Cts, Record Group 21 (D. Md.) Box 97-c, Equity File No. 4–24-002–3–3 (available at Federal Records Center, Philadelphia, Pa.).

97. Letter from John J. Parker to John C. Rose (Feb. 13, 1926), John J. Parker Papers, Box 16 (available at Southern Historical Manuscripts Collection, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.) [hereinafter cited as Parker Papers]; Parker to Henry H. Watkins (Feb. 6, 1926), ibid.

98. Letter from Edmund Waddill, Jr. to John J. Parker (Mar. 30, 1926), Parker Papers, supra note 97.

99. ‘Order Continuing Case to October Term, 1926’, nos. 2492–503 (filed Apr. 13, 1926), Red Jacket, Records of U.S. Cts. App., Record Group 276 (4th Cir.) 54-A-0177, Box 49, File No. 7–10-025–5-1 (available at Federal Records Center, Philadelphia, Pa.) [hereinafter cited as Red Jacket Case File].

100. 7 Clerk's Dockets (Oct. term 1926), supra note 91 at 20–29.

101. New York Times, Mar. 15, 1930, at 19.

102. Lee, Bloodletting in Appalachia, supra note 62 at 105.

103. On Spilman, see G. W. Atkinson, ed., Bench and Bar of West Virginia (1919) 366–67; Martindale's American Law Directory (1928) 1011 (rating Spilman ‘a v 1 g'); J.C. Fifield, ed., American Bar: A Biographical Directory of Contemporary Lawyers of the United States and Canada—1928 at 1103; on Belcher, see Lee, Bloodletting in Appalachia, supra note 62 at 104; George S. Couch, see Martindale's American Law Directory (1928) 1009, others were Samuel M. Austin of Lewisburg, West Virginia, and Edgar Lee Greever, see American Bar—1928 at 1075.

104. Letter from John C. Rose to William Howard Taft (Jan. 20, 1927), William Howard Taft Papers, microfilm roll 288 (available at Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) [hereinafter cited as Taft Papers].

105. Letter from Mary D. Stack to John J. Parker (Feb. 12, 1927), Parker Papers, supra note 97, Box 17.

106. Henry Clay McDowell (W.D.Va.) fell ill and Senior Circuit Judge Waddill substituted for him, see letter from John J. Parker to Edmund Waddill, Jr. (Feb. 17, 1927), ibid.; Waddill to Parker (Feb. 18, 1927), ibid.; Parker to Waddill (Feb. 17, 1927), ibid. (reporting the illness of Henry Hitt Watkins (W.D.S.C.)).

107. Letter from Edmund Waddill Jr. to John J. Parker (Mar. 19, 1927), ibid.

108. Act of Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 276, 44 Stat. 1339; letter from Edmund Waddill, Jr. to John J. Parker (Mar. 8, 1927), Parker Papers, supra note 97, Box 3; ‘Statement of Judge Presiding in the District of the United States for the Middle District of North Carolina’ (Mar. 8, 1927), ibid.

109. Letter from John J. Parker to Edmund Waddill, Jr. (Feb. 24, 1927), ibid., Box 17 (the patent case was probably Wolf Mineral Process Corp. v. Minerals Separation North American Corp., 18 F.2d 483 (4th Cir. 1927)).

110. Memorandum on cases nos. 2492–503 (Red Jacket), by John J. Parker, Parker Papers, supra note 97, Box 48 [hereinafter cited as Memorandum]; letter from John J. Parker to Edmund Waddill, Jr. (Mar. 8, 1927), ibid., Box 17.

111. Letter from Parker to Waddill, ibid.

112. Rose, John C., Jurisdiction and Procedure of the Federal Courts (Albany, 3d. ed., 1926)Google Scholar.

113. Letter from Parker to Waddill, supra note 110.

114. Letter from John C. Rose to John J. Parker (Mar. 8, 1927), Parker Papers, supra note 97, Box 17.

115. Letter from John J. Parker to Edmund Waddill, Jr. (Mar. 10, 1927), ibid., Box 3.

116. Letter from Rose to Parker, supra note 114, (The U.S. Sup. Ct. precedent was Hitchman Coal and Coke Co. v. Mitchell, 245 U.S. 229 (1917)).

117. Letter from Edmund Waddill, Jr. to John C. Rose (Mar. 19, 1927), Parker Papers, supra note 97, Box 17.

118. Letter from Edmund Waddill, Jr. to John J. Parker (Mar. 12, 1927), ibid.

119. Letter from John J. Parker to Edmund Waddill, Jr. (Mar. 14, 1927), ibid.

120. Letter from Edmund Waddill, Jr. to John J. Parker (Mar. 16, 1927), ibid., Box 17.

121. Letter from John J. Parker to John C. Rose (Mar. 24, 1927), ibid., Box 17.

122. Letter from Mary D. Stack to John J. Parker (Mar. 23, 1927), ibid., Box 17.

123. Letter from John J. Parker to John C. Rose (Mar. 25, 1927), ibid.; letter from John J. Parker to Mary D. Stack (Apr. 1, 1927), ibid; death of Rose on Mar. 26, 1927 reported in 18 F.22d iv n.9 (1927).

124. Letter from William. A. Glasgow, Jr., to Claude M. Dean (Apr. 4, 1927), Red Jacket Case File, supra note 99.

125. Letter from John J. Parker to William E. Baker (Apr. 1, 1927), Parker Papers, supra note 97, Box 17.

126. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 850.

127. Letter from John J. Parker to Edmund Waddill, Jr. (Apr. 7, 1927), Parker Papers, supra note 97, Box 17.

128. Letter from John J. Parker to Elliott Northcott (May 27, 1927), ibid., Box 17, case no. 2610, Globe Indemnity Co. v. Keeble, 20 F.2d 84 (4th Cir. 1927).

129. Blackstone, William, Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book the First, reprint by Dawsons of Pall Mall (London, 1966) (1765) §3 at 69.Google Scholar

130. Letter from John J. Parker to John C. Rose (Feb. 12, 1927), supra note 97, Box 17, re case no. 2553, United States v. Newport Shipbuilding Corp., 18 F.2d 556 (4th Cir. 1927); see also letter from John J. Parker to Elliott Northcott (Mar. 17, 1928), ibid., Box 18, re case no. 2666, Holt v. Albert Pick & Co., 25 F.2d 378 (4th Cir. 1928).

131. Letter from John J. Parker to John C. Rose (Oct. 1, 1926), ibid., Box 16, re. case no. 2453, Feaster v. Southern Ry. Co., 15 F 2d 540 (4th Cir. 1926).

132. Letter from Parker to Waddill, (Apr. 7, 1927), supra note 127.

133. See Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 849–50.

134. See ibid. at 850; letter from Parker to Waddill, supra note 127.

135. See Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 846–48.

136. Brief for Appellants at 205–206, Red Jacket.

137. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 850.

138. Letter from Rose to Parker, supra note 114.

139. 4 Transcript of Record: Final Decrees, Findings of Facts and Assignments of Error at 10–11 and 14–15, Red Jacket.

140. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 9.

141. Ibid.

142. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 842.

143. ibid. at 850.

144. ibid. at 846.

145. Ibid.

146. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 5.

147. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 847.

148. Letter from Rose to Parker, supra note 114.

149. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 5.

150. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 843 (although noting Red Jacket, a Virginia corporation, offered diversity as well as ‘federal question’ jurisdiction); see Reply Brief of Appellants at 16, Red Jacket; Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 839.

151. Act of July 2, 1890, ch. 647, 26 Stat. 209.

152. Loewe v. Lawlor, 208 U.S. 274, 292–93 (1908). Commentators have disputed congressional intent respecting application of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to organized labor; see Mason, Alpheus T., Organized Labor and the Law, with Especial Reference to the Sherman and Clayton Acts (Durham, 1925) 119–42Google Scholar and Berman, Edward, Labor and the Sherman Act (New York, 1930) 11–54Google Scholar [hereinafter cited as Berman, Labor and the Sherman Act].

153. Frankfurter, Felix and Greene, Nathan, The Labor Injunction (New York, 1930) 10Google Scholar n.4.

154. Brief for Appellants at 66–235 (arguments on all issues) at 66–185 (arguments solely on jurisdiction), Red Jacket.

155. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 1.

156. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 843.

157. Ibid.; see 4 Transcript of Record at 10, Red Jacket (recording that Judge McClintic had found in ‘Findings of Facts,’ para. 8 that officers of the UMWA

have unlawfully combined and conspired amongst themselves absolutely to monopolize and control all labor in the United States and on the American continent engaged in the work of mining and producing coal, and by that means to control and unreasonably restrict the production, shipment, and sale of coal in interstate commerce…).

158. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 8.

159. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 843; see Clayton Act of Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 6, 38 Stat. 731 (providing

that the labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. Nothing contained in the anti-trust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor… organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help… nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade, under the anti-trust laws).

But see Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering, 254 U.S. 443, 469 (1921); see Am. Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Cent. Trades Council, 257 U.S. 184, 209 (1921); UMWA v. Coronado Coal Co., 259 U.S. 344, 385 (1922).

160. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 844.

161. 4 Transcript of Record at 11–12, Red Jacket.

162. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 844.

163. Ibid.; Memorandum, supra note 110 at 8 (suggesting that the 1922 coal strike further supported his conclusion because the UMWA had then struck not ‘pursuant to a conspiracy with the Union operators’, but rather against ‘a large part of the fields [of] these very union operators’.

164. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 845; see 4 Transcript of Record at 10, Red Jacket (recording that in ‘Findings of Fact’, para. 9, Judge McClintic found that the Union had been and continued to be engaged in an unlawful combination and conspiracy in unlawful restraint of trade and commerce in bituminous coal among the several states of the United States… in violation of Anti-trust laws… to exclude and drive out of interstate trade and commerce, and to restrain unreasonably and prevent all interstate trade and commerce in, any and all coal produced and shipped by non-union… or unorganized mines).

165. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 8; Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 845.

166. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 5.

167. United States v. E.C. Knight Co., 156 U.S. 1, 12 (1895).

168. Brief for Appellants at 83–91, and Reply Brief for Appellants at 16–18, Red Jacket.

169. UMWA v. Coronado Coal Co., 259 U.S. 344 (1922); United Leather Workers Int'l Union v. Herkert and Meisel Trunk Co., 265 U.S. 457 (1924).

170. Letter from William Howard Taft to Horace Dutton Taft (June 16, 1922), Taft Papers, supra note 104, microfilm roll 243.

171. Ibid.; see Bickel, Alexander M., The Unpublished Opinions of Mr. Justice Brandeis (Cambridge, 1957) 97, 202Google Scholar.

172. Mason, Alpheus Thomas, William Howard Taft, Chief Justice (New York, 1965) 202–03Google Scholar [hereinafter cited as Mason, William Howard Taft: Chief Justice]. Taft also held that unions were suable, UMWA v. Coronado Coal. Co., 259 U.S. 344, 383–92 (1922), a holding which drew sharp criticism from organized labor; see Kutler, Stanley I., ‘Chief Justice Taft, Judicial Unanimity and Labor: The Coronado Case’, The Historian 24 (1961) 68CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 72, 76–78.

173. Hammer v. Dagenhart, 247 U.S. 251 (1918).

174. Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., 259 U.S. 20, 39 (1922).

175. Hammer v. Dagenhart, 247 U.S. 251, 272 (1918) (cited in UMWA v. Coronado Coal Co., 259 U.S. 344, 408 (1922) (emphasis added)).

176. UMWA v. Coronado Coal Co., 259 U.S. 344, 407–408 (1922).

177. United Leather Workers Int'l Union v. Herkert & Meisel Trunk Co., 265 U.S. 457 (1924).

178. ibid. at 471.

179. UMWA v. Coronado Coal Co., 259 U.S. 344, 408–409, 411 (1922).

180. United Leather Workers Int'l Union v. Herkert Meisel Trunk Co., 265 U.S. 457, 471 (1924).

181. Ibid.

182. Coronado Coal Co. v. UMWA, 268 U.S. 295, 309 (1925).

183. ibid. at 310.

184. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 5.

185. Ibid.

186. Ibid.

187. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 845; see Rose to Parker, supra note 114.

188. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 845.

189. Ibid.

190. 272 U.S. 549 (1926) (decided Nov. 23, 1926).

191. ibid. at 552.

192. Letter from William A. Glasgow, Jr. to Claude M. Dean (Dec. 27, 1926), Red Jacket Case File, supra note 99.

193. Letter from John J. Parker to Claude M. Dean (Dec. 29, 1926), ibid.

194. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 6.

195. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 846.

196. Ibid.

197. Ibid.

198. Ibid., Parker's amendment read ‘see also, Bedford Cut Stone Co., et al. v. Journeymen Stone Cutters’ Association of North America et al., 47 S. Ct. 522, 71 L. Ed.…, decided by the Supreme Court April 11, 1927’.

199. See Mason, Alpheus Thomas, Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law (New York, 1956) 254–60Google Scholar [hereinafter cited as Mason, Harlan Fiske Stone].

200. Bedford Stone Co. v. Stone Cutters, 274 U.S. 37, 46 (1927).

201. See Lieberman, Elias, Unions Before the Bar: Historic Trials Showing the Evolution of Labor Rights in the United States (New York, 1950) 168Google Scholar [hereinafter cited as Lieberman, Unions Before the Bar].

202. Brief for Appellants at 185–204, Red Jacket.

203. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 842.

204. Ibid.

205. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 3.

206. ibid. at 6.

207. 221 U.S. 418, 438–39 (1911) (asserting ‘that the restraint of trade under the Sherman anti-trust act, or on general principles of law, could be enjoined, but that the means through which restraint was accomplished could not be enjoined would be to render the law impotent’).

208. See Berman, Labor and the Sherman Act, supra note 152 at 90.

209. ibid. at 209–10.

210. 288 F. 1020 (4th Cir. 1923).

211. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 1.

212. ibid. at 6.

213. See Lieberman, Unions Before the Bar, supra note 201 at 84–86 (reporting that since 1853 English courts had held actionable at law third party interferences with an employment contract which resulted in breach of its terms, Lumley v. Gye, 2 El. & Bl. 216 (Q.B. (1853)); Seidman, The Yellow Dog Contract, supra note 29 at 26 (noting that American courts had embraced this tortious action doctrine); see also, Hitchman Coal and Coke Co. v. Mitchell, 202 F. 512 (N. D. W. Va. 1912).

214. Mitchell v. Hitchman Coal and Coke Co., 214 F. 685 (4th Cir. 1914).

215. ibid. at 698.

216. ibid. at 704.

217. Hitchman Coal and Coke Co. v. Mitchell, 245 U.S. 229 (1917).

218. 208 U.S. 161, 174 (1908).

219. 236 U.S. 1, 14 (1915).

220. Hitchman Coal and Coke Co. v. Mitchell, 245 U.S. 229, 250 (1917).

221. ibid. at 253.

222. Ibid.

223. ibid. at 255.

224. 239 U.S. 33, 38 (1915) (quoted in Hitchman Coal and Coke Co. v. Mitchell, 245 U.S. 229, 251–52 (1917)).

225. Hitchman Coal and Coke Co. v. Mitchell, 245 U.S. 229, 257 (1917).

226. ibid. at 259.

227. Ibid.

228. ibid. at 248.

229. ibid. at 247, 257.

230. ibid. at 259.

231. ibid. at 262.

232. ibid. at 261–62; see also Carey, Homer F. and Oliphant, Herman, ‘The Present Status of the Hitchman Case’, 29 Columbia Law Review 441, 445 (1929)CrossRefGoogle Scholar [hereinafter cited as Carey and Oliphant, ‘The Present Status of the Hitchman Case'].

233. 254 U.S. 443 (1921).

234. Clayton Act of Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, §6, 38 Stat. 731.

235. Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering, 254 U.S. 443, 469 (1921).

236. Clayton Act of Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, §20, 38 stat. 738.

237. Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering, 254 U.S. 443, 471 (1921) (wherein Pitney, J. roundly denounced such interference by the 60,000 members of the National Association of Machinists who, ‘although standing in no relation of employment under complainant, past, present, or prospective… make that dispute their own and proceed to instigate sympathetic strikes, picketing, and boycotting against employers wholly unconnected with complainant's factory…’).

238. ibid. at 479.

239. 257 U.S. 184 (1921).

240. ibid. at 208.

241. ibid. at 209.

242. Ibid.

243. ibid. at 209–10.

244. ibid. at 209–10, 212–13.

245. ibid. at 208.

246. ibid. at 208.

247. ibid. at 210.

248. ibid. at 211. See Brief for Appellants at 190, Red Jacket.

249. Am. Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Cent. Trades Council, 257 U.S. 184, 211–12 (1921).

250. UMWA v. Coronado Coal Co., 259 U.S. 344, 409 (1922).

251. Letter from William Howard Taft to Mahlon Pitney (Dec. 31, 1921), Taft Papers, supra note 104, microfilm roll 233.

252. 257 U.S. 312 (1921).

253. ibid. at 340.

254. ibid. at 365, 371.

255. 288 F. 1020 (4th Cir. 1923).

256. 15 F.2d 652, 658 (4th Cir. 1926); see 7 Clerk's Dockets (Oct. term, 1926) supra note 91 at 6 (noting that case no. 2409 was filed July 16, 1925, argued Oct. 22, 1925, opinion filed Oct. 29, 1926, decree filed Nov. 1, 1926, mandate issued Dec. 2, 1926).

257. Letter from William A. Glasgow, Jr. to Claude M. Dean (Nov. 9, 1926), Red Jacket Case File, supra note 99.

258. Bittner v. W. Va.-Pittsburgh Coal Co., 15 F.2d 652, 657–58 (4th Cir. 1926).

259. See paragraph 27 of bill of complaint, ibid. at 653 (noting element of deceit); see ibid. at 659.

260. ibid. at 654.

261. ibid. at 659.

262. Brief for Appellant at 18–19, 45, 49–52, Bittner v. W. Va.-Pittsburgh Coal Co., 15 F.2d 652 (4th Cir. 1926).

263. ibid. at 58; see Acts 9: 3–9, 22: 3–11, 26: 12–18.

264. Bittner v. W.Va.-Pittsburgh Coal Co., 15 F.2d 652, 659 (4th Cir. 1926).

265. Ibid.

266. Gasaway v. Borderland Coal Co., 278 F. 56 (7th Cir. 1921).

267. ibid. at 64 (emphasis added).

268. Bittner v. W. Va.-Pittsburgh Coal Co., 15 F.2d 652, 659 (4th Cir. 1926).

269. Brief for Appellant at 189–90, Bittner.

270. ibid. at 189.

271. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 6.

272. Ibid.

273. Ibid.

274. Ibid.

275. Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering, 254 U.S. 443, 478 (1921) (restraining even persuasion intended to cause ‘any person or persons to decline employment, cease employment… or to refrain from work or cease working under any… purchaser or prospective purchaser of any printing press or presses from complainant’).

276. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 6.

277. Ibid.

278. ibid. at 6–7.

279. Letter from Rose to Parker, supra note 114.

280. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 6.

281. Letter from Rose to Parker, supra note 114.

282. Letter from Waddill to Parker, supra note 118.

283. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 843–44 (quoting Taft, C.J., in Am. Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Cent. Trades Council, 257 U.S. 184, 209 (1921)).

284. Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering, 254 U.S. 443, 471 (1921); see also Am. Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Cent. Trades Council, 257 U.S. 184, 202 (1921).

285. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 849.

286. Am. Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Cent. Trades Council, 257 U.S. 184, 195 (1921).

287. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 840.

288. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 843–44 (citing Taft, C.J., in Am. Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Cent. Trades Council, 257 U.S. 184, 209 (1921)).

289. ibid. at 844.

290. ibid. at 843–44.

291. ibid. at 844.

292. Memorandum, supra note 110 at 6.

293. Ibid.

294. Letter from Rose to Parker, supra note 114.

295. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 849.

296. Ibid.

297. Ibid.

298. ibid. at 850.

299. Gasaway v. Borderland Coal Co., 278 F. 56, 64 (7th Cir. 1921).

300. Red Jacket, 18 F.2d at 849.

301. Ibid.

302. 288 F. 1020 (4th Cir. 1923) (signed by Waddill, Rose, and Parker's immediate predecessor, Charles A. Woods, approving a broad Hitchman-like decree which, among other restraints, barred the Union from seeking to

interfere with the right of such employees [under ‘yellow-dog’ contracts] and those seeking employment to work upon such terms as to them seem proper… or from counseling or advising that these plaintiffs should in any way or manner be injured in the conduct of the business and in the enjoyment of their property).

303. Hitchman Coal and Coke Co. v. Mitchell, 245 U.S. 229, 261–62 (1917).

304. Letter from William E. Baker to John J. Parker (Apr. 21, 1927), Parker Papers, supra note 97, Box 17; Parker to Baker (Apr. 25, 1927), ibid.

305. Letter from W. M. Wiley to Hamilton McKay (Apr. 28, 1928), ibid., Box 3.

306. Dockets of the Sup. Ct. U.S., Records of the U.S. Supreme Court, Record Group 267, microfilm roll 19 (available at National Archives, Washington, D.C.) (noting action in appeals cases nos. 325–36, Lewis v. Red Jacket: filed on June 28, 1927, submitted on Oct. 3, 1927, certiorari denied on Oct. 17, 1927).

307. Petition for Certiorari (nos. 325–26) and Brief for Appellants, at 67–84 (jurisdiction), 84–101 (injunction), Red Jacket, U.S. Sup. Ct. Case File, supra note 35.

308. ibid. at 73, 75–77, 78.

309. ibid. at 82.

310. ibid. at 93.

311. ibid. at 57.

312. ibid. at 96 (emphasis in original).

313. ibid. at 96–97.

314. Ibid.

315. ibid. at 98.

316. ibid. (emphasis in original).

317. ibid. at 58.

318. Certiorari denied sub nom. Lewis v. Red Jacket Consol. Coal and Coke Co., 275 U.S. 536 (1927).

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320. Letter from William A. Glasgow, Jr. to Charles Elmore Cropley, (Oct. 19, 1927), U.S. Sup. Ct. Case File, supra note 35.

321. Mason, Harlan Fiske Stone, supra note 199 at 875.

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324. ibid. at 516 n.l.

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328. Mason, William Howard Taft, supra note 172 at 228–29; Bedford Stone Co. v. Stone Cutters, 274 U.S. 37, 55 (1927) (Sanford, J. concurring); ibid. (Stone, J. concurring); ibid. at 56 (Brandeis, J., joined by Holmes, J., dissenting).

329. Bedford Stone Co. v. Stone Cutters, 274 U.S. 37, 49–51 (1927).

330. See Liles v. Oregon, 425 U.S. 963 (1976) (Stevens, J., concurring in denial of certiorari).

331. Carey and Oliphant, ‘The Present Status of the Hitchman Case’, supra note 232 at 450.

332. Letter from William Howard Taft to Helen Herron Taft (Oct. 9, 1927), Taft Papers, supra note 104, microfilm roll 295 (reporting hospitalization of Sutherland, J. for stomach and nervous disorders); letter from William Howard Taft to Robert A. Taft (Jan. 1, 1928), ibid. (reporting Sutherland, J.'s expected return to the Court early in 1928); Pearson, Drew and Allen, Robert S., More-Merry-Go-Round (New York, 1932) 84Google Scholar (reporting Sutherland's ‘pronounced hypochondriacal tendencies’) [hereinafter cited as Pearson and Allen, More-Merry-Go-Round].

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339. Letter from John J. Parker to Charles T. McCormick (Dec. 14, 1928), ibid., Box 18, re: Gilliam v. United States, 27 F.2d 296 (4th Cir. 1928); certiorari denied, 278 U.S. 635 (1928).

340. Untitled memorandum by John J. Parker, (no date, circa Mar., May 1930), ibid., Box 6; see also letter from John J. Parker to Henry Horace Williams (Apr. 7, 1930), ibid., Box 15; to Charles Kerr (Apr. 2, 1930), ibid., Box 6.

341. See supra note 306.

342. Letter from Charles Elmore Cropley to William A. Glasgow, Jr. (Feb. 29, 1928), U.S. Sup. Ct. Case File, supra note 35.

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344. Parker Confirmation Hearing, supra note 3 at 63.

345. 72 Congressional Record (71st Cong., 2d Sess.) 7936 (1930).

346. Letter from William E. Borah to William H. Coolidge (Apr. 18, 1930), William E. Borah Papers, supra note 88.

347. 72 Congressional Record (71st Cong., 2d Sess.) 7934 (1930).

348. ibid. at 8345 (statement of Henry F. Ashurst (D. Ariz.)).

349. ibid. at 8353 (statement of William E. Borah (R. Idaho)).

350. Ibid. 8487 (recording roll call vote on Parker's confirmation. The official tally was 41 ‘nays’ and 39 ‘yeas’. With recorded pairs, the vote was 49 ‘nays’ and 47 ‘yeas’ in a Senate then consisting of 96 members).

351. 281 U.S. 548 (1930).

352. Act of Mar. 23, 1932, ch. 90, 47 Stat. 70 (held constitutional in Lauf v. E.G. Shinner and Co., 303 U.S. 323(1938).

353. Ibid.

354. ibid. at § 4 (i) (a section relating directly to Red Jacket in that it removed jurisdiction of federal courts to restrain ‘advising, urging, or otherwise causing or inducing without fraud or violence the acts heretofore specified, regardless of any such undertaking or promise as is described in Section 3 of this Act’).

355. National Labor Relations Act of July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 1, 49 Stat. 449 (declaring it ‘to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and to mitigate and eliminate these obstructions…’.) (held constitutional in NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. 301 U.S. 1 (1937)); but see Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of August 30, 1935, ch. 824, §1, 49 Stat. 991 (basing exercise of congressional power on broad construction of the commerce clause, U.S. Const. Art. I, §8, c1.3), and at 1001 (guaranteeing the right of collective bargaining as well as other collateral rights enforceable by a Bituminous Coal Labor Board) (held unconstitutional in Carter v. Carter Coal Co., 298 U.S. 238 (1936)).

356. Bituminous Coal Act of Apr. 26, 1937, ch. 127, 50 Stat. 72 (held constitutional in Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins, 310 U.S. 381 (1940)).

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