Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Supreme Court Ruling in the Danbury Hatters’ Case

Glossary

• Danbury Hatters’ Case Loewe v. Lawlor, a 1908 ruling in which the Supreme Court held that the boycott of D. E. Loewe & Company by the United Hatters of North America constituted a conspiracy in restraint of trade, a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act
• the hat manufacturer Loewe Dietrich Loewe, whose refusal to allow unions to organize in his Danbury, Connecticut–based firm, D. E. Loewe & Company, resulted in a strike and boycott
• laymen nonprofessionals
• met dealt with
• Sherman anti-trust law an 1890 act of Congress, the first such law to limit the power of monopolies