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How did the Clayton Act value labor?

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It declared that "the labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce." Organized labor was as heartened by the act as it had been dejected by the doctrine of the Danbury Hatters' Case , but subsequent judicial construction weakened the act's labor provisions.

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