"[1] Specifically, it analyzes the extent of Congress' power, according to the Commerce Clause, looking at whether or not they have the right to regulate manufacturing.

The question was whether Congress, according to the Commerce Clause, has the power to regulate the coal mining industry.

Justice Cardozo, dissenting, reasoned that the price-fixing provision of the Coal Conservation Act was constitutional because it had a direct effect on interstate trade.

However, he mainly sided with Cardozo's opinion and noted that the Act's labor and marketing provisions were not dependent on each other.

On April 12, 1937, however, Hughes, who wrote the majority opinion, later found the pro-labor Wagner Act constitutional in five separate cases and noted that it was skillfully drafted and specified interstate commerce regulations.