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7th section abuse Act of Parliament action agitators amendment appeal Bailey black list Bramwell breach Carmaux carries on business clause coerce collective bargaining committed Committee common law Conspiracy Act Conspiracy and Protection conviction Court of Summary criminal offence damages decision defendants definition of intimidation dispute employers and employed existing law free labour George Howell guilty hard labour house or place illegal imprisonment with hard indictable offence individual interference jury Justice Labour Commission labour contract legislation liable liberty Lord Penrhyn Lord Salisbury means ment Messrs Minority Report molestation non-unionist object obstruction offence of unlawful opinion peace practice of picketing present Property Act prosecute Protection of Property punishable Queen's Bench Division refused render rights of combination riot Riot Act shipwrights Sir Frederick Pollock strike suggested Summary Jurisdiction system of picketing threatening threats tion Trade Union Commission trade unionists unlawful assembly Vict violence wages Watches or besets workers workmen
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Page 70 - It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.
Page 24 - Watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place; or 5.
Page 17 - It was also a liberty of the mind and will; and the liberty of a man's mind and will, to say how he should bestow himself and his means, his talents, and his industry, was as much a subject of the law's protection as was that of his body.
Page 22 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime".
Page 24 - ... liable either to pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labor.
Page 49 - ... 5. To prevent another from exercising a lawful trade or calling, or doing any other lawful act, by force, threats, intimidation, or by interfering or threatening to interfere with tools, implements, or property belonging to or used by another, or with the use or employment thereof; or 6.
Page 49 - No conspiracy is punishable criminally unless it is one of those enumerated in the last two sections, and the orderly and peaceable assembling or co-operation of persons employed in any calling, trade or handicraft for the purpose of obtaining an advance in the rate of wages or compensation, or of maintaining such rate, is not a conspiracy.
Page 70 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain' from doing or to dp any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority — 1. Uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property ; or 2.
Page 23 - Jor intimidation or annoyance by violence or otliencite— ,-Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority, — J.