Facts for Liberal Politicians

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National Press Agency, 1879 - Great Britain - 201 pages
 

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Page 69 - ... (3) hides any tools clothes or other property owned or used by such other person or deprives him of or hinders him in the use thereof ; or (4) 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) follows such other person with two or more other persons in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road...
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 69 - 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 — 1.
Page 71 - 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 62 - 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 between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 59 - Being a master to alter the mode of carrying on his business, or the number or description of any persons employed by him, shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labor, for a term not exceeding three months.
Page 12 - The people ask for freedom for their industry, for the removal of the shackles on their trade ; you deny it to them, and then forbid them to labour, as if working less would give them more food, whilst your monopoly laws make food scarce and dear. Give them liberty to work, give them the market of the world for their produce, give them the power to live comfortably, and increasing means and increasing intelligence will speedily render them independent enough and wise enough to bring the duration...
Page 59 - Molest or obstruct any person in manner defined by this section, with a view to coerce such person,— (1.) Being a master to dismiss or to cease to employ any workman, or being a workman to quit any employment or to return work before it is finished...
Page 60 - If he watch or beset the house or other place where such person resides or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place, or if with two or more other persons he follow such person in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road.
Page 159 - Indian subjects, of nil classes and races, assures me that they are happy under my rule and loyal to my throne. At the time that the direct government of my Indian Empire was transferred to the Crown no formal addition was made to the style and titles of the Sovereign.

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