Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-09

or destroy the highways along which such
mails and such commerce are necessarily
carried II interstate commerce is to pe
maintained, all of which acts eNcept in
terfering with the mails NAV be classed
properly as acts in restraint of Interstate
and foreign commerce.
In discussing the effect of the bill the re-
port says:
1t will permit men in large bodies in the
employ of railroads and TRANSFORMATION
companies doing an interstate business to
comphe or agree to quit work when by so
actlng they do not knowingly endanger or
destroy life or property. Such agreements
or combinations by employees can no longer
be enJoined or restrained. Therefore the
employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, or of the Delaware. Isckawanna
and Western Railroad Companv or of
many Others doing an interstate business
may combine or agree as a body or in large
pod!es, to abandon the company in viola
ton Of their individual contracts TO work
for it If trade dispute between the COM
pany and Its employees be pending or even
contemplated. Such combina tions cannot
be enJoined or restrained for the reasons:
one, the agreement or combination, now a
CRIME, Is by this bill pronounced not a
crime; two, such agreement. combination
or contract is no longer to 'be considered
as IN restraint of trade or commerce." and
three' nor snail any restraining order or
injunction be issued with relation there
to-
To Summarize.
If this bill becomes a law, in all labor
disputes between employers and employees
the following conditions will exist:
1. 1t will not be crime to merely make
a contract combination or agreement to
do an act which may be in restraint of
interstate or foreign commerce If such act
when committed by one person acting alone
would not be crime
=. it VIII not be criminal conspiracy
tract, combine or agree to do an act in
restraint of interstate or foreign commerce
If such acts would not be criminal if ac-
tualiy committed by one person acting
alone.
B. Such contracts combinations or agree
ments will not be considered as in restraint
OF interstate and foreign commerce.
4. NO injunction or restraining order will
lawfully issue based solely on such con-
tract, combination or agreement.
o. All other contracts, combinations or
agreements VIII remain unaffected, and will
as now
g. 1t will be a crime for two or moro
persons to contract, combine or agree TO
40 any act in restraint of interstate and
foreign commerce which is criminal when
committed by one person acting alone.
4. IL VIII be a criminal conspiracy to
contract combine or agree to do any act in
restraint of interstate and foreign COM
merce if such act would be criminal when
actually committed by one person acting
alone.
8. Any contract, combination or agree
ment will be considered as in restraint of
interstate and foreign commerce IL the act
or acts agreed to be done will or may have
lhat erect, provided the act agreed to be
committed is criminal when actually com
mltted by one person acting alone
y. All acts threatened or being committed
which impede, interfere with or restrain
interstate and foreign commerce will be en-
Joinabie and restrainable the same as now.
whether criminal or not, and whether Grim
maj or not when committed by one person
actinS alone or by two or more acting TO-
gether
10. Nothing in the law will sanction re-
sort to force violence, or intimidation by
a show of force, in aid or furtherapce of
any trade dispute, or making innocent or
non-punishable any act done (aside from
the mere making of an agreement or con-
tracD that is otherwise punishable as n
crime.