Smyrna times., 1922-08-30
DELAWARE ANTI-STR|EE LAW
CARRIES A HEAVY PENALTY
FINE AND IMPRISONMENT FOR
ENGINEER WHO DESERTS TRAIN
Penalty is More Severe Than Ordinary
Breach of Peace Cases or Cases
of DisOrderly Conduct

Although many arrests have been
made on charges of assault and bat
terry and breach of the peace as rail-
road strike aftermath, no one has been
arrested under the provisions of the
Delaware anti-strike law.
Under the provisions of this act the
penalties in case of conviction, are
more severe than the penalties for
ordinary breach of peace cases or for
that of disorderly conduct
Inducing of employees to cease work
by offer of recompromise, in case of
conviction, is punishable by a fine of
not less than $500 nor more than
$1,000 and Imprisonment for not more
than one year, under the law, which
has been on the books for many years.
| The general provisions respecting
the act, known as the "police, rail
roads and wage BILL" page 1913, re-
vised code reads in part as follows:
"Sec. 60. If any locomotive engin-
eer, upon any railroad within this
State, who shall, at any time, be en-
gagged in any strike, or with a view
to incite others to strike or to further
ance of any combination of precon-
certed arrangement with any other
person or persons to bring about or
produce such strike, shall abandon the
locomotive engine in his charge, when
attached either to a passenger or
freight train, at any place other than
the schedule or otherwise appointed
destination of such train, or shall re-
train to the place of destination, as
aforesaid, any such person, so offend
ing, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanOr, and shall, upon conviction
thereof by indictment be fined not less
than 500, nor more than $500 and
may be imprisoned for a term not ex-
ceeding six months, at the discretion
of the court"
The section of the law relating To
the interference with railroad en-
ployes who refuse to leave their work
reads in part as follows: eff any per-
son in aid of furtherance of the OBJ
jects of any strike upon any railroad
within this State, shall interfere with,
molest or obstruct any railroad en-
plOy engaged in the discharge and per-
formance of his duty as such, every
person so offending shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof by indictment shall
be fined not less than 500 nor more
than $500 and may be imprisoned fol
term not exceeding six months, al
the discretion of the court"
The law also sets forth that convic-
\ ton for placing Instructions on the
tracks or injury to or destroying roll.
\ ing stock of railroad companies shall
v mean a fine of not less than $500 MOI
n more than $1,000 and Imprisonment fol
n not less than six months nor more
y than one year.
N Section So, in addition to dealing
Il with distractions on railroad tracks
u also sets forth that those convicted O.
Y inducing employees of any railroad
4 company to leave the service of sucl
y companies by offer of recompens,
X shall be liable to fine of not less thai
h $500 nor more than $1,000 and impris
Y onment of not less than six month
y nor more than one year.
II The same act defines that the plac
Y ing of Instructions on railroad track
y so as to render them unsafe, is
H felony in the case of. conviction b,
Y indictment, the defendant may be sen
y tenanced to one years Imprisonment
. fine of $1,000 and 20 lashes. Tn
act also provides that the interference
with signals, lights or wires shall b
punishable by fine of not less tha
$100 nor more than $1,000 and sen
fenced to not less than one mont
or more than three years.