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[s. 32 cont.]

Peaceful picketing.

Unlawful possession

of directions

from trade unions

outside the Colony.

Trade Unions and Trade Disputes.

(a) uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children or injures his property; or (b) persistently follows such other person about from

place to place; or

(c) 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

(d) 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

(e) follows such other person with two or more other persons in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for six months.

33. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Ordin- ance, 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.

34. (1) No person shall without lawful authority or excuse have in his possession any document which purports or appears to be a direction or notice on behalf of or in the name of any trade union which is established outside the Colony with regard to any action by any person or persons within the Colony.

(2) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any direction or notice issued or given on behalf of or in the name of any trade union which is established within the Colony if the trade union which is established within the Colony is with the consent of the Governor in Council affiliated or connected with the trade union which is established outside the Colony.

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