Illegal Strikes and Lock-outs.
(2) A lock-out shall be illegal if it has any object other than or in addition to the furtherance of a trade dispute within the trade or industry in which the employers locking-out are engaged and is a lock-out designed or calculated to coerce the Government either directly or by inflicting hardship upon the community; and it shall be an offence to commence or to continue, or to apply any sums in furtherance or support of, any such illegal lock-out.
(3) For the purposes of this section a trade dispute shall not be deemed to be within a trade or industry unless it is a dispute between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen in that trade or industry, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of the employment, or with the conditions of labour, of persons in that trade or industry.
(4) Without prejudice to the generality of the expression "trade or industry", workmen shall be deemed to be within the same trade or industry if their wages or conditions of employment are determined in accordance with the conclusions of the same joint industrial council, conciliation board or other similar body or in accordance with agreements made with the same employer or group of employers.
(5) No person shall declare, instigate, incite others to take part in, or otherwise act in furtherance of, a strike or lock-out expressed by this Ordinance to be illegal : Provided that no person shall be deemed to have committed an offence under this section or at common law by reason only of his having ceased work or refused to continue work or to accept employment.
(6) For the purpose of this section a strike or lock-out shall not be deemed to be calculated to coerce the Government unless such coercion ought reasonably to be expected as a consequence thereof.
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Protection of persons refusing to take part in illegal strikes or lock-outs.
4. (1) No person refusing to take part or to continue to take part in any strike or lock-out which is by this Ordinance expressed to be illegal shall be, by reason of such refusal or by reason of any action taken by him under this section, subject to expulsion from any trade union or 17 & 18 Geo. 5. c. 22, s. 2.
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Illegal Strikes and Lock-outs.
(2) A lock-out shall be illegal if it has any object other than or in addition to the furtherance of a trade dispute within the trade or industry in which the employers locking-out are engaged and is a lock-out designed or calculated to coerce the Government either directly or by inflicting hardship upon the community; and it shall be an offence to commence or to continue, or to apply any sums in furtherance or support of, any such illegal lock-
out.
(3) For the purposes of this section a trade dispute shall not be deemed to be within a trade or industry unless it is a dispute between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen in that trade or industry, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of the employment, or with the conditions of labour, of persons in that trade or industry.
(4) Without prejudice to the generality of the expres- sion "trade or industry", workmen shall be deemed to be within the same trade or industry if their wages or con- ditions of employment are determined in accordance with the conclusions of the same joint industrial council, con- ciliation board or other similar body or in accordance with agreements made with the same employer or group of employers.
(5) No person shall declare, instigate, incite others to take part in, or otherwise act in furtherance of, a strike or lock-out expressed by this Ordinance to be illegal : Provided that no person shall be deemed to have committed an offence under this section or at common law by reason only of his having ceased work or refused to continue work or to accept employment.
(6) For the purpose of this section a strike or lock- out shall not be deemed to be calculated to coerce the Government unless such coercion ought reasonably to be expected as a consequence thereof.
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Protection of refusing to illegal strikes,
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4. (1) No person refusing to take part or to continue to take part in any strike or lock-out which is by this Ordinance expressed to be illegal shall be, by reason of such refusal or by reason of any action taken by him.under 17 & 18 Geo. 5. this section, subject to expulsion from any trade union or c. 22, s. 2.
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