first six sections of said act for or on account of any such contract or combination hereafter made, of which a copy or written statement shall not have been filed as aforesaid, or as to which an order shall have been entered as above provided."

SEC. 2. That section seven of the said act approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 7. That any person who shall be injured in his business or property by any other person or corporation by reason of anything forbidden or declared to be unlawful by this act may sue therefor in any circuit court of the United States in the district in which the defendant resides or is found, without respect to the amount in controversy, and shall recover the damages by him sustained and the costs of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee."

SEC. 3. That in any suit for damages under section seven of the said act approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, based upon a right of action accruing prior to the passage of this act, the plaintiff shall be entitled to recover only the damages by him sustained and the costs of suit including a reasonable attorney's fee; and no suit for damages under said section seven of the said act, based upon a right of action accruing prior to the passage of this act, shall be maintained unless the same shall be commenced within one year after the passage of this act.

Nothing in said act approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, or in this act, is intended, nor shall any provision thereof hereafter be enforced, so as to interfere with or to restrict any right of employees to strike for any purpose not unlawful at common law or to combine or to contract with each other or with employers for the purpose of obtaining from employers peaceably or by any means not unlawful at common law satisfactory terms for their labor or satisfactory conditions of employment, or so as to interfere with or to restrict any right of employers for any purpose not unlawful at common law to discharge all or any of their employees or to combine or to contract with each other or with employees for the purpose of obtaining labor on satisfactory terms peaceably or by any means not unlawful at common law.

SEC. 4. That no suit or prosecution by the United States under the first six sections of the said Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall hereafter be begun for or on account of any contract or combination made prior to the passage of this Act, or any action thereunder, unless the same be in unreasonable restraint of trade or commerce among the several States or with foreign nations; and no suit or prosecution by the United States under the first six sections of the said Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be begun after one year from the passage of this Act for or on account of any contract or combination made prior to the passage of this Act, or any action thereunder; but no corporation or association authorized to register under section eight of the said Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended, shall be entitled to the benefit of this immunity if it shall have failed so to register, or if the registration of such corporation or association shall have been canceled before the expiration of one year after such registration, exclusive of the period, if any, during which such cancellation shall have been stayed by an order or decree of court subsequently vacated or set aside. Anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, all actions and proceedings now or heretofore pending under or by virtue of any provision of the said Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, may be prosecuted and may be defended to final effect; and all judgments and decrees heretofore or hereafter made in any such actions or proceedings may be enforced in the same manner as though this Act had not been passed.

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FEDERAL INJUNCTIONS.

HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, UNITED STATES SENATE, ON THE BILL S. 3724, A BILL REGULATING INJUNCTIONS AND THE PRACTICE

OF THE DISTRICT AND CIRCUIT COURTS

OF THE UNITED STATES.

1910.

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