writing to any other person, company or corporation to whom such discharged person has applied for employment, a truthful statement of the reasons for such discharge; and shall furnish to such discharged employee on his application, to such address as may be given by such discharged employee, within ten days after such application made as aforesaid, a true copy of any such written statement.

SEC. 2. If any railroad company or other corporation doing business in this State, shall authorize or permit, with its knowledge and consent, any of its officers, agents, employers or employees to commit either or any of the acts prohibited by this act (except as herein provided), such railroad company or corporation shall be liable in damages to such employee so prevented from obtaining employemnt, to be recovered by him in a civil action.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of any person, officer, agent, employer, company or corporation aforesaid, after having discharged any employee from the service of any such company or corporation, upon written demand by such employee, to furnish to him, within ten days from the application for the same, a full statement in writing of the cause or causes of his discharge, and if any such person, officer, agent, employer, company or corporation as aforesaid shall refuse within ten days after demand as herein provided to furnish such statement to such discharged employee, it shall be ever after unlawful for any such person, officer, agent, employer, company or corporation to furnish any statement of the cause of such discharge to any person or corporation or to in any way blacklist or to prevent such discharged employee from procuring employment elsewhere, subject to the penalties prescribed in section one of this act. And on the trial of any person, company or corporation for a violation of the provisions of this act, any other person who may have authorized or permitted, with knowledge and consent as aforesaid, any such offense, or who may have participated in the same, shall be a competent witness, and be compelled to give evidence, and nothing then said by such witness shall at any time be received or given in evidence against him in any prosecution against the said witness, except on an indictment for perjury in any matter to which he may have testified; and on the trial of any such person for any violation of this act, the prosecution shall have the authority and process of the court trying the case to compel the production in court, to be used in evidence in the case, the books and papers of any such person, company or corporation, and a failure to produce the same, after such reasonable notice as the court may in each case provide, shall be in contempt of court, and punishable as such against the custodian or person, company or corporation having the control or in charge of such books and papers, who shall fail to produce the same: Provided, That such written cause of the discharge, when so made as aforesaid, at the request of such discharged employee shall never be used as the cause for an action for slander or for libel, either civil or criminal, against the person or authority furnishing the same.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of any person, company or corporation who has received any request or notice in writing, sign, word or otherwise, from any other person, company or corporation, preventing or attempting to prevent the employment of any person discharged from the service of either of the latter, on demand of such discharged employee, to furnish to such employee within ten days after such demand, a true statement of the nature of such request or notice, and if in writing, a copy of the same, and if a sign, the interpretation thereof, with the name of the person, company or corporation furnishing the same, with the place of business of the person or authority furnishing the same; and a violation of this section shall subject the offender to all the penalties, civil and criminal, provided by the foregoing sections of this act.

SEC. 5. The provisions of this act shall apply to and prevent, under all the penalties aforesaid, railroad companies or corporations under the same general management and control but having separate divisions, superintendents or master mechanics, master machinists or similar officers, for separate or different lines, their officers, agents and employees, from preventing or attempting to prevent, the employment of any such discharged person by any other separate division, or officer or agent or employer of any such separate railroad line or lines.

GEORGIA.

CODE OF 1895-PENAL CODE.

FOURTH DIVISION.

Interfering with employment, intimidation, etc.

SECTION 119. If any two or more persons shall associate themselves together in any society or organization, with intent and for the purpose of preventing, in any manner,

or calling, or for the purpose of inducing, by persuasion, threats, fraud, or any other means, any apprentice or apprentices to any such trade, craft, vocation, or calling, to leave the employment of their employer, or for the purpose, by any means, of preventing or deterring any person from learning and practicing any such trade, craft, vocation or calling, every such person so associating himself in such society or organization shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 120. Upon the trial of any person under the preceding section, any person may be made a witness; and no statements made by him, on such trial, shall be given in evidence against him, except upon an indictment for perjury.

SEC. 123. If any person or persons, by threats, violence, intimidation or other unlawful means, shall prevent or attempt to prevent any person or persons in this State from engaging in, remaining in, or performing the business, labor or duties of any lawful employment or occupation, such offender or offenders shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 124. If any person or persons, singly or together, or in combination, shall conspire to prevent or attempt to prevent any person or persons, by threats, violence or intimidation, from engaging in, remaining in, or performing the business, labor, or duties of any lawful employment or occupation, such offender or offenders shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 125. If any person or persons, singly or by conspiring together, shall hinder any person or persons who desire to labor from so doing, or hinder any person, by threats, violence or intimidation, from being employed as laborer or employee, such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 126. If any person or persons, by threats, violence, intimidation or other unlawful means, shall hinder the owner, manager or proprietor for the time being from controlling, using, operating or working any property in any lawful occupation, or shall by such means hinder such person from hiring or employing laborers or employees, such offender or offenders shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

IDAHO.

CODES OF 1901.

Interference with miners.

SECTION 4687. In all cases where two or more persons associate themselves together for the purpose of obtaining the possession of any lode, gulch, or placer claim, then in the actual possession of another, by force and violence, or by stealth, and proceed to carry out such purpose by making threats against the parties in possession, or who enters upon such lode or mining claim for the purpose aforesaid, or who enters upon or into any lode, gulch, placer claim, quartz mill or other mining property, or, not being upon such property, makes any threats, or makes use of any language, signs or gestures, calculated to intimidate any person or persons at work on said property, from continuing to work thereon or therein, or to intimidate others from engaging to work thereon or therein, every such person so offending is guilty of a misdemeanor.

ILLINOIS.

ANNOTATED STATUTES OF 1896.

CHAPTER 38.-Boycotting and blacklisting –Conspiracy.

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SECTION 96. If any two or more persons conspire or agree together, or the officers or executive committee of any society or organization or corporation shall issue or utter any circular or edict as the action of or instruction to its members, or any other persons, societies, organizations or corporations for the purpose of establishing a so-called boycott or black list, or shall post or distribute any written or printed notice in any places, with the fraudulent or malicious intent wrongfully and wickedly to injure the person, character, business or employment, or property of another, do any illegal act injurious to the public trade, health, morals, police, or administration of public justice, *** they shall be deemed guilty of a conspiracy; and every such offender, whether as individuals or as the officers of any society or organization, and every person convicted of conspiracy at common law, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding five years, or fined not exceeding $2,000, or both. To call out members of a trade union in order to procure the discharge of nonunion employees is not in itself a wrongful and wicked act for which prosecution can be had under this statute.

CHAPTER 38.-Intimidation of employers and employees.

SECTION 294. If any two or more persons shall combine for the purpose of depriving the owner or possessor of property of its lawful use and management, or of preventing, by threats, suggestions of danger, or any unlawful means, any person from being employed by or obtaining employment from any such owner or possessor of property, on such terms as the parties concerned may agree upon, such persons so offending shall be fined not exceeding $500, or confined in the county jail not exceeding six

months.

SEC. 295. If any person shall, by threat, intimidation or unlawful interference, seek to prevent any other person from working or from obtaining work at any lawful business, on any terms that he may see fit, such person so offending shall be fined not exceeding $200.

SEC. 296. Whoever enters a coal bank, mine, shaft, manufactory, building or premises of another, with intent to commit any injury thereto, or by means of threats, intimidation, or riotous or other unlawful doings, to cause any person employed therein to leave his employment, shall be fined not exceeding $500, or confined in the county jail not exceeding six months, or both.

CHAPTER 38.-Trespass on mines, factory premises, etc.

SECTION 439. Whoever, without authority of law and not being the owner or agent of adjoining lands, enters the coal bank, mine, shaft, manufactory, or place where workmen are employed, of another, without the expressed or implied consent of the owner or manager thereof, after notice that such entry is forbidden, shall be fined not exceeding $200, or confined in the county jail not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the court.

CHAPTER 114.-Strikes of railroad employees.

SECTION 128. If any locomotive engineer in furtherance of any combination or agreement, shall willfully and maliciously abandon his locomotive upon any railroad at any other point than the regular schedule destination of such locomotive, he shall be fined not less than twenty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and confined in the county jail, not less than twenty days, nor more than ninety days.

SEC. 129. If any person or persons shall willfully and maliciously, by any act or by means of intimidation, impede or obstruct, except by due process of law, the regular operation and conduct of the business of any railroad company or other corporation, firm or individual in this State, or of the regular running of any locomotive engine, freight or passenger train of any such company, or the labor and business of any such corporation, firm or individual, he or they shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not less than twenty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), and confined in the county jail not less than twenty nor more than ninety

days.

SEC. 130. If two or more persons shall willfully and maliciously combine or conspire together to obstruct or impede by any act, or by means of intimidation, the regular operation and conduct of the business of any railroad company or any other corporation, firm or individual in this State, or to impede hinder or obstruct, except by due process of law, the regular running of any locomotive engine, freight or passenger train on any railroad, or the labor or business of any such corporation, firm, or individual, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine not less than twenty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, and confined in the county jail not less than twenty days, nor more than ninety days.

SEC. 131. This act, shall not be construed to apply to cases of persons voluntarily quitting the employment of any railroad company or such other corporation, firm or individual, whether by concert of action or otherwise, e[x]cept as is provided in section one [sec. 128] of this act.

ACTS OF 1899.

Employment of labor-Deception, unlawful force, etc.

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SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, company, corporation, society, association or organization of any kind doing business in this State, by himself, themselves, his, its or their agents or attorneys, to induce, influence, persuade or engage workmen to change from one place to another in this State, or to bring workmen of any

through or by means of false or deceptive representations, false advertising or false pretenses concerning the kind and character of the work to be done, or amount and character of the compensation to be paid for such work, or the sanitary or other conditions of the employment, or as to the existence or nonexistence of a strike or other trouble pending between employer and employees, at the time of or prior to such engagement. Failure to state in any advertisement, proposal or contract for the employment of workmen that there is a strike, lockout or other labor troubles at the place of the proposed employment, when in fact such strike, lockout or other labor trouble then actually exists at such place, shall be deemed as false advertisement and misrepresentation for the purposes of this act.

SEC. 2. Any person or persons, company, corporation, society, association or organization of any kind doing business in this State, as well as his, their or its agents, attorneys, servants or associates, found guilty of violating section 1 of this act, or any part thereof, shall be fined not exceeding $2,000 or confined in the county jail not exceeding one year, or both, where the defendant or defendants is or are a natural person or persons.

SEC. 3. Any person or persons who shall, in this or another State, hire, aid, abet or assist in hiring, through agencies or otherwise, persons to guard with arms or deadly weapons of any kind other persons or property in this State, or any person or persons who shall come into this State armed with deadly weapons of any kind for any such purpose, without a permit in writing from the governor of this State, shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than five years: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to interfere with the right of any person, persons, or company, corporation, society, association or organization in guarding or protecting their private property or private interests as is now provided by law; but this act shall be construed only to apply in cases where workmen are brought into this State, or induced to go from one place to another in this State, by any false pretenses, false advertising or deceptive representations, or brought into this State under arms, or removed from one place to another in this State under arms.

SEC. 4. Any workman of this State, or any workman of another State who has or shall be influenced, induced or persuaded to engage with any persons mentioned in section 1 of this act, through or by means of any of the things therein prohibited, each of such workmen shall have a right of action for recovery of all damages that each of such workmen has sustained in consequence of the false or deceptive representations, false advertising and false pretenses used to induce him to change his place of employment, against any person or persons, corporations, companies or associations directly or indirectly causing such damages; and, in addition to all actual damages such workmen may have sustained, shall be entitled to recover such reasonable attorney's fees as the court shall fix, to be taxed as costs in any judgment recovered.

INDIANA.

ANNOTATED STATUTES OF 1901.

Boycotting.

SECTION 3312m.-Any person, firm or association of persons who shall make any contract or enter into any agreement or make any combination or enter into any arrangement, directly or indirectly, to induce, procure or prevent any wholesale or retail dealer in or manufacturer of merchandise or of supplies or of material or article intended for trade or used by any mechanic, artisan or dealer in the prosecution of his business from selling such supplies to any dealer or to any mechanic or artisan; and any dealer in or manufacturer of such supplies or material or article of trade or supplies or material to be used by any mechanic, artisan or dealer who shall be a party, directly or indirectly, to any such contract, combination or arrangement, or who shall upon the request of any party to any such contract, combination or arrangement refuse to sell such articles of trade, supplies or materials, or articles sold by any dealer or used by any mechanic, or artisan, to any such person or persons who may require them in the prosecution of their said business, for the reason that said dealer, mechanic or artisan is not a member of a combination or association of persons, shall be guilty of conspiracy against trade. And all such contracts, agreements, combinations or arrangements shall be void and of no effect whatever in law.

SEC. 3312n. Any person or persons, firm or association of individuals, or any individual connected therewith, who shall be responsible for the making of any such

contract, agreement or combination or arrangement, or shall be a party to any such contract, combination or arrangement, or that shall take any part therein, as set out in section 1 of this act [sec. 3312m], shall, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail for any period not exceeding one year.

SEC. 33120. Each and every person, firm or association of persons who shall in any manner violate the provisions of this act shall, for each and every day that such violation shall be committed and continued after due notice given by the party interested [to the] attorney-general or prosecuting attorney, forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars, which may be recovered in the name of the State on the relation of the party injured or on the relation of the prosecuting attorney in any county where the offense is committed or where the offender or offenders reside. And it shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of any county to prosecute any such action, and he shall be entitled to a fee of twenty-five dollars to be taxed against the defendant, in the event of recovery, as a part of the costs of said action. Any such action may be taken in any circuit or superior court of the county in which the defendant resides or in which he is engaged in business.

SEC. 3312p. Any person who shall by any such contract or combination as set out in section 1 of this act [sec. 3312m], be injured or damaged in his business thereby, or by reason of anything forbidden or declared by this act to be unlawful, may maintain a suit therefor in any court having jurisdiction thereof in the county where the defendant resides or in which he is engaged in business, or in any county where service may be obtained, without respect to the amount in controversy, and the plaintiff in any such action shall be entitled to recover all his costs and a reasonable attorney's fee therein. SEC. 3312q. Whenever it shall appear to the court before which any proceedings under this act may be pending, that the ends of justice require that other parties shall be brought before the court, said court may cause them to be made parties defendant and cause them to be served by the process of court as now required by law in such cases provided, whether they reside in the county where said action is pending or not.

Blacklisting, etc.

SECTION 7076. If any person, agent, company or corporation, after having discharged any employee from his or its service, shall prevent, or attempt to prevent, by word or writing of any kind, such discharged employee from obtaining employment with any other person, company or corporation, such person, agent or corporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars nor less than one hundred dollars, and such person, agent, company or corporation shall be liable in penal damages to such discharged person, to be recovered by civil action; but this section shall not be construed as prohibiting any person or agent of any company or corporation from informing in writing any other person, company or corporation to whom such discharged person or employee has applied for employment, a truthful statement of the reason for such discharge.

SEC. 7077. If any railway company or any other company or partnership or corporation in this State shall authorize, allow or permit any of its or their agents to blacklist any discharged employees, or attempt by words or writing, or any other means whatever, to prevent such discharged employee, or any employee who may have voluntarily left said company's service, from obtaining employment with any other person, or company, said company shall be liable to such employee in such sum as will fully compensate him, to which may be added exemplary damages.

The provision in the above section relative to employees who have voluntarily left service is void, not having been expressed in the title of the act as required by the State constitution. 09 N. E. Rep. 1003.

SEC. 7078. It shall be the duty of any person, agent, company or corporation, after having discharged any employee from his or its service, upon demand of such discharged employee, to furnish him in writing a full, succinct and complete statement of the cause or causes of his discharge, and if such person, agent, company or corporation shall refuse so to do within a reasonable time after such demand, it shall ever after be unlawful for such person, agent, company or corporation to furnish any statement of the causes of such discharge to any person or corporation, or in any way to blacklist or to prevent such discharged person from procuring employment elsewhere, subject to the penalties prescribed in section 1 of this act [sec. 7076]: Provided, That said written cause of discharge, when so made by such person, agent, company or corporation at the request of such discharged employee shall never be used as the cause for an action for slander or libel, either civil or criminal, against the person, agent, com