who is employed or about to be employed by it a bond or other security, either with or without surety, to indemnify such corporation against loss or damage to other persons or to property resulting from the act or neglect of such person, except a bond to account for money or other property of such corporation. A corporation or a person in its behalf who violates the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for the first offence and of not more than one hundred dollars for each subsequent offence.

TRADE UNIONS.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 31.

Registration of Union Insignia. The insignia, ribbons, badges, rosettes, buttons and emblems of any society, association or labor union may be registered in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth in the manner and subject to the provisions, so far as they are applicable, set forth in section seven of chapter seventy-two of the Revised Laws in regard to labels; and the secretary is hereby authorized to make regulations and prescribe forms for such registration.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 30.

Exempt from Insurance Laws. Trade unions and other associations of wage workers whose principal objects are to deal with the relation between employers and employees relative to wages, hours of labor and other conditions of employment shall not be subject to the provisions of chapters one hundred and nineteen and one hundred and twenty of the Revised Laws and chapter five hundred and seventy-six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and seven or of such other provisions of law as relate to insurance companies or associations.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 19.

Coercion as to joining Union. —No person shall, himself or by his agent, coerce or compel a person into a written or oral agreement not to join or become a member of a labor organization as a condition of his securing employment or continuing in the employment of such person.

INFLUENCING, PROCURING AND ADVERTISING FOR

EMPLOYEES.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 28, amended by Acts of 1912, Chapter 495.

Corrupt Influencing of Employees. Whoever corruptly gives, offers or promises to an agent, employee or servant, any gift or gratuity whatever, with intent to influence his action in relation to the business of his principal, employer or master; or an agent, employee or servant who corruptly requests or accepts a gift or gratuity or a promise to make a gift or to do an act beneficial to himself, under an agreement or with an understanding that he shall act in any particular manner in relation to the business of his principal, employer or master; or an agent, employee or servant, who, being authorized to procure materials, supplies or other articles either by purchase or contract for his principal, employer or master, or to employ service or labor for his principal, employer, or master, receives directly or indirectly, for himself or for another, a commission, discount or bonus from the person who makes such sale or contract, or furnishes such materials, supplies or other articles, or from a person who renders such service or labor; and any person who gives or offers such an agent, employee or servant such commission, discount or bonus, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by such fine and by imprisonment for not more than one year; except that if the person who commits the said offence acts as agent or officer of any person, partnership or corporation to employ persons as clerks, laborers or otherwise, the offence shall be felony punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years. The district attorneys in their respective districts shall prosecute all violations of this section.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 29.

No person shall be excused from attending, testifying or producing books, papers, contracts, agreements and documents before any court or in obedience to the subpoena of any court having jurisdiction of the offence described in the preceding section on

the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise required of him may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be liable to any suit or prosecution, civil or criminal, for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before said court or in obedience to its subpoena or in any such case or proceeding.

Acts of 1910, Chapter 445, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 347.

Procuring Employees during Strike. SECTION 1. If an employer, during the continuance of a strike among his employees, or during the continuance of a lockout or other labor trouble among his employees, publicly advertises in newspapers, or by posters or otherwise, for employees, or by himself or his agents solicits persons to work for him to fill the places of strikers, he shall plainly and explicitly mention in such advertisements or oral or written solicitations that a strike, lockout or other labor disturbance exists among his employees.

SECTION 2. No employer, during the continuance of a strike, lockout or other labor trouble among his employees, shall directly or indirectly procure or attempt to procure persons to fill the places of employees involved in such strike, lockout or other labor trouble, if such persons are or have been solicited by means of advertisements or oral or written statements in which it has not been plainly and explicitly mentioned that a strike, lockout or other labor trouble exists in the establishment where such persons are to be employed. This provision shall apply whether such advertisements or oral or written solicitations were made within or without the commonwealth.

SECTION 3. No person, firm, association or corporation, during the continuance of a strike, lockout or other labor trouble among the employees of another person, firm, association or corporation, shall procure, or attempt to procure, or assist in any way in procuring, or attempting to procure persons to work for such other person, firm, association, or corporation, to fill the places of employees involved in such strike, lockout or other labor trouble, if such persons are or have been solicited by advertisements or oral

or written statements, whether made within or without the commonwealth, in which it has not been plainly and explicitly mentioned that a strike, lockout or other labor trouble exists in the establishment where such persons are to be employed.

Acts of 1910, Chapter 445, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 347, and by Acts of 1915, Chapter 108 (General).

SECTION 4. Any person, firm, association or corporation violating any provision of this act shall, upon complaint of and after investigation by the state board of conciliation and arbitration, be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence.

Acts of 1910, Chapter 445, amended by Acts of 1912, Chapter 545, and by Acts of 1914, Chapter 347.

SECTION 5. The provisions of this act shall cease to be operative when the state board of conciliation and arbitration shall determine that the business of the employer, in respect to which the strike or other labor trouble occurred, is being carried on in the normal and usual manner and to the normal and usual extent. Said board shall determine this question as soon as may be, upon the application of the employer.

SECTION 6. Chapter four hundred and forty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten and chapter five hundred and forty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve are hereby repealed as to all offences committed after this act takes effect.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 27.

Fraudulent Advertising for Help. Whoever knowingly causes to be printed or published a false or fraudulent notice or advertisement for help or for obtaining work or employment shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 25.

Solicitation by Public Officials.

No railroad, street railway, electric light, gas, telegraph, telephone, water or steamboat company shall appoint, promote, reinstate, suspend or discharge

any person employed or seeking employment by any such company at the request of the governor, lieutenant-governor, or any member or member elect of the council or of the general court, or candidate therefor, justice of the supreme judicial court, justice of the superior court, judge of probate, justice of a police, district or municipal court, district attorney, member or member elect of a board of county commissioners, or candidate for county commissioner, member or member elect of a board of aldermen, or selectmen, or city council, or any executive, administrative or judicial officer, clerk or employee of any branch of the government of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town; nor shall any such public officer or body, or any member or member elect thereof or candidate therefor, directly or indirectly advocate, oppose, or otherwise interfere in, or make any request, recommendation, endorsement, requirement or certificate relative to, and the same, if made, shall not be required as a condition precedent to, or be in any way regarded or permitted to influence or control, the appointment, promotion, reinstatement or retention of any person employed or seeking employment by any such corporation, and no such person shall solicit, obtain, exhibit, or otherwise make use of any such official request, recommendation, certificate or endorsement in connection with any existing or desired employment by a public service corporation. Any person or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 26.

The offices of probation officer, notary public and justice of the peace, prison officer, agent of the prison commissioners and agent of the state board of charity shall not be considered public offices within the meaning of the preceding section.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 18.

Intimidation of Employees. No person shall, by intimidation or force, prevent or seek to prevent a person from entering into or continuing in the employment of any person or corporation.