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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 584 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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term used to describe a practice resorted to by workmen engaged in See also:trade disputes, of placing one or more men near the See also:works of the employer with whom the dispute is pending, with the See also:object of See also:drawing off his hands or acquiring See also:information useful for the purposes of the dispute. In See also:England, under the See also:Conspiracy and See also:Protection of See also:Property See also:Act 1875, it is an offence wrongfully and without legal authority to See also:watch or beset the See also:house or See also:place where another resides or works, or carries on business or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place, if the object of the watching, &c., is to compel the See also:person watched, &c., to abstain from doing or to do an act which he is legally entitled to do or to abstain from doing (§ 7). The See also:definition of the offence was qualified by a proviso excluding from See also:punishment those who attend at or near a house or place merely to obtain or communicate information, in other words what is termed peaceful picketing, without intimidation, molestation or See also:direct efforts to See also:influence the course of a trade dispute. This enactment led to a See also:great See also:deal of litigation between trade unions and employers; and trade unions were in some instances restrained by See also:injunction from picketing the works of employers, The decisions of the courts upon this subject met with severe See also:criticism from the leaders of trade unions, and by the Trades Disputes Act 1906 the proviso above quoted was repealed, and it was declared lawful for one or more persons acting for them-selves or for a trade See also:union or for an individual employer to attend at or near a house. &c., " if the attendance is merely for thepurpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating informations or of peacefully persuading any person to See also:work or abstain from working." The exact effect of this See also:change in the See also:law has not yet been determined by the courts, but during the See also:Belfast carters' strike of 1907 serious riots ensued upon the efforts of the authorities to counteract the interference with lawful business caused by See also:free use of picketing. The change in the law is supplemented by provisions forbidding actions against trade unions in respect of any tortious acts alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of the union.

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