...1349 and 1350, to the Conspiracy of Protection Act of 1875, in which last it is provided : First. That an agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or to procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers...

...thereto the following additional section, under the new sub-title of •' conspiracy " : SECTION A. — An agreement or combination by two or more persons...committed by one person would not be punishable as an offence ; nothing in this section shall affect the law relating to riot, unlawful assembly, breach...

...combination from the law of criminal conspiracy ? That section, it will be remembered, enacts that ' An agreement or combination by two or more persons...conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be indictable as a crime.' This section has been judicially declared to have expressly legalized strikes....

...principle of the Bill, as he understood it, was contained in the first paragraph of the 2nd clause : — " An agreement or combination by two or more persons...dispute between employers and workmen shall not be deemed to be unlawful, so as to render such persons liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy,...

...information; (2) for the purpose of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working. "2. An agreement or combination by two or more persons...any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be ground for an action, if such act when committed by one person would not be ground...

...to working men organized in trades unions. Section III of the act provides that "An agreement or act by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trades dispute (between employers and workmen) shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act...

...to conspiracy in the same way, and put it in the form of a statutory code, enacting broadly that "no agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act shall be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one would not be punishable as a crime,"...

...35 Vietc. 32, and to the enactment of the 38 4 3'J Viet. c. 86, which, by section 3> declares that " an agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to he done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall...

...deemed criminal, nor shall those engaged therein be indictable or otherwise punishable for the crime of conspiracy, if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime, nor shall such agreement, combination or contract be considered as in restraint of trade or...

...440. CONSPIRACIES IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE. * A conspiracy in restraint of trade is an agreement between two or more persons to do or procure to be done any unlawful act in restraint of trade. Illustration. 5 The defendants, a body of shipowners, agreed that...