Volume 49 · 1900
Public Law 74–746
Making it a felony to transport in interstate or foreign commerce persons to be employed to obstruct or interfere with the right of peaceful picketing during labor controversies.
Approved June 24, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
Making it a felony to transport in interstate or foreign commerce persons to be employed to obstruct or interfere with the right of peaceful picketing during labor controversies.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled,
That whoever
Interstate transportation of strike breakers, etc.
shall knowingly transport or cause to be transported, or aid or abet in transporting, in interstate or foreign commerce, any person with intent to employ such person to obstruct or interfere, in any manner, with the right of peaceful picketing during any labor controversy affecting wages, hours, or conditions of labor, or the right
Penalty.
of organization for the purpose of collective bargaining, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Approved, June 24, 1936.