"Here's a union, acting like a big corporation, trying to squelch peaceful picketing, the very thing unions should be fighting to protect," Mr. Kaplan said.

After taking his seat in 1921, he supported a motion to allow "peaceful picketing" within the province; this motion was defeated.

In fact, we have repeatedly said that we would retain the current Code of Practice on peaceful picketing which limits the number of pickets.

The Federal measure explicitly exempts from punishment any conduct shielded by the Constitution's free-speech and assembly clause, like peaceful picketing, chanting and passing out leaflets.

In the High Court Mr. Justice Gibson refused to grant the injunction, saying that he would not interfere with peaceful picketing in a trade dispute.

The case involves no ordinary trespass, nor anything remotely resembling the peaceful picketing of a local retailer.

The abortion measure explicitly exempts from punishment any activity, including peaceful picketing, chanting and distributing leaflets, that is protected by the First Amendment.

Therefore, boycotts, peaceful strikes, peaceful picketing, and collective bargaining are not regulated by this statute.

It is due to these mills remaining open that the Little Steel Strike took a drastic turn from peaceful picketing to one of the bloodiest strikes of the 1930s.

Even the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914, which legalized strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing did little to improve actual working conditions for longshoremen.