Specific acts exempt from restraint or injunction

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  • No court of the Virgin Islands shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, to prohibit any person or persons participating or interested in such dispute from doing, whether singly or in concert, any of the following acts:
    • (a) Ceasing or refusing to perform any work or to remain in any relation of employment.

    • (b) Becoming or remaining a member of any labor organization.

    • (c) Paying or giving to, or withholding from, any person participating or interested in such labor dispute any strike benefits, strike insurance, or other moneys or things of value.

    • (d) By all lawful means aiding any person participating or interested in any labor dispute who is being proceeded against in, or is prosecuting, any action or suit in any court of the Virgin Islands.

    • (e) Giving publicity to the existence of or the facts involved in any labor dispute, whether by advertising, speaking, patrolling, or by any other method not involving fraud or violence.

    • (f) Assembling peaceably to act or to organize, or to act in promotion of their interests in a labor dispute.

    • (g) Refusing to support any party to said dispute, or recommending to, advising, or persuading others, not to support any party to said dispute.

    • (h) Advising or notifying any person of an intention to do any of the acts heretofore specified.

    • (i) Agreeing with other persons to do or not to do the acts heretofore specified.

    • (j) Advising, urging, or otherwise promoting or inducing, without fraud or violence, the acts heretofore specified.


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