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pear to the court before which any such proceeding may be pending that the ends of justice require that other parties should be brought before the court, the court may cause them to be summoned whether they reside in the district in which the court is held or not, and subpoenas to that end may be served in any district by the marshal thereof.

Summoning of other parties.

INJUNCTIVE RELIEF FOR PRIVATE PARTIES (38 Stat. 737; 15 U.S.C. 26).

Injunctions allowed against threatened loss,

etc.

Bond for preliminary

Sec. 16. That any person, firm, corporation, or association shall be entitled to sue for and have injunctive relief, in any court of the United States having jurisdiction over the parties, against threatened loss or damage by a violation of the antitrust laws, including sections two, three, seven, and eight of this Act, when and under the same conditions and principles as injunctive relief against threatened conduct that will cause loss or damage is granted by courts of equity, under the rules governing such proceedings, and upon the execution of proper bond against damages for an injunction improvidently junction. granted and a showing that the danger of irreparable loss or damage is immediate, a preliminary injunction may issue: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to entitle any person, irm, corporation, or association, except the United States, to bring suit in equity for injunctive relief against any common carrier subject to the provisions of the Act to regulate commerce, approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in respect of any matter subject to the regulation, supervision, or other jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission. In any action under this section in which the plaintiff substantially prevails, the court shall award the cost of suit, includ

Proviso.

Restriction as to common carrier.

Labor disputes.

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTIONS (38 Stat. 737; 62 Stat. 869).

Sec. 17.12 Section two hundred and sixty-three of an Act entitled "An Act to codify, revise,and amend the laws relating to the judiciary," approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, is hereby repealed.

SECURITY (38 Stat. 738; 62 Stat. 869).

[Sec. 18.13 Repealed (see Rule 65, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure).]

REQUISITES OF ORDER (38 Stat. 738; 62 Stat.

869).

[Sec. 19.13 Repealed (see Rule 65, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure).]

LABOR DISPUTES (38 Stat. 738; 29 U.S.C. 52).

Sec. 20. That no restraining order or injunction shall be granted by any court of the United States, or a judge or the judges thereof, in any case between an employer and employees, or between employers and employees, or between employees, or between persons employed and persons seeking employment, involving, or growing out of, a dispute concerning terms or conditions of employment, unless necessary to prevent irreparable injury to pro perty, or to a property right, of the party making the application, for which injury there is no adequate remedy at law, and such property or property right must be described with particularity in the application, which must be in writing and sworn to by the applicant or by his agent or attorney.

12 Sec. 17 was repealed (see Rule 65, Federal Ruler of Civil Procedure) except for the third paragraph thereof which appears above, by Public Law 773, approved June 25, 1948 (62 Stat. 869).

13 Sec. 18 and Sec. 19 were repealed by Public Law 773 (see preceeding footnote).

And no such restraining order or injunction shall prohibit any person or persons, whether singly or in concert, from terminating any relation of employment, or from ceasing to perform any work or labor, or from recommending, advising, or persuading others by peaceful means so to do; or from attending at any place where any such peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or from peacefully persuading any person to work or to abstain from working; or from ceasing to patronize or to employ any party to such dispute, or from recommending, advising, or persuading others by peaceful and lawful means so to do; or from paying or giving to, or withholding from, any person engaged in such dispute, any strike benefits or other moneys or things of value; or from peaceably assembling in a lawful manner, and for lawful purposes; or from doing any act or thing which might lawfully be done in the absence of such dispute by any party thereto; nor shall any of the acts specified in this paragraph be considered or held to be violations of any law of the United States.

CONTEMPTS.

[Sec. 21.14 Repealed.]

[Sec. 22.14 Repealed.]

[Sec. 23.14 Repealed.] [Sec. 24.14 Repealed.] [Sec. 25.14 Repealed.]

14Sections 21 to 25, inclusive, were repealed by Act of June 25, 1948, c. 645 (62 Stat. 683), which revised, codified and enacted into "positive law," Title 18 of the Code (Crimes and Criminal Procedure). Said act reenacted said matter, excluding Section 23, as to substance, as 18 U.S.C., Section 402 (as amended by Public Law 72, May 21, 1949, 81st Congress), 18 U.S.C., Section 3285 and 18 U.S.C., Section 3691. Section 23 was omitted as no longer required in view of the civil and criminal rules promulgated by the Supreme Court.

The Act of June 25, 1948, c. 646 (62 Stat. 896), which revised, codified and enacted into law, Title 28 of the Code (Judicial Code and Judiciary), repealed the first, second, and fourth paragraphs of Section 17, and repealed Sections 18 and 19, in view of Rule 65, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which covers the substance of the matter in

Invalidity of any clause, etc., not to affect remainder of Act.

SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS (38 Stat. 740; 15 U.S.C. 27).

Sec. 26. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. Approved, October 15, 1914.*

*Original act.

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