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work or labor, or from recommending, advising or persuading
others by peaceful means so to do; or from attending at any
place where any person or persons may lawfully be, for the
purpose of 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 peaceable 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.

Sec. 21. Any person who shall willfully disobey any lawful
writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of any districtcourt
 of the United States or any court of the District of Columbia
by doing any act or thing therein, or thereby forbidden to be
done by him, if the act or thing so done by him be of such
character as to constitute also a criminal offense under any Statute
of the United States, or under the laws of any State in which
the act was committed, shall be proceeded against for his said
contempt as herein after provided.

Sec. 22. Whenever it shall be made to appear to any districtcourt
 or judge thereof, or to any judge herein sitting, by the
return of a proper officer on lawfull process, or upon the affidavit
of some credible person, or by information filed by any districtattorney,
 that there is reasonable ground to believe that any
person has been guilty of such contempt, the court or judge thereof,
or any judge therein sitting, may issue a rule requiring the said
person so charged to show cause upon a day certain why he
should not be punished therefore, which rule, together with a copy
of the affidavit or information, shall be served upon the person
charged, with sufficient promptness to enable him to prepare for
and make return to the order at the time fixed therein. If upon
or by such return, in the judgment of the court, the alleged con-