The I. W. W.: A Study of American SyndicalismBrissenden, Paul F. (Paul Frederick)
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The I. W. W.: A Study of American Syndicalism
Brissenden, Paul F. (Paul Frederick)
Industrial Workers of the World; Syndicalism
_An act defining criminal syndicalism, and the word sabotage;
prohibiting the advocacy, teaching or suggestion thereof; and
prohibiting the advocacy, teaching or suggestion of crime, violence, or
the commission of any unlawful act or thing as a means to accomplish
industrial or political ends, change or revolution; and prohibiting
assemblages for the purpose of such advocacy, teachings or suggestions:
declaring it unlawful to permit the use of any place, building, rooms
or premises for such assemblages in certain cases; and providing
penalties for the violation thereof._[745]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF
MONTANA:
SECTION 1. Criminal syndicalism is hereby defined to be the doctrine
which advocates crime, violence, force, arson, destruction of property,
sabotage, or other unlawful acts or methods, or any such acts, as a
means of accomplishing or effecting industrial or political ends, or as
a means of effecting industrial or political revolution.
SECTION 2. Sabotage is hereby defined to be malicious, felonious,
intentional or unlawful damage, injury or destruction of real or
personal property, of any form whatsoever, of any employer, or owner,
by his or her employee or employees, or any employer or employers or
by any person or persons, at their own instance, or at the instance,
request or instigation of such employees, employers, or any other
person.
SECTION 3. Any person who, by word of mouth or writing, advocates,
suggests or teaches the duty, necessity, propriety or expediency of
crime, criminal syndicalism, or sabotage, or who shall advocate,
suggest or teach the duty, necessity, propriety or expediency of doing
any act of violence, the destruction of or damage to any property,
the bodily injury to any person or persons, or the commission of any
crime or unlawful act as a means of accomplishing or effecting any
industrial or political ends, change or revolution, or who prints,
publishes, edits, issues or knowingly circulates, sells, distributes,
or publicly displays any books, pamphlets, paper, hand-bill, poster,
document, or written or printed matter in any form whatsoever,
containing, advocating, advising, suggesting or teaching crime,
criminal syndicalism, sabotage, the doing of any act of violence,
the destruction of or damage to any property, the injury to any
person, or the commission of any crime or unlawful act as a means
of accomplishing, effecting or bringing about any industrial or
political ends, or change, or as a means of accomplishing, effecting
or bringing about any industrial or political revolution, or who shall
openly, or at all attempt to justify, by word of mouth or writing, the
commission or the attempt to commit sabotage, any act of violence, the
destruction of or damage to any property, the injury of any person
or the commission of any crime or unlawful act, with the intent to
exemplify, spread, or teach or suggest criminal syndicalism, or
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