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(e) Giving publicity to and obtaining or communicat-
ing information regarding the existence of, or the facts
involved in, any dispute, whether by advertising, speaking,
patrolling any public street or any place where any person
or persons may lawfully be, with intimidation or coercion,
or by any other method not involving fraud, violence,
breach of the peace, or threat thereof;

(f) Ceasing to patronize or to employ any person or
persons;

(g) Assembling peaceably to or to organize any of the
acts heretofore specified;

(h) Advising or notifying any person or persons of
any intention to do any of the act heretofore specified;

(i) Agreeing with other persons to do or not to do any
of the acts heretofore specified;

(j) Advising, urging, or inducing without fraud,
violence, or threat thereof, others to do the acts heretofore
specified, regardless of any such undertaking or promise
as is described in Section 66 of this Article; and

(k) Doing in concert of any or all of these acts hereto-
fore specified on the ground that the persons engaged
therein constitute an unlawful combination or conspiracy.

68. No officer or member of any association or organi-
zation, and no association or organization participating or
interested in a labor dispute (as these terms are herein
defined) shall be held responsible or liable in any civil
action at law or suit in equity, or in any criminal prose-
cution, for the unlawful acts of individual officers, mem-
bers, or agents, except upon proof by the weight of evidence
and without the aid of any presumptions of law or fact,
both of

(a) The doing of such acts by persons who are officer
members or agents of any such association or organization,
and

(b) Actual participation in, or actual authorization of,
such acts, or ratification of such acts after actual knowl-
edge thereof by such association or organization.

69. In the interpretation and application of Sections
70-73, inclusive, of this Article, the public policy of this
State is declared as follows:

Equity procedure that permits, a complaining party to
obtain sweeping injunctive relief that is not preceded by
or conditioned upon notice to and hearing of the responding
party or parties, or that issues after hearing based upon
written affidavits alone and not wholly or in part upon