the laws is so hindered by reason of such events that any portion or class of the people are deprived thereby of their rights and privileges under the constitution and laws of the country. Under this general power the United States forces have been used for the protection of both employers and employees indirectly, the purpose being to protect mails and, as in the states, to see that the laws are carried out. The power of the courts to interfere in labour disputes is through the injunction and punishment thereunder for contempt of court. It is a principle of law that when there are interferences, actual or threatened, with property or with rights of a pecuniary nature, and the common or statute law offers no adequate and immediate remedy for the prevention of injury, a court of equity may interpose and issue its order or injunction as to what must or must not be done, a violation of which writ gives the court which issued it the power to punish for contempt. The doctrine is that something is necessary to be done to stop at once the destruction of property and the obstruction of business, and the injunction is immediate in its action. This writ has been resorted to frequently for the indirect protection of employees and of employers. See also Labour law Notes References This work in turn cites: Works regarding continental Europe: Annuaire de la législation du travail (Bruxelles, 1898–1905) Hygiène et sécurité des travailleurs dans les ateliers industriels (Paris, 1895) Bulletin de l'inspection du travail (Paris, 1895–1902) Bulletin de l'office international du travail (Paris, 1902–1906) Congrès international de législation du travail (1898) Die Gewerbeordnung für das deutsche Reich. (1) Landmann (1897) (2) Neukamp (1901) Gesetz betr. Kinderarbeit in gewerblichen Betrieben, 30. März 1903 Konrad Agand, Manz'sche Gesetzausgabe, 1. Band and 7. Band (Wien, 1897–1898) Legge sugli infortunii del lavoro (Milan, 1900). Works regarding the United States: Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor (1907) giving all labour laws in force in the United States in 1907, with annotations of decisions of courts Bulletins (bimonthly) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor, containing laws passed since those published in the foregoing, and decisions of courts relating to employers and employees; see also special articles in these Bulletins on: "Employer and Employe under the Common Law" (No. 1) "Protection of Workmen in their Employment" (No. 26) "Government Industrial Arbitration"