The importance of that definition is that if a person is acting in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute he has considerable legal immunities.
But it does not follow that the act of striking and all the consequential acts were not done in furtherance of a trade dispute.
When he proposed a general strike, he did not propose that it should be a strike in furtherance of a trade dispute at all.
These crimes were horrible, and when perpetrated in furtherance of private greed or malice were not only awful but alarming.
The furtherance of this admittedly desirable aim is not a process which can be hurried.
The provision of this facility is restricted to the minimum number essential for the furtherance of public business.
Simon may have found consolation in the thought that others might see fit to take up the struggles to the furtherance of which his scholarship had been consecrated.
Furthermore, it also specified the conditions in which a strike could be declared illegal-for instance, if its objective was other than the furtherance of a trade dispute.
