Title: Efforts to Apply the Federal Crime of Extortion to Labor-Related Violence
Abstract: In pertinent part the Hobbs Act provides:(a) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion or attempts or conspires so to do, or commits or threatens physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of this section shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.(Q) As used in this Section-(2) The term "extortion" means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful