---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 530"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "530"
heading: "Deprivation of rights by violence; penalty"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/530"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure"
  - "Subchapter VII — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §530. Deprivation of rights by violence; penalty


It shall be unlawful for any [person](/usc/29/402.md?p=d) through the use of force or violence, or threat of the use of force or violence, to restrain, coerce, or intimidate, or attempt to restrain, coerce, or intimidate any member of a [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i) for the purpose of interfering with or preventing the exercise of any right to which he is entitled under the provisions of this chapter. Any [person](/usc/29/402.md?p=d) who willfully violates this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 610, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 541.)