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Any employer who performs any act of prejudicial discrimination against his workmen or employees, or any of them, because the same have organized, or taken part in activities of, a labor union, or have demanded the making of a collective labor agreement, or have participated in a strike or in a claim for better wages and working conditions, or because they are affiliated with a certain political party, shall be guilty, in the case of each workman or employee against whom he may have performed an act of prejudicial discrimination, of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment in jail for a term of not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court. In case of subsequent offenses, the fine shall not be less than three hundred dollars ($300) and the imprisonment in jail shall not be less than ninety (90) days, or both penalties, in the discretion of the court. History —May 7, 1942, No. 114, p. 690, § 1, eff. 90 days after May 7, 1942.