 The most powerful Government in history had been compelled, by scarcely more than a single show of power, to yield to the just demands of organized workers.The English constitutional theorist A. V. Dicey argued that the Act conferred

upon a trade union a freedom from civil liability for the commission of even the most heinous wrong by the union or its servant, and in short confer[red] upon every trade union a privilege and protection not possessed by any other person or body of persons, whether corporate or incorporate... [this Act] makes a trade union a privileged body exempted from the ordinary law of the land.No such privileged body has ever before been deliberately created by an English Parliament.