[34] Stadtarchiv Emsdetten, Nr. 734, Kammergericht judgments of September 5, 1903, and July 26, 1904. Provincial authorities unsuccessfully sought to override this ruling. Das deutsche Wollen-Gewerbe , January 17, 1904, p. 68. For an example of a meeting held in a German factory without the owner's permission, see Der Textil-Arbeiter , January 3, 1902, Crimmitschau. Workers sometimes did not register their meetings at public locales if employers from only one firm were admitted. Stadtarchiv Werdau, Rep. II, Kap. 4, Nr. 7, Bd. 2, March 14, 1904, pp. 139 ff. On workplace meetings, see also Wilhelm Gewehr, Praktischer Rathgeber für Vereins- und Versammlungsleiter sowie Versammlungsbesucher (Elberfeld, 1897), p. 34, and Deutscher Textilarbeiterverband, Leitfaden bei Führung der Geschäfte, in der Agitaton, bei Streiks und Lohnbewegungen (Berlin: Maurer & Dimmick, 1908), p. 65. For a discussion of the evolution of German laws regarding assembly and association, see Vernon Lidtke, The Alternative Culture: Socialist Labor in Imperial Germany (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 30–31.