Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-17
JUDGE BLYDENBURGH's

Judge Blydenburgh opened his address to ! the jury by saying: l have tried great ! many cases of almost all descriptions known ! to the criminal law, and this is the most inn | portant of any regarding which have stood before the bar of this court, for the reason ! that it involves great public interests The ! ordinary crimes tried at this court involve a personal injury inflicted by one person upon ! another which do not affect the general pub I lie. This is a of great public interest \ more important than murder trial, because ' it involves the whole business community | and the question of personal liberty. This \ crime charged was committed by people openly combined in large numbers for the purpose. Some engaged in it wilfully and ' maliciously, and others engaged in it from | mistaken sense of what was right The case is one in which the State of Connecticut is seeking to restrain and punish large body of men belonging to various societies from offenses which if persisted in and not restrained will prove fatal to the harmonious business rela- tions of the community. In representing the State speak not only to the jury, but to the jury and their friends and their sympathizers, and hope they will listen to what say and will desist from the acts complained of, and
 I believe that if they heed my words they
 will yet live to thanleme for what have
 had to say. They must remember if they
 expect their rights to be respected that they
 must respect the rights of others. The speak
 CT after further words upon this point cont
 tinuing said that the era when the serfdom
 of labor was possible was gone by. The law
 recognized the rights of the lsborer to get
 fair pay, the best that he was worth, and to
 work when and where he could obtain em-
 ployment He had the perfect right to earn
 his bread without interference or dictation
 from any man as long as he obeyed just laws
 protecting citizens as to their right of prop
 1orr- rir hfo of
 ploYers. The laboring mans rights were
 protected by law, and while labor was amply
 protected under the law 1t had no right to
 exercise tyranny and had no right to assume
 control of a persons business or to dictate
 how it should be conducted. While labor
 kept within it's law and respected the rights
 of others, labor would be protected and shield cd by the law. Judge Blydenburgh then spoke of the COURIER; that it was paper of long standing, starting about a century ago. Under different names and different manage
 ments it had grown up with the city and was
 itself a part of the history of New Haven and her events. It had lived from
 the time when the numbering stage coach brought it's few passengers to the time when the lightning was carrying the messages of the public and the lightning ing these large burdens of living freight. The employees of the paper were fellow workmen, discharging faithfully their duties. They he'd the same right, liberty of action in re- gard to employment or service as the accused or any other men, whether union or non- union men, and this man Glidden, who as- sumes to make light of the case and asserts l that he is guiltless in his work against the | COURIER, this man Glidden tells MT. Skin ! ner, foreman of the COURIER, that he will l follow him as he has other non-union prin- ters from Maine to California through the l union and drive him and his family to beg gary and starvation. Yes, gentlemen of the I jury, this is the spirit of the attack made.
 There were tive injuries complained of In