The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-18
SAYS DECISION
 MAS UNS0UND
President of American Bar Association Refers To
 Loewe Case.

That inc decision of the United States supreme court in the Danbury matters case was unsound from the standpoint of sociology. was declared by stephen is. Gregory, president of the Amerfcah Bar Associati on w hen testifying before the industrial com mission in Washingtons on labor in its relation to law
 The DanburY matters case was tried twice in Hartford and was twice before the United States supreme court, in the last instance a verdict and 5udg1hent Of $2s0.000 for D. E. Isoexve & Co, of Danbury against 196 union hattens of Danbary, Bethel and snJorsvaIk, being affirmed The case was tried on allegation of a boycott conspiracy to prevent the sale of Iloews non7uni on made hats. The second trial of the suit in the United States court in Hartford in August, 1912, was practically a legal struggle getween the NationalAnti- Boycott so- ScfetY and the American Federation of Labor. Azs7-=s
 h his remar ks before the industrial commission President Gregory of the Bar Association, sketched rapidly the rights that belong to the Iaboring men in common with all citizens of the republic, and cited the West ViA ginia and the Mover eases, which he regarded as subject to criticism be- cause stftutiona1 rights.
 All the rights that safeguard the life $of the individual, including that of trial by jury, free speech and free press. he held to be vital, He quoted the famous saying Of J ere Black De fore the supreme court in the Golden Circle cases that King Alfred was the greatest of all kings because he se- cured for his subjects the right of trial by jury and of habeas corpus, and maintained those rights although 4 he had to hang forty four judges in result.
 Reference was made to the decla- ration by Judge Daniel Thew Wright of the supreme court of the District of CeaHnibia, that a man could be en- Joined against committing libel, and MT Gregory came to the conclusion athat it was bad law, and that the indiv1dua1 could not be deprived of the right of free speech Although he must always be ansWera,ble for what he said if an injury was done another. The right to a free press, he thought was on more secure ground because of the power of the press which at f Hines he admitted, was prone to go to lengths that seem to be an abuse, rather than d sane enjoyment of a frfgtt But after all, the witness said, he was inclined to agree with Jefer- son that it was better to have news japers without government than to have govern ment without newspapers because Of the great good they do in the protection Of popular fnte1H- gence and liberty.
 Wrongs practiced ait the expense of the hufnble,ss said MT. Gregory, ssare not so much neticed as those which the rich and powerful may suf- fer One of the injuries often is ex- cessive bail.
 t.In all these matters of right there is not muchs in my judgment, that can be done by legislation. The Clay ton act has afforded a remedy in many respects. As as rule, the attl- tude Of the courts in labor questions is largely a matter of the tempera- ment of the judge, which is always an uncertain factor. It is to be ad- rnitted that Judges become prejudiced against labor. This is due to the ex- cesses that are sometimes committed 1n strikes. Such excesses imputed tc all labor men who go on strike pre- pudicesaII men. including 5ud dges. And Judges, more than average men, are impressed by-violenees and SC become pretudfced against labor leaders. s
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