There have been several judicial declarations, during the last half of July, regarding the rights of strikers, which may have important bearings on the question in the future. Judge Stewart of York County, Pa., declared that “workmen have the right to contract with and work for whom they please, upon such terms and conditions, and for such pay, as they may be willing to accept;” and he also added that “any person who undertakes by force, menaces, or threats, direct or indirect, tho cloaked in the softest language, to violate or interrupt them, is guilty of a wrong, and such conduct will be and must be restrained by the courts.” On the same day Judge C. D. Clark, of the United States District Court at Cincinnati, declared “picketing” to be “immoral and wrong.” The Superior Court of Ansonia, Ct., enjoined two hundred men by name from “picketing, boycotting, threatening, or in any way molesting any one now in the employ of the company, or who may hereafter be employed.” Picketing is said by the court to be “intercepting men while going to or from the factory—anywhere, even miles away—by one man, or more than one, and an interference with ingress and egress of workmen.” And in the West, Superior Judge M. C. Sloss of San Francisco issued an injunction, July 26, restraining the striking restaurant employes from using the word “unfair,” from persuading or inducing persons in the employ of a restaurant to leave that employ, and from intimidating any person from entering into its employ, or from dealing with or patronizing him. Court decisions ought to help in settling matters, but under present conditions they will have little effect.