Biography
Eddie Blakely was a Toledo worker prosecuted for violating the anti-picketing injunction during the 1934 Auto-Lite strike. He was among the strikers brought before Judge Stuart and spoke during the proceedings. Attorney Edward Lamb defended the workers for the International Labor Defense. The prosecution formed part of the effort to enforce the injunction as mass picketing confronted police and the National Guard.
The July 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite trial report identifies Harrington, the Auto-Lite company attorney, as acting prosecutor in Judge Stuart’s injunction proceedings against the strikers. This supplies a reported court role in the existing prosecution, without a final verdict or additional custody interval. Labor Defender, July 1934, PDF page 8.
