The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-03
WILLIAM HUTCHINSON,
 RECOMMENDED LEADER
Head of the Carpenters Was Known as Shepherd to the Tim
 Der Choppers and Is Giant.

The Mechanic" of Rochester prints pen picture of William Hutchinson.
 Nature endowed William Hutchinson, international president of the Carpen-
 ters and Joiners, with a massive form, six feet four inches high, and shoulders
 broad enough to support an ordinary house, with weight in proportion. And Hutchlnson's heart is proportionately great.
 Rochester got a closeup" view of the carpenters chief this week, and his commanding personality soon erdeared him to all union men with whom he came into contac, and also convinced the autocratic contractors that there is a human side to industry. Hutchinson's s powerful arguments in behalf of the local strikers, augmented by his broad minded conception of things as they are, and his intolerance of biased and spite tul representations, soon made the bosses trenble as they perceived the error of their ways.
 We are informed that this magnif- cent leader has carried card" only seven years, and has already achieved the highest honor and distinction with i'll the gift of his fellow craftsmen. But there are higher honors for Hutchinson ;; keep your eye on him. He Is a live wire," fortified with facts and inforrna- tion of everything connected with the carpenter and joiner trade from nails to lumber, and knows whereof he speaks. That is the secret of his sue cess. The first thing Hutchinson did when he arrived in Rochester was to get both sides of the controversy; the rest was like sailing with the wind for him.
 Hutchinson, we learn, used to chop timber in the Michigan backwoods, where mans word was good as his bond, and m1s-step meant death. The company of rugged men in which Hutchinson associated made him rug ged, too, but he spent his idle time in studying, in reading and i'll acquiring knowledge of worldwide affairs, and especially of trades unionism. Seeing the beauties and benefits of organiza- ton, Hutchinson began to stump orator" it, and soon was accepted as leader of the timbermen.
 Just as Abraham Linco1n's reputation as a rai1-splitter spread through the Illinois forest, so Hutchinson's fame as a Shepherd to the timber choppers seemed to fit from point to point, and the inevitable happened. Hutchinson was too great man to be lost i'll the backwoods, so he was discovered, and now, here he is leader of the In ternationa1 association, with higher hon. ors coming.
 The local plutocrats,. sitting in their easy chairs, did rot feel so easy as they when Hutchinson arose and spoke to them. And Hutchinson did not quibble on legal points, either, discard ing them as bunk; and those imagin- ary grievances of the bosses were sifted so thoroughly that by the time Hutch inson finished all the fancifu1 theories of the contractors had been waited away on the waves of dust.
 Hutchinson emphasized his remarks on the human side of industrial life, to do unto others as you would ahve them do unto you, and his graphic pie lures of mems families starving for want of foodstuffs and other necessi- -ies while the men are striving hard as hey can to fulfill their obligations. But he mems incomes did not meet the war demands.