The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-02

MEET ENDS IN
Big UPROAR
Hutchenson'S Rulings
Anger Delegates
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. L.

The twenty-first General Con-
vention of the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners
adjourned on the afternoon of
September 30, much after the
fashion of the famous adjourn
ment of the last convention of
the United Mine Workers in
indianapolis, while the delegates
were on their feet demanding a
roll call.
w. l.. Hutchinson, who ruled
the carpenters convention with
an iron gavel raised such a
storm of opposition against his
autocratic decisions that, to-
ward the closing hours of the
convention there was a posi-
bility that the delegates would
go out of hand.
One Man Rule.
Cries of Gear" came from all parts
of the hall and the delegates furious
with anger asked loudly why they had
wasted their time coming to a conven.
ton where only the opinions of one
man carried any weight.
From the opening day until the
close of the convention, the general
president, W. L. Hutchinson, set his
face sternly against the slightest con-
cession to progressive policies in th9
union. So extremely reactionary is
the policy of this bureaucrat that even
the resolution endorsing the new pol
itical departure of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor was ruled out Of or
der on the ground that it was partisan
politics. Even Gompers is progress.
sive" to Car Hutchinson.
Against Workers Education.
Another resolution which felt the
heavy hand of the machine was one
urging the Brotherhood to affiliate
with the Workers Educational Bureau,
a harmless institution wet-nursed by
Gompers and his pet poodle, Matthew
Woll and directed by a collection of
"intellectuals" who are perfectly safe
and sane so long as the Gompersian
check book smiles on them.
Yet education of any kind is con-
sidered dangerous by the ultra-reac-
tionary labor takers so the Workers
Education Bureau will not have the
affiliation of the Brotherhood and the
financial stimulus that such afiliation
would bring.
During the discussion the red spec
tire of Communism, thru it's leading
exponent in the trade union movement
William 2. Foster, lowered over the
convention hall. SO fearful are the re.
dictionaries of the work of the Trade
Union Educational League, that they
feared the word Education" in both
organizations might confuse the
membership"
One delegate, reactionary, asked
Hutchenson: as it not true that this
Workers Education Bureau is foster.
ed and backed up by the Communists
of North America, and that it is back
ed up by the Communist movement
in Russian"
Hutchinson replied that there was
difference between the Workers. Ed.
ucation Bureau backed by the A. f. of
l.. and the Trade Union Educational
League backed by Foster
Duffy's Effort.
Several delegates spoke in favor of
the resolution and then Frank Duffy
secretary of the Brotherhood, made a
speech against it which deserves to be
quoted extensively. He said in part
"The United Brotherhood has al.
ways been in favor of education, but
education Of the right sort. Now, IL
you will carefully consider the names
Of these two bureaus or leagues you
will find it is confusing. AS a repre-
sentative of the American Federation
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