The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-27
Gar HUTCHINSON
IN RULING BACKS
UP SATELLITES
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presiding officer of Local Union to
announce or impose penalty where
said penalty is prescribed in the Con-
stjtution for the offense committed,
the President of Local Union No. 1871
was justified and within his rights
and acted in accordance with the
provisions OF the Constitution in de-
claring the appellants expelled and I
shall therefore concur in his action
and dismiss the appeal ees
FraternalIy yours, l5fss
(Signed) WIN. L. HUTCHINSON
General President
"Another Liarl"
When the members of Local ISL
were shown copies Of Hutcheson's
letter, they simply said: Just another
liar" The last sentence in the second
paragraph is purposely obscured in
order to create doubt in the mind Of
the reader as to what the three mem.
! bers of the trial committee actually
wrote. The report of the secretary
ACo0 at tAAC AACCtAub VI luC lOCdl uulOu
stated that the defendants admitted
they were guilty. What the affidavit
said was that the members did not
plead guilty as charged.
So the only count on which Hutch.
eson could justify the expulsion was
that they signed a resolution protest
ing against the signing of Lands
award contract and condemning the
officials who signed it. To protect the
union and the rights of the members
against official scabbery is a high
crime and misdemeanour in the eyes
of Hutchinson and his satellites.
The Thugs Failed
Last Monday evening the oficials
Of Local 1S1 and Harry Jensen the
president of the district council, were
early at the hall with gang Of thugs.
They had the Hutcheson letter and
thot foolishly enought that would
have a hyponotic effect on the mem
bers and force them to surrender.
When the expelled" members
showed up as usual, the thugs at
tempted to prevent them from enter
ing the hall. The following members
of Jensen's strong arm squad were
particularly active: John Steffen,
slugger-in-chief; Herman Hinzie: Ed.
Anderson; Martin Plaw; Jim Jensen
and Inar Peterson. These worthless
grabbed the expelled" members and
tried to shove them out but despite
Harry Jensen's exhortations the eff
fort was fruitless. When the mem
bers inside the hall heard what was
going. on, they rallied to the door and
sent the thugs flying in all direction.
Jensen's army retreated in disorder
and General Jensen the Lands
award hero retreated ahead of his
flying" column.
Almost Unanimously
AS told yesterday in the DAILY
WORKER, the membership voted
unanimously, with the exception of
the sluggers, to seat the expelled"
members. according to the consti-
tuition it requires a two thirds. vote
of the members present at local
union meeting to expel members
after having had a trial in conformi-
ty with the constitution. The unani-
nifty with which the members Of Lo-
cal 1S1 are backing up their fellow
workers shows plainly that they were
illegally expelled.)
Infatuated by their failure to crush
the opposition of the rank and file
and feeling that the time to do 1t was
now or never one Of the hangers-on,
of the faker Jensen, a fossilized pie
card artist and political nckspittle by
the name of X. G. Torkelson. who has
spent his life chasing the pork wagon,
sent for the police.
TorkeIson was formerly an enemy
of Jensen, but the latter evidently
had some experience in winning the
affections of members OF the canine
species by hurting meat bones in their
direction; He threw a sop at Torksl-
son in the form of SUPPLEMENTARY
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friend which will hold just so long as
he holds the cover of the soup pot
An Amusing Scene M
The police had no other effect on
the membership except to irritate
them. They booed the blue coated
gentry. lp rt es4.e
An amusing feature OF the meeting
were the antics of Jim" Jensen, I'm
ancial secretary of the local. This
worthy came up to one of the Eek
PEELED" members and grabbed him by
the coat removing a button from that
garment. But not alone was Jensen
not able to move the solid piece of
rebel CARPENTER that he had his mitts
on, but 1t may interest Jensen to
know that the button was recovered
and is occupying its old place again,
just as that carpenter is In the local