The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-19
CAR HUTCHINSON
Wars ON Detroit
PROGRESSIvES
ExpeIS VIM. Reynolds
from the Union
Especial to Tho Daily Worker

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When the delegates to the Dis
trict Council of carpenters
gathered for their weekly meet
ing here, the meeting was pre-
faced by the reading of a COM
munication from the general
executive board at indianapolis
to the effect that Brother Will
liam Reynolds, president of
Local Union No. 2140, Vice-pre-
sident of the district council,
and member of the district
council executive board, was
expelled from the organization
on the charge of being men,
Der of the Trade Union Educa-
tional League, IAN organization
antagonistic to the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners."
After the reading Of the commune
cation, Brother Reynolds requested
the floor to make a statement. The
floor was granted and Brother Rey-
nolds made a forty-fve-minite speech,
in the course of which he declared:
That during his nine years mem
bership in the organization, no charg-
es or criticisms of his actions, either
verbal or written, had been made.
That the notification of expulsion
was the first intimation that charges
were contemplated.
There Was No Trial.
Reynolds pointed out that Hutche-
son and the official family, including
stoolpigeon Botterill, in charge local
ly, had acted as accuser, prosecutor,
witness, jury, and judge, the only inn
portant omission being the presence
Of the defendant. 1t was pointed out
that If car Hutchinson can get away
with this latest development in ex-
pulsion technique, no member of the
union will be safe in his membership
and his right to earn a living at the
trade, and that the constitution will
have become a scrap Of paper. The
campaign Of red-baiting which has
been introduced by Hutchinson, and
which occupied most of the time of
the last convention, was dealt with in
detail AS Hutchinson is now accent
ing tutelage from Phil Murray and
the Lewis gang of the miners union,
it must be expected that most of the
resources Of the organization will be
used in fighting militancy in the or
ganization and killing the spirit of
the rank and file, and that the treat
ment of Alexander Howat at the
hands Of Lewis, will be melted out by
Hutchinson to many members of the
left wing for their fidelity to the rank
and file.
Chairman Used Gag Rule.
At the conclusion Of his speech,
Reynolds retired and the council was
called to order. The first motion made
on the subject requested further in
formation. An amendment to the eff
feet that the district council ignore
the expulsion until a regular trial was
granted, was ruled out of order by
President Shamrock, who is evidently
a candidate for the laurels now be-
ing lost by the renegade Cappellini.
An appeal from the decision of the
chair was refused recognition by the
chair. Altho all but three delegates
spoke in sympathy Of the appeal and
Of the amendment, he ruled the meet
ing in true Hutchesonian style and
the win Of the body was defeated.
A storm of resentment against this
autocratic and unconstitutional expul-
sion and the AFFECT submission Of re-
negade Shamrock is gathering, which
bids fair to sweep the carpenters or
ganization free of some of the dead
wood Preference TO Botterill's head
which at the present time, encumbers
the organization locally.
The Fake Liberal.
President Shamrock, New Repub-
lie" liberal who definitely stated some
six months ago that he would stand
for no explosions in this district, is
treading the path Of all those fair
weather revolutionists of the phrase
whom the responsibilities of Office
sober into obedient Office boys for the
Dig reactionaries.
If the rank and file Of Detroit wish
to protect themselves and Reynolds,
they must wage a fight that will car
ry the lickspittle Botterill beyond the
confines OF the district and reduce
the crawflsh head of the district coun-
Gil to a position where his lack of
backbone will be an advantage to him
In holding a job in open shop Detroit,
where the guns OF the general execu-
tive board are being turned on the
militant rank and file instead Of