The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-19
HUTCHINSON AGENT.
With POLICE IN
RAID ON T.U. ELL.
Second Article Exposing
Dufy's Lies
BY J. W. TOMBSTONE.

requests demanding explanations on
the many explosions that have taken
place, says, among other things:
you no doubt know that for years
we have had to contend with dual and
antagonistic bodies to such an ex.
tent that they become not only OBJ
noxious but dangerous to the growth,
development and prosperity Of our
organization"
Duffy Lies.
Any carpenter knows that Duffy lies
when he says that the carpenters
have had to contend with dual and an
tagonistic bodies. If there is one in
dustry that has been singularly free
from dualism, it has been the build.
ing trades of the United States. The
I. w. w. has never been able to get
a foothold in the building industry
And the o. B. U. that swept Canada
1890, has no adherents any more
among the building trades workers
there and never had foothold in the
United States.
So to classify the T. q. e. L. with
dual organizations is simply an at
TENT made by Hutcheson, to gain the
sympathy Of those members not con-
versant with the facts.
Again he says, "You must remem-
Der that there are two sides to every
story, and evidently Local Union 214O
injected other matters into these doc
uments besides that referring to VIM.
Reynolds, in order to get the SYM
patty and support of other local I'M
ions not knowing the facts"
We Tell the Other Side.
We agree with Mr.. Duffy, and the
''other side" Of the story is now being
told to the membership thru the
medium of the DAILY WORKER,
the Progressive Building Trades
Worker, the pamphlet whats Wrong
in the Carpenters Union" and the
resolution sent out by Carpenters
Local 2140 Of Detroit, Mich.
The G. e. B., in expelling Reynolds
and the Los Angeles carpenters (16),
heard one-sided story, and expelled
them without hearing the story of the
expelled. VIM. Reynolds of Detroit
did not even know he was being in
vestigated and was expelled by letter
from the general executive board in
Indianapolis.
We would like to ask Mr.. Duffy and
his boss, Hutcheson, If this is what
they consider hearing both sides of
the story?
Torturina the Truth.
Another choice paragraph is, 1.-THE
case of the IL men referred to in Los
Angeles is a similar one Gas Reyn-
olds, Ed However, at the Septem-
Der, 1924, meeting Of the general exc
eutive board held in Indianapolis, that
case was carefully gone into, after
which the board decided they would
reinstate these members in good
standing providing they gave assur-
ance to the board that they would
sever their connections with the
Trade Union Educational League and
would not give it any countenance,
support, or recognition whatever in
the future. This these men refused
TO do. So they have no one to blame
but themselves for being outside the
pale of the United Brotherhood"
This is the usual method adopted
by the corrupt Hutchinson administra
ton to evade the issue in answering
the questions asked.
Duffy "forgets" to say that VIM.
Muir, general organizer, in conjunc
ton with the policy of Los Angeles,
staged a raid upon a meeting held by
the Trade Union Educational League
on March 1, 1924; that 80 men and
women, carrying on a peaceful edu-
cational meeting, were brutally flung
into a patrol wagon, taken down to
the police station and forced to tell
what union they belonged to.
Expelled Without Trial.
Two days later VIM. Muir, personal
representative of Hutchinson, with the
information received from the police
read off list of II names to the Car
{, penters' District Council. of those
whom he asked be suspended.
One man who happened to be
friendly with Muir, was quietly drop
ped from the list, and the other 16
members not II, as Duffy states in
his letter, we're expelled without trial
three days after the raid, and upon
evidence submitted by the police de-
partment Of Los Angeles.
This happened in March, 1924, and
the appeal OF these 16 members was
not heard by the general executive
board until after the convention. This
hearing was purposely delayed so that
the defendants would not be able &c
appeal to the convention.
Old and Active Members.
Another thing that Duffy con.
veniently neglects to mention was
that d. z. Mcclure was permanently
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