The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-23
CARPENTERS OF
DETROIT DEFY
CARS ORDERS
HutchesOn Tools Grab
Funds of Union
ESPECIAL to the Daily Worker


April 2, Gear Huteheson submit
ted proposition to the carpen-
ters' District Council Of Detroit In
structlhg them to hold "orderly"
meetings and to exclude one, William
Reynolds from any further partieipa-
ton in the affairs of the Carpenters
District Council as the said William
Reynolds was not a member of the
international Union, having been ex-
PEELED In January for membership in
the Trade Union Educational League
by the general executive board.
The communication stated that the
district council was to take a roll call
vote on this proposition and that dele
gates voting against it not only jeopar-
died their own standing in the
Brotherhood, but also that of their To-
cal unions. 1t further instructed G.
e. B. member, Potts, who submitted
this statement, that in the event that
the district council voted against the
proposition he was to suspend the
district council and reorganize both
the district council and the local I'M
ions. In spite of the fact that Hutche-
son threatened the most drastic &C
ton within his power, the vote was 20
to against his proposition and a fiat
defiance Of his arrogant order.
Since then, the district council rec
ords and funds have been taken over
by Potts, Shamrock and Fish, the dis
trict council officials, who have turned
traitors to the rank and file, have been
put on the payroll of the general Of
fee, and threats have been made
against the various local unions that
unless they repudiate the action of
their delegates, they too shall be sus-
pended.
To Punish Loyal Delegates.
The latest proposition put forward
by Potts is that the local unions must
elect entirely new delegates to fill
out this term and the next term,
which means that these representa-
tives of the rank and file who pre-
sumo to question the imperial will of
Car Hutcheson are to be Inundated
and disqualified for the office of dele
gates to the district council until July
1875. This Is the reward that the 10
cal unions must mete out to their
delegates for fidelity to- the sentiment
Of their local unions, according to
Hutcheson.
Altho Hutcheson has been defeated
in every battle with the district car
penters and received crushing re-
pudiation in the last act of the district
council. which he sought to gag and
then strange, he is as arrogant in
his attitude as the ex-kaiser at Doom
castle, who joins his ancient enemies
the social-democrats in sputtering dire
threats against the revolutionary Ger
man workers. The likeness goes fur
Their, for Car Hutchinson is treading
the same path which led Wilhelm to
Doom castle, and his prototype Mich
olas to his fitting, end.
Trample on Union Laws.
The carpenters in Detroit have
seen Hutchinson and his lackeys tram
pie the constitution in the mire, have
fought the capitalist police and courts
to sustain their rights. They have
seen their chances for a better wage
scale for 1926 and 1926 thrown to the
winds by the traitor Shamrock. They
have become callous to treason and
hopeless of any fair dealings from
those whom they have elected to
serve them But they are determined
that those who spoke their will in
the district council shall not be humil-
lated by Hutcheson, and that the i'm
placable foes Of the rank and file
with whom Hutcheson has surrounde
himself, and Of whom Hutchinson is
the logical leader. shall be fought un-
til their attitude toward the organiza-
ton in Detroit has undergone a
healthy change or until the rank and
file are forced to "eat dirt" thru de-
feat and not thru any craven fear
which Hutchesons highbinders hope
to inspire by empty threats.
Hutchinson has started fight in De-
troit and the carpenters in Detroit
are determined to see it thru. Their
attitude is Let's go, Hutch. Do your
stuff" If he continues true to form,
his stupdities must inevitably annihi.
late him. Someone has said that
"the result of the stupidities of ty-
rants are always benefcent." The
carpenters in Detroit find that each
succeeding stupidity Of Hutchinson fur
Their unites and educates the rank and
file.