The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-17
HUTCHINSON GANG
IN DETROIT, MICH,
BADLY ROUTED
Carpenters Refuse to See
Communist Ousted
Especial to The Daily Worker,


Especial to The Daily Worker)
DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 15.- When
the delegates to the District Council
of Carpenters and visiting members
gathered for their last weekly meeting
they found shat the payrollers had
provided themselves with a police
guard consisting of a sergeant and
four cops. ).
At 8 o'clock James Shamrock, the
yellow runt whos passes as the presi-
dent of the adistrict council, ordered
the expelled member Brother Will
lam Reynolds, to leave the hall.
When the request was not "con-
CURED in'it by Reynolds, he tried
little expelling on his own account.
He laid hands on Reynolds and quick
ly laid them off again. After this
gesture at election, he appealed to
his force" and ordered them to do
their stuff.
Rank and File Speaks Up.
About this time, the carpenters
present began to get little bit rough
in their language. Any sentiment
that had not previously been express
ed found expression at this time and
such old stand-bys as Takers" para
Site" yellow cur" stool pigeon"
'would-be-czar" and similar pet
names were hurled at Lawyer Car
son, General Organizer Botterill and
Alger, and the weakling Shamrock,
who stood in a group shouting fran
tically for the police to arrest Rey-
nolds.
At this time, Reynolds pointed out
to the police that it was obvious who
the rank and file were with and who
was raising the disturbance.
After about ten minutes of bedlam,
during which the cornered Official
rats were calling upon their protect
ors for Flaw and order" Reynolds at
tempted to speak.
Shamrock interferred by pounding
with his gayel and then made rush
toward Reynolds in a second attempt
to get into trouble. Several
brothers blocked the way, however,
and after a final appeal to the po-
lice, Hutcheson's loyal guard of black
guards admitted defeat by allowing
Reynolds to address the meeting un-
disturbed. 1T was a healthy decision.
Depends on Rank and File.
Reynolds stated that he based no
hopes on any sense Of fairness that
might repose in the mind Of GEAR
Hutchinson, that only thru the support
and action of the rank and file and a
continuance of struggle for constitu-
tional rights could these wrongs be
righted and the arrogance Of the pay
roll brigade curbed.
He thanked those present for their
support and asked that it be contin.
ued. The officials got out an injunc-
ton three weeks ago which they have
not the CUTS to enforce, tho 1t has
been violated at least 20 times.
They and their actions have been
repudiated by the district council and
every local union. They have been
hooted and jeered cursed at and de-
spised, and yet they have the unmiti
gated gall TO come smirkingly to the
meetings to brother" those who hold
them in detestation. They are, as
mercenaries always have been and
always will be, treacherous, despic-
able and loathesome.
Qualities for Dirty Work.
After the meeting was called to or
de-, communication from the gener-
al office giving permission to estab-
hsh an initiation fee but refusing con
troll of the district to the district coun-
ell was turned down by a vote o. II
to 2. When credentials were read for
full new delegation from Local I'm
ion No. 10, the faker Shamrock ruled
them out of order on the grounds that
1875 meeting last Monday, at which
the rank and file broke the gag rule
of Hutcheson's henchmen was a mob
and not a meeting. Shamrock is play
ing for a job as one Of Hutcheson's
flunkeys. He has revealed himself as
qualified for the dirtiest work that
Hutcheson's, cupidity and stupidity
might lead him to as a general or
ganizer, and he has more low cum
ming than the two numb-skulls now
spying on the rank and file in Detroit.
The carpenters of Detroit wish him
an early start on his new venture.
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