The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20
EXPELLED FOR
PROTESTING A
SCAB AGREEMENT
Article 3 in Reply to
Liar Duffy
BY J. W. TOMBSTONE.


Seoretary-Treasurer Duffy, in his
letter replying to the numerous de-
mands for further light on the expul.
sion policy Of the Hutcheson admin
istration, disposes of the Chicago
cases with the following short para
graph:
Local 181, Chicago, ILL.,, is local
case, Charges were preferred against
IL members under Sec. 81, and the
cases were tried in Local 1S1. Evi-
denoe was presented and the defense
made by the defendants. The report
Of the trial committee was read to the
local, as 1 understand it, and out of
the eleven members charged, five
we're expelled and an appeal as to the
legality Of their trial is now pending
before the general president"
Duffy Lies by Omission.
Mr. Duffy, as he gets towards the
end of his letter, improves in his
method Of camoufage. To the unin-
ftiated the above quotation sounds
perfectly fair and legal But it is not
what Mr.. Duffy says, but rather what
he does not say, that the membership
is interested in.
The facts in the case are even
more startling than in any Of the other
expulsion cases. The "crime" COM
mitted by the FIVE Chicago expelled
members, was the introducing Of e
resolution condemning the signing of
an agreement by Hutcheson without
the consent Of the membership, which,
In essence, was exactly the same as
the Lands award. This resolution
was adopted by the membership al
most unanimously and sent to the
convention, under the seal Of the To-
cal, for action there.
This was a right guaranteed them
by the constitution. Mr.. Duffy fails
to state this fact or that Hutcheson
withheld the resolution from the con-
vention and instructed the local. Of
hoisldom to prefer charges against
the members signing the resolution.
Hutchinson Will Review Hutehesonl
cit is a local case" says Duffy, land
an appeal as to the legality of their
trial is now pending before the gen
eral president In other words,
Hutchinson demanded of the local Of
6ciaIs that these members be placed
under charges, which makes him the
prosecutor and now he is going to sit
as the Judge Of the appeal!
The FIVE Chicago defendants were
not tried according to Sec. 55 Of the
constitution. They we're arbitrarily
expelled by the local president who
admitted that he had been instructed
to do so by Hutchinson.
Three Of the trial committee have
signed af1davits swearing that the re-
pert Of the chairman Of the committee
was false. Coupled with this, the
membership Of Local 1S1 had no op-
portunity to vote on the question.
And altho this fake trial took place
nearly three months ago, only one or
two meetings of Local ISL have been
held because the local officials are
afraid to face the issue before the
membership.
Members Against Scab Agreement.
The mild resolution passed by Lo-
cal 1S1 against the Chicago agree
ment does not tell the whole story.
The Chicago agreement, signed BIZ
Hutcheson, is the Lands award
word for word, and paragraph by para
graph, it is exactly the same.
1t was signed by Hutcheson on the
morning of the district election, and
was heralded in the capitalist papers
as a great victory. Due to this pub
licity, Harry Jensen, the reactionary
president of the Carpenters District
Council, was reelected to Office
And it was just on the eve Of the
convention that the membership found
out that Hutcheson had signed a scat
Lands award which they had been
fighting so successfully for years.
So, Duffys claim that II. is a local
case, is just so much bunk. The
Chicago cases are the same as all the
Others. These expelled members
were exposing the corruption of
Hutcheson. And like all the others
who are doing likewise, they were ex.
PEELED without hearing. trial or com.
ment of the membership. They
stand in Hutcheson's way, so they
must go.
Tomorrow ! will take up that part
of Duffy's letter dealing with the ex.
puision of Fred w. Burgess of Phila-
>clphia.