The daily worker., 1932-06-16

Local PITT Charges
Hutcheson Program
Means Starvation

NEW YORK.-A real hot answer
to President Hutcheson Of the Inter.
national Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners Of America is made by
Local Union 2717 of Brooklyn. Hut
cheson circularized the locals, Of
which there are $500 in the union,
condemning the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill, condemning as
Communist self-appointed com
mittee" the New York AFL. Trade
Union Committee for Unemployment
Insurance, and threatening expulsion
Of carpenters locals which fight for
unemployment insurance. Hutcheson
went out Of his way to propose sup
port for the Costigan- -LaFollette Bill
in Congress.
Elected by Is Locals
Carpenters Local 2717 answers ir
a circular letter to the locals of the
union, likewise, and points out that
the NewYork AF. of LTrade Union
Committee for Unemployment Insur
ance and Relief is not self appoint
ed" as it was elected at a conference
Of 18 ALL. locals held in New York
on Jan. 27, at the call Of this same
Carpenters Local 2717. 1t points out
that there are now 300 local unions
of the A.FL. supporting the com
mittee
Local PITTS answer to Hutchesor
tears the mask off the Costigan La
Toilette Bill by showing that it was
give but 500 per family for period
of three years, or less than $40 fam
lily per year, which means starva-
ton"
Hutcheson in his circular draws q
gloomy picture of legal compulsion'
ETC., if unemployment insurance be-
comes law, and the local answers
him that this is exactly why the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill demands that administration Of
unemployment insurance funds be ii
the hands of the workers and unem
ployed workers.
The local points out that Hutchesor
is trying to nisrepresent the bill fol
which the local stands, and therefore
encloses copy of the bill with it.
own circular letter to the carpenter
local Local 2718 demands that tht
bill be published in the union paper
The Carpenter, so that all may reat
it, and that its present circular lette
to the locals also be published
The local points QUIT hat sine
President Green of the AFL, mad
his gentleman's agreement with Hoo
yer for no strikes and no wage cuts
billions have bene given by the gov
ernr1ent to the employers, nothing
has been given to the starved unem
ployed, and that there are lots o
wage cuts.
Hutcheson's whole circular, says thu
local, proves again Hutcheson sup
ports the Greens and Wolls of tn,
AFL. and the Vancouver Convention
decision against insurance. And al
this is to put the burden of the crisi:
on the shoulders of the workers anc
to refuse unemployment insurance tc
the millions of unemployed workers.
1--WE charge that President Hut
cheson disregarded the sufferings oi
our carpenter membership Of whom
rs per cent are totally unemployed
and the others working part time al
bootleg scale of wages. Our perspee-
tives are: no work, complete starva-
ton" -
I'VE ask the Hutchesons. and Duf.
fies: What are you doing and what
do you intend to do to fight the act
ual starvation and state of helpless
ness that predominates among us
union carpenters? They know as vel
as we all know that if there would be
a system of some security for the
starving unemployed carpenters By
unemployment insurance and relief
our members would not be compelled
to go TO work for SO day of q
cents an hour as is the case in many
instances today do we have to in.
form our chiefs that city relief or
ganizations are sending non-unior
of wages under threat that if the,
men on construction work at any rat
decline to do this outright scabber.
they will forfeit relief in the futtre7