The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-28
By Dre0C Pearson

Big Bill" Hutcheson, and others during the laOo- management conference.
 piooest immediate barrier to be overcome was the lack of vacancies on the executive council How ever Green and his associates have now Workeo ou'
 neat little plan to remedy this-tne custer oi nAi vey w Brown president of the International Associ- ation of Machinists - ,,.
 Brown has been in hot water with AF1' bigwlgs for long time because of nou-payment of per cap, ita taxes growing out of dispute between him and Hutcheson over unionization of millwrights. Oniy about 5000 millwrights they install machinery m industrial plants) are involved, but Brown ana Hutcheson have been battling furiousy as to which shall collect dues from them.
 Brown has threatened several times to pull out of the AFL unless the issue is decided n his favor and has paid no per capita taxes for the last year to show that he means business.
 Several months ago, Green told the Machinists boss fatly to "get the taxes on the line" or face suspension. Browns to this utmatum was that he would pay the back taxes only after the mill wright dispute was settled by the AFL executive council-meaning, of course, settled in ms 1aVor.
 There's no chance of this while the potent Hutch eson is sitting the board. But even should Brown repent and kick in, he still will be given the gate at the January meeting under an AFL regulation pro- Viding for the suspension of any union which IS three months in arrears in the payment of per capita as- seSsments.
 Browns removal will be double victory for Hutcheson. Not only is he getting rid of an enemy and thus making it possible to put the full might o the AFL behind his drive to organize the Milwrighs but he is also getting close crony John L. Lewis, a seat at the AFT council table.
 Note-John L. and Hutcheson strange bed once DlCUer 1OeS they SluggeQ out fists years back at an AFL convention. Such is the fleeting character of union politics.
 Marshall McDuffie, deputy to overseas property liquidator Tom McCabe, has just returned from trip through conquered Europe. Anxious to go from Warsaw to Prague early in October, he checked with U. S. Military Headquarters to see if an Army plane was scheduled to this mountainous route None was. He also advised he would be wasting his time if he tried to hitch a ride from the Russians.
 Next McDuffie checked at the American embassy, where he was told it would be useless to go to the Russians. Even if they were willing to help, he was told, Russian red tape would take him 10 days to get started
 However lunchng with an American UNFcRA worker McDuffie revealed his predicament. Lunch a call from Red Army Headquarters offering him ride plane expected to go to Prague from Mos the next morning.
 The Moscow plane delayed, however, so McDuffie was put on another Russian plane, with composed of two Russians and three poles He charged 265 rubes for the 400-mile journey the mountains, and was permitted to pay in Polish zotys. Thus the total trip cost him 97 cents in Amer ican money.
 From Prague, McDuffie drove to Bratislava and Vienna, thence to Frankfurt With his Russian Czech pass and an American flag on the car he had no trouble long he was in Russian controlled ter ritory-being stopped only twice for reading of his pass.
 Between Vienna and Frankfurt however Me- Duffie stopped six times by American GI,s and finally arrested and fined by an American mil itary policeman for speeding on eight-lane auto balm, or highway With no traffic in sight in either direction his chauffeur had been travelling at 55 miles per hour