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...gentleman pictured by TIME [Dec. 31] as Maurice Hutcheson, son and successor to the president of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, is actually Martin Ashton Hutchinson, Richmond lawyer and leading opponent of Virginia's Byrd Machine...
...rivals. When a rebellion flared in the 1920s, he expelled the opposition leader and his entire local. In 1916, Big Bill settled a strike over the heads of 17,000 New York carpenters with a contract less favorable than one the employers had already conceded. When the carpenters protested, Hutcheson suspended 65 of their locals, and barred their delegates from the convention by putting cops at the door...
...York, sold "strike insurance" to contractors, peddled "privilege to work" cards to non-unionists, and cleared a cool million dollars. Brindell ultimately was jailed for extortion after a special state investigation. Investigator Samuel Untermeyer formally urged the A.F.L. convention of 1922 to get rid of "Brindell's crony, Hutcheson, who has been an evil influence...
...constitution to admit any member with the remotest connection with a hammer and nails, e.g., ship caulkers, floor layers, furniture workers, and millwrights. He waded happily into the carpenters' ancient fight with metal workers over who should install metal trimming. When the Building Trades Council suspended the carpenters, Hutcheson roared: "The Brotherhood is not looking for a fight, but if they have to fight ... the sooner it is started the sooner it will be over." It ended in a settlement in 1928, and Big Bill won most of the points...
...Hutcheson will leave his 803,000 carpenters with an antiquated $15-a-month pension system and a treasury worth $15 million. He also leaves his pet project, a luxurious $4,000,000 home for retired carpenters at Lakeland, Fla. The home was finished in 1928 on Big Bill's private whim, cost each carpenter an assessment of $6, now houses only 350 retired members, who are too feeble to play much golf on the adjoining Hutcheson golf links. Near by is Big Bill's own private residence where, in fitting surroundings, he plans to spend the winters...