Word: hutcheson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Through three turbulent decades of labor history, Big Bill Hutcheson has been as unchanging a symbol of U.S. labor as the claw-hammer and the cross-cut saw. Through old and New Deal, his faith in old grass-roots Republicanism never wavered, and his ruthless dictatorship over the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America never faltered...
Last week Big Bill Hutcheson, bald, ruddy, bejowled and 77, summoned reporters to his fourth-floor offices in the yellow brick headquarters in Indianapolis. He met them in his shirt sleeves, and announced that he was feeling as fit as ever. But he could feel a few twinges that told him "old age is creeping up." Therefore, he had decided to give up the presidency he had occupied since 1915. Then, in a fitting climax to his roaring, dictatorial career, he announced the founding of U.S. labor's first big-time dynasty. His successor: son Maurice Hutcheson...
Walking Delegate. Big Bill Hutcheson first swaggered out of the Michigan woods in 1902 to join up with the old A.F.L. carpenters' union and go to work in nearby Midland at 20? an hour. A bull-shouldered 220-pounder, he soon bruised and fought his way into local prominence, four years later got a job as walking delegate, or business agent, of the carpenters' local. His full-time job was to patrol building jobs, call strikes when necessary and keep a sharp watch on employers. He also kept a sharp watch on union politics, got himself named...
Henry Foster (H) defeated Pich, 3-1; Nawn (H) defeated McGee, 3-2; Hugh Foster (H) defeated Johnson, 3-2; Clark (H) defeated Hutcheson, 3-2; Love (A) defeated Bacon, 3-2; Barte (A) defeated Hoar, 3-1; Wood (H) defeated Truesdale, 3-2; King (A) defeated Mugaseth, 3-2; Snyder (A) defeated Flagg...
Married. William L. ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, 75, beefy boss of the powerful (737,514 members) carpenters and joiners union, A.F.L. bigwig (first vice president), twice chairman of the Republican National Committee's labor division; and Madeline Wilson, 57, superintendent of his union's hospital; both for the second time; in Lakeland...