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Documenting what could become a case of conspiracy to defraud the Government, Investigator Gore turned his evidence on Maurice Hutcheson's strictly personal activities over to the Justice Department...
When he retired six years ago at 77, Big Bill Hutcheson was known as the ruthless dictator of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, a key dowel in the U.S. labor movement for more than 30 years. Before his death in 1953 he had bequeathed his claw hammer to his complaisant son Maurice, who finished construction of the union by bringing the membership to 850,000. cut for himself a slot in the loftiest beams of labor leadership-vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., member of the executive council. Last week at 60, Carpenter Maurice Hutcheson dodged...
...Hutcheson's name hit the sawdusty scandal trail when investigators for Tennessee Senator Albert Gore's public-roads subcommittee began to check over a growing woodpile of corruption in Indiana's road-building program. The story, as Gore developed it in Washington hearings last week: Carpenters' Treasurer Frank Chapman, 52, borrowed $20,000 from an Indianapolis bank on his own and Hutcheson's signatures, bought up nine pieces of Indiana right-of-way land for $22,500, sold it all within 30 days to the state for $101,000. Furthermore, Brotherhood Vice President O. William...
...Committee Chairman Gore nailed these pieces together. Hutcheson and his cronies pleaded that their answers might tend to incriminate them, crowded in under the Fifth Amendment shelter. Even when the committee established that Hutcheson is a member of the same A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council that ousted Teamster Boss Dave Beck for crawling under the Fifth, the finger-drumming witness declined to say whether he had voted for the ouster (he did). Hutcheson, it then became apparent, had his own rationale for personal behavior. Asked if he is familiar with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s code of ethics, which states that...
...steal a march on the competition, points out that other companies benefit greatly from its technical help. Despite the complaints. General Schriever sturdily backs RW, holds that it is one of the big reasons why the program is solidly on schedule so far. Says Westinghouse Vice President John A. Hutcheson: "Sure they're tough. They've got to be. They're the glue that sticks all the pieces together...