Word: hutcheson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unions have long fought for dominance of the Northwest lumber industry. A. F. of L.'s is the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union, powerful, expanding (after a sorry period of scandals in its early organizing days) and affiliated with Bill Hutcheson's rich Carpenters and Joiners. C. I. O.'s is the International Woodworkers of America, organized in 1937 by Harold Pritchett, a Canadian, aggressive left-winger and Northwest ally of Harry Bridges. So fierce were the jurisdictional fights between these two unions that in one three-month period 900 men went to the hospitals...