After years of exploiting unionism to build personal empires, two of the leading robber barons of the labor movement last week began to feel the restraints of the three-month-old Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill:
Maurice A. Hutcheson, 62, who inherited the presidency of the 850,000-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America from his father, William L. ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, was sued by two Baltimore members for failure to treat his office as a "position of trust," as defined by Landrum-Griffin. The charges grew in part out of the Senate rackets committee hearings, where Hutcheson refused to answer questions, and...
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