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...Mine. Bill Green was 15 when he went to work beside his English-born father in the central Ohio coal fields. He soon observed that the companies were cheating the miners by paying only for large chunks of coal which did not fall through a 2-in. mesh. Green's reaction was typically undramatic. He went on working in the mine, became a first-rate miner, and for many years drew the highest pay at Morgan-Run. He joined the U.M.W., rose through its ranks to become (1906) state president. He got elected to the Ohio state senate...
...simple story is told without heroics or false sentiment. It is mostly a movie of waiting and of silences at the pithead and in the pit as the rescuers work their way toward the trapped men. "There's nothing to do but wait," says one miner's wife stoically. Except for an occasional Scottish song, the picture has no musical score-only the constant sounds of ticking clocks, dripping water and heavy breathing...
Phil was bundled off to his first strike meeting when he was six, by his father, an Irish-born coal miner and unionist in Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1902, William Murray brought his family (ten children) to the U.S., settled them in Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County coal fields. When Phil was fired for his fight with the weighman, he went to work for the United Mine Workers in Pittsburgh. In 1920, Phil Murray at 34 became vice president to the U.M.W.'s new president, John L. Lewis...
Died. Philip Murray, 66, Scottish-born coal miner who went to the pits when he was ten, in 1936 became chairman of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, and in 1940 president of the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations; of a heart attack; in a San Francisco hotel room (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Concede to Your Partner. That afternoon, respected ex-Miner James Griffiths, the only Attleeite to win a place on the executive in the constituency elections, reminded the dizzied and bewildered delegates that there was still a threat in the east called Soviet Russia, which had proved no very good friend to either Britain or Labor. His eloquence brought the conference down to responsible earth again, and succeeded in knocking out, by two-thirds majority, a Bevanite resolution condemning Britain's whole arms and defense program...