Word: murray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letters on the Bowie-Murray debate, 14 defended the Catholic position, 58 the Protestant, and six-bridging the gulf-asked for greater tolerance and understanding on both sides...
...third time, the steel strike was postponed. At President Truman's urgent request, United Steelworkers' President Philip Murray agreed to a six-day extension of the strike deadline. Then, for the first time since July, the steel companies sat down with labor negotiators for a last try at company-by-company bargaining...
...steel subsidiary and two small independent plants, 5,300 workers walked out on wildcat strikes. Explained one local unionist: "We've built the boys up and they're ready to go. You just can't keep putting the cork back in the bottle." Philip Murray admitted there was "widespread restlessness," and added flatly: "This is the last postponement...
Washington strategists were optimistic. "We had to get them out of Washington," explained a Labor Department conciliator. "Murray was too far out on the limb to crawl back and the steel companies were fast getting into the same position on the opposite limb. Local bargaining may turn up something that can be made to fit the entire industry...
...steelworkers' President Phil Murray was busy at the negotiating table, but C.I.O. President Phil Murray had other troubles on his mind. For months Murray had been threatening stern measures against rebellious unions like the Communist-wired United Electrical Workers. Last week U.E., the C.I.O.'s biggest left-wing union, beat the C.I.O. chief to the punch. At its stormy 14th annual convention in Cleveland, the U.E.'s leadership made all but the final motions of breaking off from C.I.O. and forming a third association of U.S. labor unions, which would be Communist-controlled...