Word: murray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chipping in another 2½? an hour for each worker. But the company would have to pay by itself the cost of a liberal pension plan, guaranteeing all 65-year-old steelworkers with 25 years of service minimum retirement pensions of $100 a month. Some would get more. This, Murray estimated, would cost Bethlehem 10? or 12½? an hour for each of its 80,000 steelworkers. In turn, the steelworkers were abandoning fourth-round wage demands for another year...
...operation on the C.I.O.'s Communist-line wing was performed with a meat ax by a stern and rejuvenated Philip Murray and his staff of strategists. Leaders of the biggest Red-run union of them all, the United Electrical Workers Union, did not even show their faces on the convention floor. They huddled in Cleveland's Allerton Hotel, sniffing the cold, strange wind and making distant and preposterous sounds of defiance. A day before they and their little brothers, the Farm Equipment Workers, were expelled, they packed their bags and fled...
...Phil Murray, long defender of the rights of the Reds, who rendered the final, Olympian judgment: "There is enough room in the C.I.O. movement to differ about many subjects . . . plenty of room, plenty of room. But there is no room for Communism...
...hushed audience, Murray told of "meetings" in New York between Communist Party Bosses William Foster and Eugene Dennis, U.E. Bosses James Matles and Julius Emspak and "our good friend Harry Bridges." He charged: "There evolved plans and policies to corrupt and destroy if possible the trade union movement in America. And if our country was engulfed in another war, they would go underground and undermine the people and this Government of ours...
Surrender of the Pie Cards. Thus Murray brought to an end eleven years of a Communist campaign to wiggle into and capture his C.I.O. The overwhelmingly right-wing delegates voted down the line with Murray. They were mostly "pie card" unionists (men & women on union payrolls), not labor's rank & file. They were well disciplined. With a loud aye, in effect they surrendered their old constitutional authority as a convention and gave Murray and his executive board virtually absolute power over 39 C.I.O. unions-the power to 1) bar Communists from sitting on the executive board, 2) expel...