Word: murray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merely an Adjustment? Steel's timing made it appear as if it were practically inviting labor to raise its prices too. It gave Phil Murray, who has continually harped on Big Steel's big profits,* new ammunition in his campaign for a "substantial" wage increase for the C.I.O.'s 875,000 steelworkers...
...Murray, who has a no-strike contract with the steelmakers, had no sooner opened his wage drive in Pittsburgh last week when U.S. Steel Corp.'s President Ben Fairless denied that prices had been jacked up in anticipation of Murray's demands. The price change, he said, was merely an "adjustment of a particular situation of limited scope"; some of the products, he added, were "being sold at a loss." Republic Steel's tall, greying President Charles M. White said it was "compensation for past wage increases...
...rooms pointedly unlisted at the registration desk, all the panjandrums and small fry of big labor's leadership showed in full force. They were from the previously-hostile CIO, AFL, and powerful independent unions such as the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the International Association of Machinists. Phil Murray was present sub rosa for a brief few hours Saturday in one of those up-stairs rooms. William Green made his first appearance before any political convention, on the same platform with Walter Reuther at that; Reuther's biting oratory forced this caricature of an oligarch to struggle hard, through fumbling...
...Murray inherited him from John. In the law courts and at negotiations, Pressman gave sharp and valiant service. He established the principle of portal-to-portal pay. He helped save Harry Bridges from being deported. He wrote an analysis of the Taft-Hartley Act which President Truman unabashedly used as a source for many ideas in his veto message last summer...
...decade the Nelsons played second fiddle to various radio stars (Robert Ripley, Joe Penner, Feg Murray). Briefly, Harriet was a successful cinemactress (Follow the Fleet, New Faces). They joined Red Skelton in 1941, and when Red went into the Army, they finally got a program of their...