Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a four-hour conference in John L. Lewis' Washington office one day last week C. I. O.'s peace committee headed by Philip Murray marched to the Hotel Willard to meet once more with the A. F. of L. peace committee headed by George Harrison. Without palaver Mr. Harrison asked if C. I. O. still insisted that all its members be taken into A. F. of L. Mr. Murray replied that those were the terms and the only terms on which C. I. O. was willing to make peace. Eight weeks' negotiations to reunite...
Emerging one step ahead of Mr. Murray, Harvey Fremming of C. I. O.'s Oil Workers Union stormed sarcastically: "We found out what a labor oligarchy is. They said, 'We can't take you in because you'll break up our little playhouse...
...Phil Murray, who is as good a student of heavy industry as any steelmaster, the occasion was not one for unrestrained celebration. He could and did declare: "In not one instance has any officer, national, sub-regional or lodge, ever authorized or fostered a strike in a mill under contract. . . . Observe your contract and your union grows. Violate it and your union dies...
...force of organizers and officeworkers from 437 to 354 (including 75 part-time organizers). Though numerous resolutions were offered asking for a $6-a-day minimum instead of $5 a day and a 30-hour instead of a 40-hour week, the convention finally left it to Phil Murray & friends to get the best bargain they could...
...Kenneth about a secretarial job she had made up her mind to take. It was with a broker who was going to pay her a large salary for little work, although she couldn't take short-hand and did not type very well. When the broker (John T. Murray) tries to make love to her, Helen runs out of the house. She goes back later for her hat, coat and purse and finds the broker lying murdered and herself the leading suspect...