Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wiry, sandy-haired 18-year-old came up out of a coal mine in western Pennsylvania and swung on the company weighman for cheating. Next morning young Philip Murray was fired for "engaging in a brawl on company property." To his surprise, the 600 miners in town walked out on strike in his defense, then elected him president of their United Mine Workers local. The strike was broken, and a sheriff's squad put Phil Murray on a train for Pittsburgh and told him not to come back. "I've never had a doubt in my mind since...
Last week Murray stopped off in San Francisco on his way to the C.I.O.'s annual convention in Los Angeles. He had dinner with 600 Western Steelworkers and their wives, reminisced in his soft Scottish burr, then departed, with a "Good night and God bless you." At 11:30, he and Mrs. Murray retired to their room at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, leaving a call for 6:30 next morning. At 6:30, the switchboard rang and rang, but got no answer. A bellboy knocked, then opened the door with a pass key. Mrs. Murray (who is hard...
...with Understanding. The size and character of the C.I.O., its wage rates and pensions, and the political influence of organized labor are all a testament to Phil Murray's dedicated life. But Phil Murray was more than a fighter for labor. He was a man with a keen understanding of the individual's relationship to the world he lives in. Impersonally-as a union boss-Murray was tough and hard, demanding discipline and loyalty, determined and stubborn at the bargaining table. Personally he was emotional and softhearted, endowed with a twinkly-eyed kindliness and an honest humility...
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...
Through the years that Lewis and Murray ran the U.M.W., industry was perfecting and extending the techniques of mass production. For years, A.F.L. leaders had recognized in principle the need for vertical unions in mass-production industries. But when it came to putting the principle into effect, the A.F.L., dominated by craft unions, found that the craft psychology was very strong among its members and leaders...