Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have read with interest your Aug. 4 article on Philip Murray. I fail to see how the culmination of the strike could possibly raise the status of Mr. Murray. Certainly there was no glory in the outcome for the United Steelworkers. There is no provision of any consequence in the new contract which they couldn't have had without their devastating strike. The modified union shop, in my opinion, holds no more security for the union than the maintenance of membership which they had before...
Another Goal for Murray...
Warmest congratulations on your masterly exposition of the steel situation [TIME, Aug. 4] ... It placed Phil Murray in a more favorable light than is commonly accepted. Were Murray's wisdom (and unselfishness) as great as his "big heart" he would, instead of fastening further inflation on all of us, be setting a goal of having every steelworker become the proud owner of 100 or more shares of steel stock. Community respect for such would be automatic . . . Indeed, such an outcome might turn the tide against the New Deal's insistent march toward converting Americans into class-conscious voters...
...labor politician, Murray will exploit his alliance with the Democratic Party. But as an ultimate goal, Murray does not claim control of the Democratic Party or of the Government. Any Administration that will foster what Murray and Fairless have in common has a lot more to offer both labor and management than the kind of violent White House partisanship that caused and prolonged the steel strike...
After the Democratic labor leaders thumbed down Vice President Alben Berkley, 74, as a presidential candidate, the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Hy Gardner compiled a roster of some union oldsters who are still going strong: William Green, 79, John L. Lewis, 72, Philip Murray, 66, James C. Petrillo and David Dubinsky, both...