Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heart. Warmth comes easily to Phil Murray, now 66. An admirer (somewhat extravagantly) says: "Phil has survived a life among wolves by having a heart too big for them...
...could rule on the legality of the seizure, the Supreme Court restrained the Government from raising wages or changing working conditions. And on June 2, the Supreme Court held (6-3) that Truman had usurped the powers of Congress, and turned the steel plants back to their owners. Phil Murray pulled his strike as soon as he got the bulletin of the court's decision...
Then negotiations began in earnest. Left alone, the two parties had all but reached agreement when Truman summoned Murray and Fairless to the White House...
Black Eye. On the picket lines there was some grumbling last week because Murray had held out so long on the union shop. But he had a pressing reason: he wanted to get a union shop before the 1952 election. Now that the pattern of Government intervention in labor disputes is so thoroughly established, Murray feels that he needs a union shop to protect his gains in case an unfavorable Government climate may lie ahead. "We're stronger than ever before," crowed one C.I.O. executive after the settlement. "Now let them elect two Eisenhowers...
...Murray's involvement in the steel negotiations kept him from active direction of the C.I.O. offensive at the Democratic Convention. Less skillful hands than his were on that helm. When Alben Barkley publicly blamed labor for his withdrawal, it was the worst black eye the unions had received at the hands of a top Democrat in many a year. The A.F.L.'s shrewd Dave Dubinsky, who had not attended labor's famous breakfast with Barkley, laughed at the discomfiture of the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, Who had been a leader of the stop-Barkley movement...