Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost. In their last-ditch conferences last week, negotiators for Big Steel and Big Labor almost made it. In Washington, a three-man industry subcommittee headed by Jones & Laughlin Steel's Ben Moreell sat across the table from a labor trio headed by Steelworker Boss Phil Murray. Point by point, they took up each economic issue, e.g., pay raise, holiday pay. They made tentative agreements, went on to the next issue. Finally, they approached agreement on a wages-benefit package which would eventually cost the company 24.6? per man-hour (present average hourly wage...
...before they could sew up their final agreement, they had to pass the most difficult point of all: the union's demand for a union shop. Many modifications were discussed, and Republic Steel's President Charles White questioned Murray carefully about a plan similar to the General Motors modification in which old employees are not forced to join the union, and new employees can drop out, if they wish, after one year's membership. Union and Government men listened eagerly. They thought Big Steel was about to compromise on the big issue...
When the word got to Pittsburgh, President Philip Murray of the C.I.O. steelworkers first calmly finished his lunch, then pushed back his chair and issued an order. Now that this was again an affair between management and union, Murray could see only one course: strike...
...Phil Murray called on the steel companies to renew the bargaining process, and big steel was willing to talk. Just where this would lead, no one knew. Originally, the union had asked for a union shop and for wage and fringe benefits which would eventually cost the company about 35? per man-hour (present average hourly wage: $1.83). The Wage Stabilization Board recommended 26.1?, plus the union shop; the union gleefully agreed. Steel company officials offered 17.6? (no union shop), said that they could not pay the proposed 26.1? increase unless the controlled price of steel was raised...
...miller Dave Cairna, sprinter Bob Twitchell, Phil Pratt in the discus, and Off Murray in the shot all failed to score...