Word: phil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that moment there had been good reason to hope for an early settlement. The board had denied a wage boost. Steel operators had been pleasantly surprised by the moderation of the board's recommendations. They were ready to sit down and talk when Phil Murray sounded his trumpet. Murray, in effect, was demanding that steel accept the board's recommendations first and bargain afterwards...
This week the disputants traveled to Washington. There, at the head of a delegation of 71 officials of the nation's steel companies, Fairless met a very weary-looking Phil Murray. They posed together for photographers. Said Ching: "Let us all say 'cheese' when we have our picture taken so we will look pretty." Then they got down to business in the Labor building...
...plea for an eleven-day postponement of the strike deadline (Sept. 14) until everyone could give the findings "the greatest weight and most earnest consideration." One by one steelmakers began agreeing to the truce. The auto workers' Walter Reuther flew to Pittsburgh to sit at the elbow of Phil Murray as the elderly labor chief sat down for a careful study of the report...
Almost as an afterthought the board took one more sortie into steel's economics. For years, Phil Murray's contracts with the gigantic U.S. Steel Corp. have pretty much determined the contracts signed by the rest of the industry. In effect this has given him the weapon of industrywide bargaining and a tremendous power to will over the country's steel mills...
...Phil Harris-Alice Faye (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Fall return...