Word: phil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, C.I.O. and A.F.L. grew so fast that bitterness between them was softened by prosperity. Management learned to accept the fact of Big Labor and to respect, in particular, Phil Murray...
...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...
...U.M.W. was one of the few A.F.L. unions organized on the industrial principle. Lewis in 1935 forced the creation of the A.F.L.'s Committee for Industrial Organization. Phil Murray was delegated to organize the steel industry, the key to the struggle. In two hectic and memorable years, Murray achieved essential success in steel. The inevitable conflict with the craft unions grew sharper, and in 1938 the A.F.L. expelled the industrial unions. The new grouping changed its name to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, named as its president John L. Lewis, as its vice president Phil Murray...
...C.I.O. was in a three-front war: with the craft unions, with industry management and with the Communists. Lee Pressman became general counsel for the C.I.O., and other Communists rose to positions of great power. For a while, Communists and anti-Communists each thought they were using the other. Phil Murray at length decided to get rid of his Reds, but he was not fully successful until the Taft-Hartley Act (which he hated) came...
...Allen S. Haywood, 64, C.I.O. executive vice president, who came out of the U.M.W. with Murray and has been a close associate ever since. Haywood may be the rallying point for all those who oppose the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, 45, well-hated by Phil Murray's Steelworkers...