Word: phil
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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...
There was a logical reason for Big Steel's hard-nosed attitude. To compensate for wage increases, Steel wanted sizable price increases. The Administration was openly boasting that Steel would get no such thing. So Steel's refusal to bargain with Phil Murray was its only lever in its bargaining with the hostile and partial Government. Said Ben Fairless in Cincinnati last November: "Whether our workers are to get a raise, and how much it will be if they do, is a matter which probably cannot be determined by collective bargaining, and will apparently have to be decided...
Prepared Position. Faced with a steel strike on New Year's Day, Harry Truman telephoned Phil Murray in Pittsburgh just before Christmas, and asked Murray to hold off. Submit the dispute to the Wage Stabilization Board, said the President, or the Government will step in with a Taft-Hartley injunction against you. After pondering briefly, Murray accepted the WSB, which was, after all, like falling back to a prepared position...
Exit Charlie. In the public eye, the WSB recommendations gave Phil Murray's case the sanctity of an impartial Government verdict. Mobilizer Charles Wilson tried to convince Harry Truman that industry should get a $5-to-$6-a-ton price increase if it signed a wage agreement on the basis of the WSB report. But when Price Stabilizer (and good Democrat) Ellis Arnall heard of the Wilson-Truman conversations, Arnall persuaded the President that any price increase was unwise for two reasons: 1) economics, 2) politics. Wilson stormed back to his office and wrote out his resignation. Murray...
...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...