Word: phil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Phil Murray of the C.I.O. Steelworkers climbed aboard an overnight train in Washington one evening last week, heading back to Pittsburgh and still grimly bent on a strike that would shut down U.S. steel production for at least a week. Just after the train pulled out, a White House telephone operator tried to get him at C.I.O. headquarters in the capital. The call finally reached Murray when he got to his Pittsburgh office next morning. Harry Truman and Phil Murray talked for several minutes. After they hung up, Murray consulted his policy committee and dispatched a terse telegram...
Barbed Hook. President Phil Murray of the steelworkers was the first to make a ceremonial waiver of responsibility in the complex processes of settlement. He announced that 650,000 steelworkers will quit working after their contract expires on New Year's Eve. Then to make sure that he was shorn of any obligation in the crisis, he got his policy committee to strip him of his powers to call off a strike until a 2,500-delegate convention meets in Atlantic City-three days after the strike deadline. Thus, an aging Ulysses in perilous waters, he had himself bound...
Stainless-Steel Logic. Fairless' stainless-steel logic somewhat outshone the fact that Big Steel's stand was just as stubborn as Phil Murray's. By refusirig to make any counter-offer at all, it was making deadlock inevitable. Furthermore, it left the Government's price controllers with the responsibility for breaking the dike against inflation, if it is to be broken...
Mediator Ching listened for eight hours to the spokesmen of both sides-Phil Murray and U.S. Steel's Vice President John A. Stephens-then turned it all over to Harry Truman. The President bucked it on to the Wage Stabilization Board, and asked both sides to keep production going until the board hands down its recommendations. Said Harry Truman in a voice whetted to cut Phil Murray's bonds: "The immediate obligation on the steelworkers is to decide to remain at work . . . The union members and their leaders, and the managers of the steel companies, have a responsibility...
...Phil Murray does not believe in the escalator clause (which links pay scales to the cost of living) because it can go both ways. If he did, steelworkers would have got an automatic wage boost along with 1,250,000 railroad workers, last week, when the cost of living shot to an alltime high. It was up .8% in November to 189.3% of the 1935-39 period...