Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor's good friend in Philadelphia, J. David Stern's New Dealish Record, addressed an "emergency call" to C.I.O.'s anti-Communist Boss Phil Murray. Said the Record: Philadelphia's electrical workers "have been so misled that they are flatly defying our courts and all constituted authority. . . . Constituted Government has only one answer to that. We've tried to tell this to the C.I.O. leaders. No go. Maybe they will listen to you. We hope so. For the sake of the C.I.O., and the future of the labor movement in America...
...futile week of monkeying with the steel strike. Old Crony John W. Snyder, onetime St. Louis banker and now director of OWMR, wanted to settle the strike with a little inflation. Price Boss Chester Bowles, no crony, wanted a line to hold. While they argued, the striking Steelworkers' Phil Murray and the struck Steel Corporation's Ben Fairless could do nothing but cool their heels. More than anyone else, they wanted to come to terms, but that was impossible until Mr. Truman's policy was stabilized...
Then Harry Bridges proudly rushed off-to tell C.I.O. Boss Phil Murray the good news-if shipowners got stubborn about a new contract, the maritime unions could raise hob with all shipping from Boston to Miami and from Seattle to San Diego. In fact, shipping could be halted for almost any reason Bridges and Curran chose...
...Comp. Phil. 10 in Sever...
...Comp. Phil. 175 in Sever...