Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about rambunctious Mr. Clark. Then he relented. He watched the rival A.F. of L. union's President Earl Jimerson give in happily to the back-to-work order. He extracted the promise of help toward wage boosts from Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson and conferred with C.I.O. President Phil Murray (who apparently extracted a few promises...
...President had issued what amounted to an ultimatum. He had asked C.I.O. President Phil Murray and U.S. Steel President Ben Fairless to settle for an 18½?-an-hour wage increase. This was 3½? more than Ben Fairless' final offer of 15?; 1? less than Phil Murray's final demand...
Replying, Phil Murray said yes in less than 100 words. Ben Fairless took longer. Said...
Hijacking? On reading Ben Fairless' reply, Phil Murray waxed loquacious. He called newsmen to the green-paneled conference room of C.I.O.'s Washington headquarters-where his portrait hangs alongside those of Jefferson and Lincoln-and issued a burning statement...
...full and sole responsibility for the strike which must take place. . . ." . Had Big Steel really been merely stubborn in refusing to compromise for the President's proposal and thus avert a strike? One industrialist thought so. Big, bustling Henry Kaiser rushed to the White House with Phil Murray, emerged to announce that he had signed with the Steelworkers at 18½? for his plant at Fontana, Calif, (which employs only 3,000 men and enjoys a favorable price differential of $12 a ton). Cried Big Henry...