Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less cautious than Green, less ambitious than Reuther. Phil Murray held to well-trodden middle ground. Save for two things, Walter Reuther might still be leading the C.I.O. parade...
...Phil Murray capitalized on the main point. Stepping up with his 800,000 steelworkers, who could tie up 50% of U.S. industry if they chose, by last week he had apparently won something better than 15% and something less than a 20% wage increase. He had done so by judiciously looking away from the price problem...
Boss's Boss? Murray's critics consider him a captive boss, the prisoner of men and forces he cannot control. To them, the real C.I.O. boss is General Counsel Lee Pressman, lawyer, shrewd publicist, a smooth man with strong left-wing tendencies. But Phil Murray's friends, paraphrasing Voltaire, say: "If there weren't a Phil Murray it would have been necessary to invent...
...When the Auto Workers were set to rescind the wartime no-strike pledge in 1944, Murray stemmed the tide with a speech delivered under heavy emotion. When occasion demands, he can be tough. When Sidney Hillman began to show signs of getting too independent with his Political Action Committee, Phil Murray cracked down with an order that P.A.C. must operate through the 39 regional C.I.O. offices, which he controls...
With war's end, Phil Murray faced a critical situation of far greater importance. With the Government committed to the policy of holding prices down, with labor in a position to force a general wage increase, with business occupying an uneasy but by no means passive spot between the two, the scene was set for what might have been a catastrophic three-cornered battle. Murray took the risk of wading in. By last week he had apparently exploited labor's advantage to the full-but he had been wise enough not to push...