Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phil Murray was just back from ten days in Florida, looking fitter than usual. The lines were gone from around his brown eyes and his firm mouth. Behind the big walnut desk in his green-walled office looking out on Washington's Jackson Place and the White House, he was every inch the boss...
After three hours on Phil Murray's deep-piled burgundy carpet, the union colonels hurried back to their strikes and plans to strike, which will reach a crisis next week...
Although he has come to hate his old boss John Lewis, Phil Murray still runs his own union on an old-fashioned Lewis principle: keep your men together with a firm hand, get them as much as you can. There has never been any factional politics or Communist finagling in the Steelworkers' Union. Its funds, double-checked, audited and published twice a year, go solidly into the union treasury instead of into such social service experiments as summer camps and solariums...
Characteristically, Phil Murray said nothing about examining the steel company's books or debating the ins & outs of the profit system. He simply wanted a $2-a-day raise for his men, to keep their take-home pay around its $56-a-week wartime average. He firmly believed the companies could pay it without raising prices, but he would just as soon not argue the point; prices were a matter between the companies and OPA. And the $2 figure was subject to compromise anyway...
Something Furious. Despite Phil Murray's advance notice that he would be happy to dicker, despite the steel companies' implied hint that they might be willing to raise wages if the Government would only let them raise prices, both sides girded furiously for battle. For the next few weeks it would be fought with handouts...