Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week P.A.C. officially went on record for Term IV, two days before Eleanor Roosevelt addressed the committee. Hillman's 325,000 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and Phil Murray's 950,000 C.I.O. Steelworkers have already plumped for Franklin Roosevelt in the past fortnight. How many votes can P.A.C. swing? Its most enthusiastic supporters set a maximum of 13 million-including, besides 5.2 million C.I.Osters, 5 million in the A. F. of L. and 1.3 million in the Railway Brotherhoods. Nationally, the A. F. of L. is firmly opposed to P.A.C. holding to its traditional aloofness from endorsing Presidential...
...Education, of Course." Phil Murray, speaking last week to the clothing workers, set the 1944 goal of the Political Action Committee, and gingerly phrased its methods: "If you roll up your sleeves, get Roosevelt to run, and fight in every precinct to get him elected-I mean by processes of education, of course-then there will be no doubt of the result...
...barrel-chested, fond of using his booming voice. Born in Tennessee, he went to Vanderbilt University, left it to serve abroad in World War I as a field artillery lieutenant. Later, as a Rhodes scholar, he distinguished himself by 1) earning a D. Phil.,* 2) exploding a giant firecracker behind the dignified dean of Balliol College. He taught at the University of California, later moved to Harvard as associate professor of government. Trying his hand at a textbook for his classes, he found that none of his students could understand it. (In 1940, the Harvard Crimson termed his lectures...
...steam roller moved on. From labor, which only six months ago had been openly hostile, Franklin Roosevelt got double assistance. C.I.O. President Phil Murray plumped loudly for Term IV, amid cheers and whistles at the Steelworkers Convention. And the A.F. of L. once more delayed John Lewis' plea for readmission to its ranks, thus spiking John L.'s chance to swing the A.F. of L. into the anti-Roosevelt column. Angrily, Lewis withdrew his application, cursing the A.F.of L.'s "servility to the Administration...
Next day, the steel union's boss, Phil Murray, appeared before Senator James Murray's War Contracts subcommittee. He wanted Congressional blessing for the annual wage; not compulsory legislation, but approval of the principle. He felt that this would help unions get annual-wage provisions written into contracts, thus provide a safeguard against postwar layoffs. His argument: industry has been guaranteed postwar profits for two years through "carry-back and carry-forward" tax provisions. Farmers have been guaranteed 90% of parity prices on crops. Why should not workers be guaranteed a full year...