Word: phils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phil Murray was born in 1886 in Scotland, of Irish Catholic parents. His father was the president of the local coal miners' union, and Phil went through his first strike when he was six. Four years later, he quit school and went into the mines to work at 80? a day. The Murrays came to the U.S. in 1902, and Phil and his father went to work for the Keystone Coal & Coke Co. in Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County. In 1904, Phil slugged a Keystone weighman who was shorting him at the scales, was fired and ordered...
...Beyond Phil Murray's "more" lies a concept of society that, he feels, fits the emerging facts of urban, industrial U.S. life today. It is a society where politics, community life and the feeling of "belonging" revolve around a man's occupation, and not around the neighborhood or suburb where he happens to live. Murray's "more" may result in calamitous clashes, of which the 1952 steel strike is a horrible example, but Murray's "more" does not imply class warfare. He specifically insists that worker and boss are members of the same community, a "functional...
Fairless pointed to Phil Murray as "an honest man and a great American." Then he took a tinsel-wrapped cigar box from an aide and gave it to Murray. He explained that Murray had learned to like Fairless' little cigars during the negotiating sessions. "Phil," said Fairless, "there's something about you that doesn't go with a cigarette...
...future, Fairless said: "Phil Murray and I agreed that we're going to start something new in labor-management understanding . . . I'm going to find out what you're thinking about, and you may be interested in some of my problems...
...very much closer relationship. For some years, the main source of trouble has been the U.S. Government's role in the labor-management field. The steel strike was the most disastrous example to date of how the alliance between labor and Government can mess up collective bargaining. Phil Murray was riding high last week, and it is possible that he had the wit to see that he was riding too high...