Word: phils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus matters stood just before the dawn of the presidential election year, 1952, when Phil Murray called the strike. Murray and Big Steel had been meeting since late November; they got nowhere because the steel companies simply refused to make a counteroffer...
...Fairless, president of U.S. Steel, gleaming in a fresh-pressed cord suit and bright red necktie, was waiting on the White House steps. The man he was waiting for, an elderly, blue-suited figure, came walking slowly up the driveway. "Good morning, Ben," said Philip Murray. "Hello, Phil," responded Fairless. Said Murray: "Because of you I didn't get to bed until 3 o'clock this morning." Replied Fairless: "I'm sorry about that. I didn't get much sleep either...
Fairless started in surprise. "I alone?" "No," said Truman, turning toward his old friend, the president of the United Steelworkers of America. "Phil, you've got to settle this thing too. Now go in there in the Cabinet room, and I want you to come out with a settlement...
Inside Influence. When the Federal Government expanded its control of the U.S. economy in World War II, labor fought hard-and with success-to balance business influence in the control machinery. In the new mobilization that followed Korea, labor knew all the ins & outs of Washington bureaucracy. Phil Murray was appointed to the President's Board on Mobilization Policy, which kept an eye on Mobilizer Charles Wilson and was privy to his plans and secrets. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. United Labor Policy Committee walked out on the first Wage Stabilization Board, and stayed out until the board was revamped...
...Pittsburgh, it looked like the break that might end the strike. Big Steel's Vice President John A. Stephens, unofficial leader of the industry representatives, sat down again with the Steelworkers' Phil Murray. The industry negotiators reportedly presented a new proposal which would permit a "modified" union shop, i.e., employees need not join if they specifically state within 30 days of hiring that they don't want to. The union sniffed at the plan, but new meetings were scheduled. Both sides were being forced toward agreement by mounting pressure to get steel flowing again...