Word: weighman
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...wiry, sandy-haired 18-year-old came up out of a coal mine in western Pennsylvania and swung on the company weighman for cheating. Next morning young Philip Murray was fired for "engaging in a brawl on company property." To his surprise, the 600 miners in town walked out on strike in his defense, then elected him president of their United Mine Workers local. The strike was broken, and a sheriff's squad put Phil Murray on a train for Pittsburgh and told him not to come back. "I've never had a doubt in my mind since...
...meeting when he was six, by his father, an Irish-born coal miner and unionist in Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1902, William Murray brought his family (ten children) to the U.S., settled them in Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County coal fields. When Phil was fired for his fight with the weighman, he went to work for the United Mine Workers in Pittsburgh. In 1920, Phil Murray at 34 became vice president to the U.M.W.'s new president, John L. Lewis...
...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 out of the county. But before he left the Keystone, the miners started him on his career by electing him the president of their local...
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