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Then negotiations began in earnest. Left alone, the two parties had all but reached agreement when Truman summoned Murray and Fairless to the White House...
Last week, after the strike settlement, Murray's first act was to propose to Ben Fairless that together they tour U.S. steel plants to lay the base for a lasting labor-management relationship. Fairless jumped at the offer, and, as his first test, went with Murray to a meeting of the strike-scarred Steelworkers Wage Policy Committee at the Mayflower Hotel...
...Friendliest Strike." The atmosphere was strained when Fairless stood up to speak. It eased considerably when he dropped his hands to his sides and said quietly: "Last night was the first good night's sleep that I have had in a long time . . ." Fairless made public a little-known fact: he has a brother who is a member of the steelworkers' local in Massillon, Ohio. "During this affair," said Fairless, "I kept away from Massillon . . . Of course [my brother] has been out of work for some time...
...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...
...Then Fairless got down to what he came to say. It could not have been said in a country where labor-management relations are conducted against a background of class struggle. His message showed how far Big Business and Big Labor accept the fact that they are part of one community. Said Fairless: "[The strike] was snarled in a series of mistakes made by all three parties, I think. I know we made some, and there were some made by our Government." He congratulated the steelworkers on "the friendliest strike I have ever heard of," and told of an incident...