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Speaking for C.I.O. was Philip Murray, 52, calm, suave chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. He it was who negotiated the details of C.I.O.'s contract with U. S. Steel Corp. A Scot from Lanark, his opponent in those negotiations was another miner's son, Benjamin Franklin Fairless, last week named as Big Steel's next president (see p. 59). (As they started their talks, Steelman Fairless, recalling that his father, too, had been a union man, said to Laborman Murray: ". . . Call me Ben." In his soft burr, Mr. Murray replied: "Yes, Mr. Fairless...
David Sturrock, of Lanark, Scotland, former director of the Hershey Agricultural School, Cuba, has been appointed Superintendent of the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University at Soledad, Cuba. He will succeed Robert M. Grey, Superintendent since 1925, who has resigned after thirty years of service at the Institution...
...nationalism. Agnosticism, spiritualism, free-love, social reform, the cooperative system--at one time or another he tried them all. But in spite of his tendency toward mere theorizing he was practical enough to ameliorate the condition of the factory workers and to offer, in the shape of his New Lanark experiment, his idea of a model town...
Like all such realizations of pretty philosophies, New Lanark was far from perfect. It was, nevertheless, an improvement and a guide toward further effort. Due partly to petty jealousies and partly to his own intractable character Owen eventually gave up all interest in New Lanark. He attempted to form a similar colony at New Harmony, Indians but it failed completely, one obvious reason being the inharmonious state of the American frontier...