Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, C.I.O. and A.F.L. grew so fast that bitterness between them was softened by prosperity. Management learned to accept the fact of Big Labor and to respect, in particular, Phil Murray...
...U.M.W. was one of the few A.F.L. unions organized on the industrial principle. Lewis in 1935 forced the creation of the A.F.L.'s Committee for Industrial Organization. Phil Murray was delegated to organize the steel industry, the key to the struggle. In two hectic and memorable years, Murray achieved essential success in steel. The inevitable conflict with the craft unions grew sharper, and in 1938 the A.F.L. expelled the industrial unions. The new grouping changed its name to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, named as its president John L. Lewis, as its vice president Phil Murray...
After betting his job on a Willkie victory in the presidential election, Lewis resigned in 1940, picking Murray as his successor. Called a Lewis stooge, Murray issued a memorable statement: "I think I am a man," he said. "I have a soul, a heart and a mind. And, with the exception of my soul, they all belong...
...three-front war: with the craft unions, with industry management and with the Communists. Lee Pressman became general counsel for the C.I.O., and other Communists rose to positions of great power. For a while, Communists and anti-Communists each thought they were using the other. Phil Murray at length decided to get rid of his Reds, but he was not fully successful until the Taft-Hartley Act (which he hated) came...
...politics, Murray was more successful than Lewis. Roosevelt often called Murray over to the White House for a quick nip and an evening's bull session (but he could never get Murray into evening clothes for a formal dinner). Murray was not as close to Truman (whom he called "the little governor") but eventually got an embarrassing avalanche of help from the Truman Administration, which culminated in Truman's impetuous seizure of Big Steel (TiME, April...