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MORE and BETTER HOSPITALS
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mod* remarkable propfiii A ncord of 77 mw cmd
improved hospitals, with 4,406 bods, hi 73 of
100 counties, is some thing to bo proud of—ond
tributes greotly in making North Carolino a bettor
place in which to work# ploy and lire.
1
Another contributing foclor to
for North Coroliniant h the browing industry's
regulation progrom where brews
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permitted under State control *• Cooperate to
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BtVIHAi
PHILIP MURRAY
Late President of CIO
Late CIO President Learned
Unionism At Father’s Side
PITTSBURGH (LPA)—The year was 1892 and a six
year-old boy listened intently as striking coal miners in his
native Blantyre, Scotland, made their plans.
The local president in charge of the meeting was a man
named William Murray. The boy was his son, Philip. The
strike-strategy session was the first union experience of
the future CIO president, whose life was devoted unspar
ingly to the cause of labor until death came November 9,
1952, the 17th anniversary of the CIO’s founding.
The boy Philip was only 12
when he entered the mines as a
helper to his father for a wage
of about 30 cents a day. He was
16 when the family—there .were
10 children in all—arrived in the
United States on Christmas Day
of 1902 and settled in Irwin, %
coal mining town . near here.
Father and son went into the
mines together again and young
Murray studied correspondence
school courses ' at night.
A fist fight in 1904 with a
check weigh man accused of short
changing the miners on tonnage
set the course of Philip’s future
life. He was fired because of the
incident and 600 miners walked
off the job in protest. They
formed a local of the United Mine
Workers and elected young Mur
ray president, but hunger broke
the strike after four weeks -and
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Murray was run out of town by
^eputy sheriffs who told him never
to come back. He decided in that
moment that the only future for
Him was with the working man.
He became president of UMW
District 5 and in 1912 was elected
to the UMW international execu
tive board. In 1920. when John
L. Lewis became UMW president,
Murray was elected vice presi
dent, a post he held until 1942.
Lewis once said that there was
no coal business executive who
could compare with Murray in his
knowledge of the industry.
ty’hen the UMW joined with
seven other AFL unions in late
1936 to form the Committee for
Industrial Organization for the
purpose of organizing mass pro
duction industries on an industrial
union basis, Murray became head
| °f the CIO Steelworkers Organ
\ izing Committee.
The unions which had formed
the CIO were expelled from the
AFL in 1936 on a charge of pro
moting dual' unionism. In 1938,
the CIO, after three higly sue
resaful years of organizing, held
its first constitutional convention
and changed its name to Con
gress of Industrial Organizations.
Murray was elected a vice pres
ident and became president in
1940 when John L. Lewis stepped
down from the top post after
supposing the unsuccessful Wen
dell W i.kie in hi^ bid for che
presidency against Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
The campaign to organize steel I
went on.e Big US Steel had ere- j
ated a furore in the financial j
world hy capitulating to the un- j
ion without a struggle in 1937, j
hut it was some time before “Lit- j
tie Steel” grave up its violent op
position and came into the union
fold. It was not until 1942 that I
the United Steelworkers of Arrer- !
ica held its first constitutional '
convention, electing Murray pres
ident.
A rift had started developing
between Murray and Lewis short
ly after Murray stepped into the
top CIO spot and in 1942, Lewis
took the UMW out of the CIO,
ousting Murray as vice president
| of the union.
Along with other labor leaders
Murray served on government
> boards set up by Roosevelt to
Ideal with labor problems just
j prior to and during World War
ill. Immediately after the war,
| he headed the CIO delegation
[which participated in a joint La
bor-Management Conference called
by President Truman, but the
meeting failed to agree on a con
structive national wage policy.
As head of the Steelworkers,
Nun ay led the 194« strike which
1 rou*.ht an 18 1-2 cent wage
boost to hundreds of thousands of
workers in the steel industry and
paved the way for wage hikes in
other industries throughout the
nation.
In 1949 he headM the steel
strike which brought the Steel
■ worker* company-financed pen
sions and a new welfare program. ,
also pace-setters for other indus- i
tries.
The problem of Communist in
fluenee in the CIO was tackled by '
Murray at the 1949 convention.
The unions whose leaders were i
following the Soviet line were
placed on trial and ousted from
the CIO for refusing to follow
CIO policy. Much of the demo
cratic membership of these un
ions has been taken into other
CIQ affiliates, some of them new
unions created for that purpose.
Firmly believing that labor
must protect its gains and make
advances through the political ‘ !
process, Murray helped create the
CIO Political Action Committee
during the 1944 campaign to re
elect Roosevelt. He assumed 1
chairmanship of the committee >
after PAC’s first head, Sidney
Hillman, died in 1946. Murray
personally worked hard for the
election of Truman in 1948 and I
Stevenson in 1952. Only two ;
weeks before his death he had
made a nationwide radio and tele
vision appeal for Stevenson.
When the Korean War broke ]
out in 1950, Murray again Joined <
in active labor support of the
mobilization program. A pro
posal he made to other labor or
ganizations resulted in the forma
tion in December, 1950, of the
United Labor Policy Committee,
dissovled in 1951 when the AFL
withdrew.
r In 1952, Murray led the Steel
workers in a successful fight for
a new contract, signed only after
an eight-week strike that followed
a court ruling that President Tru
man’s seizure of the mills to pre
vent the walkout was unconstitu
tional. The seizure took place
after the industry, playing for a
big price boost, forced strike ac
tion by refusing to accept Wage
Stabilization Board recommenda
I tions for settlement of the con
itract dispute.
Murray received honorary de
grees from three universities, held
numerous positions with public
service organisations working in
the fields of-social welfare, health
and civil rights and was for many
years a member of the school
board here. He also was a mem
ber of the executive board of the
International Confederation of
Free Trade Unions.
His sudden and unexpected
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i®ath, a week before the 1952
310 convention was scheduled in
L*e Angeles, came just a few
tours after he had addressed a
mion meeting in San Francisco.
His own words can best express
■he convictions which led him to
:nrn down many lucrative offers
iom private industry and cast his
et with the working man.
“The work of organising,” he
laid shortly before' his death,
‘rises so far above men and so
'ar above triviality that men who
ire interested in kids, men whose
iouIs and hearts and minds beat
n unison with the aspirations of
ittle children and toiling men and
somen, will loan their bodies and
heir souls and their brains and
:heir minds and everything that
Sod has given them in this work
>f organising.”
WORKERS COVERED BY UC
JP 13,000,000 SINCE 1940
MOW TOTAL 36.009.090
WASHINGTON (LPA) — The
lumber of workers covered by
State unemployment insurance
aws has increased by about 13.
>00,000 since 1940. the Labor De
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partment’s Bureau of Employ
ment Security announced. In tha
1940 calendar year, workers in
covered jobs averaged 23,100,000.
Thus far this calendar year, cov
ered employment has averaged
36,000.000.
Covered employment reached a
peak of 37,400,000 in December,
1952, an increase of about 2,000,
000 over the 1951 December total.
The average for the 1952 calen
dar year was 35,700,uw.
The Bureau said that about
two-thirds of the nonagricultural
labor force in now covered by
State Unemployment insurance
programs.
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