Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-03-25
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BY LemueI F. Parton
neutrality-suspicious.
Scotch Miner Now Power in
Councils of C.. /. o.

NEW YORK. - Spokesman
/ = and champion of labor in
what one correspondent calls
ga new era in capital-labor re-
lations in the United States" is
Philip Murray, seasoned, wealth
cred labor battler, but also ne
gotiator and pacifier for three
presidents.
Heading the steel workers organ
izing committee, he met BENJAMIN
F. Fairless, president of the Carne-
gle Illinois corporation, in a confer
ence which resulted in an epochal
agreement between labor and the
steel industry.
At eighteen, Philip Murra y|
punched the weighmaster IN the
nose and started a small civil war
in Westmoreland county, Pa. AT
fifty, powerful, mostly off-stage
figure in the rise of the c. l. o.,
he talks it over. He has said many
times that, after punching the
weighmaster, he learned to keep
his temper. That was his only I'M
disciplined outbreak.
AS a boy, he was miner in his
native Lanarkshire, Scotland. The
family removed to America when
he was sixteen. He was in the pit
for the Keystone Coal & Coke COM
pany. The nose-punching episode
led the 600 miners to make him
president of their newly organized
local Of the United Mine Workers OF
America. This started his career
as a labor leader. He educated
himself by correspondence course.
He moved along up with John L.
Lewis and Thomas Kennedy, now
lieutenant governor of Pennsylva-
mia, in both the strife and strategy
of the organization. All three were
vigorous foes of the left-wingers,
and some of their stiffest fights were
in their own ranks.
If "vertical" unionism leads to a
reformation of American labor, for
good or ill, this triumvirate will
figure in the history books as it's
founder.
President Wilson made Philip
Murray member of his war labor
board. In 1921, President Harding
used him to sidetrack civil war in
Wingo county, w. Va, with 10000
miners in revolt.
A big, bulky, deliberate man, with
a bit of the old Scotch burr in his
speech, master Of fawless gram
mar and diction, he can still de-
liver a verbal punch, but Restraints
his powerful fist, although he is ar
eager boxing fan.
He is married and has an eight.
een-year-old SON. His salary as ar
official of the u. M. w. A. is $4,000
a year.
Kings Pants-Putter-On.
% EFORE the abdication of Ed
: u ward VIII, the British court O.
: claims, sitting with full-bottom wig:
and medieval court uniforms, set
tied some pretty difficult business
naming, among other, coronation
dignitaries, the official pants-putter
on for the king Then, when Ed
: ward quit the throne, they had t.
go through it all again, preparing
for the coronation Of George vi.
Britannia rules the waves ant
5 sometimes valves the rule. TIL
r crisis is past, as Lord Ancaster i
5 awarded the kings pajamas, in
! stead of the legally stipulated nigh
s robe as part of his cut in the core
I nation ceremony
He will also get the kings bed an
= 40 yards of crimson velvet-price
= at S7.O4 at the time of King Ricf
ards decree touching thereon i
1877, and now worth $281.60.
: The lord great chamberlain, Lor
) Ancaster outranks Prime Ministe
d Stanley Baldwin. His counst
s pressed his claims before the cour
i winning all of them except the tr;
W ditiona1 box in Westminster able
d and accepting gracefully the obv
d ously necessary compromise on tn
e pajamas. The founding father
e hadn't foreseen pajamas, but
k was all interpreted in the spirit
= King Richards instrument.
5 Lord Ancaster wins the right
IS carry the kings coiffe and 90
/ dress him in shirt, stockings ar
= drawers" Here he wins out Ov'
l !. the marquis of Cholmondeley (pr
nounced Chumley), the former lOl
v great chamberlain, who, by anciel
y custom, had to resign along Wi
~ King Edward.
The marquis of Lincolnshire is Il
: third great peer to share the abo'
- honors and emolumentS, the off,