The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-08
Frisch Gains Victory Over
 B.B. Union

pittshtrQh. June 6-tUPD--FztaS' burg Pirate Manager Frankie Ffisch emerged a victor today over an ad- rnitted baseball outsider, Robert Murphy, the Harvard-educated union organizer. whose efforts to promote the first major league labor walkout in history ended in dismal failure.
 The players, who stood by Mur- phy until the hour of showdown. finally voted in a stormy clubhouse session to stick by Friscla and gave the fiery manager an added vote Of confidence when they went on the field and licked the Giants. 10 to 5. behind their most robust hitting dis- play of the entire season.
 Murphy had held the upper-hand until that last-minute meeting. The American Baseball Guild. which he had founded only this year in Bos- ton, held 6 majority membership of 34 out of the 9 players on the Fl. rate roster.
 Management Refuses
 Behind his leadership. they had voted earlier to walk out on their game with the visiting New Workers unless the Pittsburgh club president. William Benswanger. yielded to their demands for recognition of the guild as a collective bargaining agent.
 But the Pirate management. sup ported by Frisch. refused to give tn. The colorful manager. himself one of the greatest second basemen in the game, said he was ready to play and that he would use the immortal Pirate saiortstop, 72-year-old Honus Wagner, if necessary. It wasn't.
 Neither Frisch nor Wagner, nor the is sand-iot and sefni-pro play CTS brought in to play in case of the walkout, got chance to show their wares.
 The players convened for nearly two hours before game time and in the midst of their session called upon the Pirate field director, Bob Rice, who addressed them for is minutes. Rice, acting as a management reps resentative, assured them that their rights would be protected and that at least some of the concessions they sought through tine guild would be granted.
 Decide te Win for Frankie
 While the gathering crowd await ed in the twilight, unInindful of the drama that was unfolding in the clubhouse. the players took a vote and by a count of is to i7 decided to do out and win one for Frankie.
 The players took the field grinaly, ignoring even Murphy who stood nearby smoking a cigar and looking deected. They lost no time in es- tablishing the fact that they meant business. rapping ace Giant pitcher Bill Vioselle for two runs in the first inning and getting total Of IS hits off a succeeding parade 0f six Giant hurlers in their victory. Voiselle, who had shut out the vaunted St. Louis Cardinals with five hits on his last outing, was treated like a batting practice pitch- CT and had to be removed after two and a third innings.
 Murphy, who had said earlier in the day that the walkOalt against the Giants was the move upon which everything depends" insist ed that the guild would continue its fight.
 'If the Pittsburgh playele do not go through with this thing tonight. we are licked" he said before the meeting.
 After the vote was announced he released a statement in which he said that "tale mere fact that the Guild members of the Pirates did not choose to use an economic weap- on at their disposal at this time does not indicate that we shall not continue our fight in Pittsburgh"