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Name: Philip Murray
Birth Date: May 25, 1886
Death Date: November 9, 1952
Place of Birth: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Place of Death: San Francisco, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: labor leader

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Biography of Philip Murray
791 words, approx. 3 pages
Philip Murray (1886-1952), American labor leader, helped organize America's mass-production workers into industrial unions through the establishment of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Philip Murray, John L. Lewis, Sidney Hillman, and David...


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Murray, Philip
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(born , May 25, 1886, Blantyre, Lanark, Scot.—died Nov. 9, 1952, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.) Scottish-born U.S. labour leader. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1902, he became a coal miner in Pennsylvania. He joined the United Mine Workers of...
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Philip Murray Information
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Philip Murray (May 25, 1886 - November 9, 1952) was a steelworker and an American labor leader. One of the most important American labor leaders of the 20th century, he was the first president of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), the first...


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The Boston Globe
Philip Murray, 85; owned island store, helped others Philip Murray, 85; owned island store, helped others
03/27/2007: 981 words, approx. 3 pages
While a segment of the sartorial world knew of Philip Chase Murray for his Nantucket Reds slacks, his fellow islanders knew him as a beloved friend and philanthropist. He shaped the lives of countless young people who worked at his Murray's Toggery Shop on...
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Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers. (book reviews)
10/01/1989: 899 words, approx. 3 pages
Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers This useful anthology is a collection of papers and comments presented in a 1986 conference at Penn State by labor historians, trade unionists, and other commentators on the Steel Workers...
 


 

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