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He is a devout Catholic whose parents were born in County Roscommon, Ireland, and will often quote papal encyclicals to back up his points. Rumors that he once studied for the priest- hood are unfounded, however, his colleagues insist. This is the man who called out 287.000 members of his independent union on April 7 in a nationwide strike against the Bell Telephone system companies which has put a crimp in the country's communications. During the strike crises of early 1946, his conduct during negotiations to avert a telephone strike brought from Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach the commendation that Beirne was "One of the best labor leaders I've known in keeping his promise." idolleled Company at 17 Beirne helped build up the union which he now heads. He worked for years with the Bell system and affiliated companies of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.. the parent concern. He began work at the age of 17 with the Western Electric Co., an A. T. & T. subsidiary, in Kearney, N. J. His' pay was 32 cents an hour, week. Five $12.80 for a years later he had advanced to a point where he was receiving 52 cents an hour and averaging $18 a week. Today, Beirne is the head of one of the largest independent unions in the nation and is paid $12,000 a year. Beirne liked his work with the Bell Telephone system, but recalls with some amusement how he first came to work for it. "I saw an ad in the papers," he related. "It said that the Bell System offered 'careers,' not jobs. That intrigued me. 'When I entered the Bell employment office at Kearney, I was frankly astounded. Soft light, indirect lighting met my eyes. Behind a shiny desk was seated an executive. 4 Workers. 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During all those years, the genius of its laboratories and the inge-- : nuity of its production lines have been devoted to giving finer tone, 17-ye- ..... To you, this announcement means that whatever you wish to pay for a radio or you will still find the finest quality at the lowest possible price in a Philco. Tremendously expanded factories employing the most efficient mass production techniques are producing in quart. tity the greatest values in all Philco built to Philco. stand. history ards of quality and now priced standards of value. to pre-w- formance, quality, and , I, YOUR GUIDE t vo . rfo "rweeetioldil 00es 0 OX ler Co. StrovollPatorson s it ed - - Cu . - A Cas- - ' . la district union representative. !Later he served for three years as federation vice president while retaining his position as president of the Western Electric Employes association in Kearney, now grown to 20,000 members. He became federation president in 1943 and two years later it e was made a post at $12,000 a year. Today the federation is composed of 51 autonomous unions with a paid-u- p membership of 182.000 and representing 287,000 telephone workers. The federation's most important achievement has been the raising of the wage scales in. A. T. & T.'s industrial empire. Before the workers were .unionized, telephone operators received a minimum of $11 a week, rising to a maximum of $20 to $22 after some years. AP., I f,,, , !:"11.1.111111111",1"."151"1"111"1"10E-11111:71.....ts- lt, ikes'( - IS ZA.......m........a '''' - a. messy 10111MinanaWaligrager. "1.1111.11111""111.1"Nr'' Beirne has led a varied career. Although he quit high school when he was 16, just as soon as he became eligible for working papers, he was a man with a will for knowledge. He resumed his high school education later and in 1933 received his diploma after five years of night classes At the age of 23, he entered evening classes at St. Peter's College, studying there until 1937, when he enrolled at New York University. The following year. however, his union activities forced him to give up his studies Beirne likes to talk. Even with strike on, he took time out to deliver a one-holecture on justice in management-labo- r relations before 225 students of St. John's College in Washington, D. C. The nationwide strike was only five days old, but Beirne accepted an invitation to .address the class from Brother Luke. its instructor. After it was over, Brother Luke remarked that he was impressed with Beirnes "sense of fairness and magnificent balance in dealing with the telephone walkout." "Not once," said Brother Luke. "did he denounce the telephone company, as such, nor did he attempt to justify his union's side et the dispute. Instead, Beirne discussed and developed the theory and practice of unionism and its relation to society." , Beirne was born in Jersey City, N. J., Feb. 16, 1911. the son of Michael and Anne Beirne. His father is a member of the BrothSold Completely erhood of Railroad Engineers. He was married in 1933 to told timidly, that I had come to ask for Anne Mary Abahaze. He was a job. The employment execu- making $18 a week then. The tive halted me. He told me that couple has three children, Carol. with the Bell System, it was not Maureen and Bren. a 'job' but a 'position.' BricklayBeirrif is 5 feet 814 inches tall ing, he informed me, was a job, and weighs 165 pounds. He is a for Western Elec- Democrat. but tric was a career." Beirne said he was given an application which took him 90minutes to fill out, then sent to the medical department for a thorough physical examination. COLUMBIA, Mo., Four company employes told (INS) him what a great organization Movie Actress Jean Arthur is the Bell System was and how serious about the special course Interested it was in the health she is taking at Stephens College in Columbia. and welfare of its employes. Miss Arthur, it was learned Beirne said he left the today, has moved from a dormpany's office "inspired and completely sold on the Bell System." itory which she shared with 22 He went home and told his other students to a Columbia hotel because "noise' and conanother about it. "She listened thoughtfully," he fusion" in the dormitory inter- -, said, "and when I was through !erred with her studying. The screen star enrolled at she asked me: 'Son, how much are they going- to pay you?'" Stephens as a special student It was then Heinle realized he taking philosophy, biology, marhadn't bothered to find out. Lat- riage and the home. She exer he learned he was to receive pects to complete her work by 32 cents an hour.. June. Beirne began work with the Bell System as a stock boy and before he left to devote all- his Three, Burmese Will time to his union he had worked as an assembler .of relay coils, Dioiss Native Land Burma will be discussed by on a drill press, it repair work, and as a department clerk. three, Burmese students of the His union activity began in of Utah at the Un1937. While en route to evening University classes at St. Peter's College, Jer- itariakpublic forum Sunday at 8 the church, 569 South sey City, N. J., he dropped in on p.m. of employes of WestThirteenth East St., Judge ClarIernmeeting Electric at KearneY, simply out of curiosity. A man with a ence Baker, chairman, announced lucid tongue and an agile mind. today. he soon became embroiled in the "The, Unitarian Church and debate which ensued. When it Social Action," will be the subended, Beirne found that he bad ject of the sermon by the Rev. been elected president of the Edwin H. Wilson at 11 CM. !la newly-formindependent Western Electric Employes Associaspecial meeting of the congregation, Hudson Street. Shops. tion will follow the sermon to More Western Electric Co. em- consider methods of aflditional Unformed independent ployes together... support for relief prograYn of the ions, then affiliated Later they joined with the Bell Service Committee overseas. , . , A:td71 , , :111011011.11.11111411.111111.11111111.4 ur 4 ..,, o'',- t Systems telephone company unions to form what is now the National Federation of Telephone -- act ''':!. .1'''''N'' Junior Chamber WASHIN'GTON -It was once said of Joseph A. Beirne, 36- d year-olpresident of the National Federation of Telephone Nyorkers, that he was "a young man who used his power cau- -- ed mam." ' e007 , Unioneer Given Award By Raymond Wilcove bah:. . .00 Phone Strike Boss Central Press Correspondent as- - Cas- 4,,,A : . JOSEPH BEIRNE, phone workers' boss, before Senate. By U. S. , ay Algiers," he :I tiset31,7 11;31: in the cashah, he So it would have been redundant to ask the lady to come to the casbah to see hie And in the second ; etchirirs. i French amnia place, he has but not the burlesque kind. Boyer is a scholar and ..a gentleman. But some day, he says his patience is going to snap sad when a man or-- woman in.' his presence hisses Come "Ars I me to at tCasbah," he is going his age. I 10 paste himor herwhere it Boyer finally deniea he ever will do the most good. 1 - ERE DESERET NEWS- -7 Saturday, April 28, INT is A e,....., ! nor Boyer likes to play whet he calls "adult' roles. That is the he described the port of Ravic: the tragic refugee doctor iRnent.".akrrricuhe onfoTerliuT.hpthch," the Eric has been completed as a film. just "It is the sad story of a mid- die-egman, a man of my own age and geheration," Boyercon- tinued "Ravic is an absieutely I human beunglamorous, I c'thn" ing. I enjoyed part tremendously because I could at least act my age." In the role of Ravic. Royer 1 down-to-ear- I 1 . x:." d. .. , ' - - - 11.11 In all fairness to Boyer, it may is muidle-ageBut what Boyer be said that he seems extremeapparently cannot appreciate is with a ly distressed at the idea that he that he is middle-age- d difference. On him, it's wonderis the Van Johnson, of the middle-ful! So I said: aged, matinee mamas. -- He on"Neihra.siBneoytehr; go ghrigthhet gpaseirlle d,scussed his problem with. humor and intelligence in his suite onasthaih eavteanI if you have to pant h at the Hotel Pierre during a But Boyer has something else brief visit to New York. in mind.,.Heexplithed: It is quite true, as he points "I tiInk I would be at my out, that he lookso every 'inch best, itiqf timple picture about his aie. His dark hair is thin people featuring and graying, and he Must wear the kind of man you meet in street. the That's the kind of a wig in pictures. There are lines around his dark. somnolent eyes, of man he the kind (That's and about his There is no doul5t that Boyer haunting the wrong streets.) "eA -- 17,,,,- ,, f s wind isn't what. it used , to be on the Boyer said: , . 'I am getting away quickly from makinglove to women on the screen. I have been acting for Many years and never were the love ..scenes the essential core of the Not even when I was much younger! 'And now, when. I am 47, even the prospect is slightly ridicutOous. I don't want to be a glamour boy, I never have been a glamour boy and this certainly Is no time to start." '' it , .... :04,14.4,7 YORK(INS)--Charle- anis - man Boyer Is a middle-age- d who Ilbants to act his age. He is sick .anit tired of being confused with Casanova, Henry Don Juan an a Tommy VIH, Manville. He said as much today, and he said it goodlind loud. Furthermore, Boyer does not think even his public can ex, ' pect him to go on indefinitt Chasing women bah or any place else. 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