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Show AAtAi AAi-AAtiAAAtAt AAA t A, I WHO'S NEWS I THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton ytvyTT f ytyt y yytyyytty yyV Scotch Miner Now Power In Councils Coun-cils of C. I. O. SJEW YORK. Spokesman and champion of labor in what one correspondent calls "a new era in capital-labor capital-labor relations in the United States" is Philip Murray, seasoned, sea-soned, weathered labor battler, bat-tler, but also negotiator and pacifier for three presidents. Heading the steel workers' organizing organ-izing committee, he met Benjamin F. Fairless, president of the Carnegie-Illinois corporation, in a conference confer-ence which resulted in an epochal agreement between labor and the steel industry. At eighteen, Philip Murray punched the weighmaster in the nose and started a small civil war In Westmoreland county, Pa. At fifty, a powerful, mostly off-stage figure in the rise of the C. I. 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 undisciplined un-disciplined outbreak. As a boy, he was a 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 company. 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 lead-sr. He educated himself by a correspondence course. He moved along up with John L. Lewis and Thomas Kennedy, now lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, Pennsylva-nia, 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 its founder. President Wilson made Philip Murray a member of his war labor board. In 1921, President Harding used him to sidetrack a civil war in Wingo county, W. Va., with 10,000 miners in revolt. A big, bulky, deliberate man, with a bit of the old Scotch burr in his speech, master of flawless grammar gram-mar and diction, he can still deliver de-liver a verbal punch, but restrains his powerful fist, although he is an eager boxing fan. He is married and has an eighteen-year-old son. His salary as an official of the U. M. W. A. is $9,000 a year. King's Pants-Putter-On. BEFORE the abdication of Edward Ed-ward VIII, the British court of claims, sitting with full-bottom wigs and mediaeval court uniforms, settled set-tled some pretty difficult business, naming, among other coronation dignitaries, the official pants-putter-on for the king. Then, when Edward Ed-ward quit the throne, they had to go through it all again, preparing for the coronation of George VI. Britannia rules the waves and sometimes waives the rule. The crisis is past as Lord Ancaster is awarded the king's pajamas, instead in-stead of the legally stipulated night robe as part of his cut in the coronation coro-nation ceremony. He will also get the king's bed and 40 yards of crimson velvet priced at S7.04 at the time of King Richard's Rich-ard's decree touching thereon in 1377, and now worth $281.60. The lord great chamberlain, Lord Ancaster outranks Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. His counsel pressed his claims before the court, winning all of them except the traditional tra-ditional box in Westminster abbey and accepting gracefully the obvi-ousl' obvi-ousl' necessary compromise on the pajamas. The founding fathers hadn't foreseen pajamas, but it was all interpreted in the spirit of King Richard's instrument. Lord Ancaster wins the right to carry the king's coiffe and "to dress him in shirt, stockings and drawers." Here he wins out over the marquis of Cholmondeley (prone (pro-ne unced Chumley), the former lord great chamberlain, who, by ancient enstom, had to resign along with King Edward. The marquis of Lincolnshire is the third great peer to share the above honors and emoluments, the office rotating among the three families. In 1905, Lord Ancaster, who had not yet succeeded to his title, married mar-ried the strikingly beautiful Eloise Breese of New York, daughter of the late L. W. Bieese. She became the chatelaine of the ancient castles of Drummond and Grimsthorpe. Of the Taxedo aristoi, she was the possessor of a large fortune, a sportswoman and a flag member ol the New York Yacht club. She liv. encd up the old castles a lot, with her blooded horses and dogs, later gaining fame in salmoD fishing. Ruinous Ru-inous taxes compelled Lord Ancaster Ancas-ter to sell his principal estate is 1924. He is sixty-nine. C Consoltd.-ilTl Newi Feitureo, WNU Scrvici. |