| Show A NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton 11 scotch miner now power in councils of C 1 I 0 NEW nand EW YORK spokesman and cham champion plop oi of labor in what one correspondent calls a new era in capital labor relations in the united states is philip murray seasoned weathered labor battler but also negotiator goti ator and pacifier for three presidents heading the steel workers organ izing committee he met benjamin F fairless president of the carnegie illinois corporation in a confer ence which resulted in an epochal agreement between labor and the steel industry at eighteen philip murray punched the weigh master 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 1 I 0 he talk it over he has said many times that after punching the weigh master he learned to keep his temper that was his only un disciplined outbreak As a boy he was a miner in his native scotland the family removed to america when he was sixteen ile was in the pit for the keystone coal coke corn com pany the nose punching episode led the miners to make III him in president of their newly organized local of the united mine workers of america this started his big career as a labor leader lie ile educated himself by a correspondence course he moved along up with john L lewis and thomas kennedy now lieutenant governor of pennsylva nia in both the strife and strategy of the organization all three were I 1 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 thi thic 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 OSO miners in revolt A big bulky deliberate man with a bit of the old scotch burr in his speech master of flawless gram mar and diction he can still de liver a verbal punch but restrains his powerful fist although he ic an eager boxing fan he is married and has an eight een year old o id son his salary as an official of the U M W A is 9 a year king kings s pants putter on DEFORE TJ the abdication of ed 13 ward VIII the british court of claims sitting with full bottom wigs and mediaeval court uniforms set tied some pretty difficult business naming among other coronation the official pants putter on for the king then when 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 a ao lord ancaster is awarded the king kings s pajamas in stead of the legally stipulated night robe as part of his cut in the coro nation ceremony he ile will also get the king s bed and 40 yards of crimson velvet priced at sa 7 04 01 at the time of king rich ard s decree touching thereon in 1377 and now worth 60 the lord great chamberlain lord Ari ancaster caster outranks prime minister stanley baldwin his counsel pressed his claims before the court winning all of them except the tra dit ional box in westminster abbey and accepting gracefully the ousby necessary compromise on the pajamas the founding fathers hadn haan t foreseen pajamas but it was all interpreted in the pint of king richard richards 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 pronounced chumley the former lord great chamberlain who by ancient custom had to resign along with king edward the marquis of lincolnshire is the third great peer to share the above honors and emo emoluments laments the office rotating a among mong the ahr three ee camilie in 1905 lord ancaster who had not yet succeeded to his title mar ned ried the strikingly beautiful eloise breese of new york daughter of the late L W breese she became the chatelaine of the ancient castles of drummond and Grims grimsthorpe thorpe of the tuxedo anston she was the possessor os of a large fortune a sportswoman and a hag flag member of the new york yacht club she liv ened up the old castles a lot with her bloode 1 horses and dogs later lafer gaining fa fame me in salmon fishing ru inous taxes compelled lord ancas ter to sell his principal ial e tate in 1924 ie ile is sixty nine C conso bonso dated news features W I 1 service |
