| Show AA NEWS THIS WEEKS WEEK by lemuel le muel F parton pa rion I 1 scotch allner now power in councils of C 1 I 0 N NEW EW YORK spokesman and champion 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 cc presidents heading the steel workers organizing committee he met benjamin F fairless president of the carne gle gie illinois corporation in a conference which resulted in an epochal agreement g between labor and the steel industry at eighteen philip M murray u r r a y punched the weigh master in the nose and started a small civil war in westmoreland county pa at fifty a powerful mostly offstage off stage figure in the rise of the C 1 I 0 he talks it over he has said many times that after punching the weigh master he learned to keep his temper that was his only undisciplined outbreak As a boy he was a miner in his bis native scotland the family removed to america when he was sixteen lie he was in the pit for the keystone coal coke company the nose punching episode led the miners to make him president of their newly organized local of the united mine aline workers of america this started his career as a labor leader he educated himself by a correspondence course I 1 he moved along up with john L lewis and thomas kennedy now lieutenant governor of pennsylvania 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 0 v 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 1931 1921 president harding used him to sidetrack a civil war in wingo wing o county W va with miners miner in revolt A big bulky deliberate man wit with i a bit of the old scotch burr in h his s speech master of flawless graer grammar and diction he can still deliver a verbal punch but restrains his powerful fist although he is an eager boxing fan he is married and has an eight een year old son his salary as an official of the U M W A is a year kin kings Is pants putter on bward BEFORE the abdication of edward VIII the british court ol of claims sitting with full bottom wigs and mediaeval media eval court uniforms settled some pretty difficult business naming among other coronation dignitaries the official pants putter on for the king then when edward quit the throne they had to go 90 through it all again preparing ing for the coronation of george VI britannia rules the waves arid and sometimes waives the rule the crisis is past as lord ancaster is awarded the kings pajamas instead of the legally stipulated night robe as part of his cut in the coronation ceremony lie he will also set get the king kinds s bed and 40 yards of crimson velvet priced at sam at the time of king kin richards decree touching ton chin thereon in 1377 and now worth the lord great chamberlain lord ancaster ou prime minister stanley baldwin his counsel pressed his claims before the court winning all of them except the traditional dit ional box in westminster abbey and accepting gracefully the obviously necessary compromise on the pajamas the founding fathers foreseen pajamas but it was all interpreted in the spirit of king richards instrument lord ancaster wins the right to carry the kings coiffe and to dress him in shirt stockings s and drawers here he wins out ou over the marquis of pronounced chumley the former lord great chamberlain who by ancient custom had to resign along with king kin edward the marquis of lincolnshire Lincoln shire 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 no not t yc yet t succeeded to his title married the strikingly beautiful eloise breese of new york daug daughter lter of the late L W breese she became the chatelaine of the ancient castles of drummond and grimsthorpe Grims thorpe of the tuxedo aristei ari she was the possessor of a large fortune a sportswoman and a flag member of the new york yacht club she livened up the old castles a lot with her blooded horses and dogs later graining gaining fame in salmon fishing ruinous rus itus inous taxes compelled compell col lord ancaster to sell his principal estate in 1921 1924 tie he is sixty nine S c consolidated features feature service |
