About Philip Murray
Philip Murray was a Scottish-born steelworker and an American labor leader. He was the first president of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), the first president of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), and the longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Philip was the oldest boy, and after only a few years of public education, he went to work in the coal mines at 10 to help support the family. Murray was working in a coal mine in 1904 when he became involved in the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). Convinced that unions were the only means workers had of protecting their interests, Murray became an avid and lifelong unionist. In 1911, Murray became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
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