TITLE

Battle of Wall Street

PUB. DATE
April 1948
SOURCE
America;4/17/1948, Vol. 79 Issue 2, p19
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The article reports on two developments in the Wall Street strike that call for special comment. First, is the incident on March 30, 1948, which some of the newspapers called a riot. The second is the invitation forwarded by the union, the United Financial Employees (AFL), to a group of twenty-one notable citizens to examine issues in the dispute and pass judgment on them. Moreover, M. David Keefe of AFL, expressed the hope that the investigation would lead to achieve peace.
ACCESSION #
35337395

Tags: STRIKES & lockouts;  LABOR unions;  LABOR disputes;  WALL Street (New York, N.Y.)

 

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