America 1960-1969: Business and the Economy Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 52 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1960-1969.

America 1960-1969: Business and the Economy Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 52 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1960-1969.
This section contains 266 words
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During his first year in office President John F. Kennedy and his administration were involved in negotiations between the major steel firms and their workers. By the end of March 1962 a deal was cut whereby workers received no wage increase but expanded fringe benefits. With this settlement worked out, Kennedy assumed steel companies would not raise their prices. Two weeks later, however, Roger M. Blough, president of U.S. Steel, went to the White House and handed Kennedy a press release announcing a price hike of six dollars a ton. The other major steel firms immediately followed suit. Kennedy felt betrayed: he had intervened in talks between Big Steel and labor to keep industry costs down, and now the companies raised prices. He responded by attacking the action of steel executives on television and initiated a grand jury investigation on price-fixing in...

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