Preview
Publisher
Grand Forks Herald
Identification #
OGLMC 390
Creation Date
4-22-1962
Description
Cartoon depicts "Free Enterprise" being squeezed in a vise between "Labor" and "Government." The steel industry in one week raised prices and then reversed them. Government and Labor officials felt the steel industry's action was inappropriate. John F. Kennedy asked Congress to look at wage price stability.
Subject
Cartoons (Commentary); Political cartoons
Places Depicted
United States
Organizations Depicted
United States. President (1961-1963 : Kennedy); United States. Congress
People Depicted
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963
Rights
Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota
Keywords
Free enterprise, Labor, Government, John F. Kennedy, Wage Price, Steel industry and trade, Executive power, Steel--Prices, Wages, Government policy, Iron and steel workers