April 6th

On April 6th 1962...

• The United Steel Workers of America and steel manufacturers agreed to a new contract, brokered by the U.S. Department of Labor, in which the union reduced its demands for a wage increase from 17 cents to 10 cents an hour, based upon the White House's determination to hold down prices. [Four days later, the steel makers raised their prices anyway and a furious President Kennedy forced U.S. Steel and other companies to rescind the increase on April 13.]
• Leonard Bernstein caused controversy by his remarks before a concert featuring Glenn Gould with the New York Philharmonic.