Out-of-town readers of any Philadelphia newspaper except Labor-loving J. David Stern's Record would never have guessed last week that anything out of the ordinary was happening in the staid third city of the land. Actually, Philadelphia was in the grip of what one of its officials called a "miniature revolution."
Trouble started when the local Storage Warehouse Union called a strike on all but one of the city's six biggest department stores. John Wanamaker's was exempted because it came to union terms after a strike last spring. With an enthusiasm which reminded observers...
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