1959 Press Photo Steel strike mediator, Finnegan, and union leader McDonald talk

Pipe smoking David J. McDonald, steelworkers union president, sits by a Federal Mediation Service director Joseph P. Finnegan gestures during news conference in Roosevelt Hotel today. Finnegan held separate peace talks with steel strike disputants and said he foresaw no easy or early solution to the dispute that had idled 500,000 steelworkers since midnight last Tuesday.

Photo is dated 1959.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.