1974 Press Photo Consolidated Edison Spokesman and Picketers - now22863

Demonstrators picket Consolidated Edison outside the Hotel Commodore in New York where the utility was having its annual shareholders meeting Monday. Inside the hotel, Con Ed board chairman Charles Luce, left, told the stockholders that the company's decision to skip its last dividend was the most agonizing it ever made.

Photo is dated 1974.

Photo measures 10.25 x 8 inches.