December 3, 1941

The “1941 Union Contract”, dated November but signed on this day, between Steinway & Sons and United Piano Workers Union, secures 11 legal holidays, one week’s paid summer vacation, a Christmas bonus of three full days’ pay, the right to renegotiate wages “as affected by changes in the cost of living”, and a 12.5% wage increase. The contract also states that “the Company shall not move its three plants… to any place or places outside the five boroughs of the CIty of New York”.