Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cheerfully parodying an old Bell System slogan as he led 200,000 telephone workers to the picket lines two weeks ago, Communications Workers of America Boss Joseph A. Beirne allowed that "the voice with a smile will be gone for a while." And so it was-at least among the grim-faced installers, operators, linemen, repairmen and clerks out on the streets last week...
...nationwide telephone strike -first in 21 years-moved into its third week, it had produced little more than some annoying static in phone service. Beyond a rash of minor sabotage that damaged cables and equipment, the only major effect was a suspension of new phone installations as Bell System companies kept skeleton repair crews close to central offices. Filling in for striking operators, gravel-voiced executives on twelve-hour switchboard shifts were all thumbs at first, but by week's end most were well on the way to mastering their temporary tasks...
...contrast to 1947, when a walkout of 370,000 workers snarled the nation's telephone communications for 44 days, the 84-million-phone Bell System is now all but invulnerable to shutdown by strike. Only 18 of Bell's towns (among them: York, Ala., Nashwauk, Minn.) are still served by manual switchboards; elsewhere, automated equipment has eliminated the need for operators on 99.8% of local calls and 91% of long-distance calls. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. insists that its new gear can function without attention indefinitely. And even union men concede that, thanks to up-from...
...steering committee--whose members include Daniel Bell, Lionel Trilling, and Walter Metzger--conferred late yesterday afternoon with student leaders, who asked for faculty and student control of the university's policy-making apparatus, to replace administration and board of trustees...
...concerned about the economic gap between business and the barracks is Standard Oil of New Jersey, which offers a flat two months' induction pay plus 50% of the difference between service and civilian pay for married men as long as they are on active duty. Atlanta-based Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. pays a 100% differential for up to six months, while Dow Chemical men go off to war with a check for up to two months' pay. Western Electric pro vides full differential pay for the first three months of active duty, plus an other three...