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...Francisco's Chinatown exchange, where operators answer with a cheery "Gay Daw Ho" (number please), speak many dialects and know most customers' numbers by heart, a walkout of all the regular operators caused a wonderful confusion...
...took the elevator down to the street and picked up a picket sign. Across the country, by time zones, galloped Mr. Mayer's horse. At 9 a.m., E.S.T., workers quit the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. offices in Los Angeles and for the first time in history a telephone walkout was nationwide...
...million dial phones still worked, but that service would last only until there were mechanical breakdowns. Maintenance workers were among the strikers; so were clerical, accounting and plant workers of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s vast Bell Systems. Workers at the subsidiary Western Electric joined the walkout...
...Washington, the Administration held the phone, listening to the wrangle. Last week, as the deadline of the "impossible" walkout became imminent, Attorney General Tom Clark found a law (the Federal Communications Act) which he said gave the President the right to seize the lines in the event of a strike. Said Beirne: "He is stretching the law to the breaking point...
WASHINGTON, April 6-With only ten hours remaining before the deadline for a cross-country telephone walkout, Joseph A. Beirne, president of the National Federation of Telephone workers, said tonight "tomorrow morning we strike...