11 Office Workers Join Telephone Operators In Walkout Over "Heat"
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
June 23, 1953
June 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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Eleven more Ohio Bell Telephone Company employees steamed out of their building yesterday afternoon in an attempt to burn management into providing an air conditioning system for their office. But beyond yesterday's moist cloud of heat, no air conditioning system was in sight. About 40 telephone operators left their posts at 9:45 Monday morning for a two-hour walkout. The 11 others, all from the business office, left their desks at 3 p.m., two hours before closing time. Hugh Harvey, commercial manager of the company, said that an air-conditioning system has been under consideration for some time. But he would not say when it might be installed - if at all...
Eleven more Ohio Bell Telephone Company employees steamed out of their building yesterday afternoon in an attempt to burn management into providing an air conditioning system for their office. But beyond yesterday's moist cloud of heat, no air conditioning system was in sight. About 40 telephone operators left their posts at 9:45 Monday morning for a two-hour walkout. The 11 others, all from the business office, left their desks at 3 p.m., two hours before closing time. Hugh Harvey, commercial manager of the company, said that an air-conditioning system has been under consideration for some time. But he would not say when it might be installed - if at all...
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