Quit Work; Ask Air Conditioning - "Cooled off" operators returned to their duties at the Ohio Bell office here at 11:45 a.m. today, Manager Hugh Harvey announced - Middletown heat boiled labor-management relations at the Ohio Bell Telephone Company to a high temperature this morning and sent about 40 indignant telephone operators out of their office building and into a downtown drug store. The girls claimed their place of work was too hot. Hugh Harvey, commercial manager of the company, said, "Its about 88 degrees here. It's not too hot." The drug store where the girls took refuge is air-conditioned. Long distance service was eliminated for two hours except for emergency calls, Harvey said, and information services were being handled as best as possible under the circumstances...

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