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Title: Investigation of telephone companies. Letter from the secretary of commerce and labor transmitting, in response to a Senate resolution of May 28, 1908
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Labor Stewart, Ethelbert, 1857-1936 Baldwin, Charles E
Subjects: Telephone Telephone
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ger thegirls are when they begin the longer they stay at the business. Theaverage length of service of all operators at present employed isreported by Dallas, Tex., as two years and five months; average lengthof service for all operators is reported as 17 months in Washington,D. C.; and as 18 months in Baltimore, Md. By operating forces or tricks the figures for Washington and Balti-more are as follows: AVERAGE MONTHS OF SERVICE OF DAY, EVENING, AND NIGHT OPERATORS IN WASH-INGTON, D. C, AND BALTIMORE, MD. Class of operators. Average months ofservice in- Wash ing-ton. Baltimore. Day operators Evening operators.Night operators... 28.65.312.7 29.58.811.7 It must be borne in mind in considering the above presentation thatnumbers of the night and evening operators pass into the day forcerather than out of the service, while those dropping out of the dayforce drop out of the service altogether, comparatively few going intosupervisory groups. ■ MM life^rtgv , Ell ■MP! ^PH._ _ ^vA .,rll J
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CHAPTER I. GENERAL DISCUSSION. 49 In the matter of promotion in the sense of increased salary, mostcompanies have more or less adhered to automatic systems of grantingincreases every six months until the maximum is reached. Failureto adhere strictly to this rule, when it is a tacit part of the terms ofagreement under which the operator enters the companys employ,was found to be a serious source of complaint and is most fruitfulof resignation. Promotions from the ranks of operators to the super-visory force are not infrequent and may be fairly hoped for by theolder women in the service. The accompanying table shows for twocities—New York, N. Y., and Atlanta, Ga.—the number in each andin all supervisory positions as compared with the number of switch-board operators, by tricks, and the relative ages of women and girlsin the various positions: PERSONS OF EACH SPECIFIED AGE EMPLOYED ON SUPERVISORY FORCE AND ASSWITCHBOARD OPERATORS, BY SHIFTS. NEW YORK TELEPHONE CO., NEW YORK, N. Y. (M

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