A large proportion of the people in the Bell System make a career of telephone work. More than 245,000 of them have been in the business over ten years. Wages are good, employment steady, and working conditions are pleasant. The Bell companies’ Benefit and Pension Plans, among the oldest and best in industry, assist employees and their families in meeting the problems that arise from sickness, accident, old age and death. Opportunity to advance in the organization is open to all on the basis of individual ability. Supervisory and management positions are filled from the ranks.
The principal telephone subsidiaries of American Telephone and Telegraph Company serve generally the areas shown. The Southern New England and Cincinnati and Suburban are associated but non-controlled companies. In nearly all areas other telephone companies operate and connect with Bell System lines.]
THE PACIFIC TEL. & TEL. CO. BELL TEL. CO. OF NEVADA THE MOUNTAIN STATES TEL. & TEL CO. THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND TEL. CO. NEW JERSEY BELL TEL. CO. THE DIAMOND STATE TEL. CO. THE CINCINNATI AND SUBURBAN BELL TEL. CO. THE CHES. & POT. TEL. CO. (D.C.) THE CHES. & POT. TEL. CO. OF BALTIMORE CITY THE CHES. & POT. TEL. CO. OF VIRGINIA THE CHES. & POT. TEL. CO. OF WEST VIRGINIA
As a telephone user, you want to be able to count on your telephone, to be able to call other telephone users any time, anywhere. You expect reliable service at low cost. The kind of service you expect depends on teamwork—among telephone people in your local company, and among the separate companies that make up the Bell System. That is the way the Bell System is organized to serve you. This is what it contains:
■ A group of operating telephone companies, each known as an Associated Company and each serving its particular territory.
■ One of the finest research and development organizations in the world, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Its work consists of research, development and design in the communications field. It creates apparatus that improves telephone service, makes it more efficient, and keeps its cost low.
■ A supply organization, the Western Electric Company. It manufactures or purchases equipment and supplies for the operating companies on a more economical basis than the individual companies could do for themselves. It distributes equipment and supplies to the various companies. It installs equipment in telephone central offices.