As quickly as the conditions will allow, this system of long and short duty for telephonists will be abolished.
The productivity payment offered is in fact very similar to that agreed for telephonists and is based on the same principles.
Three telephonists are also employed for demonstration purposes at the exhibit in the grounds.
It is not intended to discharge any regular telephonists on account of automatic telephones, the introduction of which will be gradual.
It is therefore out of the question for the telephonists to memorise the charges for toll calls from every call office.
No special application was made for the release of night telephonists, as their work could be performed equally efficiently by female staff.
One has a similar problem in the recruitment of telephonists in these full employment areas.
We have held our own with telephonists, many of whom leave us, but we are very short of counter clerks.
