[Striking employees dressed in nightgowns on picket line at the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company's 25th and Mission streets telephone exchange]

[Striking employees dressed in nightgowns on picket line at the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company's 25th and Mission streets telephone exchange]

Twenty-fifth Street

1951 July 24

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San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection

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Folder: S.F. Strikes-1951-Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company.
Newscopy: "Telephone strikers pulled a new picket line gimmick today at the 25th and Mission-sts exchange. Out at 6:30 this morning, they came to the picket line draped in long nightgowns, with signs such as 'I Can Dream, Can't I?' The girls, left to right, are Margie Clark, Rita Hoda, Dorothy Funai, Gertrude Giocondi, Rose McArthur and Rose Bougois. In case you're worried, they've street clothes on under the nightgowns."
Newscopy: "Three Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. exchanges here and the key central long-distance and over-seas office in Oakland were picketed today with others in Northern California as the phone operators' strike went into its fifth day. Eight hundred operators, members of the C I O Communications Workers of America, walked off the job at the Bush-st and Grant-av exchanges here to protest what union officials charged was a lockout of plant employes who observed yesterday's picket lines. Earlier the Mission exchange, the P. T. & T. commercial building at 8333 25th-st, other offices and downtown buildings where the company has equipment storage rooms also were picketed in line with the union's 'hit-run' picketing policy."

San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs

Strikes--1951--Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company.

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