International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Big brother! Pinkerton watches telephone workers

The Week Vol. 1, No. 4, 22 January 1964 · p. 10 of the scan · 136 words

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The Industrial Union Department Bulletin carried the following in a recent issue?

"fale employees of the mighty American Telephone & Telegraph Co. recently found themselves “on camera” when they entered the 9th floor men's room at Long Lines Depart. Nationnl headquarters in New York, Investigation of clicking sounds...revealed . camera hidden in a ceiling air-conditioning duct...1t turned out that the cameras had been installed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, The company ~ after much publicity and altercation ~ agreed to give the local a copy of an affidavit from Pinkerton saying that no pictures had been taken...AT & T cleared itself with the pious excuse that it was only trying to catch a pervert who scrawled obscenities on the lavatory walls....The local has demanded to know if the “I~spy" arrangements was also intended for the women's..¥

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