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Show Phone Strike Is Over; Wages Up The 'phone strike is over! Officials of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. and the Union reached an agreement and service was resumed re-sumed in Milford at midnight Wednesday, ending a 52-week period of silent telephone bells and emergency-only service. Operators at Beaver, Nephi, and some operators at Richfield and Cedar City, had returned to work earlier, acting in the capacity of strikebreakers and disregarding their union obligations. obliga-tions. However, the Milford "hello girls" remained true to their principles and refused to complete any except emergency calls. Emergency service was given day and night for the duration dura-tion of the labor difficulty. Operators at Salt Lake City and Provo have not returned to work, refusing to cross a Western West-ern Electric workers' picket line. A $3 to $4 increase in wages was granted by the telephone company to the striking workers. 1 |