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Show Net Income of 60 Telephone H Companies Drops WASHINGTON, April 15 The net I income of sixty telephone companies r. I with annual revenues above $250,000 H showed a decrease of $220,000. or It. 7 per cent during November, 1918. as t compared with total of S5.977.OO0 for I I November. 1917. A summary of No-vember No-vember revenues and expenses made public today by the interstate com- H i s commission showed an Increase in gross r venues, however, of more than $2,400,0f)0 above the figure for I the same month in 1917, the total reaching 29, 497.000. Operator Strike I BOSTON. April 15 Telephone com- I munication throughout most of New England except Connecticut was sus- nended today by a strike of operators T of tbe New England Telephone and Telegraph company and the Provi- I dence Telephone company. In this and other cities the operators quit f , work ut 7 a. m. and the wires became dead. The union demands include paj Increases and the right of eollee- tive bargaining. |