[GreenKeys] 1964 Teletype Corp R& D directory

[Jim Haynes]

Thanks for that item.  Teletype being a Bell System company didn't have 
the latitude that a privately-held company would have had.  Also there was 
a company union, which was pretty tame because they would usually just 
wait for the Communication Workers of America to reach a contract with 
AT&T and then make that settlement into their contract. That limited to 
some extent what the company could do.  There was Teletype Club, which 
employees were automatically members of, and it sponsored a bunch of 
things including a Christmas party (that is still being done under the 
auspices of Telephone Pioneers), and a summer picnic, and then a whole 
bunch of subsidiary clubs.  I can remember a ham radio club, and a flying 
club, and a photo club, and a garden club, and some others.  I guess there 
was some latitude too because AT&T was a regulated monopoly, so there was 
a limit on how much profit they could make but not so much on how much 
they could spend.

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