Not only must these many people perform many different jobs to give you good service but they must work together as a team. In the Plant department, linemen, installers, cable splicers, repairmen and others build and maintain the plant so that the operators in the Traffic department can put your calls through as swiftly as possible. Similarly, the members of the other departments of the company do their work in such a way that they help others do theirs. [Illustration: _Good telephone service depends on teamwork of many people working together at different jobs. These girls are typing telephone bills in the Accounting department of a Bell telephone company._] In every Bell telephone company there are staff people who are specialists in various phases of the business. They assist the front-line forces in meeting day-to-day problems. They find better, more efficient ways of doing things. The purpose of all is to serve you well and with unfailing courtesy. Telephone people have a genuine desire to make the company a friendly and helpful institution. Because telephone men and women are good citizens of your community, they take pride in conducting the affairs of the company so that the public will think of it, too, as a good citizen. A large proportion of the people in the Bell System make a career of telephone work. More than 245,000 of them have been in the business over ten years. Wages are good, employment steady, and working conditions are pleasant. The Bell companies’ Benefit and Pension Plans, among the oldest and best in industry, assist employees and their families in meeting the problems that arise from sickness, accident, old age and death. Opportunity to advance in the organization is open to all on the basis of individual ability. Supervisory and management positions are filled from the ranks. [Illustration: THE BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM The principal telephone subsidiaries of American Telephone and Telegraph Company serve generally the areas shown. The Southern New England and Cincinnati and Suburban are associated but non-controlled companies. In nearly all areas other telephone companies operate and connect with Bell System lines.] THE PACIFIC TEL. & TEL. CO. BELL TEL. CO. OF NEVADA THE MOUNTAIN STATES TEL. & TEL CO. THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND TEL. CO. NEW JERSEY BELL TEL. CO. THE DIAMOND STATE TEL. CO. THE CINCINNATI AND SUBURBAN BELL TEL. CO. THE CHES. & POT. TEL. CO. (D.C.) THE CHES. & POT. TEL. CO. OF BALTIMORE CITY THE CHES. & POT. TEL. CO. OF VIRGINIA THE CHES. & POT. TEL. CO. OF WEST VIRGINIA Organized to Serve You