Emma Mills Nutt (above) became the world’s first female telephone operator in 
operator in history when she began working for the Edwin Holmes Telephone
Dispatch Company in Boston, Mass. She was paid a salary of $10 a month 
for a 54 hour work week. The first operators for the company were teenage 
teenage boys who did not work well with the customers. Emma reportedly 
could remember every number in the directory of New England Telephone
Company. Within seven years, all telephone operators in Boston were  
women. The trend soon went nationwide. 
   

Operators at AT&T in Connecticut around the 1890s

Former Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa disappeared at, or sometime after,
2:45 pm on July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant
in Bloomfield Township, a suburb of Detroit. He reportedly was to meet there with
two Mafia leaders. Hoffa’s wife contacted police to report him missing when he
failed to return home that evening. When police arrived at the restaurant, they
discovered Hoffa’s car, but there was no sign of Hoffa himself.

An extensive investigation into his disappearance by several law enforcement
agency’s, including the FBI, began immediately, and continued over the next
several years. The investigations failed to learn anything of Hoffa’s fate and
he was declared legally dead in 1982, the seventh anniversary of his
disappearance.

1992 DVD

The Labor–Management Relations Act was enacted June 23, 1947, informally
the Taft–Hartley Act is a United States federal law that monitors the activities
and power of labor unions.  The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator
Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and legislated by overriding
U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s veto on June 23, 1947; labor leaders called it
the “slave-labor bill”while President Truman argued that it was a “dangerous
intrusion on free speech,” and that it would “conflict with important principles of
our democratic society,” Truman would subsequently use it twelve times during
his presidency. The principal author of the Taft–Hartley Act was J. Mack Swigert
of a Cincinnati law firm.

Ohio Senator Robert Taft

Rep. Fred A. Hartley, Jr. of N.J.