Chicago Press Targets Telephone Trust Monopoly Push
A Chicago Daily News editorial from December 19 1911 denounces the Bell system and Western Electric as a unified Trust. It argues high local rates, paid nickel telephones, and planned pay-in-advance devices harm residents and demand broad public reform.
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