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* YIPL (TAP) Issue # 1 *
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= June 1971 =
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=TAP ON-LINE Courtesy of BIOC Agent 003 & Sherwood Forest ][ -- (914) 359-1517=
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For this selection, I had to turn back through over 360 pages of TAPs which
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represent the results of over 13 years of "subversive" work by several dozen
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people. I have tried to reproduce it as accurately with possible since there
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are a few diagrams. As for the format it was a four page booklet (the same
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format that is still used 13 years later) -- It was typewritten except for the
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larger print which was handwritten. Today, TAP looks a little more
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professional than it did in its former days. Also, TAP has become extremely
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"conservative" compared to the days of its youth when the newsletter was run
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by anti-war/anti-government/anti-everything yippies. Now, onto issue #1.
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- BIOC Agent 003
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Associate Editor
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Published June, 1971
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Monthly
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THE YOUTH INTERNATIONAL PARTY LINE'S FIRST ISSUE
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We at YIPL would
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like to offer
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thanks to
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all you phreeks
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out there. Most of you who are now
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receiving this met us in Washington on Mayday,
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where we distributed 10,000 promo flyers. So far
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we have received over 50 responses, complete with
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contributions, encouragement, and spirit. We may
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not have done well percentage-wise, but the fact
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that there are 50 people all over the country willing
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to fight back speaks for itself. We are sure that from
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the spirit of response, YIPL membership will really
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skyrocket. However, more important than our numbers,
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in our opinion, is the feeling and motivation for this
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movement. The disappointment we feel toward Amerika has
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turned to hatred as we saw the futility of the movement
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to improve it, and to frustation as our outside efforts
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were repressed and forbidden. But we did NOT turn our
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backs on the movement for change. YIPL believes that
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education alone cannot affect the System, but deucation
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can be an ivaluable tool for those willing to use it.
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Specifically, YIPL will show you why something must be
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done immediately in regard, of course, to the improper
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control of the communication in this country by none
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other than the BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY.
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So if your friends want to get in on the fun, let them
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read your newsletter, and you might want to research your
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own questions in your local library, and help to start the
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education of your community of the phone company's part in the
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war against the poor, the non-white, the non-conformist, and in
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general, against the people. Show your neighbors, friends and the
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representatives of your area how the Bell System and the Amerikan
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government are co-conspirators. If your friendscan't subscribe to
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YIPL, that; is cool, is convenient for our small staff, and is right on
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if they can send a buck as a donation and read your newsletter. We also
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need stamps, letters, and envelopes, which maybe they can get from their
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office at work. Because we are already sending out issues to people short
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on bread, we really do need this kind of help. We will report on all of our
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finances from time to time, and if you can dig it, we will probably need some
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kind of bail fund set up. If any YIPL busts happen, we'd like to ask you all
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in advance to work extra hard for the cause. People, thanks again. Love
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THE CREDIT CARD CODE
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The 1971 Credit Card system works as follows: The telephone number (7 digits)
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of the number to be billed is followed by the secret number for the area
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code of the number. They are listed below for several cities. At the end
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of the number comes a letter that matches the sixth digit of the telephone
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number. Many people look up the number of a large Company in the area and
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use their number, cause using any old number might lead to THAT person
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refusing to pay, and the Phone Company's hasseling the person to whom the
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call was placed. They should say that others use that phone, and they don't
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know anything. Fraud is illegal, so WE don't think you should make free calls.
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This Code has already been printed in many underground papers, as you know.
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Detroit-083 Boston-001 Phila.-041 1=Q 4=H 7=R 0=Z
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Washington-032 San Fran-158 Pitts.-030 2=A 5=J 8=U
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New York-021 Chicago-097 3=E 6=N 9=W
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Example- 769-1900-069-Z (I.B.M. ,Amant,N.Y.)
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!------^
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TECHNICAL INFOMRMATION
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As long as you're paying a bill, the phone company will tend to let you be.
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We all know that you might have extra phones you want connected as freebees.
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Not Western Electric phones, of course. Remember, the phone company "frowns
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upon" hooking them up yourself, so wwe suggest you have a friend do it.
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On-hook voltage:45V
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Off-hook voltage:4.5V Your telephone line is usually a red and a green
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Ring pulses: 90V wire. A yellow is sometimes used for ringing. Un-
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screw your storebought phone on the bottom and
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you will find a box with a bunch of screws on it. Connecting as in the
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phone will keep it a secret from "Them".
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--------------------------------------------------
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! ***************************Disconnect this Bell wire(it is red)
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! * **************** *<---------^^^^^
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! * * ********** * * !
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! --------- W W W W* ----*---*--------*---- !
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! ( ) I I I I * O * G R##############################>
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! ( Bell )R R R R ! O # Y## O ! !
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! -------------E E E E ! # O ###############################*
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! ! ! -----------------#####################################*##>
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! ----------- ( ) ! !
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! ! ( ) ! ! Connect the Yellow and the
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! ! ( Dial ) ! ! Green wires together as one
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! ! ( ) ! ! where they meet the main
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! ! ( ) ! ! telephone wires.
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! --- ( ) ----- !
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! ( ) !
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Ever wonder how those conference call makers that are sold on the commercial
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market work? What they do is as follows:
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DOUBLE-POLE, DOUBLE-THROW,>>>>> **********> TO PHONE
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CENTER-OFF, SWITCH ! * *****>
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!--------!<< !-*----*-!
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! I** I**************I ***I !
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! * ! ! * !
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! ********************* !
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LINE 1 ! ! ! ! LINE 2
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RED<******************************* ! ! *************>RED
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! * ! ! * !
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GREEN<***************************I **I ! ! I* I********>GREEN
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! ! ! !
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! ************************** !
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! * ! ! * !
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! I I**************I I !
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!--------! !-!----!-!
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ZZZZZZ<-1000 OHM,1 WATT
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RESISTOR
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Flickering a switch up puts the phone on that number. Flicking it down puts
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that number on "hold". The center position turns the first number off. The
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resistor keeps the line "off the hook" electrically, so if it is on hold,
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you will not be able to receive phone calls on that number. You line would
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would appear "busy" to callers. Simple enough?
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Yippies have been know to fool around with shit like this from time to
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time without the permission of their local telephone company and even
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though they usually get away with it, we at YIPL would never think of
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advocating that thype of irresponsible activity. You should always check
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with your local phone company to pay them any extra money that you might
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be responsible to them for, before ever fooling around with your phone.
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The phone company is our friend, and they are here to help you.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Dear phreeks,
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I'm a phreeks in need of information, so I can balance the score between the
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Bell Kompany & the people. I enclose a dollar. Your brother in the movement-
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H.M., Jamestown, N.D.
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My dearest sirs:
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Nothing pleasure me more than ripping off Mother Bell. Please send newsletter.
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Encloses is $1 U.S. Also-a question...A few friends of mine make long distance
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calls free from pay phone booths by holding the mouthpiece of the phone they're
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using up to the phone next to it so the operator hears the change jingle and
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makes the connection. I've tried it here in D.C. and the operator says the
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cash hasn't registered (which of course it hasn't). Please tell why. Thanks a
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lot. B.S., DuBois, Pa.
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In our nation's Kapital there are the shiny new pay phones that work
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electronically, instead of the ding (5c), ding-ding (10c) or dong (25c).New
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ones have only one slot for depoit, and oon old ones your trick works, but hold
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the handset CLOSE to that phone!
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Editor
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Send me the shit and don't rip me off (please) S.M., Winchester, Pa.
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Dear Y.I.P.L.,
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I thought you might be interested in a movement started here in Lancaster. The
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movement is to have people who wish to see our troops out of Vietname this year
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call their local phone company manager and have their phone removed. The
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manager must be told why if it is to have any effect.Hopefully enough people
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will feel strongly & give up phone service to begin showing up on the profits
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of the phone company. This would push the phone lobbies to speak out (Bell
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especially) to end our continued involvement there. If you can assist in any
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way by encouraging this to take place in other areas it would be appreciated.
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Thanks! J.G., Lancaster, Pa.
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Hi People,
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Here's my bill, send me shit on fucking the Bell System. Man do I need info on
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this kinda shit thanks D.B., State College, Pa.
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OUR FRIENDLY PHONE COMPANY...
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Our example of eavesdropptin that touches a vast number of Americans was
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related to the Subcommittee by Joseph Beirne, President of the Communications
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Worker of America. He revealed that the phone company does not limit its
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invasions of privacy to assisting the FBI an other government tappers. He
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pointed out that " as part of its training program, and as part of its cont-
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inuing close supervision of its employees, the telephone industry has developed
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equiptment for monitoring its operators, its service assistants, its commercial
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office employees-in short, all of its employees who deal with the customer.
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Such monitoring means, of course, that the customer is, in effect, monitored at
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the same same time."
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"An alert snooper is sometimes able to obtain the information he needs simply
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by calling the telephone office and posing as a telephone repairman. Or, if
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the tapper is a law-enforcement officer, here may be able to secure the
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outright cooperation of the telephone company in the placing of his taps. In
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Kansas City, the existence of just such an arrangement between the telephone
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company and the chief of police was reveled."
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The above two quotes were made by Senator Edward V. Long.
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In the office we call it "The System", and use of the word "the" means dog-
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matic finality. The wall comes up pretty fast when you start tampering with
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the way things are done within The System, and you either slow down and do
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things Bell's way or knock your brains out.-AT&T junior executive,spring,1967
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In April of 1966, as the government was excalating the Vietnam war, Congress
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passed a law raising the Federal tax on telephone service to 10%. "It is
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clear," said Rep. Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,
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"that Vietnam and only the Vietnam operation makes the bill necessary".
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-Congressional Record,February 23,1966.
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The War Tax Resistance is showing people how to refuse to pay this war tax. In
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most cases, the IRS will come to collect with 6% interest but your phone
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service will continue. But the more it's done, the more it costs Them in time,
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trouble and embarrasment for Uncle Sham. Do it, and tell your friends,
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relatives and neighbors to do the same. Include a letter to this effect to the
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phone company and your congressmen:
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Date_____________________
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BECAUSE OF THE BRUTAL AND AGGRESSIVE WAR the United States government is
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conducting against Vietnam, the amount of federal excise tax, $.............,
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has been decucted from my payment of this bill. I have opposed this war and
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protested against it in many ways. Now I must testify to my opposition by
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refusing to pay this tax.
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The telephone excise tax was raised in April, 1966, only in order to help
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pay for the war in Vietnam. Paying the tax means helping to pay for outright
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atrocities, for the murder of innocent women and chidren. It means helping to
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pay for the indicscriminate bombin and napalming of defenseless villages. It
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means helping to finance the shipping of American boys half way around the
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world to die defending an unpopular, totalitarian and corrupt regime.
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I am sorry for any incovenience my tax refusal may cause your office and
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hope you will understancd that this protest is not directed against the
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telephone company. I hope also that you will soon join me and the many others
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others who have decided that it is now necessary to oppose the war by refusing
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to pay the telephone exciese tax that helps finance it.
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Sincerely in peace,
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Distributed by WAR TAX RESISTANCE/339 Lafayette Street/New York, N.Y. 10012
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IN NEED
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How do we communicate with our people serving time in Nam? WPAX has a way.
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They're putting rock and sould and rap and education tapes on the air through
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Radio Hanoi, who is donating free air time to broadcast these "subversive"
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sounds, now banned by our government's stations. But WPAX need YOUR blank and
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recorded tapes, and of course, bread. Send what you can. If you want ot
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record your own show to be aired, ask them for details and they'll be happy to
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supply them. WPAX, Box 410, Cooper Station, N.Y.,N.Y. 10003
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GETTING PAST ISSUE OF YIPL
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Obviously, as the people join up later on, they're going to want info that was
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already published. So we'll have a stock of past issues, available at the
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ridiculous (?) price of 50c each. This MIGHT start to erase our deficit, but
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we'll lover the price if we can get enough contributions.
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IN OUR NEXT ISSUE
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We will have more letters, info, shit, and our man on the scene, Al Bell, will
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have some INSIDE INFO on the "Blue Box' that people all of the country are
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using on Ma Bell. Plus a dialouge with Russel Baker and Abbie Hoffman on Fones
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*****Picture of the OLD, OLD Bell logo (the one with the bell that has 'Bell
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System' written inside) with No. 1 written in the bell and Public Enemy written
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in the circular outside ring.
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We beg you consider donating a small percent of what YIPL helps you save.
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One year of newsletter is $4.
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YIPL,Room 504, 152 W. 42 St., N.Y.,N.Y.
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SF][G9:ba003.022285
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[Courtesy of Sherwood Forest ][ -- (914) 359-1517]
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