TAP No. 1 - Extensions, Conference Switches

Monthly i de at YIPL would Z wv like to offer 7 thanks to. 4 all you phreeks out there. Most of you who are nov receiving this met us in Washington on Hayday, a“ where we distributed 10,000 promo flyers. So far we have received over 50 responses, complete with contributions, encouragement, and spirit. We may not have done well percentage-wise, but the fact that there are 50 people all over the country willing to fight back speaks for itself. We are sure that from the spirit of the response, YIPL membership will really skyrocket. However, more important than our numbers, in our opinion, is the feeling and motivation for this nm -_ movement. The disappointment we feel toward Amerika has an -_ yn yr m vs turned to hatred as we saw the futility of the movement to improve it, and to frustation as our outside efforts were repressed and forbidden. But we did not turn our backs on the movement for change. YIPL believes that education alone cannot affect the System, but education can be an invaluable tool for those willing to use it. Specifically, YIPL will show you why something must be done immediately in regard, of course, to the improper control of the communication in this country by none other than the BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY. So if your friends want to get in on the fun, let them read your newsletter, and you might want to research your own questions in your local library, and help to start the education of your community of the phone company's part in the war against the poor, the non-white, the non-conformist, and in general, aginst the people. Show your neighbors, friends and the representatives of your area how the Bell System and the Amerikan government are co-conspirators, If your friends can't subscribe to YIPL, that; is cool, is convenient for our small staff, and is right on if they can send a buck as a donation and read your newsletter. We also need stamps, letters, and envelopes, which maybe they can get from their office at work. Because we are already sending out issues to people short on bread, we really do need this kind of help. We will report on all of our finances from time to time, and if you can dig it, we will probably need sone kind of bail fund set up. If any YIPL busts happen, we'd like to ask you all in advance to work extra hard for the cause. People, thanks again. Love THE youty Ny THE CREDIT CARD CODE The 1971 Credit Card system works as follows: The telephone number(7digits) of the number to be billed is followed by the secret number for the area code of the number, They are listed below for several cities. At the end of the number cones a letter that matches the sixth digit of the telephone number, Many people look up the number of a large Company in the area and use their number, cause using any old number might lead to that person refusing to pay, and the Phone Company's hasseling the person to whom the call was placed. They should say that others use that phone, and they don't know anything. Fraud is illegal, so we don't think you should make free calls. This Code has already been printed in many underground papers, as you know. Detroit-083 Boston-001_ Phila.-O4l “1=Q 4=H =k Usy Washington-032 San Fran=158 Pitts.-030 2=A 5=J3 8=U New York=021 Chicago=097 3=E 6=N 9=W Example= 769-1900-069=Z (I.B.M. yAmant,N.Y.) TECHNICAL INFORMATION As long as you're paying a bill, the phone company will tend to let you be. We all know that you might have extra phones you want connected as freebees. Not Western Electric phones, of course. Remember, the phone company "frowns upon" hooking them up yourself, so we suggest you have a friend do it. Offchock oot teen th.e Vv Your telephone line is usually a red and a green . wire. A yellow is sometimes used for ringing. Un- Ring pulses: 90 V screw your storebought phone on the bottom and you will find a box with a bunch of screws on it. Connecting as in the diagram will activate it. Some people say disconnecting the bell on that phone will keep it a secret from "Them", Disconnect this Bell wire(it is red) ped Rear of ipag QQ Bisee pt RED YEU WwW > a GREEN REN” Ever wonder how those conference call maners that are sold on the commercial market work? What they do is as follows: DOUBLE -POLE, DOUBLE -THROW, TO PHONE CENTER-OFF, SWITCH | RED LINE | . i ke 2 RED GREEN ———4 ad >GREEN vot <—— 1000 onta, | WATT RESISTOR Flicking a switch up puts the phone on that number. Flicking it dow puts that number on "hold", The center position turns the number off. The resistor keeps the line “off the hook" electrically, so if it is on hold, you will not be able to receive phone calls on that number. Your line would would appear "busy" to callers. Simple enough? Connect the Yellow and the Green wires together as one where they meet the main telephone wires, Yippies have been Iknown to fool around with shit like this from time to time without the permission of their local telephone conpany and even though they usually get away with it, we at YIPL would never thin: of advocating that type of irresponsible activity. You should always chec’- with your local phone company to pay them any extra money that you might be responsible to them for, before ever fooling around with your »hone. The phone company is our friend, and they are here to help you. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear phreels, Send me the I'm a vnree':ss in need of infornation, so I can balance the score between the Pell Kompany ¢*: the people. I enclose Dear Y.I.P.L., a dollar. Your brother in ‘the nove= I thousht you might be interested in ment-H.ii,, Jauestorm, 1D. a movement started here in Lancaster. The movement is to have people who Ny dearest sirs: — wish to see our troops out of Vietnam Nothing pleasures me more than ripping this year call their local phone com- off Mother Bell, Please send news- pany nanager and have their phone re- letter, Znclosed is 91 U.S. Alsona moved. The manager 2ust be told why question...A few friends of mine make if it is to have any effect.Hopefully long distance calls free from pay enough people will feel strongly & give phone booths by holding the mouth- up phone service to begin showing up piece of the phone they're using up to on! ‘the: profits of the phone company. the phone next to it so the operator This would push the phone lobbies to hears the change jingle and males the speak out(Bell especially) to end our connection. I've tried it here in D.C. continued involvement there. If you and the operator says the cash hasn't can assist in any way by encouraging registered(which of course it hasn't). this to take place in other areas it Please tell why. Thanks a lot. 5.5., would be appreciated. Thanks! J.G., DuBois, Pa, Lancaster, Pa. t and don't rip me off (please) S.i:.,¥inchester,Pa. In our nation's Kapital there are Hi People, the shiny. new pay phones that work ele- Here's my bill, send me shit on fuck= ctronically, instead of the ding (5¢), ing the Bell System. Man do I need ding-ding (10¢) or dong (25¢).ilew ones info on this kinda shit thanks D.B., have only one slot for deposit, and on State College, Pa. old ones your trick works, but hold the handset close to that phone! Editor OUR FRIENDLY PHONE COMPANY... One example of eavesdropping that touches a vast number of Americans was related to the Subcommittee by Joseph Beirne, President of the Communications Vorkers of America, e revealed that the phone company does not linit its invasions of privacy to assisting the FBI an other sovernment tappers. He vointed out that "as part of its training program, and as part of its cont- inuing close suvervision of its employees, the telephone industry has developed eauintment for nonitoring its operators, its service assistants, its commercial office envloyees-in short, all of its employees who deal with the customer. Such Hon vonins | eans, of course, that the customer is, in effect, monitored at the same sane tine. "An alert snooper is. sometines aple to obtain the information he needs simply by calling telephone office and posing as a telephone repairman. Or, if the tapner is a law-enforcement officer, her may be able to secure the outright cooperation of the telephone company in the placing of his taps In Kansas City, the existence of just such an arrangement between the telephone conpany and the chief of police was revealed." The above two quotes were made by Senator Edward V. Long Ge In the office we call it "The System", and use of the word "the" means dog- matic finality. The wall comes up pretty fast when you start tampering with the way thincs are done within The System, and you either slow dorm and do things Bell's way or knock your brains out.-AT&T junior executive ,spring, 1967 In April of 1966, as the government was escalating the Vietnam war, Congress passed a law raising the Federal tax on telephone service to 10%. "It is clear," said Rep. Wilbur Mills, Chair- man of the House Ways and Means Comm- ittee, "that Vietnam and only the Viet- nam operation makes this bill necessary", =Congressional Record,February 23,1966. The War Tax Resistance is showing people how to refuse to pay this war tax. In most cases, the IRS will come to collect with 6% interest, but your phone service will continue. But the more it's done, the more it costs Them in time, trouble and embarrasment for Uncle Sham. Do it, and tell your friends, relatives and neighbors to do the same. Include a letter to this effect to the phone com- pany and your congressmen: Date——________ BECAUSE OF THE BRUTAL AND AGGRESSIVE WAR the United States government is conducting against Vietnam, the amount of the federal excise tax, $ .., has been deducted from my pay- ment of this bill. | have opposed this war and protested against it in many ways. Now | must testify to’ my opposition by refusing to pay this tax. The telephone excise tax was raised in April, 1966, only in order to help pay for the war in Vietnam. Paying the tax means helping to pay for outright atrocities, for the murder of inno- cent women and chidren, It means helping to pay for the indiscriminate bombing and napalming of defenseless villages. It means helping to fin- ance the shipping of American boys half way around the world to die defending an unpopular, totalitarian and corrupt regime. 1am sorry for any inconvenience my tax refusal may cause your office and hope you will under- stand that this protest is not directed against the telephone company. | hope also that you will soon join me and the many others who have de- cided that it is now necessary to oppose the war by refusing to pay the telephone excise tax that helps finance it. Sincerely in peace, ssa aetdalenleae Satestenniann Poieilatilils enilialoldial Sogliplidl dl Saiallila lL Salil Distributed by WAR TAX RESISTANCE 339 Lafayette Street New York, N.Y. 10012 IN NEED How do we communicate with our people serving time in Nam? WPAX has a way. They're putting rock and soul and rap and education tapes on the air through Radio Hanoi, who is donating free air time to broadcast these "subversive" sounds, now banned by our government's stations. But WPAX needs your blank and recorded tapes, and of course, bread. Send what you can. If you want to record your own show to be aired, ask them for details and they'll be happy to supply them. WPAX, Box 410, Cooper Station,N.Y.,N.Y. 10003 GETTING PAST ISSUES OF YIPL Obviously, as people join up later on, they're going to want info that was already published. So we'll have a stock of past issues, available at the ridiculous (?) price of 50¢ each. This might start to erase our deficit, but we'll lower the price if we can get enough contributions. IN OUR NEXT ISSUE We will have more letters, info, shit, and our man on the scene, Al Bell, will have some inside info on the "Blue Box" that people all over the country are using on lia Bell. Plus a dialogue with Russel Baker and Abbie Hoffman on Fones. We beg you consider donating a small percent of what YIFL helps you One year of newsletters is YIPL,Room 504, 152 Ve 42 St. tr save $4. vo ar