The Philadelphia Electric Company warned its employes today it would not tolerate such acts as the painting of swastikas on two dials in its Delaware generating plant by an employee who said it was “a joke.”
The swastikas were seen by a group of teachers touring the plant who called the Jewish Exponent, a Philadelphia Jewish weekly, which notified the utility. An official went immediately to the plant, removed the swastikas and warned employes against such “jokes.”
He said that such “reprehensible behavior” would not be condoned and that personnel at the Delaware station “and all other stations in the company system have been warned that such acts will not be tolerated.”
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