Word: blacks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Butler reiterated that the University had been unable to find any black painters qualified to be hired directly as journeymen...
Krim, who said that he had spoken to a number of painters, claimed that several journeymen had told him that all the black helpers and some of the white helpers were fully qualified to become journeymen...
...that he had heard of several instances where journeymen had urged that certain helpers be promoted and that their recommendations had been vetoed from above, probably by the foreman. He charged that the University had developed the helper program to attract workers who would accept lower wages, because, being black, they couldn't get a job anywhere else...
...explanation are ignoring the lessons of last spring. The University does not always tell the whole story and does not change its position on important matters-like money-until it is pressured. Specifically. the issue is whether Harvard University is going to pay an equal and fair wage to black and white painters for doing the same job. On a more general level it is a question of subtle but insidious racism and a nineteenth-century wage policy. Harvard should not be allowed to get away with it in 1969. if it ever should have...
...University Personnel Office says that it hired blacks in order to train them as painters, on the assumption that when they became proficient they would be raised to journeymen. The facts, according to the painters and their union officials. present a quite different story. All of the black painters' helpers now working at Harvard were required to give references attesting to their previous painting experience. Many of the white helpers are experienced as well. When they came to Harvard for an interview they were told either that they weren't qualified, or. that there were no openings for painters...