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Informal investigation has revealed that this dismissal came as part of a definite program of revision of Widener cleaning methods and was merely made more abrupt by the demands of the State Board that Harvard meet the usual scale of office scrubbers. Since the working conditions in Widener are alleged...
Summoning reporters to a news conference, the Essex family painted a different picture, one of disillusionment, bitterness and finally hatred. "It all started in the Navy," Jimmy's mother declared. "He was all right when he left here." Confronted with prejudice and discrimination, Jimmy finally went AWOL. He testified...
That may sound like barracks griping, but Klapp, a Viet Nam veteran, was in dead earnest. He charged the Army with false advertising and claimed he had a right to quit. Understandably miffed, the chain of command processed Klapp's papers as slowly as it well knows how. Yet...
Menial. One chief tool of discrimination, according to blacks, is the periodic job evaluation rating. Consistently low ratings not only keep a man from being promoted, but can lead to a general rather than an honorable discharge. Blacks believe that they are given lower ratings than whites for the same...
> When Republican John Lewis replaced a Democrat as secretary of state in Illinois in 1970, he fired 1,946 employees, later charging he had acted "because of the laxity, inefficiency and confusion prevailing in the office." They were duly replaced by good Republicans. The dismissed employees, who were not protected...