Word: electricians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While thousands marched in Boston yesterday afternoon to protest escalation of the Indochina war, about 50 students led by members of SDS held their own mini-demonstration in support of black electrician's apprentice Charles McNeil...
...which held a rally yesterday to support Charles McNeil, the University electrician who says Harvard cheated him out of his raise-does not support today's march. An SDS spokesman called all negotiations a "fraud" and urged "an alliance with the working people, not with liberal politicians...
...that Mr. McNeil did not meet the requirements for a 10-cent pay raise, let alone a 20-cent raise," Coleman said. He added that in a private meeting a week ago, one of McNeil's co-workers-who had at a previous demonstration testified that McNeil did perform electrician's apprentice tasks-could not guarantee that McNeil had done even six months of such work. Six months of electrician's apprentice work are required for a 10-cent per hour pay increase, one year's work for a 20-cent raise...
Yesterday's confrontation-the third in as many weeks-heard similar charges of racism from another black worker, Kurtis Bridgman. Bridgman, who had studied electronics for two years at Northeastern University and subsequently held jobs with KLH and the M.I.T. Instrumentation Laboratories, told Butler that he had been promised electrician's work but had been relegated to "washing lightbulbs and cleaning fixtures...
Prior to the confrontation, Butler had said there was "a standing order to hire any qualified black electrician," but that none had been found. After hearing Bridgman's allegation, Butler denied that the employee had been "lied" to when hired, but said he was unfamiliar with the case...