Word: existing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important to realize that we don't have to start from scratch. There are a number of organizations and groups in the area that exist for the very purpose we are talking about. I don't know them all; maybe this will help them get in touch and cooperate with one another. I can only name a few and tell you what they're planning...
...demand-eliminate the helpers' category, and promote all the painters' helpers-becomes particularly questionable when one considers what this will mean in the future to black applicants for jobs at Harvard. If the helper status-or some form of lower entrance status-does not exist, the black applicants will have to compete directly for journeyman status with white workers who, being free of the handicap of discrimination, would presumably be more skilled. This would maximize both the handicap of black workers, and the hostility from white workers created by any preference given to blacks...
Butler had admitted earlier in the meeting that no formal criteria exist for the promotion of painters' helpers. He said that Harvard was presently discussing this matter in negotiations now taking place between the University and the union representing Harvard's maintenance workers...
...Other bands exist for themselves only and they're not at the game in support of anyone," Walker said. "I sometimes wonder if the Band (Harvard's) is not too egocentrically oriented itself-they have such a good time that they almost forget that they are supposed to be at the game in support of the football team," he continued...
...Office: Messrs. Kielly, Powers and Moulton, Perhaps I will be criticized for what may seem to some as a "ruling class position" but I must admit that I was impressed not only by the sincerity of these men but also by their awareness and sensitivity to inequities which may exist in the present system. I am fully convinced that, if there are problems concerning wages for painters' helpers, they do not emerge from racist attitudes and that these men as well as Ernest May are susceptible to rational arguments for changes in policy. Abusive treatment and war games will...