Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Griffin and Phillip N. Lee, a third-year law student and president of OBU, addressed a crowd of about 100 people in the Yard, then led the group to the Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall construction site on Quincy Street...
...There, Griffin told the group that OBU will ask Harvard to stop construction at such sites "if the issue reaches an impasse...
...work progresses, fewer blacks are qualified to work at the site," Griffin said. "Therefore, if Harvard is acting in good faith, they will stop the construction until the issue is settled...
...Earlier at the rally, Griffin said that OBU objected to the Administration's proposal that the Contractors' Association of Boston (CAB) review the qualificationsof the painters' helpers, because the University's first position had been that no outside groups would be contacted in settling the dispute. "First they told us that there would be no outsiders, then they proposed bringing in CAB." Griffin said. "We can't accept that...
...Griffin added that the University's statement that it could not promise to hire 20 per cent black construction workers was insufficient. He said that despite Harvard's claim that qualified black construction workers in the Boston area number only five or six per cent of the total work force, the United Community Construction Workers in Boston could supply the necessary number of skilled...