Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regular grievance procedure whereby they can protest if they feel that they have enough experience to be journeymen. As one helper said recently, "a white painter filed two grievances, and ever since he's been given shit work and gets needled constantly." A white painter who has painted for Harvard for more than fifteen years said, "If you file a grievance, it'll hurt you later. Everyone knows this." Painters' helpers who have asked for promotion because of their experience have been told they have a "bad attitude" toward their work and have been hassled...
...told to call the foreman (who is supposed to call in higher authority, including the police if necessary) if radical students speak to painters while on the job. Robert Murphy, an assistant foreman, ordered CRIMSON reporter Reay Brown to leave a building where painters were working. It was a Harvard dorm, where a student is normally permitted. It is a campaign to intimidate the workers. (As union officials have admitted privately...
...this helpers' program racist? Racism is not merely an attitude of thinking black people are inferior or disliking them because of their skin color. It is a matter of the ways in which black people are paid less and forced to live in poor housing. The reason that Harvard can get experienced black painters at a lower wage (besides the fact that helpers are lied to about promotions) is that these men can't find jobs elsewhere because of discrimination. To justify profiting from skilled black painters hired for the low helpers' wage. Harvard claims that it can't find...
...Harvard wants to train painters, then it should set up a program which does that-one that doesn't require references from previous jobs. It should also pay the trainees the same as the other painters because they will be doing the same work. The University should negotiate these things with the union now, when a new contract is being drawn up. The present helpers should be promoted and paid a wage equal to the journeymen's. It is time the University stopped hiring blacks for less, under false pretenses, so that it can save money. Harvard employed 60 journeymen...
...holding Dean May last week because of Harvard's racism, intimidation, and cheap labor policies. Maybe a few other liberals and radicals should take notice...