Word: helper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteer helper, a law student from somewhere, thanks the students profusely and gives them a bag of apples and ten sandwiches to drop off when they get there...
...they continued to do menial helper's work, how could they advance? In order to become journeymen they must do journeymen's work," he added...
...Helpers are promoted on the basis of the foreman's judgment. "We don't care whether the helper is black or white-he's promoted because of his performance," Murphy said...
Under the helper program, unskilled or semi-skilled workers learn painter skills over a three year period, at the end of which they become journeymen. Harvard now employs 13 helpers, seven of them black, and 27 journeymen, three of them black. Helpers are paid from 43c to 86c less per hour than journeymen...
Tuesday's press conference called by the University on the painters' helpers situation shed little light on many questions which I feel are pertinent to resolving the issue-what the painter's helper job is, standards and time periods used for promotion, how Harvard can act to change wage differentials if necessary, etc. I was there at the conference. But I wish to point out right here and now that I was there as an interested individual. I participated in discussion neither as a member of SDS, nor as a member of Afro, but as Diorita Fletcher, black woman, class...