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Though he said that no helpers had been promoted to journeymen so far, he said that "each of these men has been told that the objective is for them to become journeymen." He noted that one helper was scheduled to be promoted soon...
Krim said that he had heard of several instances where journeymen had urged that certain helpers be promoted and that their recommendations had been vetoed from above, probably by the foreman. He charged that the University had developed the helper program to attract workers who would accept lower wages, because, being black, they couldn't get a job anywhere else...
Roger Thomas, a graduate student, adjourned the meeting near the end of its second hour. Thomas moved that the group make no resolution on the painters' helper issue because too few members of SFAC were present. At the close of the meeting, many of those who had been present at the beginning had left. Though SFAC has 38 members, the number present at any time never exceeded...
...MANY students at Harvard, the campaign of SDS and Afro to promote the painters' helpers to journeymen painters is a complicated and boring issue which might best be left to Harvard and the unions to resolve. It does not seem as important as the war or Harvard's expansion into Cambridge. The University has said that the category of "painters helper" was initiated 14 months ago in order to employ more blacks and train them "with the clear objective of promotion to journeyman after a sufficient period of on-the-job training...
...helpers have been promoted to journeymen painters, despite the fact that some have had as much as ten years' experience. No training has been given any of the helpers, including the one or two whites with no previous experience. They were not sent to union night school as the union proposed, nor were crew chiefs or journeymen painters told anything about training them. When a crew chief asked the paint-shop foreman. "What's a helper supposed to do?" the foreman replied. "Are you kidding? The same thing as any other painter!" It is not the union or the white...