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...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...
...Harvard official yesterday explained the painters' helper program and gave the administration's answers to recent charges...
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...
Although this week's "painters' helper" protest has concentrated on one specific issue, the charges of "University racism" that the protest has spawned-are sure to raise larger questions concerning Harvard's performance as an employer of minority groups...