Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Griffin charged that the Administration had not responded adequately to OBU's demands that Harvard promote the painters' helpers and hire 20 per cent black and Third-World construction workers. "They didn't address themselves to the issues," he said...
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...
...snipes at the press noted by Reston: Thomas Jefferson writing in 1803 that "even the least informed of the people have learnt that nothing in a newspaper is to be believed"; and Andrew Jackson strafing in 1837 some editors "who appear to fatten on slandering their neighbors and hire writers to lie for them." Most U.S. Presidents have fought back against attacks from the press-although in recent times the villains were often Republican publishers rather than liberal editors...
RATHER than being. as SDS charges. part of such a tactic, the hiring of the painters' helpers seems to fall into a commoner category: a blundering attempt at what is nowadays known as "affirmative action"-hiring blacks and other "disadvantaged" workers. Blundering, because Harvard is now facing a situation which has happened in private industry often enough: hire blacks. put them into low-level work slots. give them little attention. look at them a year later. and you find that few, or none, have advanced...
...University hire "a substantial number" of black subcontractors on all present and future construction...