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James Burnett, who has been a janitor in freshman dormitories for 31 years and once served as an HUERA officer, also comments that "The University has always been fair to us, and they were always fair when I sat with them on wages and grievances...
Local 254 regards its paid, full-time employees as a decisive factor in its favor, however. "The president of the HUERA is a janitor," notes Sullivan, a recent graduate of the Trade Union Program of the Graduate School of Business Administration. "That's the main difference. We are professionals, working all day, everyday for our members." He adds that officers who are not financially dependent upon the University could bargain more freely...
...that was accomplished on Tuesday was that Webster composed a letter to Dr. Parkman, requesting him to come to the Medical School at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. When he finished the letter, he gave it to the janitor of the building, Ephraim Littlefield, and asked Littlefield to deliver it to Parkman's house. The janitor had heard Parkman's conversation with Webster in the lab the afternoon before, and knew of the enmity between the two. He gave the letter to a small boy to deliver...
...never take any vacation trips." He might have added, had he known the figures, that even if he made the grade by the fall of 1957, his starting salary as a teacher ($3,700) would be nearly $250 less than he would be making as a janitor. But Charlotte Bixby encouraged him to go ahead. While hanging on to his job, Bix enrolled at Portland State College, later switched...
...summer, for two years worked weekends at a service station to help meet his new expenses. But by 2 p.m. each weekday, he was once again in his khaki shirt and pants, sweeping, cleaning and polishing as if he had nothing more on his mind than being the best janitor Edwin Markham ever...