Word: journeyman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this then the company or Harvard's fault? Yes, in the sense that they have failed to act on the problems blacks face in the workplace. Consider the situation at Harvard: a black painters' (or electricians' or plumbers') helper depends on a white journeyman for training. a white foreman judges his merit for promotion and, if he feels unfairly passed over, a black can complain to a white union...
...promote all the painters' helpers-becomes particularly questionable when one considers what this will mean in the future to black applicants for jobs at Harvard. If the helper status-or some form of lower entrance status-does not exist, the black applicants will have to compete directly for journeyman status with white workers who, being free of the handicap of discrimination, would presumably be more skilled. This would maximize both the handicap of black workers, and the hostility from white workers created by any preference given to blacks...
...journeyman said, "Promoting all helpers would be an insult to me and I wouldn't stand...
...demanded that all helpers be promoted to the higher-paid journeyman category. They claim that helpers and journeymen do the same work and, therefore, should earn the same wage...
Murphy said Harvard has hired only three black journeymen because "trained black painters are just not available. If a qualified black painter came in today we would hire him directly as a journeyman," he added...