Word: journeymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted to get more blacks and poor whites on our payroll, but they weren't qualified to be hired as journeymen." Murphy said. "So we began the helpers training program." Harvard had previously hired only journeymen...
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 the program is designed to last three years, Murphy said that helpers may be promoted as soon as they learn the required skills. "I will be rather disappointed if the helpers don't become journeymen before three years," Murphy said...
...charged that the helpers' program is racist, and claims that blacks are hired as helpers instead of as higher-paid journeymen even when they have two to five years experience as painters...
...depend on our foremen to check qualifications," William Murphy, director of Buildings and Grounds, answered. He said that twice in the last year Harvard has hired black workers directly as journeymen without making them spend time as helpers...