Word: journeymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Helpers are training other helpers; often they are working alone," Jared Israel '67 yelled back from the crowd. Throughout the ninety-minute meeting other students said that helpers spend nearly all their time doing the same routine painting jobs as journeymen...
...students demanded a change in Harvard's system of dividing its painting crews into "painters helpers" and "journeyman painters." The helpers get from 43c to 86c less per hour than the journeymen because-according to the University-they are still learning the skills of the trade...
Harvard makes the helpers do exactly the same work as the better-paid journeymen...
qualified black workers have been hired as helpers instead of journeymen, even though they had several years' experience as painters. Seven of the 12 helpers are black, and three of 27 journeymen are black...
...University representatives-including John B. Butler, director of personnel; L. Gard Wiggins. administrative vice president; Dean May and Edward W. Powers. Harvard's labor-relations manager-replied several times that helpers do not have the same qualifications as journeymen...