Word: journeymen
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...could save a quarter of a million dollars by cutting out the apprenticeship program." Butler said. "Apprentices are less efficient than journeymen, and there are a number of people involved in administering the apprenticeship programs...
According to Tom Stockett, assistant shop superintendent for Buildings and Grounds, the goal of the program is to take "non-trade people and develop them into journeymen...
...although they were hired to do the work of painters, they were called (and paid as) painters' helpers. They had to prove to Harvard, because they were black, that they were truly skilled in their craft, skilled enough to be journeymen, and rise above what Harvard must have congratulated itself on: the "new" position to give poor old black people a chance. Sonny Gordon, a black man who had worked as a master painter in Britain, came to Harvard looking for a job and was told that the University was hiring (black) painters. He was given...
...although they were hired to do the work of painters, they were called (and paid as) painter's helpers. They had to prove to Harvard, because they were black, that they were truly skilled in their craft, skilled enough to be journeymen, and rise above what Harvard must have congratulated itself on: the "new" position to give poor old black people a chance. Sonny Gordon, a black man who had worked as a master painter in Britain, came to Harvard looking for a job and was told that the University was hiring (black) painters. He was given...
That painters' apprentices be promoted to journeymen status immediately...