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...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...
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...
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...