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About 100 students led by members of SDS met yesterday with three officers of the Harvard Personnel Office to demand a 20-cent raise for black electrician's apprentice Charles McNeil...
...charged that McNeil was denied both a raise and a promotion because he is black. They cited the fact that three other white workers in the program have been promoted...
...eight-step apprentice program, designed to enable a worker to get an electrician's license, was negotiated between Harvard and the Greater Boston Maintenance Council (AFL-CIO) in December 1969. McNeil joined the program when it began...
Responding to questions from students concerning earlier testimony by journeyman electrician Bernard O'Brien to the effect that McNeil had completed all requirements for promotion. Coleman said. "I didn't find that Mr. O'Brien had lied, but in talking to him I got more details than he previously enumerated. When he sits down to think up how much time Charlie actually spent doing this [electrician's work] he doesn't come up with that much evidence...
...confrontation ended as Coleman told the group that a decision on McNeil's pay increase would be made at the next meeting of the Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee. He said he would be willing to talk to McNeil and Bowie again Friday...