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Electrician's apprentice Charles McNeil and two other black University employees charged yesterday that Harvard reneged on their promised pay increases. The charges were made during an angry Holyoke Center confrontation involving 70 members of SDS and two officers of the personnel department...
...McNeil, leading the questioning for nearly half of the 90-minute encounter, demanded that labor relations director Richard W. Coleman explain why the three other electrician's apprentices-all white-had received automatic raises while he did not, and why he had been transferred into a "racist" remedial math course...
...White fellows who have the same experience are slotted on Mr. McNeil's level," Coleman said. "Most of the experience that he'd had was in changing light-bulbs and ballast...
Bernard Bowie, a licensed electrician who had worked with McNeil for six months, disagreed with Coleman. "He [McNeil] frequently hung fixtures, bent and cut piping, pulled wiring, and helped repair motors," Bowie said. "He did everything an apprentice electrician does...
Coleman told the group that McNeil's transfer to a union-run remedial math course, taught by an instructor McNeil termed "racist", was temporary. The personnel department is in the process of meeting with the Ed School to get a "better" course for all apprentices, he said...