Word: menials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest carbarn (without audible protest from the company). Up on a toolbox jumped burly, bull-voiced James Henry McMenamin, 43, to take command. He shouted: "It's white against black!" He well knew that the company's 600 Negro employes had hitherto worked peacefully (in menial jobs) beside other workers. But now, he pointed out, as motormen, they could sit on the same benches as whites. Cried McMenamin: "The colored people have bedbugs...
...reason for the Southern credence given such yarns is that most intelligent, hard-working Negroes have swarmed off to war work, leaving the irresponsibles and incompetents of their race to do the domestic and menial jobs. The resulting resentment among whites, and the breaking up of individual employer-employe loyalties, will not make the South's great postwar racial adjustment problem any easier...
Meanwhile, the 83 men who arrived last week from STAR units at the University of New Hampshire and the College of the City of New York have been put to work drilling and doing menial garden tasks for the Army. They are working while awaiting their first classes, which are still nearly a month away...
...Look, Professor Dupesceau," we said with our customary and fearless method of leaping directly into conversation. "Why's it that you, toast of cultured society, cream of intellectual circles, student and scholar divine, have accepted the menial and lowly rank of Seaman 14th Class? Is it your love of democracy, your desire to investigate life--even below the masses--that prompts you to such action...
Behind the scenes, several forces besides financial necessity were at work. One theory which finds strong backing in the University's Administration runs something like this: if a graduate takes a job with only his A.B. degree as bargaining power, he will be forced to accept a menial job with menial pay. The only way to prevent such "exploitation" is training in one of the various graduate schools. Abolishing the Placement Bureau would thus have the effect of encouraging the jobless office-door vagrants to continue for another three years at some University, possibly Harvard...