Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deal with one conrete issue, probably the most important of the current OBU demands, that of assuring a minimum of 20 per cent black and third-world workers on Harvard construction sites: At present we have the University taking he position that...
...Hazen's has extended its campaign to exclude certain "fresh" high school students by imposing a 50 cents minimum charge on all customers served after...
Friday afternoon a group of local teenagers who had been refused admission to the restaurant, joined by several Harvard students. formed a picket line telling passers-by to "boycott Hazen's." Owner Frank Hazen said he established the minimum charge after he was informed that he could not legally exclude groups of people that he expects would be trouble makers...
Cambridge Latin student Mike Sylvester said that he and others plan to picket Hazen's today. "No one else in the square has a fifty cents minimum, and it's unfair that Hazen's should have one just to exclude the kids." he said, But he added that Hazen's discrimination against high school students is not exceptional. "There's no place in the Square where we can go for a coke after school. Stores are afraid of high school kids, because we don't spend enough money," Sylvester said...
...University has contended first of all that setting the minimum number of minority workers at 20 per cent would be discriminatory since the proportion of non white workers in the metropolitan area work force falls far short of that figure. OBU disputes the Administration figure, but even if Afro were over-estimating the minority group percentage, their demand would still be legitimate. Tired reservations about "reverse discrimination" are insufficient excuse for not making every possible effort to assist minority group people in their effort to overcome the immense burdens which American society imposes upon them...