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...program includes the controversial painter's helpers program as well as apprentices in 12 other trades...
Stephen Klim, a sometime house painter, had worked out a tidy arrangement with the manager of San Francisco's Junior Tar Hotel. Klim would pay the $10 weekly rent in cash, if he had it. If not, he would paint a room or two. Claiming that the painter had fallen in arrears, the hotel padlocked his room, which contained all his personal belongings. Klim sued, seeking his goods plus damages and contending that he had been relieved of his property without due process...
Harvard's Building and Grounds Union-Local 877 of the International Union of Operating Engineers-has instructed its members to ignore the charges and not pay violators' tickets when they receive them. "If we all refuse to pay, we can lick 'em," a Harvard painter said Sunday night...
Harvard's Building and Grounds Union-Local 877 of the International Union of Operating Engineers-has instructed its members to ignore the charges and not pay violators' tickets when they receive them. "If we all refuse to pay, we can lick 'em," a Harvard painter said last night...
...although they were hired to do the work of painters, they were called (and paid as) painters' helpers. They had to prove to Harvard, because they were black, that they were truly skilled in their craft, skilled enough to be journeymen, and rise above what Harvard must have congratulated itself on: the "new" position to give poor old black people a chance. Sonny Gordon, a black man who had worked as a master painter in Britain, came to Harvard looking for a job and was told that the University was hiring (black) painters. He was given...