Word: painters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demands attacked alleged racism in the painter's trade and the other called for changes in construction hiring, which Afro said is characterized by "insidious patterns of discrimination...
Under the helper program, unskilled or semi-skilled workers learn painter skills over a three year period, at the end of which they become journeymen. Harvard now employs 13 helpers, seven of them black, and 27 journeymen, three of them black. Helpers are paid from 43c to 86c less per hour than journeymen...
...regardless of how much experience a man claims to have had, Murphy said, the paint-crew foreman classifies him on the basis of an interview and by observ-ing his painting skills. To be classified as a journeyman, a painter must have mastered color-mixing, staining, graining, and other essential painting techniques...
Murphy said Harvard has hired only three black journeymen because "trained black painters are just not available. If a qualified black painter came in today we would hire him directly as a journeyman," he added...
Tuesday's press conference called by the University on the painters' helpers situation shed little light on many questions which I feel are pertinent to resolving the issue-what the painter's helper job is, standards and time periods used for promotion, how Harvard can act to change wage differentials if necessary, etc. I was there at the conference. But I wish to point out right here and now that I was there as an interested individual. I participated in discussion neither as a member of SDS, nor as a member of Afro, but as Diorita Fletcher, black woman, class...