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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...device for excluding Negroes is rigid control of apprenticeship training. Applicants are often required to pass aptitude tests that include wholly irrelevant questions. Plumbing apprentices, for example, get problems in algebra and trigonometry. On top of that, most apprentices must start work at half of a journeyman's pay and stay in training for three to five years, a period that many experts consider at least twice as long as necessary. Union officials contend that the system is vital to maintain standards of workmanship. "The apprenticeship program is so rigged that it would take a college-level black...
More than Bigotry. The vast majority of unionized Negroes belong to industrial unions, notably the auto workers, steel workers and garment workers, in which they mainly hold jobs of low pay and skill. The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union has managed to negotiate big pay raises for cutters and pressers, who are mostly white, while settling for minuscule increases for many of its 150,000 nonwhite members. In construction, Negroes make up about 35% of the laborers' union. Black membership is also high in the so-called "mud trades"-bricklaying, plastering, hod carrying-that white workers increasingly...
...credit-card is backed by Columbus' City National Bank, which in 1966 became the first bank in the state to offer a major credit card. So far, 150 students have signed on the line, and the bankers expect that more than 4,000 will be using cards to pay for tuition or room and board at Ohio State before the year is out. The idea is likely to spread. It has already taken hold in California, where students at Stanford, San Jose State and throughout the University of California extension system have charged their education on the BankAmericard...
...dissident graduate students last spring that he would make Cambridge Project facilities available to them to use for programs which they felt to be useful- such as some kind of work for the Black Panther Party. "But how much money," responded Alkerthis week, "do the Black Panthers have to pay for computer application? Or, for that matter, how much do the Third World countries have? How can they afford...
...traditional bastion of scholarly dialogue-lunch at Harvard-will have its dignified calm forever ruffled next Monday, when women will be admitted. The girls will, however have to pay $1.30 for the privilege...