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...four-hour interview Tuesday night with The Crimson, University security guard and union steward Stephen G. McCombe offered the most damning public statements about his superiors that had been uttered in the long-simmering controversy over charges of discrimination in the Harvard security guard unit...
McCombe, who as a union steward represented five of the seven guards in their complaints about treatment, this week offered what he said were new details of the guards' charges...
Dowling, for his part, said McCombe had no credibility on the issue because the union steward is engaged in a "personal vendetta" against him. He said all guards who have made charges have had full and fair hearings both inside and outside the department...
Dowling said he suspended McCombe for the missed time. Johnson put McCombe back on the job 10 days later, according to the steward. McCombe and Dowling said the guard has not yet been paid for the missed time...
McCombe, meanwhile, maintained that he had no personal motives for making his charges public. "The reason I got involved was my duty as a union steward," he said. "As a guard, I think truth and justice are important. In a police unit, you either have that or you have anarchy...