Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HEARING that the Buildings and Grounds Department planned to save $75.000 by climinating the post of night watchman at the House, we went to talk to a night watchman and find out what his job is all about and what it feels like to be eliminated. He put down his copy of "A Dandy in Aspic" and agreed to talk to us but asked that his name not be used. "I may get in trouble with my supervisor for this." he said. "He may tell me to mind my own business...
What does a night watchman do? "Our hours are 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. We're here to help the boys. They forget their keys or their fuses blow. Things come up you don't know about. Every hour we check in with the switchboard. We walk around the building every now and then and then and answer the phone. At one o'clock we lock the Senior and Junior Common Rooms, the library, and the music rooms. I have to lock the Society of Fellows room on Monday night or whenever they have a party...
...Will the watchman's union fight to protect their jobs? "We have a union, but I can't remember what they call it. They don't do much. It's a company union; it's not very strong...
Dawn Raid. Exactly how much fighting, if any, the oil crew had engaged in was by no means clear. The Biafrans accused them of putting out markers to indicate Biafran positions and of leading Nigerian forces. Other sources related the incident differently. A Nigerian watchman in the oil camp, who survived by hiding under a truck, maintained that Biafran commandos attacked the camp in a surprise dawn raid. They sprayed it with automatic-weapons fire and shot down the eleven who were killed as they emerged from their bunkhouses to see what was happening...
Charles Adams, 27, Washington University of St. Louis, held a job as a night watchman while doing his undergraduate work. Then he joined Del Monte in San Francisco, was called up for a hitch as an Army officer, later entered Washington University's graduate business program for Negroes. At school he helped to start a small investment company, was in the top 10% of his class, and won the award for the best dissertation. Adams is aware that quite a few recruiters are going out of their way to woo Negroes, but he disdains sinecures. "I want to join...