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Like other night watchmen, Richardson worries about job security. Guards fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Buildings and Grounds, not the Harvard Police, but like the policeman they worry about their dwindling numbers. Richardson recalls that when he arrived at Harvard, there were about 50 other watchmen. Now, he says, the number is closer to 30. The University has begun to hire "casual workers" at a rate far less than the $4.74 an hour they pay the guards, and Richardson sees that move as the wave of the future. When the guards meet with University officials this week...
Thieves sell such machines at bargain prices: a stolen $60,000 International crawler tractor was offered at $35,000 to one potential buyer, who became suspicious and called the cops. Usually this equipment is left on the job site when work crews head home. Watchmen are too expensive for many contractors, and the ones that are posted are easily overpowered by thieves. Says Hugh Goulding, vice president of Howell Tractor and Equipment Co., "The thieves simply winch it onto a lowboy trailer and drive it away...
...response to these conditions was the creation of new, specialized institutions to deal with what had once been left to spontaneous and communal control. At the time of the Revolution, the "police" were nothing but night watchmen who set up the hue and cry if a fire broke out or a horse died in the street. But big cities began to suffer more noisome problems. By the 1820s one out of every 65 Bostonians was, according to Haverford College Historian Roger Lane, engaged in selling liquor. The dozen "houses of infamous character" that nourished in the West End of Boston...
...midweek, he announced a settlement in the long-standing contract deadlock between the University and its nearly 600 custodians and watchmen. And at week's end, Powers' office was busy preparing a report which may finally clarify the obscure policy of granting promotions in the University kitchens--a policy that may be in violation of Affirmative Action guidelines...
HUERA and Harvard reached a tentative agreement Tuesday on contract terms for nearly 550 union building custodians. Contract terms for over 50 HUERA watchmen have yet to be resolved...