Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lawrence A. Hodston, a Harvard painter and shop steward of local 1138 (Harvard) of the Painter's Union, said last night that the six-man committee set up Friday to investigate the painters' helpers issue should examine the helpers' on-the-job work in order to judge their qualifications for promotion...
...them sec the work these guys have been doing. They have been doing the same work as we have, so we can point out which walls and ceilings the helpers have painted." Hodston said, "Then the truth will tell...
...midnight. The University and union officials are still negotiating. The latest University offer will be considered by the union in meetings this week. At that time the union members will vote one of three options; accepting the offer and signing the contract; rejecting the offer, but continuing to work while waiting for a better offer from the University: or rejecting the offer and going "out on strike...
Ezra F. Vogel, professor of Sociology and chairman of the meeting, said that the sociologists also agreed "not to take any precipitous action." He said they asked him to appoint a committee "to work out feasible plans for the new department with other concerned groups- undergraduates, graduates, and faculty members in the other wings of the Social Relations Department." He has not yet appointed the committee...
...parts of the film in which Miller reads from his own work are too long. He is not a very good reader, and his literary style is so conversational that he is at his best when he retells a story he wrote in one of his books. His extempore dialogue interspersed with "doncha know" and "isn't that so." is witty and engaging. His gruff, gravelly voice, not unlike that of Huphrey Bogart, conveys a tone of ironic detachment which helps in sensing the tone of his books...