Word: helpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...although they were hired to do the work of painters, they were called (and paid as) painters' helpers. They had to prove to Harvard, because they were black, that they were truly skilled in their craft, skilled enough to be journeymen, and rise above what Harvard must have congratulated itself on: the "new" position to give poor old black people a chance. Sonny Gordon, a black man who had worked as a master painter in Britain, came to Harvard looking for a job and was told that the University was hiring (black) painters. He was given...
...although they were hired to do the work of painters, they were called (and paid as) painter's helpers. They had to prove to Harvard, because they were black, that they were truly skilled in their craft, skilled enough to be journeymen, and rise above what Harvard must have congratulated itself on: the "new" position to give poor old black people a chance. Sonny Gordon, a black man who had worked as a master painter in Britain, came to Harvard looking for a job and was told that the University was hiring (black) painters. He was given...
Harvard has been trying for several years to improve its minority hiring program. One of the plans it set up with this end in mind was the so-called "painters helper" program. Under this system Harvard hired blacks as painters' helpers in order to give them on-the-job training to become painters. Painters' helpers received a lower wage than painters...
That Harvard raise the wages of all painters' helpers to those of painters and abolish the painters' helper category...
Well, you may remember all that, but now you can forget it. Because we are witnessing the emergence of a NEW HARVARD-the Harvard that really cares about split door panels. No less than that creative genius himself, Dean John T. Dunlop, mastermind of the painters' helper category and similar cheap labor programs for Model Cities construction, has charged that two of us "deliberately destroyed the lower panels of the North East door of University Hall...