"Black workers have no one in the union they can rely on." Diorite C. Fletcher '71 said. "That is why some of us who are black are here. Black painters have to be careful because they need their jobs and can't trust their foreman or union officials to represent them."

The argument became more heated when Larry Kinnard, a black personnel officer hired this fall, came into the room. He cut off several white questioners-saying "let me talk to the sister"-and said that his job was to "watch out for black people" in the personnel office.

After several minutes of talking. Claire Joseph '71 asked Kinnard. "Will you join us? Will you demand right now that the painters' helpers get the same pay as the painters?"

"I can't move on a problem until someone comes to me and talks about it." Kinnard said. "Why don't you come to me and we'll talk about it."

Miss Fletcher then moved around Kinnard and confronted Butler. "I want to single you out for the most insidious, most racist, most history-repeating performance I've ever seen," she said. "You take a black brother-one with five babies-and you bring him in here and pull the fucking strings and don't let him say what he wants."

Kinnard left the main room and spoke with several black students in the hall. After a few more exchanges the administrators stood up and left.