The mayor, he said, had helped his wife get a janitorial job with the Board of Education.

He's very hard-working, but for the last decade he's been reduced to janitorial jobs paying not much over minimum wage.

As a result, he argues, it is sometimes difficult for unskilled blacks to get even the dishwashing or janitorial jobs that give many immigrants their start.

Then, one day in 1984, Mrs. Ortiz, who had stopped working for the family a year before to take her janitorial job, returned for a visit.

Another is to subject even the lowest-level applicant for a clerical or janitorial job to half a dozen or more interviews.

Her husband took on everything from janitorial jobs to parking cars at the dog track until illness forced him into disability.

He said he would like to get a janitorial job at his boys' school so he could be around when they needed him.

He had also helped Louis Darhower get a janitorial job at the base.

"What's left are less desirable types of work, like janitorial jobs."

He appointed substantial numbers of blacks to patronage positions in government beyond the janitorial jobs they usually received.