Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-26
EDUCATION AND LABOR.
A Address by s. T. Button, Superintent
 ent of the Public Schools, Before th

Address by s. T. Button, SuPerintend-
 ent of the Public Schools, Before the
 New Haven Labor Lyceum.
 Al Loomis' Temple of Music yesterday afternoon a small audience gathered to hear Superintendent of Schools s. T. Dutton dis cuss the ''Relation of Education to Labor" H. H. Lane, of the Labor Lyceum called the meeting to order and in few appropriate words introduced Mr. Dutton to the audi ence Among those present were MT. Strong and Mir Bennett of the Board of Education,
 Principal Camp of the Dwight school, Prin
 pal French of the Skinner school, Rev. Bras
 tus Blakeslee of Fair Haven, John G. North
 and others. The substance of MT. Dutton's re-
 marsk were as follows: ''The peaceful and per
 manent solution of the problems of labor
 only be realized through education. Many
 forces are at work for the purpose of educat-
 ing men to be honest, just and considerate
 in solving the question of labor as related to
 capital. During the last quarter of century
 the facilities of production by labor saving
 machinery have doubled every seven years
 and during this time the condition of the
 laboring men has constantly improved. Free
 education is justly reputed to be the only
 safeguard of republic, but 1t
 may be employed for noble or ignoble ends.
 Studies in free schools are the means adopted
 by which the child unfolds his powers along
 the line of natural capacity. Through study
 he learns that machinery is made to perform
 great part of the labor performed by man-
 ual hands. Through history he learns how
 man has reached his present proud position
 and he sees how all forms of tyranny have
 been, crushed by the onward march of free
 T,11f ic naJ l,y d y-in
 reading, while the home receives many of the
 active influences of the school. Measuring himself by those of whom he reads he req
 sons as to the possibility of his rising to q similar high position ill life. The school not only brightens and elevates the home but the youth goes from the school to use what he has gained by education in hundred differ ent ways.
 Let see what education has to do with organized labor. To organize is right; but the fear is that those less intelligent will over come those of education and intelligence. If they overstep the bounds of discretion and decency let us hope that intelligence will be sufficiently powerful to compel them to de- sist. If free education is consistent with la Dor, we assume it is, then it is apparent that the acts of some laboring men gre incon- sistent with the theory. If in the strife now going on the laws of the State and nation are disregarded, the penalty must be rigid1y en- | what single individual cannot do, and ill all that say mean it to apply alike to en- ployer and employe. I sincerely believe that has so far prevailed among the masses as to | thwart the designs of evil men. There are | those who hold education answerable for the l acts of laboring men, but we should not | bring indictment against education until we find out whether the leaders were not ed l ucated in foreign lands.
 Thousands of children have been forced | into factories before they have hardly got a smattering of education. The recent act of | the legislature forbidding the employment of children under thirteen years of age is a good one, but it's enforcement depends upon the workingmen themselves Again I be- \ lieve that we should teach that mutual conf dence between employer and employe are l friendly allies and we cannot afford to do | that which invites dissension between them. | The duties pertaining to honest citizenship must also be taught; there is far too little done to establish manly responsibility. Let | the duties as we'll as the rights of men be | taught in the schools The movement to in- | troduce industrial education in the schools is | timely, but the best of all are lessons. of thrift and economy which accompany all in-
 dustrial education.
 In closing the speaker appealed to all to let higher motives seek for the settlement of | all labor troubles. Reason, argue and strike \ if necessary, but in it all, let your modera- sion be known.
 l After the Address was concluded questions l pertaining to the subject matter of the ad- dress were asked and answers given by the | speaker, after which there were few ten minute addresses.