Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-12
FEDERATION URGED
TO JOIN EUROPEAN
LABOR CONGRESS
Street Railway Employees Pre-
sent Resolution for Interna-
tiona| AtfiIiationi Report on
Industrial Education,


Toronto, ont, Nov. ll.-Afhltatinn
of the American Federation OF Labor
with the International Labor congress
OF Europe and other International
bodies was proposed in Il resolution
presented at today's convention by the
delegation of the Association of street
ana Electric Railway employees of
America. More han fifty resolutions
In all were offered ut the close of the
afternoon session.
one resolution introduced by the
piano and Organ Workers suggested
that the time has come for the wage
worker to become a factor in politics
and urges the early formation or u
labor party
The iongshoremen want the deep
waterways projects throughout the
country endorsed, the street railway
men would have the convention de-
clare in favor OF a universal label for
all affiliated organization, and the Al
albania state Federation wants the
establishment of a national tubereu-
losis sanitarium considered.
p. J. McArdle, president of the
Iron. steel and Tin Workers, intro
duced Il resolution requiring all or
gani2ations affiliated with the organ
cation to appropriate % cents per
anita per year for a national defense
fund in aid of organizations engaged
in strikes or boycotts.
feature of the day was the re-
port presented By John Mitchell ON
behalf of the special committee APP
pointed to Investigate the subject oil
Industrial education.
1t il believed" says the report,
that the future welfare of America
I largely depends upon the industrial
training Of our workers and protect
ing them. The inquiries of the COM
mittee seem to indicate that If the
American workman is to maintain the
high standard of efficiency. the boys
and girls of the country must have an
| opportunity 10 acquire educated hands
and brains, such as may enable them
to earn q living in "A self-selected No-
\ cation and acquire an intelligent UNI
Outstanding of the duties of good citl-
zenship We favor the Establishment
Of schools in connection with the pup
lie school system at which pupils be-
tween the ages of Il and l6 may be
taught the principles of he trades,
not necessarily in separate buildings
but in separate schools adapted to
this particular education and by conf
petent ana trained teachers.
The course of instruction in such
"A school should be English, mathe-
matics, physics, chemistry, elementary
mechanics ana drawing. The shop in
struction for particular trades and for
each trade represented, the drawing
mathematics. mechanics, physical and
biological science applicable to the
trade, the history of that trade ana
a sound system Of economies, includ-
ing and emphasizing the philosophy
Of collective bargaining, These VIII
serve to prepare the pupil for more
advanced subjects and in addition dis
close his capacity for n specific vocal
ton. In order to keep such schools
i'm close touch with the trades there
should be local advisory boards. in
GLIDING representatives of the indus
tries. employers and organized labor.
'The committee recommends that
any technical education of h work
| ers in trade and industry being a
| public necessity it should not be a pri-
| avte but public function, conducted by
the public and at the expense of the
| public"
III continuation of progressive de-
velopment of supplemental trade edn-
| cation as inaugurated by trade unions
| Is also recommended. The committee
advised the continuation of Its life
and final report to the convention Of
1910.
The one trouble of America to-
| day" says the report, us that too
| many of our youths who nave gradu-
| ated from the grammar or high school
are misfits industrially. If we are to
| secure industrial supremacy or even
| maintain our present standards I'm the
| Industrial world We must in some way
IN our educational system acquire an
| equivalent to our old apprenticeship
| system.
organized labor's position regard
ing the injustices of the narrow and
prescribed training in the selected
trades by both private and public i'm
| struetion and the flooding of the labor
| market with half trained mechanics
for the purpose Of exploitation is per-
fectably tenable and the well founded
belief in the viciousness Of such prac-
tees and consequent condemnation is
well nigh unassailablle.
"Organized labor's record for years
in regard To- the better sanitary con-
| ditions ia factories and workshops and
It's continued efforts toward safe
| guarding women and minors have
been the subject Of wide discussion
| and much helpful legislation.
IT'S advocacy OF free schools, free
text books and the raising of compul-
| sorry school age have been religiouslS
adhered to and closely allied to these
| subjects IL tina of industrial cduca-
| ton. and any serious discussion OF The
| proper kind ct vocational training
promotes discussion of the former.
Experience has shown that manual
training schol teachers without actua.
trade experience do not and cannot
successfully solve this great problem
and that progress viii necessarily be
slow. as new teachers must Doe pro.
vided. a set Of new text books vii
have to be written and the subjects
taught in q sympathetic and sysie
matte manner
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