Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-19
A. /. Of |. CHAMPIONS
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
Representatives of Labor and Others
Urge Congress To Prepare Chill
dren for the Trades.

R0micS and agriculture IN the nigh
schools of cities having "a population
of over 1900, congress- is asked to
appropriate $4,00O.0OO a year, be-
ginning July /, 1912.
Foremost in the advocacy of this
bill is the American Federation OF
Labor, whose legislative committee,
headed by Arthur E. Holder, mar
shaled the well-known educators,
practical mechanics. and farmers
representatives who spoke in favor OF
the measure before the senate COM
mittee on agriculture and forestry.
Striking at the heart of the contro-
versy, Senator Dolliver asked this
question of Charles H. Winslow, act
ing secretary of the committee on In
iustrial education Of the A. F. of L.:
Does the boy who graduates from
/ technical school find any difficulty
n making his way into the highly or
sanized trades?" =,
IF you mean does the organized
labor movement object to the mel
Who know trade coming into thai
.rade," replied Secretary Winslow.
/ say no. The trades unionist is
always willing to shake hands with
better mechanic than himself, be-
;ause he knows that this mechanic
will raise wages.
Let me illustrate: In the city OF
Paris some years ago the compositors
the printing business wanted a
school, What that school was in
ended for do not want to say, but
was supposed to make printers.
there, the seventeen component parts
# the printing trade were to be
aught. Two hundred boys are today
n that school and let me say in pass
,ng that employing printers do not
look with favor upon it because those
boys have raised wages.
They study four hours in the
morning at the theory Of the print
ing trade, and after the first six
months select one portion of that
trade in order to become expert at it.
In the other four hours of the day
tAAOy "a Q N606A1 1A4O ONAOAs AOA9SbAs -
parts of the trade, SO that when they
graduate, after four years, they FIRE
much sought after, command the
highest wages, and are the best
printers in France"
Continuing with apt illustrations
relating to other trades, Winslow
told of the Waltham watchmakers
who could, individually. only make
certain parts of a watch, btu could
not, as individuals, Pit "a watrh to-
gether. In Switzerland there are
Theological schools, and the only real
watchmakers in the United States are
the SWISS
The wool, worsted and cotton in
dastries Of Massachusetts have start
ed textile schools, said Winslow. If
man is weaver and wants to be-
come loom fixer,he can go to school
In the evening and learn this part. of
the trade. Unfortunately, he said,
these schools are not part of the
Massachusetts, public school system.
They are owned by a corporation and
it milks the state and municipality
for these schools to make superin-
tendents, agents and managers for
their plants.
Even Japanese go there to study
textiles. according to Winslow. The
Japanese government pays $1,000 a
year to those of its subjects who are
willing to attend these textile
schools in Fall River, New Bedford
or Lowell. and on their return to
their own country these Japanese are
requested to give the same number
|of years to the building up OF the
textile industry in Japan.
The only rock Of opposition in the
senate committee appeared to be
Senator Money, who clashed with the
director of the Home Economic Pub
lie Schools Of Washington, Miss EN-
ma s. Jacobs. -s4:S.l@ :
II ask you this question, = grandilo-
quently demanded the senator of the
school teacher, IF we begin to eman-
cipate the child from the influence
OF the mother and father, and turn
it over to the public institutions,
people paid a salary to take care of
them, do you not believe that we are
striking blow at the very root of
the homer"
al want to preserve the home, :"
placidly replied the teacher, and then
with the patience that is bred in
school rooms, she told the aged sena-
tor OF the many children who had
no mothers. that many mothers had
to work away from homes, and that
even the best of mothers In the best
Of homes could not give their chill
dren the education necessary to make
winning fight in the battle with the
world.
A strong plea for agricultural and
Industrial education, as proposed in
the bill, came from j. H. Cornell,
president of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College. at Saltwater, Okla,
N which 1t was shown that this pro-
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