The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14
AT, Of THROWS ITS
!. WEIGHT IN FAVOR o.
!. TRADE INSTRUCTION.

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To give instructions in the trades,
home economics and agriculture in
the high schools OF cities having a
population OF over Z, o0o, congress is
asked to appropriate $4,000, 900 y a
year, beginning july I, 1912. 4. ]
j. 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
committee on agriculture and for
estry. >y-3 ~ .s ~ ... :, s.
Striking at the heart Of the con-
troversy, Senator Dolliyer asked this
question Of Charles H. NWinslow, act
ing secretary aof the COMMITTEES on
Industrial education :! of the A, r.
of L.:
Does the boy who graduates from
a technical school find any difficulty
In making his way into the highly
organized trades?" 49, -;
f. If you mean does the organized
labor movement object to: the men
who know trade. coming into that
trade replied Secretary Winslow,
Il say no. The'Ttrades unionist is
always willing to shake hands with
better mechanic than himself, be-
cause" he knows that this mechanic
will raise wages. =: -'.~:..
Paris School Object Lesson.
Let me illustrates: In the city of
Paris some years ago the compositors
In the printing business wanted a
school, What that =. school was in
tended for L. do not want to say, but
It was supposed to make printers.
There, the seventeen component parts
of the :pEipting trade were to- be
taught. Two hundred boys are to-
day in that school, and, let me say
in passing that employing printers
do not look with favor upon it be-
cause those boys have raised wages
: ''They study four hours in the
morning at the theory of the print
ling trade, and after the first 4. sis
months select one portion. OF thai
+ trade in order to become expert al
I It. In the other four hours of. the
| day they are taught the other rela:
/ tive parts of the trade, so that wlier
they graduate, after four years, they
Iare much sought after, command the
highest :NaKes, nd are the bes
printers in France. -. 80 :::.: & .s
3%<*. Swiss Real "Horologists.'' !,
I Continuing with apt illustration.
reiisttrs to other rades, fI,sl on toll
! Of the WaHham- watchmakers Wh,,
could, indfvid only. make Ger
tain parts .ot q .%watch but could. not
I as individuals PIT a watch together
Tn Switzerland, there. are .:horologica
lschoo1s, and the only real watchmak
ers in. the United States: are tn,
ESwiss. =: Es.~.'.. - =.
The wool, worsted and cotton in
tdustries of Massachusetts, have startet
Flexible schools, said Winslow. IT.: !:
man is a weaver and wants to be-
Eoome loom fxer, he. can go t,
school in the evening and learn THU
part of his trade. Unfortunately, h
tsaid, these schools are not part O
the Massachusetts, public school sys
tenn = They are owned by: g corpo
ration and it milks the state ant
municipality for those schools t
make, superintendents, agents an,
managers for their plants. *%,%.
Japs, of Course, Ready to Learn.
| Even Japanese 90 there to stud!
textiles, according to Winslow. TIL.
Japanese government pays $1,000 :.
|year to those Of its subjects who ar,
willing to attend these textile schools
in Fall River, New Bedford, or. Low
ell, and, on their return to their owl
country, these Japanese are required
to give the same number of years tt
1.-The building up of textile industry ii
Japan. -, ,~-~: =: =. "
The only rock Of opposition in tn,
senate committee appeared to be Sen
ator Money, who clashed with TIL,
director of the Home Economic Pub
lie schools of Washington Miss Elm
MA s. Jacobs. r :. :...-s::., ',:E.-i: :;
! ct ask you this question" grandilo
quently demanded the senator Of, tn,
school teacher, III we begin to eman
cipate the child from the influenc,
LOT. the mother and father, and turl
them over, to the public institution.
people paid salaryt,to take care 0
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