Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-11

occupations and what these processes
demand OF the worker by way OF skill
general intelligence we must lind out
what physical requirements various oc-
equations make upon the workman as
Ike. We must know what are the
sources OF supply OF the workers and
he So we nSs
In hand such facts as these can we
proceed ntelligently In the task Of
producing trained employees
Having done this, further lnvestiga-
tlon must then be made to determine
exactly what things constitute the spe-
have and what is the character, quality
must possess"
WOMAN SPEAKS ON
WORK FOR WOMEN
IN introducing Miss Gin. the Cover
nor caused n general laugh by saying
ina. thaa Ne M had thought her to be So
happy to find her very approachable.
MISS Gill herself arose with n laugh at
inc gentle innuendo. and acquitted her
ally commendatory of Miss Murtla nd.
who was Target: responsible for the
vey. In discussing the study made By
Miss Murtland of the shirt and waist
INDUSTRY i,it,sy Miss Gill said that the. mag
econ0mic Significance. for there are
10000 dress and waist workers. of
whom 81 per cent are women. in New
York alone. The result had been, the
a factory school. to be financed one
third by the union, one-third by tho
manufacturers and onc-thrd by the
public. There are, she said 5000 girls
annually to be trained in this way to
meet the usual trade demand. Through
systematic instruction. she said. there
tematic and chaotic woman's occupa-
tons shall be attacked IN the same
thoughts aS heif Miss weGa fw Said shat she
wished to leave with the audience.
First. we must wiring from the minds
of the age some genuine intellectual
content for all of our women's. work.
Until this can be done our work will.
as rule. be poorly done and poorly
the spiritual fight, until social prestige
shall he ranged with. and not against.
economic expression and economic eff
cheney It must become the fashion to
be good for something definite. not for
vague use. When we women under
stand our work and are proud to do It,
goal of success and happiness No
man can afford to be Indifferent to
sre1 sS%ss OF I r,n
women's work out of the intelligent
situation in which social and indus
trial forces have brought it,"
RoUSING RECEPTION
GIVEN TO GoMPERs
a rousing reception was given to
Samuel Gompers. president of the
american Federation of LABOR, when
argument by him was required in sup
port of industrial education that 4.
great part of his life had been devoted
about the attitude of organized labor
with reference to every sort of social
and economic question. and that the
not so. great as the presumptuous and
supercilious often assumed /. To be-. He
declared that organized labor is not
education in the public schools, but is
eager to cooperate in institutng in
dustrial education in them. But or
any scheme of industrial education
which lis lop-sided, as If. for example
the result would be to produce In any
machtnists than are needed In that
community. He saw that the most diff
| fcult task would be to maintain an
/ efficient artisans, and the only way
to avoid working an injury to or
Ganized labor under the name of in
! dustrial education would be to find
| out what the demand is in any given
| community.
/ INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION
SHOULD BE RAISED ON SURVEY
industrial education. he said.
upon a survey Of the industries of the
| community. To the extent that in
| austrian education is not precisely
| adapted TO the need of the community
| II will tend to have exactly this result,
that II Will increase the productive eff
! iiciency OF certain groups of labor and
| by bringing into those groups an over
| supply Of labor will tend to economic
! deterioration. l do not anticipate that
/ any such results are ut all likely to
| follow as "A consequence of industrial
education in Richmond, because, Rich
! mcnd has made an exhaustive survey or
| its industries"
| He said that organized labor had
| been active for years to secure such
| training, and that in 1902 he had APP
! pointed committee education TO
| consider what the trades unions could
do TO make up for the deficiency in the
| public schools, and that in 1908 the
committee on education submitted to
the convention set OF resolutions, in
| which 1t stated that industrial cduca-
| tion In necessary and inevitable for
! the progress of an Industrial people.
| But organized labor. he said, would OPP
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