New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07


absence of four months, with full sal
ary of SIS a week. AS a good per
centage of the amount given by the
Industrial Council to Miss Mittelstadt
had to 60 to the maintenance OF her
family. the national organization sup
plemented the amount left by schol-
arship in order that she might have
Sl2 a week to live on while in Chi
cago.
Miss Whitehead and Miss Cohen
were also given scholarships.
Although the league had hoped that
each girl would be able to stay tor
year in all three cases the length OF
time the girls could afford to remain
has been four months.
The only standard by which STU
dents at the school are chosen IS that
of general efficiency. The rest-a
knowledge Of the general truths I'M
deriving labor-the school tries to
give 70 them. 1t does not wish their
training to be so localized or so re-
stricted as TO limit them to one local
ity or to one trade. Although they
are to be responsible to some city OF
ssnization their work will take them
to all parts Of the United States and
into all classes Of labor.
Courses Offered.
For that reason the course offered
consists OF academic and field work
the academic work, including both day
and night courses, being gwen at
Northwestern and Chicago UNIVERSE
ties, and the field work under the
auspices Of the national Office.
The first class-givcn because most,
Of the girls for whom the school Isl
meant have been forced to go into IN
dustry when very young-is tor the
correct speaking and, with more en-
phasis, the correct writing OF English.
There are also day classes in political
economy and industrial history. And,
at the request of the girls themselves
they are taught bookkeeping.
There are three night classes, at
tended also by twenty-siX members OF
the Chicago Trade Union League. The
first. on Public Speaking is given
by Professor Nelson of the University
of Chicago. The other two arc d
course by William H. Holly, attorney
for the league, on Judicial Decisions
Affecting Labor and another course
Of lectures on The Machinery OF
Boards Of Arbitration and Trade
Boards and Their Value
The girls also studied the ten vol
umes Of Documentary History OF In
dustrial Society in America" by Pro
fessor John X. Commons, Of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin.
How to Fight Police.
To complement the work at the uni
versities field work was given in the
conducting of street meeting, the
distributing OF dodgers, the writing OF
dodgers, the best way Of meeting po-
lice interference-shoud there be any
tine best way Of avoiding it by COM
plying with different city ordinances
relating to free speech, how to pre-
side at meetings, how TO secure legis-
lation. how to meet the employer and
how, if possible. TO convert him.
Mrs. Robins impersonated the en-
ployer so the girls might have some
one on whom 10 try out their argu-
ments. She said she grew tired OF al
ways haying to expound the same old
arguments and once asked an en-
ployer if he couldn't give her new
one or two.
Joy Makes Efficiency.
The question Of organization was
also taken up. Some one has to DC
trained to organize young girls. OF
the three girls in attendance at the
school last winter Mrs. Robins thinks
that Miss Whitehead who IS seven
eeen now and who has worked IN
factory for 1inc years, is perhaps the
best fitted, through her sheer Joy III
life. TO Organize young girls. Miss
Mittclstadt would be the best organ
izcr of older women, looking forward
to the future, as she does, with all the
intellectual force OF her Russian Jew
ISL race. And Miss Cohen would be
the best all--ound public speaker.
Industrial education must come be
;orc conditions in the undergrad in
dustries in which women work can be
anything but bad said Mrs. Robins.
This fact was realized in Great
Britain when it passed law making
it possible for d community to have
tutor if there are thirty people in
that loo alty who want 10 learn. That
is what we want also 10 do in America.
The part OF the work in which the
most people seem to be interested is
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