Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
PROGRAM
FOR EDUCATION
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the cost of board, room, tuition, labo-
mately amount to $500 per annum per
student. This will cover the expenses
for the full school year of nine months
during normal times.
Your committee does not recon-
mend that the whole of this sum
should be advanced by the proposed
organization to students, but that any
candidates for the benefit should, be-
sides satisfying the university author
tiles of his having done sufficient edu-
cational ground work to enable him
to obtain an entrance, also satisfy our
board of management of his ability
and willingness to provide himself, by
his own work, with a minimum of
one-third of the expenses, and in MAX
ing this provision, it should be borne
in mind that the student will have
three months in the year in which to
earn some of this amount.
Your committee recommends that
the proposed board inquire into the
practicability of securing a house ca
pable of boarding and lodging at least
twenty students, and should they be
successful, that it be taken and run by
the board at cost to the student In
this way considerable saving can be
made.
Students receiving these benefits
should give an undertaking that dur
ing their term they will not belong to
any fraternity or sorority without the
expressed permission of the board of
management in writing.
Loans should be made to students
of sufficient size to cover maximum
of two-thirds of the cost of his or her
term, but the board shall have power
in exceptional cases, such as physical
incapacity to do manual work, to in
crease the amount.
Your committee is informed that
limited number of girls wLo may be
qualified under these provisions for
admission to the university, can be
placed in positions where, if willing
to assist in housework, they can OBJ
tain their board and room during the
term in return for light house assist
ance. Should any girl wish to take
advantage of the arrangement, the
cost of her tuition, laboratory fees,
and books can be advanced to her,
and your committee believes that the
plan should be taken up until such
time as the organization is suffi-
GENTLY financed to enable her to es-
tablish more satisfactory arrange
ments.
1t is recommended that all money
secured from all sources should be
maintained in a permanent fund, and
that the members of the board of man
agement should be bonded and serve
without any remuneration. The fund
should be SO administered that as the
students pay their loans, it should en-
able the board to make loans to new
students.
1t is estimated that approximately
from $500 to $4,000 per year would
provide for each unit of twenty stu
dents.
Your committee desires to point out
that if our children are to be given a
chance of obtaining any of these bene-
fits, vast improvement in our pres
ent school system is imperative, all
to this end we urge every member of
organized labor to take an active in
terest in the schools in his or her dis
trict. Cases have been reported
where employers are arbitrarily max
ing a deduction from their employees
pay "for schools" This is wholly an
illegal proceeding. The officers of the
Federation should be requested to in
woke the aid of the law and prosecute
the matter to the end that the fair
name Of Colorado can be relieved from
the stain of such practice.
Every effort should be made to
bring up the standard of the schools
of rural and camp districts to level
in every way equal to the schools of
the large cities. Uniform teaching
and uniform school books should be
demanded. The position of the school
teacher should receive our earnest at
tention. We who are banded together
to better our condition and to obtain
fair apd just return for our labor,