The producers news., 1919-08-15
Rand School Thrives :
In Spite Of Persecution
Many New Students Enroll in Work
ers' COllege-Adds Two. More De.
Dartments.


New York. Aug. 1.-THE immedi-
ate effects of the efforts of the reac-
tionaries to destroy the Rand School
of Social Science, East 18th Street,
New York City, has been the an
nouncement of an enlargement of the
work of the school. Two new de-
paatments have been added, besides a
number of extra courses. 1t is be-
lleved that last years record of 5000
students, representing every state in
the Union, and most of the civilized
countries of the globe, will be sur
passed by substantial figure. The
correspondence and extension courses,
which served 1000 other students.
are also attracting larger numbers
this year? Thus, the scope of the
Workers University" feared and
hated by those who dread the educa-
tion of labor, is rapidly broadening
under the attacks of those clark
forces, which are operating through
the Republican Union League Club,
the Lusk legislative committee and
the Office of the Republican Attorney
General of the state.
One of the new departments is the
Peoples High School, under the di-
rectlon of Benjamin Glassberg, a
noted teacher dismissed from New
York school because he dared to give
frank answers to questions concern
ing the social change now going on
In the world. This department has
been established because workers
have been dissatisfied with the narrow
policy of the public schools and wish
to have their children learn the
truth, uncolored by text books writ
ten from the employers standpoint
The rapid development of the CO.
operative movement in the United
States has led to the establishment
of the Cooperative department, in
which training courses, fitting stud
ents to conduct cooperatives will be
the chief feature.
The regular department for the
training of labor organizers, speakers
and teachers has been enlarged, al
have also the departments which arr
taught literature, history, variou:
branches of science and art. Tn,
high school course will open Septem
ber 8. The rest of the department:
begin their winter sessions Novem
ber 11th. Meanwhile short courses
in various subjects are to cover Aug
ust, September and October.
In addition to Algernon Lee, Scot
Nearing, Alexander Trachtenberg
David p. Berneberg, Benjamin Glass
berg, there will be a number of nev
department heads whose names hav
not yet been announced. In addition
to these there will be some fifty in
structors and lecturers, drawn from
some of the highest educational in
stitutions of the country. Nomina
fees are charged, the rest of the ex
pense of the school being made u
fby the Rand Book Store, income from
wills, gifts and other sources.
The fight of the school in tn
: courts and through the Lusk legisla
ton committee is to go on, accord
ing to threats from the enemies o
: the working class education. !
grand jury from which indictments Q
school heads is to be urged is in ses
sion. A "star chamber" inquisitio
under the direction of the Attorne
Geenral, acting under one Of the Ne
York "war laws" designed to ira
, spies, is also under way. The attol
nev general threatens to renew til
action to annul the charter of tn
:, school, which was dismissed recent
by Justice McAvoy of the State 81
preme Court.