The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-16
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a department to found and advise CO., operative stores The Illinois, Utah, Washington and California State Feder- ations of Labor, National Women's Trade Union League, United Mine Workers and Workmen's Circle have all endorsed and are furthering the move ment. The railroad brotherhoods are vitaly interested in 1t. At the first Ma tional Cooperative Convention i'll 1918 one labor delegate represented 285,OOO railroad men, and fraternal delegates represented more than a million trade urionists.
 Cooperative Moves.
 In February, 1920, an All-American Cooperative Congress met in Chicago, at which the main representation was that of the organized labor and farmers. Rail road workers representing more than two million members were present. The Brotherhood of Railway Employees and Railway Shop Men have established fac tories in which clothing is manufactured for their own members four textile mills are owned and the product sold di- rect to it's 100000 members on a mail order system.
 The United Mine Workers wrote check for over $12,O00 to put the Gen.
 
 solid financial basis. A labor bank has been established in Cleveland by rail- road brotherhoods, with capital of $40,- 00O,000
 The labor movement is awakening to a realization of its need of trained lead crship and of higher educational stand ards III the rank and file and Is establish ing its own. educational systems. Work CTS education falls inside the classified ton of at1lt education, but IS not to be confused with university extension, night schools, forums. Americanization and the like. It Is an enterprise arising inside the labor movement, having for its pur- pose the liberation of the working class, individually and collectively"
 The International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, which i'll 1914 appro- priated $l 500 for educational activities, is the pioneer. In 1915 work was be- gun in cooperation with the New York Board of Education. The 1920 conven- ton of the union appropriated $15,00O for education. There are now seven cen- tcrs in New York City, in public school buildings where classes of union mem bers are conducted, and Workers Uni versity conducted in high school build ing Subjects i'll these courses cover Music, Art, Health, Literature, Econo- mic Geography, The Cooperative Move ment, Logic, Applied Psychology. His- tory of Civilization.
 Similar enterprises have been estab- lished in Boston, Washington, D. C., Seattle, Rochester, Baltimore, Philade1- phia, Cleveland and other cities, by vari- ous groups, sometimes in association with university groups.
 Educational Work.
 In January, 1921, a Workers Educa- tion Bureau was organized in New York to coordinate and assist the educational work now being conducted by the work CTS, to collect and disseminate informa- tion and to stimulate the creation of other similar enterprises.
 In January, 1920, at Chicago the Fed erated Press was organized for the pur- pose of collecting and distributing to its members news of the labor and political movements throughout the United States and Canada and eventually throughout the world. It began with eight members paying assessments, and now has a mem bership of 123, claiming about three mil lion readers.
 This news agency transmits news, fea- lures and cartoons to its members, and
 
 of the reading matter in the labor papers of the country is furnished by this ser vice.
 It has effected plan by which chain of labor papers is published at its plant in Chicago, under a method which leaves two pages of the paper for local news and the remaining six made up in uni form style.
 News bureaus have been opened in Washington, D. C., New York City and Sydney, and correspondents placed in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Oxford, England, Warsaw, and Florence, Italy. Connec- tions have been made with the labor press of Europe, this agency supplying more than one hundred papers in Germany with American news. and cooperating | with the Scandinavian Press Association and the London Daily Herald in the ex- change of news
 Practically every group and faction in the labor movement IS cooperating i'll this enterprise.