The Washington times., 1922-06-04
The Fine Old Colonial Mansion
Which Has Become the Headquar-
ters of Brookwood Labor College,
at Katonah, N. Y.
yv7HEN labor gets into dispute with
w capital labor is at disadvantage.
w The captains Of industry are, many

W. Capltal laDOr is at QlsauVdntaSe.
The captains of industry are, many
Of them, college educated men with trained
minds, and every big corporation has on
its payroll skillful lawyers who are highly
educated.
But the laboring man when he comes to
match wits and mental resourcefulness
with the trained mind of the world OF
capital is at a disadvantage. He has
trained his fingers and muscles, but not
his brains. In an argument or an arbitra-
tion or debate, the uncultivated brain of
the worker is at hopeless disadvantage
with the highly trained brain Of the
capitalist.
This Is appreciated keenly by many
labor men and women, and an effort has
been made to establish a professional
school which shall be devoted entirely to
the educational and mental training of
working men and working women. There
has recently been established near Ka-
tonah, N. Y, workers college, which is
known as Brookwood Labor College.
The college is situated among the beau
tiful hills of Westchester County and is in
the midst of an estate of f1fty-three acres.
As the students are essentially working
people, they keep up their manual strength
by farm work and other forms of labor.
The main college building is a very
pleasant and picturesque old colonial
house There are four other buildings,
each widely separated from the others.
Two are used as dormitories for the men
students and one for the women. The
other is farm building, containing three
COWS and the implements used in cultivat-
ing the farm. Near the barn is a pig-sty,
where two fat porkers were recently being
fitted for the nourishment of the students.
The faculty of the college is at present
headed by A. J. Music, graduate Of Hope
College, Michigan, and an ordained min
lister. He is thoroughly in sympathy with
labor aims and yet is familiar with the
capitalistic and professional classes. He
attended the New Brunswick Theological
Seminary and the Union Theological Semi
nary in New York, preached for ten years
and became interested in labor at the
time of the great Lawrence strike. He
served for while as general secretary OF
the Amalgamated Textile Workers.
A successful labor organizer needs to
be an eloquent, logical and educated
speaker, and a man with Dean Muste's ex-
perience will be particularly useful in
training such men. In addition to his
executive work he lectures on the history
of civilization.
A good, general knowledge Of law and
legal principles is very necessary to labor
leaders and to laboring men who wish to
maintain their rights. In all important
labor questions the employers are always
represented by the cleverest lawyers, who
often take advantage of legal technicali
ties or try to prove that the labor leaders
are breaking the law. At the new college
the history of labor organization is taught
with especial regard to avoiding legal
troubles.
The Department Of Labor Organization
and History of Unionism is in the hands
of Toscan Bennett, graduate of Yale and
the Yale Law School, which is perhaps the
best school Of its kind in the country. He
knows the methods Of corporations, for he
was formerly corporation lawyer in Hart
ford, Conn. He has also served on the
Executive Committee of the FarmerLabor
Party.
The Department Of Social Problems is
headed by Ely L. Oliver. He is a graduate
student Of the Wharton Economic School
of the University of Pennsylvania, has been
a member Of the Non-Partisan League and
tla TnIA tAI
Council.
One of the great objects Of the college
is to develop efficient labor leaders who
will guide their fellows through strikes
and difficulties without wasting their time
and money and being fooled by clever
lawyers on the other side.
I'VE hope" said Dean Music, "to de-
velop leaders capable Of making plans and
Of carrying them out, to raise men who
will become labor statesmen, men of high
intelligence and great executive capacity"
The course Of study at present consists
of two years. In the first year the history
OF civilization, with many accessory
atudies is mainly taught Child labor