The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
LABOR MOVEMENT CAN'T
 LIVE ON WAGES AND HOURS,
 AZ. OF L. CONVENTION TOLD
By International Labor News Service

By Internat1Onal LdDOr News SerV1Ce. Portland, Ore, Oct 25.-That man kind does not live by bread alone was stressed by Spencer Miller, IT,, secre- tary of the Workers Education Bureau of America, in an inspiring address to the American Federation of Labor con- vention here Labor, declared MT. Spen-. cer, seeks not only living but richer, fuller life, with the highest ideal of eco homie, ethical and spiritual development as its goal. In his address he said:
 sIt is sometimes asked why workers education? By others 1t IS asserted that the interest of workers III education to special and particular ends. If I un- derstand the purposes that underlie this movement and the educational aspira- tions of working people, they want noth ing less than the finest and fullest and most inclusive education. They believe Ill the characterization and extension. of culture, in education for all.
 But the workers have a very special interest Ill education. They look out up on the world as craftsmen as well as cit izens. And they see the world as crafts ment just as any other professional group, whether they be doctors, engi-
 ,eers, farmers, or the like Further more the average worker has long since recognized that organization does not exist for it's own sake. It must enhance his life as a worker, as an individual and as member of the community. By ;ts social function organization becomes worthy of the loyalty of the worker
 Edueation to Bring Progress
 There are, thus, problems within as we'll as without the labor. movement which require education for their wise and reconstructed until ones own house hold is set right. There are problems of growth and function to which labor everywhere must give its attention. Wage negotiation, trade agreements, a labor press, labor banks, cooperative societies and labor research are matters which suggest some of the present prob lens, as well as the growing service of labor to the community without and the membership within. Yet even these ser vices must be made plain so that labor understands full well for example the responsibilities of a press to the public a bank to its depositors, and a co-opera tive society to its members.
 1t would be unnecessary to emphasize again to the delegates to this convention that workers education Is an expression of and rests upon the labor movement. If we had had no labor movement we would have had no workers education, and if we had no education of the work CT, we should nave no great movement of labor. So shall ask you to think of workers education not as something added on to the labor movement but a quality which emerges out of those deep CT purposes of the movement It was this conviction on the part of your own Committee on Education and your own Executive Council which led to the de- felopment of the organic relationship of the Workers Education Bureau of America with your Federation. It was, I repeat, the firm oonvirtion that work ers' education was an expression of the cultural and humanistic purposes of the labor movement-the outward danifesta- ton of an inner impulse-which brought first persuasion, then unqualified support to this program.
 "These deeper purposes of the labor movement, I fear, we sometimes lose sigt of in the business administration Of a great organization of men, The every
 day task, the immediate problem, some times obscures the more subtle and per- manent underlying ideals It is the pri- vilege of such conventions as there to renew our faith as well as our friend ships. I shall not ask your indulgence