The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-23
WORKERS. SCHOOL
IN STATE NJ { N 7
ON CONFERENCE
Refused Seats by the
Executive Board
Especial to The DAILY worker.l

recognition of and trade relations |
with Soviet Russia, on the ground that |
it was "extraneous to the prerogative" !
of the Workers Education Bureau,
was typical Of the reactionary char
acter Of that bureaus fourth national
conference just closed here.
Opposing Slogans
The second typical example of the
control exercised by the trade union
officials over the organization, was
the attack upon Professor Scott Near
ing because he criticized the speech
'of President Green Of the A. F. OF l..
by saying, Industrial peace is the
slogan of the bosses. Industrial war
must be the slogan Of the workers"
These signs Of reactionary control
followed the refusal of the executive
board of the bureau to seat the dele
cation from the Workers School Of
New York City, and the refusal of
the board to consider that schools APP
plication for aflliation. Compelled to
appeal to the delegate body by circu-
lars distributed at the final session,
the workers school issued the follow
ing statement:
A Statement by the Workers School
Delegation
"The application of the Workers
School for affiliation to the w. e. B.
and for representation at this confer
ence has been denied and rejected by
the executive board of the w. e. B.
The credentials committee refused to
act on our credentials. The afilia-
ton committee likewise refused to act
on our application.
Attic the conference has already
almost run it's course, the executive
board has not given its supplement-
airy report to the conference as was
promised on the opening day, which
would bring our case before the body
of the conference. Our delegation has
found itself gagged and blocked at
every turn to present its case before
the assembled delegates as we'll as
to participate in the deliberations of
the conference.
| nCtuoC0 vi NUtGC S0hUtS
"Afiliation has been denied us, we
are informed by Secretary Miller,
upon three counts. One of these is
pyTely techpicaleathgA nd HHstinp pnlalfs t to
SO-day limit. The second point is that
our school is not under trade union
auspices. We mahtain that the w.
liz. 3. constitution makes provision for
the afiliation of wFkers study class
es. with nothing bfng said about the
necessity of their auspices being ex-
clusively trade un1n.
"The third poini is that we prop
agate particular pctrines, and the
= w. e. B. is againstluch policy. This,
: we say, is a fundamentally false out
o look. In the feldof social sciences
+ one must of necessity either have and
e develop a pro-worlr or prO-capitalist
e viewpoint.
d 1.-THE Workers shool is bona-fide
workers educatna institution,
o strictly working dss in its student
MI body and in it's eeational program.
It has been in exishce for two years.
n It has several huned registered stu
. dents, and functis all the year
" around.
For Class Strugean Revolution
I'VE are forcedi make our case
known to the deleees in this fashion
70 because we cannopeak in the con-
!. gention. Ours is Towing, function
ing school which bclares for such
~ working class edition as will fit
SA the workers to Gy on the class
No struggle on all fie for the emanci-
patton of the wors, the abolition
Of capitalism, the adjustment of a
Communist societS
- There is no dtitutional provi-
on sion on 'doctrinesro make this
Re- reason for our rejpn is TO discrim-
Us mate against our pol.
In I'VE emphatica protest against
In the treatment acled us and our
school by such rulof the w. r. b.
executive, and capon the assem-
bled delegates to \ the convention
nee move to accept Workers School
the into the w. e. md instruct the
cen executive accordiH
ose The NeNcials
bon The executive WI is to serve the
Workers Educatieureau for the
future is composed II. Maui
rer, president of Pennsylvania
State Federation abor, who is to
be president Of threau and Spen-
Ger Miller was rcted secretary,
while the executboard is hand
picked by naminan Kennedy Of
the u. M. w. Of Apmas Burke of
the Plumbers andam Filters in
ternational, John Ay Of the u. M.
w. OF A., District lnnie M. Cohen
~ OF the Internationadies Garment
49,, Workers; David s. OF the Brook
wood College; JNan Vaerene4
wyck, vice-preside the Massachu-
sets State FEEDER of Labor and
three additional mrs to be named
by the executive n OF the Amer
lean Federation o'or.