The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12
WORKERS SCHOOL
LINKED UP Wit H
MASS STRUGGLES
Must Help to Make
Workers History
ey A. G. BossE.

NEW YORK, March 10.-The his
tory of the Workers School must be
indissolubly linked up with the strug-
giles of the workers 1t may sound
strange to speak of history Git is but
three months since the school was
reorganized upon the present mass
basis). But the school has a long
and active period ahead of it, if it
continues upon the lines laid down.
In the last city mayorality cam.
paign, in the campaigns against the
Hungarian and Cuban embassies, and
in the Passaic textile strike, the
school struck out along militant lines.
The pledge of the students, teachers
and administration to the Furriers
Joint Board of help in their strike
was a furtherance of this policy.
When a school promises to help a
striking union with picketing, re-
search, speakers, propaganda mate
rial, classes and teachers for the
strikers, etc, then it can indeed be
said that it is educating for the class
struggle.
Practice Accord With Theory.
We must make our practice accord
with our theory. Penetration of the
unions and mass organizations of the
workers with our worker-student re-
volutionaries is our main task. Train
ing of functionaries and union Off
Gals in their work had been planned,
but we were unable to carry it out
during our first term. A course in
problems of the needle trades had to
be postponed because of the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers I'm
ion convention, but is now being given
to a selected group of needle trades
workers and officials.
Our big job is to make history, not
merely to study it. Our education
must start from the5 present strug-
giles of the workers, and go back to
origins, developments and probable
trends. We must proceed, not logi
cally, from primitive and ancient
times, but psychologically from the
present interests and problems oS our
worker-students. Our teaching meth
DDS must be based upon the self-ac
tivity of the student, not upon cut ant
dried lectures poured into a tire(
brain-pan. Locarno,. China, Russia
the Dawes Plan, internationally; pend
ing anti-working class Legislation, the
agrarian question, the position of the
foreign-born, unorganized, political
prisoners, the latest ephases of i'm
perialist justification and penetra-
ton, ETC., etc.-theser must be the
source material for all our classes. 1t
can be used equally well in public
speaking, composition and workers
correspondence, English, materialistic
philosophy and revolutionary mass
psychology as in history, economics,
research, Marxism and Leninism, shop
neucleus training courses and trade
union problems. sse
Concerned With Making History.
AS one of our British comrades has
said: LET our education be more
concerned about making than study
ing history. Let it's economics make
more for the elimination than the
explanation of capitalist robbery"
Such a vitalizing of method, politi-
CALLING of content and revolutioniz-
ing of purpose in our education, pro-
ceeding further along the lines it now
follows, will make the Workers
School of supreme Importance in the
life and death struggles which the
workers will face increasingly.