The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-02
LARGEST SCHOOL
OF KIND IN u. S.

LARGEST SCHOOL
OF KIND IN U. S.
The Workers School of New York
is the largest institution of its
kind in America. For the winter
term, which starts January 9Th, the
school has provided teaching
staff of SO instructors who will con-
duct SO classes. Some of the
courses in the winter term are:
II classes in Principles of Com
muniSm, seven classes in Political
Ecoomy, three classes in Niarxism.
three in Leninism, two in Trade
Union Strategy and two classes in
History of the American Labor
Movement.
The School has had d STEADY
growth in the ten years of its life
but it has a great number of very
serious shortcomings which can be
eliminated without much difficulty
if the proper attention and CO.
operation is given by the revolu-
tionary trade unions, opposition
groups, clubs, Women's Councils,
fraternal organizations, and above
all by the Communist Party and
the Young Communist League.
THE outstanding and most serious
shortcomings of the school is
the poor social composition of stu
dents. There are still too many
non-worker types of students.
While the school welcomes the
non-worker students, they are by
far too many in proportion to the
number of student who are workers.
While the school administration
itself has not done enough to at
tract the worker type, the main
responsibility for this situation lies
on the shoulders of the Party and
Y. G. L. W no are indiscriminate in
their selection of students, if and
when they send students. In many
cases the units do not concern
themselves about the burning prob
lem Of training forces, although the
leadership Of the units are willing
to admit the correctness of Lenin's
statement that without revolu-
tionary theory there can be no
revolutionary practice"
The composition Of the students
Of the school can very easily be
changed if only the responsible
functionaries in the party unions
and other mass organizations stop
groaning about raw elements" and
instead take steps to put this raw
material through a few terms Of
training for the class struggle at
the Workers School. The short
sighted attitude that reasons that
there is no money to spare or that
the raw material cannot be spared
for training simply intensifies the
critical situation where, in the face
of the sharpening struggle and the
increasing need for trained forces,
there seems to be less and less such
forces on hand.
STUDENTS
There are many ways in which
these organizations can raise money
to pay for their members. The
School is only too glad to arrange
for special scholarship rates for
groups of students coming from
such organizations. The selection
of students should be on the fol-
lowing basis: Workers, young and
Negro workers preferred; the rec
ord of activity and degree Of
loyalty, sacrifice and responsibility
should be taken into consideration,
and also the possibility of develop
ment and usefulness of the student
after studying at the school.
The problem of raising the theo-
retical level of the workers must
be tackled in practical manner
and at once. In this field the
Workers School must be utilized by
the workers organizations in a
planned way. All workers organi-
cations should begin at once before
the Winter Term starts on Jan. 8.
If the responsible frmctionaries
don't act, they should be prodded
along into action by the member
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