The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-13
What's Doing
in the Workers
Schools of u. S.

WE ARE introducing today q regu-
" lar weekly column which will de-
vote itself exclusively to the report
Of news from workers schools teach
ing Marxism-Leninism throughout
the country. A call has been sent
out to all workers schools and agi-
tation- propaganda departments in
the districts to send in reports Of
their work.
This column will carry news Of all
activities in the workers schools
not routine publicity and announce
ment-but actual reports Of achieve
ments, methods Of work, teachers
conferences, composition Of student
body, how the problem of getting
new instructors Is solved, how stu
dents are recruited from the shops,
the introduction Of new courses in
the curriculum, description Of head
quarters, reports Of practical limo
vations in the technical administra-
ton of the schools, finances, sale of
literature, number Of courses, the
best methods Of starting new schools,
relation between study groups in
mass organizations and the workers
schools, reviews OF work of different
schools, critical estimate Of their
achievements, etc.
In this way the workers schools
will receive the benefit Of each
others experience. This column will
also serve to prepare for a Confer
ence Of Workers Schools which is
to take place soon.
GONE Of the schools have kept In
y close touch with us in the past,
particularly the Workers School Of
Boston, 919 Washington st. They are
already preparing for their spring
term, which is to begin Feb. 26. We
have ON hand a very handsomely
printed Announcement Of Courses
from the Boston school, showing II
classes in various MarXist-Leninist
subjects, a series of eight illustrated
lectures on Thursday evenings by
H. w. L. Dana on "The Land Of the
SovietS," and series Of IL lectures
Friday evenings on 'Marxism and
Culture" given in collaboration with
the John Reed Club Of Boston. In
addition, the Boston school plans to
open series Of forums on Sunday,
Feb. II, with lecture by A. Markof7
director Of the Workers School Of
New York (T1le Central Workers
SCHOOL, on 1.-THE Historical Role OF
Leninis1n." The Workers School OF
Boston is putting in lot Of hard
work, and we hope to hear that they
have at least two or three hundred
students for this term.
The Workers School OF Chicago,
1922 S. Michigan Ave. which car
be called shock brigader for livei~
and enterprising work, grew froIy
400 to 700 students In the year 1873"
They have a whole three -stOTV
building for themselves, but due t.
the fact that it is not centrally To-
Gated, the comrades are trying 80
prepare ways and means of gettinc
ether quarters. Meanwhile the
have opened branch in South
Chicago, the steel section, where
they expect registration of at
least IS workers. Fifty workers
have already registered, mainly
sgtsel workers, and a good many OF
them are native Americans. We are
anxious to receive copy of the
latest announcement Of courses of
the Chicago School.
TILE Cleveland Workers School, 1924
Prospect Ave, opened as an insti-
tuition by itself on Dec. last with
plans for accommodating 400 stu
dents, rs courses, 20 instructors, and
a series Of Sunday night forums.
They have an attractive place, and
they seem to be on the job. We
would like to hear more from them,
and we would like to receive their
Announcement of Courses. They al
ready have a functioning Student
Council, which Is very good thing.
A good student council can be OF ire
mendous help to the administration,
not only III helping to run the school,
but in raising money for the school,
and in drawing in new elements into
the movement who will come and
stay, because Of the opportunity to
be OF concrete, practical help.
IN DETROIT the Workers School
also has building for itself, a
very. handsome, two-story brick
building that looks like a private
seminary with plate on the front
advertising the Workers School, and
they pay very small rent for 1t.
Their latest catalogue announces 81
classes, and they have some courses
that no other workers school that we
know of in this country has, courses
in arithmetic and bookkeeping. They
had 200 students in the fall term, but
their finances are in bad shape, part
ly due to the fact that their tut
ton fee was too small-$1 a course.
We would like to hear from Detroit
about their new term--the compo-
sition of their student body, what
they have done to organize them
selves better and put themselves on
a better financial basis.
These are only few examples
Of Marxist- feminist educational ac-
tivity being carried on in the
United States We want to hear
from the other places.
THE Workers School in New York.
4 the central workers school, is at
present the largest school of It's kind in
he capitalist world. In the winter term
Of 1894 alone the school hos raois