The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-27

nations most urgent needs" will be
met by passage of the Labor Ex-
tension Service bill, the Senate La
Dor Committee asserted in a re-
port filed last week, urging favor
able Senate action on the union
supported measure.
However, on the House side of
the Capitol dome, General Motors
Corp, teamed up with a trio of
viciously anti-labor Congressman in
an attempt to smear the support
ers of the Labor Extension Service
bill. A full day of special commit
tee hearings was told by an en-
ploye of GINS personnel staff about
two hour -and-a-half sessions of a
class conducted by the Michigan
workers education service, part of
the University Of Michigan. In ad-
dition, legislators triumphantly pro-
duced a play written by proponent
of the bill in 1881, and attempted
to link the labor education move
ment to Brookwood Labor College,
which closed its doors 10 years ago.
Adam X. Stricken, the GIN wit
ness, appeared in the company of
five top GIN public relations and
Legislative employees. Detroit papers
were tipped off ahead of time that
something hot" was going to De
revealed. Washington correspon-
dents hardened to such smear at
tempts, almost uniformly ignored
the performance. However, anti
labor Fulton Lewis, Jr., on his radio
program trumphantly predicted
that the bill would die.
Stricker's testimony dealt with
a class on labor economics in which
he enrolled, taught by Sam Jacobs,
assistant director of education of
the United Auto Workers. Stricken
objected especially to two pamph-
lets-one on prices, another on in
flation-which were on Jacobs
desk at one of the two sessions he
attended. He admitted that the
teaching itself was not objection
able, even to his GM-educated
mind, but still seemed unhappy hat
Jacobs took as his outline the re-
port of President Truman's Coln-
Gil of Economic Advisers. Question
ed by Rep. Lesinski d., Mich.), he
agreed that he was given the op-
portunity to question Jacobs at
some length.
The GIN mans own narrow views |
on what workers should be "allow-
ed" to learn were expressed when
he protested charges by Rep. Ray
Madden that GIN was using this
method of killing the bill. Said |
Stricken: "Education is education,
| think if you are going to teach
economics you should use the same
method that any recognized school
adopts. In this particular class that
| attended all the instructors did
was to put percentages on the
| am sure there were
members of that class who don't
know arithmetic. Well, to discuss
the Economic Report of President
Truman with people who don't
know how to count, they ought to
teach them some of the history Of
this country, we ought to teach
them about the Constitution"
Director Arthur Elder, who
brough to the committee a com
plete outline of Jacobs lectures
prepared by a member of Elders
staff, pointed out that the class in
cluded only three workers who were
in the auto industry.
There were two executives Of Bell
Co., several officers Of
the Communications Workers of
-unaffiliated, the employe
Of a creamery, and an attorney of
the Philippine Court of Industry
who has spent several months
studying the Michigan program.
President Alexander G.. Ruthven
Of the University of Michigan
charged in statement presented
oy Elder that GIN apparently is
,rying to wreck" the drive for edu-
services for workers
which has made such rapid head
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