No Moratorium on Education
Solomon, Charles
By Charles Solomon No Moratorium on Education Socialist Candidate for U. S. Senator Pleads for Support of Schools—Children Come Before All Else, and Education Is Meet Important Function of the...
...A claaa with a register of 50 pupils needs relief, regardless of the average class register of the City at a whole...
...The strict observance of the merit system in promotions and appointments...
...of malnutrition...
...In 1917 Wsldman was one of group of ten Socialists sent to the Assembly, and there he quickly made himself felt as a forceful figure...
...Ninety thousand families, totalling not less than 425,000 persons, subsisting on the meagre income from home and work relief in this city along...
...Defeats Untermyer Waldman then began to study law, and while never ceasing his Socialist and labor work, received his degree and was admitted to the bar...
...Since 1928 Waldman .has toured the state countless times, snd is known in every corner of New York as a powerful campaigner and a deep student of the affairs of the state...
...In the early days of the Republic, when the schools were conducted by religious denominations, when schools were supported en-, tircly by private philanthropy, when societies raised money for schools just as funds are obtained for orphans' homes today, the workingmen, who bitterly objected to charity schools, had great influence in bringing about a system of free, tax-supported, elementary education...
...So we find tht City of New York doing exactly the opposite of what it recommended by its own expert...
...It is not only that he feels that way because he i a Socialist—he is a Socialist because he feels that way...
...The schools as they exist today, our present educational resources, are inadequate to cope with these problems...
...The young Socialist, retained to defend the union, took a truckload of books snd documents out of town, and six weeks later emerged a master of the subject, and before a jury headed by a great corporation official won the the beat efforts of Untermeyer...
...We demand limitation in class enrollment for the sake of the pupil and the teacher...
...7. The right of teachers to organise in labor unions and nave adequate representation in the administrative machinery of the educa tlonal sytem...
...By Charles Solomon No Moratorium on Education Socialist Candidate for U. S. Senator Pleads for Support of Schools—Children Come Before All Else, and Education Is Meet Important Function of the State—The Socialist Party's Stand...
...There are other questions and problems to be considered if a comprehensive and long-range view is to be taken of the subject of education...
...Our Child Wanderers According to a federal authority, there are not less than 200,000 such child hoboes wandering over the face of this broad land—the richest in all the world—this very day...
...Louis Waldmr - is making his third campaign for Governor, the first Socialist to have been named three times to head the state ticket since the never-to-be-forgotten Ben Hartford, who ran in 1898,1900 and 1902...
...Our educational institutions must be protected against the onslaught being made upon them throughout the land...
...He was then a young engineer employed by the Public Service Commission...
...6. Abolition of military training in schools and colleges...
...There should be Individualized instruction to ensble children to travel at their own speed end give all a tense of achievement Instead of frustration...
...Lehman, is the only candidate for Governor to whom the welfare of men, women and children is a matter of vital and intimate concern, and whose conception of the office is in terms of human welfare It is not a matter of a campaign issue with him to apeak of the health and happiness of human beings, nor is it the evocation of a man enormously wealthy who can afford to be humanitarian i Her his pile is safely made...
...There is' the problem of the slum and housing, of employment and wages generally, of family budgets and family preservaSocialiet Candidate for V. S. Senator from New York...
...That is one debt we owe to youth...
...But we will lose ground, we will be thrust back decades, if we listen to the bankers, real estate speculators, chambers of commerce, industrialists and crooked politicians who, in the name of what they euphemistically call economy, seek to shift the burden of capitalist and governmental misconduct on to the shoulders of the workers, including the teachers and other civil service employees...
...Fifty thousand school children are being fed in our public schools in New York City alone and the money to psy for this food comes out of the voluntary contributions of the teachers...
...The abandonment of extravagant and corrupt practices in the acquisition of schools lands and in the construction of school buildings.3. The introduction of modern and progressive methods of education...
...There should be maintenance, and where necessary, increase in teacher standards...
...The New York City Education Department hat increased the average list of a class in elementary schools from 87 to 38K, in face of the recommendation of City Superintendent William 1. O'Shea that "additional teachers are needed to reduce oversized classes...
...It It hoped In this way to "save" about six millions of dollars, incidentally dispensing with the services of about 700 teachers at a time when 10,000 are already unemployed...
...The Socialist party is proud ot present him to the workers of the state...
...H. O. Wells has well said that modern "civilization is a race between education and catastrophe" and in the very ."orefront of our social enemies are those selfish and reactionary interests who are now backing away at the foundations of our educational equipment and resources...
...Louis Waldman Is a writer, a speaker, a lecturer, a thinker...
...4. The development of broad courses of study under competent teachers in high schools and collegt 6. Elimination of overcrowding...
...On the question of proposed reduction of the salaries of school teachers, as well as of civil servants generally, the Socialist Party municipal platform pledges uncompromising resistence to "every attempt to economize by cutting the pay of the rank and file of city employees...
...He has appeared at countless hearings on behalf of his party and the labor movement, and is known everywhere as one of the leading and most successful spokesmen of the ideals of his party...
...Educational expenditures must be regarded as Inestments upon which society will receive incalculably rich dividends...
...He took his duties seriously, and not only spoke frequently but he undertook to master the business of government Assigned to prepare bills on social Insurance and on food distribution, Louis Waldman made a thorough study of the two widely dissimilar subjects, prepared bills that ean serve as models today of advanced legislation, Reelected in 1919, he was expelled in the notorious Sweet ouster, together with Charles Solomon, Samuel Orr, Samuel A. DeWitt and August Claessens, and he again made himself felt as a affairs by his magnificent defense of his course and his exposition of the Socialist legislative program...
...But even before he ./as actually admitted he single-handed defeated Samuel Untermyer, who as special deputy attorney general sought to dissolve the Bricklayers' Union...
...Civilian Candidate for Governor IOUIS WALDMAN, the Socialist Party's candidate for Governor, has humorously said that he is the only civilian candidate for that office...
...There must be no moratorium on education...
...1. Elimination of p o 1 i t i c a 1, business and religious control from public school systems and from other education institutions...
...But in all his career he had thought of nothing but the advancement of his party and his cause...
...Teachers are a large and very important section of the wage earning class, to the championship of whose interests the Socialist Party is primarily dedicated...
...According to the recent report of the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, there is a definite connection between lots of jobs and the breaking up of the home, as shown by an increase of 184 per cent in the number of men arraigned for abandonment since 1928...
...He not only understands—he relates his knowledge to the Socialist program...
...If there must be economy, let education be the last to be touched...
...He got a good laugh when he made the remark at a meeting in Buffalo, but there is more to it than a mere wisecrack...
...Since 1980 Waldman hat been chairman of the party, and he long served as co-chairman with Norman Thomas of the party's Committee on Public Affairs...
...Vac Free Education It Is not unusual that the Socialist Party should so vigorously and conspicuously champion the cause of education...
...His First Election Waldman first attracted attention in 1916, when as a very young man he polled a remarkable vote for Assembly in the old Tenth Assembly District...
...628,000 families — which means hundreds- of thousands of children of school age—according to the latest report of the State Housing, Board, live in insanitary and unfit places of abode...
...Darlington, one time head of the City Health Department, said the other day that malnutrition among chool children in New York City had increased since 1927 from 13.5% to 20.5...
...To propose to curtail them further in the nsme of socalled economy is nothing 1ms than criminal...
...It it not sufficient to argue," taid Dr...
...O'Shea, "that in the City at a whole tht) average number of pupils to a teacher Is less than 40...
...No Socialist exceeds htm la knowledge of the business of government, of the power question, of the traction question...
...Waldman, faced by the candidates of Col Donovan and Col...
...He was one of the youngest members ever to sit in the legislature, snd one of the most seriousminded...
...The Socialists declare their Steadfast opposition to curtailment of all social services, such as health, child welfare, recreation and, of course, education...
...It is his passion, ihs life...
...From eat odd rent over station WSVD...
...2. Increased public funds for schools, rather than a policy of retrenchment with a view of preventing increase in the sise of classes or decrease in the salaries of teachers...
...At least eighty new schools are required at once to meet the objective of a seat for every child in a regular session...
...Real Economy If there must be economy let us recognise that genuine economy consists not in cutting down on essential expenditures, in reducing already Inadequate social services, particularly at a time when the burden on them is unprecedently large and all the indications are not only for their maintenance unimpaired, but for rapid and extensive elaboration, but in eliminating waste, duplication, unnecessary expenditures, and by the consolidation of departments...
...Socialists demand immediate resumption of construction of school buildings...
...There can be no adequate handling of the educational needs of any community unless these inseparably related questions and the challenge they carry are frankly and adequately met...
...It is the political party of the great masses of the wsge earners, of the •worker...
...and no class in the entire history of the country has played a more important role in the founding of the American sytem of free education...
...THE Socialist Party position on education is clearly stated in its state and municipal platforms» The former sets forth several points which directly meet the immediately outstanding problems in the field of education in this state...
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...There should be creation of special classes to meet varying educational needs...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 18
