School System for the Benefit of All the People
Kobbe, Herman
School System for the Benefit of All the People by Herman Kobbe KBCHOOL system which re aims at the greatest happimk of the greatest number will Braize a double duty to every HjfT. First,...
...If jo, why should they appeal to thefc sinks of corruption for support...
...The National Biscuit Company has a plant in your city...
...it must at the e educate the community tand its duty to the child, y is to abolish industrial onomic inequalities, class and war—in short, to 1; adults as well as chilconscious desire to renan society in a way that nonize it with the une bodily and mental aeds of man—and of the re Commissioner of Edua Socialist city I would in evening course for the citizens in general (to parents would also be and in that course we idy ways and means of ig all social-economic res. We would study the and psychic needs of the how best to re-organize unity life in order to fit la...
...This win Refused, The explanation being that the present city administration had no de ire to take sides in this fight between National Biscuit Company and Its workers...
...The mighty potential agency for bringing about this conscious adaptation is ready-to-hand for us to use: the public school...
...Most of the members of the Group Theatre may be innocents...
...The plea of the girls, which followed directly upon Judge Cotillo's decision restraining this a me Local 107 from picketing on the ground that salespeople lose their charm by belonging to a union, fell on deaf ears...
...I hope the labor movement gives the Group Theatre and Its "revo! lutionary drame," "Waiting for j Lefty," the swift kick in the.pants ! it deserves...
...These will be assisted "by additional artists of the Metropolitan staff and the full orchestra...
...Its bad men are all old' line labor leaders, synonomous with gangsters, racketeers and crooks...
...The American federation of Labor Endorses N.B.C...
...It is, in the first place, a pretty bad piece of I theatrical hokum, full of manu| factum...
...First, the school will seek Hevelop the individual men ¦§ and physically so as to Be out of him what nature Ended him to be...
...Strikers ! "Shocked" at New York City rrilK National Biscuit Company * strikers are shocked at the pro teased "mentality" of the New York City administration in declining to permit them a tag-day to raise money for strike relief, tays Peter Christman, chairman of the strike committee...
...The unions on strike have for more than eight weeks put up a pie ml id fight...
...hoped that all comrades and sympathizers will attend and help this union with their full support...
...The good ones are not j workers at all for the most part, but doctors and teachers and other professionals who turned to taxi-: driving (it's a play about the taxi strike, if you haven't seen it) in I their dire need...
...The city refused them the permit beCaUSC, the Commissioner of Public Welfare said, it did not want "to take side*/' Christman haa wrlten the following to Mayor LaGuardla: "The three thousand workers of the National Biscuit Company of New York City have beeh locked out by the, company for more'than nine weeks...
...In trying to break the Inside Bakery Workers' Union, which involves six thousand National Biscuit Workers on the eastern coast, the company Is violating the wishes of President Roosevelt aa expressed in Clause 7 A. "On March 12th, the strike committee appealed to the Commissioner of Public Welfare for a permit to collect fund i on the city streets—to raiae money for food...
...The Women's Committee of the Rand School is conducting this concert under the leadership of Mrs...
...Prominent men in the Labor movement will be among the list of speakers and in attendance as delegates...
...The Group Theatre, Inc., which made - *, m i thing o-f~a~ name for itself hereabouts with its Broadway success, 'Men in White,' i s interested i n promoting "revolutionary drama...
...In the measure thai of social reform through ication gains ground, it will become more feasible to bring up the children in a natural and...
...Ida B. Karlin...
...Workers Stink* ly Gertrude Wail Klein '"THE worker* stink...
...But, se< i)y, the school will prepare Esamc individual fur a place ¦p highly artificial and me ¦micnl human variety The Ejer will sense immediately Kuntradiction and the diffi¦I of this double duty...
...Theanlx kinda of...
...Mathilde I.eh man...
...Unless they are Communists...
...Co-Chairman...
...Federal Labor Union No...
...Chairman, and Mrs...
...I know they nil work ' with the New Theatre, which is a j Communist outfit...
...Every union in your community ihould be informed of the struggle union men and women are carrying nn against the National Biscuit Company, To bring this about, please give...
...Early in January, five unions in plants of the National Biscuit Company went out on strike in protest against the labor policies of the company," Morrison raid...
...The jturs will m Lily Pons, Nino Martini...
...The canvassing of the Joint Boards and Committees, under the leadership of Morris Feinstone, is being carried on by Mrs...
...STRIKERS MAY PICKET EVEN IF SCABS LOSE CHANCE TO MARRY HPHE matrimonial expectations of * girl scabs are not bright, according to testimony given by i Betty Friedman, salesgirl at Blondel's Shop at 10 East 14th Street, before Supreme Court Judge Chas...
...The meeting is a direct reply to the drastic Injunction granted by Chancellor Maja Berry on behalf of the trustees of Newark Ledger against the Newspaper Guild...
...as wide publicity as possible in your meetings to thi...
...We Hitake the environment better, 1 |llow it to become worse, and 1 only way to get rid of the conUifction between the needs of the ¦Vidua], and the necessity for Hjlg him into a place in an nit i Hp society is by making the rules I Regulations and the form of jpociety as human and natural Be public schools have no right IkdBiiAre their charges for an inwiety (such as it exists vithout making an effort ime time to reform the snt i t s e if...
...Employees doing the <ame work were, in many cases, receiving very different rates to pay...
...But and this is the main ¦JBt for every radical to under HKand to keep as the keystone Hpr philosophy of education— M nature of the child cannot be Huwd/ The social system can...
...I This unique argument of Mis.-, Friedman, who is president of the Stella Bromberg and Blondell shop-', Inc., Employees' Association, a company union, was supported by a statement of Pearl ,Serper, a fellow scab, in which she Mini...
...This meeting, which will start things with a bang, will be held in the Produce Workers' Union Hall, 231 Miller Street, Newark, at 9 P. M. It i...
...1806O of Philadelphia, and Inside Bakery Workers" Union No...
...LABOR JOINS PROTEST AGAINST LEDGER INJUNCTION Labor forces in New York will rally to protest the use of the Injunction in labor disputes at n meeting Sunday, March 24th, at 3 p. m., at St...
...In refusing this permit, it is unavoidably clear to the workers to which side the present city administration ii sympathetic...
...This bla.j shown by the present city administration cornea as an enlightening shock to the three thousand worker* who supported the administration...
...It, of course, follows that meeting eligible young men, whom possibly might become interested in me as a lifetime companion, is more difficult...
...huiruuijBXtety in which men and women can expect to be happy are either a perfectly primitive form, or in the case of a highly complex society, one which is consciously adapted to the needs of the individual...
...B. McLauglih in an application for | a temporary injunction restraining I the Retail Clerks' International Protective Association, Local 107, , from picketing the shop...
...That was what Odets i uied to say was the mutter with | the wottjkers...
...Matthew Smith of the Mechanics' Educational Association...
...19585 of New York had an agreement with the National Biscuit Comoany, hnade underrate of July 9, 1934, that »'!•.»" ik.Im would fee- euuaii¦mul...
...Jersey City, New'ark and vicinity, announces that it ' is going to start a great organization drive with a mass meeting on Wednesday evening, March 20th...
...In other words, although Cliff Odets hai gotten religion since the days when he hung around Greenwich Village, he still believes the workers stink...
...Rand School Concert The Annual Concert of the Rand School of Social Science at the Metropolitan Opera House Sunday evening, March 24th, at 8:30, has every prospect of being the usual brilliant .success...
...II don't know...
...they were all right but they stank...
...Opportunities to meet people socially are deniefd me...
...The likelihood of meeting men 1 and women of my social set has been diminished...
...healthy way, simply because a natural and healthy individual will then be more likely to find a place in the social-economic structure...
...Newark Food Clerks Call Organization Meeting Local 975 of the Retail Food Clerks' Union...
...The adult community must be re-educated to prepare a suitable place for such a child...
...Hi is the crux of the whole sitWm child is the product of an ¦lion which begins with the Minings of life on earth, and his ¦are is pre-determined by a comHof inherited characters—by |pjchemistry of his body, his kin, his, nerves, his glands—and H what he is and can be nothEfjjse...
...strike...
...coincidences and trick I ¦ ituations...
...N.B.C...
...RevoI u t i o n a r y drama, according to this group, is apotheosized in Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," which I is put on to the wild acclaim of the self-appointed Bolshevik interpreters of the working class...
...Up to January 8,1935, the Philadelphia union had been unable to secure the wage adjustments provided for in their agreement...
...Have you seen "Waiting for Lefty," or read it...
...I Maybe they believe that Odets is | an authority on the "woikers," | and that the picture he presents in "Waiting for Lefty" is a true picture of the working class...
...The school ( only educate the child to duties...
...ut human society—the Bjiment of the child—Is deter¦I'largely hy human will...
...Jonathan Eddy, National Secretary of the American Newspaper Guild...
...Two of the unions on-strike are federal labor union affiliated directly with the American Federation of Labor...
...The school cannot allow ufcild to grow up perfectly natWSnd un-tamed, nor can it rea¦ably ignore the nature of the mjj and merely try to make him Bptto a cog for the social maHe...
...that's what * Cliff Odets used to say a couple of years ago when he hung around Greenwich Village, and today he's the leading playwright of the revolution...
...Nicholas Palace, flOth Street and Broadway, under the auspices of the American Newspaper Guild and a host of labor unions and professional groups...
...At that time, when the strike began, it was clear that the company was using every means to delay or evade the ad justment...
...The Roosevelt policies with regard to labor, particularly his throwing out the National Labor Relations Board in favor of the employer controlled Newspaper Industrial Board in the Jennings case, will also come in for an airing...
...Gladys Swarthout, Richard Bonelli, Emanuel List...
...Labor representatives scheduled to speak at the meeting include: Francis J. Gorman, United Textile Workers...
...Strike By A. F. of t. News Service Wholehearted support of the fight of union workers in New York City and Philadelphia to secure union wages and work conditions in the plants of the National Biscuit Company itr theses cities was urged by Frank Morrison, secretary of the American 'Federation of Labor, n a letter to the affiliated bodies...
...Conference for the Promotion of a Labor Defense A conference of delegate* representing many local' and Joint Boards of a large number of Trade Unions a* well as many Socialist and Labor fraternal organizations, will meet this Friday evening, Mar...
...A substantial part of the success of the concert is guaranteed by Jhe active work of the Trade Union Committee, whose chairman is Morris Fein tone...
...The child must be brought up to In- himself...
...The regular, ordii nary taxi-drivers are a pretty low, ignorant lot...
...Baerefore a compromise has to Made...
...Then, I suppose, they ju-t smell...
...By thwarting the collection of funds for the kitchen of the strikers and their dependents, tha present city admini»tration definitely aids the National Bkieult Company in its atempts to break the union...
...They should hava the help and the support of tha entire organized labor movement...
...and Celia Hotter, and the unions are responding with" sympathetic encouragement...
...Maybe they i really think the great labor move| ment, which does not subscribe i to Communist doctrines, is a gangrenous, filthy body, which 1 must be ridiculed and exorcized...
...Judge McLaughlin, maintained that the defendants had the, right of peaceful picketing regardless of the complaints of the girls...
...Bertha II...
...Km more artificial the slate of ^E the less likely that a per¦Pnatural" individual will fit Wflb socially or economically...
...William Spang of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers...
...The constant presence1 of picketing #nd the cry of' strike is hard to explain away...
...George S. Counts of Teachers College...
...As a nattrrai Result my social contacts have dwindled and even where there had been close friendship before the attitude of my acquaintances hav$ cooled toward me...
...Heywood Broun will act a.t chairman...
...15th, at 8:00 p. m . in the auditorium of the I.L.G.W.U., 3 West 16th St., N. Y. C. At this conference, the basis will be laid for a permanent organization of a labor defense to effectively help in all cases of pcrsccutien and pro-xcution of person* active in labor organizations and to aid the struggles of workers in strikes...
...three are local unions of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America...
...Mailly...
Vol. 18 • March 1935 • No. 11
