Rand School trade Union Courses Score Huge Success
Rand School trade Union Courses Score Huge Success THERE has been a lot of talk about what the war has done to workers' education. Any pessimist can be cured by a visit to the Rand •School. There...
...One lecture may be given by a famous college professor or government official and the next one by an equally famous A. F. of L. or CIO executive...
...There are in the regular training-class progran 136 trade union students from 14 organizations...
...As you would expect, these up-and-coming trade unionists are studying a lot of subjects besides Public Speaking and English and History...
...These young people are full of enthusiasm because they are getting what they are after...
...There are 35 women, a good sprinkling of Negroes, young folks of every imaginable national and racial origin...
...Theodore Schapiro, the new Director of the School, will give you the- facts...
...They have lessons in Labor and the Law, the Technique of Union Organization, and Problems of Union Administration...
...The Electrical Workers (A...
...Mixed with the rank-and-file members are a lot of union officials, members of executive committees and advisory councils and shop stewards...
...The students come from all fivt Boroughs of New York City and from Camden, Bayonne...
...There are, then, among the teachers practical organization leaders...
...the Telephone Accounting Workers (Independent...
...There he will see—on any Monday or Wednesday evening—classrooms crowded with young trade unionists...
...Paterson, Elizabeth, Newark, Jersey City—all famous localities in New Jersey— as well as from Maspeth, New Hyde Park, Glendale and Forest Hills, N. Y. There is a wide variety among the students...
...F. of L.) are there— the Plaything and Novelty Workers (CIO), the Paper Box Makers (A...
...At the top left: Phillips Garman lectures on Labor in the Wsr, below August Claessens conducts a class, in public speaking...
...F. of L.), the Button and Novelty Workers (CIO), the Traffic Telephone Federation (Independent), the United Aircraft Workers (Local 35 of the V:A.W:, CtOt, the Western Electric Wtrrlrerr (Independent), the Textile Workers (CIO) an...
...But there never was a more harmonious crowd...
...F. of L.), the Barbers and Beauty Culturists (CIO), the Laundry Workers (CIO), the Knit Goods Workers (A...
...They are united in their devotion to trade unionism and in their ambition to make omething of themselves...
...They are getting down to the brass tacks of trade union business...
...The pictures on this page are typical—except that they give little idea of the life, the movement, the enthusiasm, Men and women are there—from all sorts of unions—representing towns within a radius of fifty miles from New York...
...The pictures on this page were taken at recent sessions, of the Trade Union Training Course...
Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 7
