BURNSVILLE SUMMER SCHOOL TRAINS WOMEN LEADERS FOR SOUTHERN LABOR
HERLING, JOHN
Burnsville Slimmer School Trains Women Leaders for Southern Labor Thirty-five Young Women End Two - Months Study Course on the Labor Movement—Louise Leonard Is Director of the Women Workers'...
...There is a Liberal of my acquaintance who has considerable foHowtay who seriously beUsvas that an iiusiau problems can...
...Grover's pot contained some choice beans, but it was pointed out that it did not contain the Rothstein and a few other murders...
...But his effort to direct some of 1 the talk about democracy where it would 1 change institutions, industry particularly, I can to no sense be called a justification j of war...
...It seems to me that my critic rather gives away his case when he says that Mr...
...From an attitude of apparent docility to conditions as they exist, the students have grown conscious of what obstacles face them to a struggle for a better way of living...
...examined the students upon entrance and at the completion of the course, found that the six weeks had wrought a truly marvelous Improvement in the students' physique...
...At the head of these capitalist and financial empires are a few masterful oligarchs...
...They have waited on table together, have observed regulations together...
...PHILADELPHIA—(FP) — Despite the arrests of union representatives in Bangor, Pa...
...Indeed in a recent address...
...Dewey's attitude on the war was not so unintelligent as you imply...
...And united they have lived in a community more hostile than friendly, and suspicious of a school which did not seem respectable to a middle-class mind...
...If trade union affiliation with the National Civic Federation is proper, it should be in order to have an open shop magnate speak at some Labor Day celebration...
...LaGuardia CO, YOU, Mr...
...To be sure, Tammany has its sins against the workers of this city...
...As the late Albion W. Small once said, in industry "the march of human progress is being reduced to marking time in capital's chain gang...
...A hundred are thrown upon the streets by a machine...
...The working people will have to emerge as an independent political power as they have in other nations...
...The best that Norman Foerster, one of their most articulate spokesmen can make of it is that Humanism is predominantly concerned with the human level of life rather than the "natural" or the superhuman, that while it may be regarded as an alternative to religion, it is possible to think of it as an auxiliary to religion, that It has Its sources in the Greek humanism of Plato, Aristotle, Phidias, Pindar and Sophocles and that it is in essence a search for "order and construction" to life as a revolt from skepticism due to lack of faith to the j old-time religion...
...He' writes: "Even" Mr...
...Muste Fays A Visit A J. Muste, chairman of the faculty of Brookwocd Labor College, delivered a four-day course in workers' education...
...Yes, Tammany has a record bad enough...
...President Thurlow A Wilson of the N. C. Federation of Labor sponsored the lnter-state labor conference at the school on August 3-4...
...Sometirr.es it seems as though the more intelligent a man Is the easier he Is taken in by such suckers as Al Smith and La • GKiardia...
...And yet despite friction the two peoples have managed to pursue their respective modes of life with few clashes till this frightful outbreak occurred...
...Labor believer in individualism, in self help as opposed to state action...
...It shows «NH Use the jaw*, ~- ^ Thanks, Mr...
...Individualism is as dead as the fossils unearthed in the rocks of geologic time...
...William Birthright, secretary of the Tennessee Federation of Labor, and David Hanly, legislative representative of the federation devoted and active friends of the school stayed for a tew days and addressed the classes...
...Carefully supervised was their food, and Fay Hudgens, Industrial Secretary of the Danville Y. W. C. A., the dietitian, had complete charge of this important phase of education in health...
...Stacy Aumonier...
...Who will deny the soundness of this extract from Dewey which Ethan G. Edloff is good enough I to send me...
...The ballot that comes back to striking: workers with an injunction written on one side never has a Socialist label on the other...
...Federation of Labor...
...The student members are Rosa Holland of Marion...
...So a new war threatens, with the theologians...
...The acting was superb, and Its basis was not dramatic artifice, tut an innate workingclass understandkig of the situation...
...This intellectual emancipation will open the road to power and progress will follow...
...I mentioned John pewey's pragmatic acceptance of the last war as an example of how far this philosophy might take a man...
...Modernists as well as Fundamentalists ranged on one side, and the Humanists and their allies the Beheviorlsts on the other...
...Yours is as dirty as Walker's and all your demagogy cannot conceal it...
...We live to a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before ha entered it—Thomas Huxley...
...Grover makes a report on crime...
...Congress writes a tariff act in servile obedience to the wishes of these gentlemen...
...Amber Arthun, of Atlanta, Ga., was the hard-working secretary of the school...
...After a short period of silence or inarticulateness, the workers learned from Miss Bonner that their experiences bad given them enough to talk about, and that here was the place to learn to say it...
...But better for these eyes then «*jg City Han Itself was the magnlflceut P* nfcs where women—and men too— for Socialism like our Reading n»«* ' did at their picnic grove...
...Suprie you send that record to every labor union New York City and ask it for- its support...
...What he really objects to is any ( iisturbance of his own vested securities, comforts and privileged powers...
...The stock value of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey increased $380,000,000 in two weeks, which shows how hard labor, thrift, and sacrifice are rewarded to the holy land of petroleum...
...it has new broadened until the whole awakened South looks toward the Southern Summer School as the classroom of the southern labor movement...
...The people of all countries go on quietly with their jobs...
...We are in favor of am injunction by the unions against any members supporting parties whose judges bear the injunction label...
...Other counsel comes to us...
...This work to health education permeated an the activities of the day...
...We hope that other legislatures will act as* intelligently...
...Labor leaders at the performance felt that workers who could so dramatise a situation for themselves could do the same for other workers on their return to their communities...
...Discussing the matter for an hour, the members decided to take no action after a member said that the journalist was probably right...
...Jimmie declares that the critics "are not good citizens: that they are akin to Bolsheviks," and returned to his beans...
...They have *cqulred too the determination to fight as workers for the leisure and the right to be happy...
...In the face of the amazing use of state action by the masters of American life we are advised to avoid all state action in OUR behalf...
...Labor Day in Retrospect r|",HE most appropriate text for Labor Day sermons is the amazing changes going on in industry...
...Organizing Council and Miss Mary Barker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, are the labor representatives with Miss Barker also chairman of the committee...
...You want him and he probably wants you, but will you kindly tell us why members of the unions who hare felt the weight of Callaghans judicial cudgel should want him, or want you who have given him your unqualified support...
...More About This New Humanism By McAlister Coleman ARECENT article of mine called, "SoctaUsm «ad the New Humanism" which appeared In The NEW...
...Prag- j matism comes back under the name of Humanism to a more appealing guise...
...To Burns vine have come on visits college students hoping to prove more than well-intentioned people to the labor movement...
...To this school come women workers from seven southern state...
...IN A NUTSHELL The United States Chamber of Commerce reports that the agricultural output from 1922 to 1926 increased 14 percent...
...The school is not interested in any dogmatic statement of the workers' problems...
...More futility...
...It is dead for the vast masses herded, drilled and goose-stepped into the mass industries of our time...
...Louise Leonard of Baltimore, director of the school, believes that a workers' school ought to have a workers' point of view...
...But what wearies us is that knowing an this, they do so pathetically little about...
...That industrial revolution that now faces us is itself a menacing corporate materialism...
...So you single out a judge with a 100 per cent anti-union record for approval...
...Dewey "might have been expected to know better" when he accepted the ' war...
...And here have gathered labor leaders, presidents and secretaries of southern state federations, textile organizers, labor educators, men hardened in the struggle for the emancipation of the working class...
...LaGuardia...
...What has happened has been feared for years by sympathetic observers of the Zionist experiment...
...The American liberal makes a inarming dinner companion...
...And state action...
...Elizabeth Otey of Lynchburg, Va...
...Thanks, Mr...
...Surely the causes that lead to friction can be controlled or minimized and lead to the peace and security that are essential to the peoples of* that part of the world...
...LEADER has caused * surprising amount of heated comment on the part of ths defenders of this latter-day philosophy of Humanism...
...Below them is the underlying population of workers, commanded as working soldiers in the industries...
...But 'when the guns begin to shoot" it is the thin red line of heroes such as Debs and London and Thomas who are on the march towards the front lines...
...Through their efforts labor unions have given scholarships and generous friends have provided the funds which make the school, possible...
...The workers were constantly reminded of the principles taught them...
...Make it a matter of choosing between Company Union Walker and Injunction LaGuardia...
...Burnsville Slimmer School Trains Women Leaders for Southern Labor Thirty-five Young Women End Two - Months Study Course on the Labor Movement—Louise Leonard Is Director of the Women Workers' Institute By John Herling THE Southern Summer School for Women Workers In Industry, located this year at BurnsviUe, N. C. brings its third summer's work to a close...
...Intelligence is now "deus ex machina" J which shall rescue us from the mater- ; ialistic horrors of a machine age...
...President Dowell E. Patterson, of the S. C. Federation of Labor spoke at the conference and pledged the aid of his labor body In the future: Tom Ttppett, instructor at Brookwood delivered some brilliant talks on workers' education to general and the Marion strike to particular...
...But with the south awakening the school activities expand and raising of money remains the presstog problem...
...In the face of this mighty revolution we turn to the official labor chiefs for enlightenment and we get a message...
...The collective rulers of our lives in industry enhance their power through their ability to make state action do their will...
...Publicity regarding these omissions grieved Grover and Jimmie rushed to the aid of his department store doll...
...It is dead in the upper world of the industrial revolution whose masters long ago set the pace in collective action and organization...
...Frankly I had expected no such repercussion* from what was a discussion of Humanism from the Socialist angk...
...To be sure, this is not a pleasant retrospect for Labor Day but there is not an item cited that is not a grim fact...
...His activities to behalf of Sacco and VaszetU, his unbiassed report on the U. 8. S. R., and the plea to j all his work for revolutionary changes to social and economic matters certainly warrants favorable comment from you...
...President Emfi Rleve of the Fun Fashioned Hosiery Workers Federation announced that the union would continue Its campaign in Nazareth, Bangor and Baston with "fun vigor...
...Sunday at Reading I saw AW Han...
...A Georgia journalist referred to members of the Georgia Legislature as "flop-eared asses...
...and Louise Leonaard director and treasurer of the committee...
...Just so...
...We cannot have brotherhood and good win to Industry until service supplants profit-making as our Industrial ideal—The late Warren S. Stone...
...Planted in the heart of a region inhabited by a large majority of Moslems, people of another race and religion and whose folkways are in stark contrast with those oi many other peoples and especially of the Jews, friction has never been absent...
...and Alfred Hoffman, leader of the Marlon strike, and southern organiser for the United Textile Workers and the Fun-Fashioned Hosiery Workers visited the school on several week-ends and sent seven Marion strikers to the Summer School...
...Having come to Socialism from the ranks of the Liberals I know whereof j I speak...
...What is then needed is a complete survey of all the factors by a competent comrni?sion and a program that will give assurance that another such tragedy will not overwhelm a people that has had hs full measure of sorrow and tragedy throughout the centuries...
...Whalen and Walker do not make even good clowns and their show is as interesting as a phonograph that plays the same jazz record for months next door...
...The summer school has therefore bees a school for workers' education in more than a narrow sense...
...Government bureaus search out markets and fields of investment for the rulers...
...I certainly had no intention of j "taking a dirty crack" at Dewey as one of my correspondents accused me...
...Henry Sloans Coffin, a distinguished Modernist and lead trig "Liberal," solemnly inveighs against Humanism to this effect: "It would seem that the belated Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy is passing Both sides must recognise a serious menace to vital Christian faith on the horison in the Humanist movement which makes 'God' simply a name for the ethical Ideal evolved by mankind and attempts to draw its moral standards from a study of human behavior...
...Louise IngersoU, of Ashevine, N. c, who solved If only you stt around and argue about them long enough An eslieusa case perhaps but one Indicative of the limits to which a naive reliance on the philosophic approach-may go...
...The Socialist Party carries an unsullied banner before the organised workmen of the city...
...r, why not join with Walker in sending the two records to the unions in the same document...
...Sooner or later we have to get up from round tables and go out into the everyday world of sweat and dust and blood and there we find that the appeal to mere intelligence is lost to the mass thunder...
...The working masses are becoming robotized...
...Surely this is good Socialist doctrine ind we Socialists will gladly give the Humanists a hand every time they enunciate it...
...During, a summer of great activity to the southern labor movement, the school has developed Into the vital center for workers' education in the south...
...member-atlarge Mrs...
...The world over, the Liberals are waning to influence because the run of men suspect that an open mind an never be made up...
...And it is here that I have brought upon my humble head the objurgations of good Humanists by daring to suggest that intelligence Is not enough...
...He or she Is alert, intelligent and humanistic...
...The background of this tragedy is so complex, involving as it does thousands of years of history with its heritage of suspicions and misunderstandings, that it is not easy to give due.weight to all the factors...
...By rushing troops into the disturbed areas we hope that the British will prevent any further conflict...
...And in the name of an individualism that is dead, or against a theoretical paternalism when we are already caught in the meshes of a nation-wide corporate paternalism, ruthless in its mastery, intolerant of labor organization, and seeking to transform the whole world after its own image...
...He tried to use it...
...The individual enterprise now survives merely as a fossil reminder of a former age...
...If we are opposed to paternalism—and we are—what are we going to do with THIS paternalism...
...State action is ready with marines and soldiers to extend the power of our rulers into other countries...
...Nothing in the city charter requires a report from him at this time but there is an election in November and Jimmie is anxious to again head the Tammany holding company with its main office in City Hall...
...Fatuous and futile counsel...
...It is dead in industry, in transportation, and it is dying in its last outpost—distribution...
...And -certainly shall receive it, although I doubt whether Professor Dewey will be much moved one way or the other by praise or blame from me...
...Theri isn't a judge who issues an injunction against striking workers who does not register the will of these rulers...
...Ita object to lift may have been at first to help women workers understand the fundamentals of their economic status...
...Miss Margaret Wan of the Va...
...However, Grover spilled his beans and they make a sorry mess...
...At the center of the merging of the mergers are the great financial firms...
...Miss Ontee Ben, graduate of the Mississippi State College for Women, has taught these workers whose bodies have been cramped by twelve hours a day to cotton mills and rayon mills how their bodies can be made sound and supple...
...But the great stream of friends to the school, the general friendliness of adjacent state federations of labor tempered any local hostility...
...His police department clubbed Inter borough strikers and helped to destroy the union...
...So you select one of our most conspicuous injunction judges as a type of what you stand for...
...the faculty represented by Lois MacDonald of South Carolina and Ontee Bell of Mississippi...
...Green's citation of the number of baths, radios, telephones and automobiles in use as evidence of "prosperity" will be very comforting to the unemployed miners and the textile slaves of the South...
...President Rleve complained that the fines Imposed for distribution of the Bangor Hosiery Worker to Kayser workrs were clearly ezcesstrsv Good Kick to the New York Necswes* Makers' Union in its fight against «SP'< cuts and to the efforts of the P**V workers to win shorter hours...
...The beaten union men sent a letter to Walker complaining that they had even been compelled to wash dishes for the strikebreakers...
...35 Women Attend But the thirty-five women workers who left their Jobs or their strikes are the primary concern of the school...
...LaGuardia, make the en dors e^ meat of Justice Callagfaan one of the supreme issues of your campaign...
...Meantime the yeggs, and racketeers, and gunmen, backstairs artists, gentlemen crooks and Tammany experts at honest graft will ply their respective trades...
...And are so easily fooled...
...Not a textbook course, but a live, intensive analysis of the problem facing them in their shops and mills...
...The asns| wear union has been in the too*et»* ? trenches too often not to know Jew* * fight and fight weU If a strike »•*»¦'' esey...
...To break through the traditions and inertia and this dangerous quietism one thing is essential...
...I've just found some one for you to hate...
...They have learned the value of relaxation and of recreation...
...As a true working-class institution, faculty and students have worked in cooperation...
...Lois MacDonald, of South Carolina, and instructor in economics at the New York University, discussed industrial problems with the women...
...Intelligence, of course...
...Had intelligent voting: increased in the same ratio farmers would have something to be thankful for...
...The Arab Rising '"¦"'HE rising of Arabs against the Jewish people in Jerusalem and the expansion of the area of riot and murder to other sections of Palestine is the most shocking news that has been received since the last Armenian massacres...
...Every merger turns outers adrift...
...Labor is opposed to paternalism.'' we hear over and over again...
...Mayor Walker is an ally of the company union on the Inter borough lines...
...la its three years of activity the school has gained many friends...
...Perhaps you are jealous of that anti-union record and want to show the aristocratic section of Goo Goos that support you that you can do as well...
...If we have any quarrel at an with the new Humanism it is that tt is not human enough Insofar as it trusts to Intelligence for every solution...
...Paul Porter, Field Secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy, spoke on "the College Student and the Labor movement...
...But there are certain fundamental facts, fundamental ideas which ought to be made clear for intelligent understanding and effective action...
...The only ones that'lsf^ were real estate speculators and «***^ tors...
...Tammany Beans HAVING received a pot of beans from Boston by airplane and had the historical event photographed for the newspapers, Jimmie Walker has his department store police commissioner deliver another pot in the game of publicity...
...After this performance what business have you to assail the Tammany administration for wholesale violations of the prevailing rate of wages law by contractors...
...Peggy Lou Armstrong of Agnes Scott College, of Atlanta, Georgia, song leader and pianist, made their voices ring out in spirituals, folk-songs, and In the Solidarity they now understand...
...It Is a magnificent building...
...Too often the man who should be rrtticlrlng institutions expends his energy . in criticizing those who would reform < ±tem...
...The giant organizations bound in a network of relationships with each other are typical of production and transportation...
...It is the result of the year-round cooperative efforts of the central committee...
...The individual counts for nothing...
...Chesterton has said somewhere the danger of being able to see both sides of any question is that you never find any answer...
...Hosiery Workers Union intensifies Drive in Penna...
...If we confine our observations to organization changes alone we confront a sweeping revolution...
...Into their coffers flow streams of wealth unknown to the kings and emperors of history...
...Through plays and sketches, written and supervised by Hollace Ransdell, librarian of the school, the strike situation at Marlon was dramatized, and the whole dreary pageant of modern society was enacted by the women workers...
...He was mistaken and might have been expected to know better...
...from the bitter strikes of Elisabeth ton and Marion, as wen as from places yet to be organized...
...W§j delist common sense got the citr only this building but two new for 1750,000...
...For Humanism Is generally assmaad to be a somewhat nebulous and certainly academic attitude towards life which cherishes light rather than heat and about which no one is expected to become bet up one way or the other...
...That this Is a rash assumption Is evidenced from the belligerent tone of the letters I haw received and it Js safe to say that Humanism has now reached the controversial stage with Its propagandists pro and con...
...Next in the exciting catalogue of events at the school is the class to health education...
...They want to be happy, to love, to have children, to go about their business, but suddenly a government says: "Here, stop all this...
...At the outset the Humanists have this advantage, that theirs Is a philosophy which eludes precise definition...
...Distribution is going the same way...
...Miriam Bonner, graduate of the University of California, and of the faculty of North Carolina College for Women, teaches English and public speaking...
...Those who pride themselves | In possessing William James' "tough- ¦ mlndedness" seem to be the easiest I marks when It comes to things political' and to the long run it is precisely these things political which count most to any disturbance of vested securities, comforts and privileged powers...
...Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet never turn backward.—James Russell Lowell...
...Our great expectations In the power of intelligence to solve j human problems were sadly shattered then and will be again If we are content with nothing beyond the experimental and critical As I think Mr...
...N. C, and Katherlne Howard of High Point, N. C; alumnae representatives are Alice Carmiehael of the Va...
Vol. 9 • August 1929 • No. 4
