COUNTY SCHOOL LIFE FOR CITY BOYS
Country School Life for City Boys THE Country Day School, as developed in several large cities of the country, will be introduced into Milwaukee—if plans now being worked out prove successful. On...
...The Foundation says: "The full report will say, among other things, that the investigation revealed shorter hours as the rule in union shops...
...Among employees in these shops, for example, 54 per cent, had an eight-hour day, while in the unorganized establishments only 7 per cent...
...The public is assured, however, that this decision is not the result of hasty action, but only after investigators collected the original data, which was then checked and collaborated by half a score of experts, who have discovered something workingmen always have known...
...The boys are to have all the advantages of boarding school life, without the disadvantage of being away from home...
...In advance copies of its findings it is declared by the Foundation that the position of trade unionists is correct...
...Con-viet labor on roads was favored, as was, shorter night hours for postal employees...
...The convention voted a i^-cent-a-day tax on all members in the state for the benefit of Milwaukee machinists now on strike for an eight-hour day...
...Unions for Women" Organization among women workers was urged by Frank J. Weber, of Milwaukee, general organizer of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor, in his report to the annual convention...
...The directors of the new school believe the lads should have the refining influence of their mothers and sisters, at the same time building up a strong school spirit by being with their schoolmates continually, from 8:45 a. m. to 5 p. m. The mornings at the school are to be given up to recitations, ana after a simple, hot lunch, there will be one recitation in the afternoon, after which, at 2 p. m., the athletic program for the day will begin...
...and they refute the claim of many employers, who oppose organization of their workers on the plea that they voluntarily grant all of the benefits which employees might secure through the union...
...Arrangements have been made with the street railway company to furnish cars on a special schedule to take the boys to and from school each day...
...The Working Man's First Line of Defense "Trade unionism is a first line of defense against long hours and low wages...
...This conclusion of the Foundation serves to emphasize the campaign of organized workers throughout the United States, who for years have been pleading, arguing, and writing that betterments in shop, mill, and factory are only possible through the united effort of employees...
...To replace this, and better to serve the community, it is proposed that a new type of school be established...
...The ' modern factory system," he said, "has brought a great change and the old law that the female must honor and obey, because she was considered, a dependent, is no longer applicable to oiw present industrial system because the female has been competed to become a part of our modern factory system as a wage earner...
...Since she has so entered the field of industry it is of the greatest importance to have her become a constituted part of the organized labor movement to better her condition as such...
...At 4, the boys will return to school for a study period from one-half to an hour, and at 5, school will be over for the day...
...On the northern outskirts of Milwaukee Is a school that Is now outgrown...
...worked eight hours or less...
...This is the conclusion reached by the investigators sent by the Russell Sage Foundation to make a careful survey of conditions in Springfield, Illinois...
...Sharp criticism was made of the practice of importing armed men and giving them the authority of peace officers in district where strikes are in progress...
...Ashland was selected as the next convention city...
...There will be football, baseball, tennis, track work, hockey and gymnasium work in inclement weather...
...It will be located out in the country, where twenty-five acres may be secured to give "elbow room" for the frolics of the young pupils...
...These figures tend strongly to support the trade unionists' point that organized workers are able to gain, and do gain, for themselves, advantages which workers acting individually do not enjoy...
...Only 1$ per cent, of the men in the union shops, moreover, worked 10 hours, asi compared with 37 per cent, in the nonunion work places...
Vol. 8 • November 1916 • No. 11
