Educational Attitudes and Policies of Organized Labor in the United States

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Teachers College, Columbia University, 1926 - Education - 201 pages
 

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Page 92 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 74 - That is the most perfect government in which an injury to one is the concern of all...
Page 90 - We shall advance the cause of education among ourselves and for our children, by all just means within our power. We especially advocate for our agricultural and industrial colleges that practical agriculture, domestic science, and all the arts which adorn the home, be taught in their courses of study.
Page 147 - July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, no Government official or employee shall receive any salary in connection with his services as such an official or employee from any source other than the Government of the United States...
Page 23 - City when a convention was called from all parts of the country "to advance the moral and intellectual condition and pecuniary interests of the laboring classes, promote the establishment of trades unions in every section of the United States; and also to publish and disseminate such information as may be useful to mechanics and workingmen generally; and to unite and harmonize the efforts of all the productive classes of the country.
Page 152 - The upper years of the elementary school should be reorganized to afford diversified training, so that boys and girls who can not go on to higher schools will receive training specifically designed for their needs, and not be compelled as at present to prepare for a role they will never play.
Page 150 - So we will organize our children into a little community and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shop and on the farm.
Page 96 - In the mechanical fact, that the cost of making an article depends almost entirely upon the number manufactured is a practical increase of wages, by tempting the workers through their new leisure to unite in buying luxuries now confined to the wealthy, and which are costly because bought only by the wealthy.
Page 142 - States, advocated, either by word of mouth or in writing, a form of government other than the government of the United States or of this State, or that such person advocates or has advocated, either by word of mouth or in writing, a change in the form of government of the United States or of this State by force, violence or any unlawful means.

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