Proceedings of the National Conference on Americanization in Industries: Held at the Atlantic House, Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, June 22, 23 and 24, 19191919 - Americanization - 144 pages |
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afternoon agencies Akron alien Ameri Americanization in Industries Applause Associated Industries BEATTY Board of Education Bohner Boston Bureau canization Carnegie Steel Company cent Chairman citizenship classes CLARK class attendance Cleveland co-operation compulsion Department Detroit Director of Americanization discussion East Walpole EATON employees Employment Manager English and citizenship English classes English language factory school Fall River feel foreign foreign-born foremen GIESSE Hood Rubber Company hundred immigrant Industrial Relations Industries of Massachusetts interest ization JUNE 24 labor Ladies and Gentlemen Lincoln Motor Company Manufacturing Mass meeting methods Motor Company National naturalization non-English-speaking Ohio organization Packard Motor Company pany paper PAULL Plant Director plants reported President problem public school question QUIMBY resolution responsibility Secretary session social Solvay Process Company speak speaker Superintendent teachers teaching thing tion VERMILLION Walter Watertown Welfare White Motor Company Wire Company WYMAN
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Page 41 - ... spirit, an ideal which will master his blood. In this sense we are all internationalists. Now there are several things which we have come upon recently which seem to those of us who have not been wise to be discoveries. The first is that we have a great body of our own people, five and a half millions, who can not read or write the language of this country. That language is English. And these are not all of foreign birth. A million and a half are native born. The second is that we are drafting...
Page 99 - THE proudest now is but my peer, The highest not more high ; To-day, of all the weary year, A king of men am I. To-day, alike are great and small, The nameless and the known ; My palace is the people's hall, The ballot-box my throne ! Who serves to-day upon the list Beside the served shall stand ; Alike the brown and wrinkled fist, The gloved and dainty hand ! The rich is level with the poor, The weak is strong to-day ; And sleekest broadcloth counts no more Than homespun frock of gray. To-day let...
Page 42 - The second is that we are drafting into our army men who cannot understand the orders that are given them to read. The third is that our man power is deficient because our education is deficient. The fourth is that we ourselves have failed to see America through the eyes of those who have come to us. We have failed to realize why it was that they came here and what they sought. We have failed to understand their definition of liberty.
Page 120 - We, the representatives of the educational forces of industry, recognize that industry has a definite part with the other forces of the community in initiating and organizing Americanization work: Therefore be it Resolved, That instruction in English for non-English-speaking people should be carried on in cooperation with the public educational forces, provided those forces are prepared and will assume the responsibility. We pledge our aid in our respective communities to bring about this cooperation.
Page 99 - While there's a grief to seek redress, Or balance to adjust Where weighs our living manhood less Than Mammon's vilest dust, — While there's a right to need my vote, A wrong to sweep away, Up ! clouted knee and ragged coat ! A man's a man to-day ! TRUST.
Page 124 - ... are prepared and will assume the responsibility. We pledge our aid in our respective communities to bring about this cooperation. Resolved, That non-English-speaking employees attending English classes in industry should attend such classes voluntarily, on their own time, and without compensation. Resolved, That every industry employing non-English-speaking people should formulate a definite policy regarding Americanization work, and that such work can best be done when a responsible person is...
Page 1 - At no time in the history of our country has there been a greater need for exercise of this precedented power.
Page 48 - ... encouraging word now and then from the foremen will assist wonderfully in maintaining attendance. If the employees come to feel that their foremen and employers are anxious to have them better themselves, a spirit will enter into their work that can be secured in no other way. The foremen canapproach the leaders of the various racial groups in the shop and explain to them clearly just what is proposed in the plant and the reasons for Its being done, thereby enlisting their intelligent interest...