Workers Education in the United States: Report of Proceedings ... National Conference on Workers Education in the United States, Volume 2Workers Education Bureau of America, 1922 - Working class |
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Page 92 - All true work is sacred; in all true work, were it but true hand-labor, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven. Sweat of the brow; and up from that to sweat of the brain, sweat of the heart; which includes all Kepler calculations, Newton meditations, all sciences, all spoken epics, all acted heroisms, martyrdoms...
Page 91 - For universal Democracy, whatever we may think of it, has declared itself as an inevitable fact of the days in which we live; and he who has any chance to instruct, or lead, in his days, must begin by admitting that...
Page 190 - Its purposes shall be to collect and to disseminate information relative to efforts at education on any part of organized labor ; to co-ordinate and assist in every possible manner the educational work now carried on by the organized workers ; and to stimulate the creation of additional enterprises in labor education throughout the United States.
Page 92 - Labour, wide as the Earth, has its summit in Heaven. Sweat of the brow ; and up from that to sweat of the brain, sweat of the heart ; which includes all Kepler calculations, Newton meditations, all Sciences, all spoken Epics, all acted Heroisms, Martyrdoms, — up to that ' Agony ot bloody sweat,' which all men have called divine ! O brother, if this is not ' worship,' then I say, the more pity for worship ; for this is the noblest thing yet discovered under God's sky.
Page 125 - ... the end will be despair and decrepitude, broken nerve and shattered hopes, vain regrets for that worst and silliest of wastes and sacrifices, the waste and sacrifice of the power of enjoyment: in a word, the punishment of the fool who pursues the better before he has secured the good.
Page 137 - Committee. What is your pleasure? (It was moved and seconded that the report of the committee be adopted.) The President: It has been moved and seconded that the report be adopted.
Page 76 - I should like to make with reference to the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry. In the first place, I shan't attempt to classify it with reference to Workers
Page 191 - There shall be an annual meeting of the National Committee at the time of the meeting of the Department of Superintendence. The time, place, and program shall be determined by the executive committee. Special meetings of the National Committee may be called by the executive committee. The executive committee shall meet at the call of the chairman or on request of a majority of its members. Amendments This constitution may...
Page 94 - ... by circumstances not of its own making and it is compelled to make momentous decisions on matters unrelated to collective bargaining. The labor movement, in the modern sense, is barely fifty years old. But think of the crises not made by labor leaders but by forces.
Page 68 - The total number ran as high at one time as 61 workers' educational experiments of various sorts and kinds. Of this total, the bureau has assisted in creating eight trade-union colleges during the past year. These colleges are as follows : Passaic Trade Union College. Denver Labor College. Spokane Workers' College. Milwaukee Workers' College. Pacific Workers' University (Sacramento, Calif.). San Francisco Labor College. Syracuse Labor College. EXTENSION ACTIVITIES OF AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGES....