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...Leader John L. Lewis, and is himself a product of workers' education. Born in Russia 45 years ago, he went to work at eleven for his father, a tailor. He arrived in Manhattan's garment district at 14, promptly enrolled in night school, later was graduated from Brookwood Labor College. Today he is a lover of painting and chamber music. He helped design Labor Stage, after the Moscow Art Theatre...
...content with having resigned his Presbyterian pastorate and gone to jail in the 1919 steel strike, the late William Mann Fincke* in 1921 gave his 53-acre estate in Katonah, N. Y., with its big colonial farmhouse, to found Brookwood Labor College, first labor college in the U. S. Miss Evelyn Preston, a tall, dimpled, onetime Junior Leaguer, now president of the League of Women Shoppers (a labor auxiliary) gave the college a $50,000 women.'s dormitory. Among its other liberal and wealthy angels was the Garland Fund...
Apparently possessing nine lives, Brookwood survived Labor's lean years. When Depression cut off its subsidy from liberal philanthropists, labor unions kept Brookwood going by providing scholarships for its students. Even when the American Federation of Labor disowned it in 1928 as too "radical" and when five years later Director Abraham J. Muste left it because it was too '"conservative," Brookwood kept on. Young, broad-beamed Tucker P. Smith, a socialist and former executive secretary of the pacifist Committee on Militarism in Education, was brought in as director to restore harmony. He succeeded. By last year...
...last week Tucker Smith was not in Katonah but Detroit, where since last summer he has been helping educate members of the United Automobile Workers Union. With U. S. labor unions enjoying their greatest prosperity, Chairman Julius Hochman of Brookwood's board of directors announced last week that Brookwood's doors had been closed, perhaps permanently. Not only was the college unable to raise its $30,000 budget for the coming year, but it had unpaid debts. Having survived Labor's poverty, Brookwood was killed by Labor's prosperity...
Chairman Hochman, a Brookwood alumnus and now vice president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, explained that although a few A. F. of L. as well as C. I. O. unions supported Brookwood, these unions, conducting their own classes in industrial centres, had decided to abandon Brookwood until Labor united, made it Labor's "official" college. Meanwhile, no move will be made to sell the $115,000 Katonah estate...