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...ahead of the times but behind the times is Professor Slichter's school for employers, for Labor has already provided itself on a much larger scale with schools for employes including Labor colleges (Brookwood, in Katonah, N. Y., Commonwealth, in Mena, Ark.). Many a C.I.O. union has recently established an educational department, which not only teaches workers Labor history but trains them in collective bargaining strategy, psychology, public speaking, influencing public opinion. Largest and oldest of such programs is that of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, directed by astute, British-born Mark Starr, which has 20,000 workers...
Schooled mainly in Reformed theology, Abraham Muste held Reformed and Congregational pulpits, was head of Brookwood Labor College 1921-33, has been secretary of the Amalgamated Textile Workers, has spent nights in jail (for "agitating"). Though he has recanted the barricades, he is still vaguely Marxian, vaguely Trotskyite, mostly ''Musteite"- as other sectarian radicals call his followers of the American Workers' Party. Preacher Muste now has enough taste for organized religion to say: ''The Church, weak and imperfect as it may be, exists, and it seems to me that after the example of Jesus...
...Muste has headed many of the contemporary labor movements throughout the country. He founded Brookwood Labor College and later organized the Worker's Party, which proved a prominent factor in the recent Toledo and Minneapolis strikes...
...Muste, Dean of Brookwood Labor College and chairman of the Conference for Progressive Labor, will speak tonight at 8 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common room under the auspices of the Harvard Socialist Club. The title of his speech is "Labor Turns Left" and in it he will attempt to answer the self-imposed question: "With miners in revolt in every field, the American Federation of Labor losing strength steadily, auto workers striving to organize, and unions being smashed daily by the depression, where can labor turn...
...speakers will include A. J. Muste, Dean of Brookwood Labor College; Elmer A. Carter, Editor of Opportunity, official organ of the National Urban League, a Negro organization devoted to the advancement of the colored race: and Louis F. Budenz, Leader of the Kenosha and Nazareth Strikes and Executive, Secretary of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action...