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 |
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Page 94 - 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 93 - 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 138 - What is your pleasure? It was moved and seconded that the report be accepted with the Treasurer's recommendation that an audited account of the full fiscal year be printed in the proceedings.
Page 192 - 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 94 - 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 127 - ... 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 96 - Therein lies, in my poor opinion, the significance of the labor education movement. It has manifold functions to perform. Somewhat strictly conceived, the labor college has a function in training leaders — men and women who are to handle the technical and difficult problems that arise in collective bargaining. There is a great field, not yet fully appreciated, it seems. I do not mean to say that any kind of education can make a leader out of a person with no natural qualifications; but owing to...
Page 138 - THE CHAIRMAN: The first order of business will be the report of the Secretary-Treasurer — the Treasurer's report.
Page 78 - 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 96 - ... 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.