LABOR: Brookwood College

Impressed with the way in which the existing business and political order of things is manned and directed by the graduates of conservative educational institutions, Labor has decided to educate leaders along her own lines.

Last week a graduating class of 15 completed the two years course at Brookwood Labor College, Katonah, N. Y. This is the first class of educated labor leaders to be graduated.

The new college has a faculty of only five men. Courses are given in sociology, psychology, labor journalism, statistics, labor problems. So far there are no scholarships; each student must pay his way and do two hours’ manual labor every day as well.

“We did not know the history of labor, its past experiences and achievements, until we came to Brookwood,” said one of the new graduates.

Six of the class of 15 were women. Ic was representative of the American labor movement that among the 15 members were represented eightnationalities and seven unions.

The embryonic labor leaders will return to the following unions: the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, the United Mine Workers, the Coopers’ Union, the Association of Machinists, the Amalgamated Food Workers, the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, the Union of Postal Workers of Great Britain.