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EDUCATION CONTROL
ilEWWEAPONBEING
? USED AGAINST LABOR
will
lertirin inflpwtiid vs6onu»ferciid
, financial interests Vliw; Hjg^
tioP has decided to go
it&:|>Iahs regardless of all protest
"p ignoring the almost unani
jis1 adverse opinion of the Chi*
City Oouneil/and of some of*
most famous educators m
irica.
le executive board of the Chi
Federation of Labor has ana
id - the Situation in a 5,000
report submitted to the local
ceiftral body, which body has au
thorized* the executive board to
rails money to defray the expenses
public speaking campaign and
fo|J the printing and distribution
of ^literature.
|i Sees {Sensational Menace.
tne so-cauea lntemgence
- tesls and other objectionable fea
tures of the new system the report
suftnitt$d by the executive board
•' ‘ of the Chicago Federation of La
b<^ hldkes rthe following, sensa
tionalr charges:
?Has a. new natural laW- been'
discovered which binds ea^h indi
divfduajl to aplace in society «£nd
•• agifrst which protest or struggle
is fropeless? v Are the intelligence
. testers offering something new3
- The fact ~ is that- they haVfe
■ brought ihto America the ancient
\ do§rkre yof caste and ^ are - fcdtp-L
- catii&rttnder the authorityrof pub
lic school^ boards, precisely the
same philosophy of life as governs
\ the* Hindu caste system, -under
which by alleged divine or natural
law, the people are organized ac
cording to the occupations ~ for
which they are supposed to be fit
ted—the merchant in the mer
chant caste, the teamster in the
easie of the teamster, the carpen
ter 1 in the carpenters’ caste, and
so oh through the long list of voca
tions^.y^Thus they are challenging
the * political philosophy , of .the
American nation and defying the
basic principles of every religion
of the Western world. Do they
know what they are doing?
“That the intelligence test meth
od of qlassification is to be used is
clearly indicated' 'by* statements'
made tender the ^Atifhdt,fiyjj ofiftheJ
Board of Education by> represent
tatives of that board to meetings
of school principals. Develop
ments in other cities show the
i classification of pupfils into so
called ‘superior’ and ‘inferior’
groups,- the former of which are
encouraged by ofifcial ‘counsellors’
td, go on into the high school,
while the lattejc are advised by
these ‘vocational counsellors’ to
end their-school life at the age of
"fifteen years when the average
child graduates from the ‘junior
high.’ • In other words, it 4s- as
sumed that only those of inferior
mentality will enter industry end
commerce as productive workers.
Thus the brand of inferiority is to
be rplaepd upon all ~ productive
wdrker§„ through the medium of’
prcfiaganda e7nanatii$* from -the'
public schools. _:,c ■' .
■ “The , dHimate ~effect, if’ the
scheme is to be carried on to its
final conekisiott, willWeither to
.Utterly demoralize American in
WniMM xX iimrm&g
upon them, or American :soeiety
must be Europeanized by the 1 ac4
ceptance of distinct and more or
Jess permanent -class /divisions
among -tile bodice. We Hrihly be
lieve, however, that when the true
significance of the proposal be
comes apparent to the people of
the v different communities,: .the#
will repudiate the whole scheme
and wijft insistithat ;the children of
ail classy of oitizeh& and, indeed,
-the citizens themselves of, all
classes, ar§ entitled to a full edi*
cation, no matter what occupa
tion they may follow.
MudfNet Degrade Citizens.
“America must prepare to do its.
own work,” continues theKreport,
"not ,by degrading a part of its
citizens, but by steadily raising
the social status of every sort of
honorable employment. It is not
enough - that wages be increased
and the working day shortened pf
thatrpurely material comforts be
plage#/ within the reach of ' the
people; - Min m>t live by
brei^ alone, The master passion
of humanity is the- desire for
equality/ Ihe basic principle upon
winch puV nation is funded *ecog-r
nizeS;v this^rtrd^i *iia ^ candid ' lari
guager > * plainly‘ , that
none can misunderstand its mean
ing and, purpose. For this reason
and this alone, America has be
come Jhe great nation of the earth.
"l^tfl^yithiif rfecentjjwjjrsjtha
public school system hair responded
more and more to this great truth
and as a result the education of
all citizens has been growing
apace. ' ... .. v
"Now conies the effort to stem
the tide of humhii progress in this
eountry by overthrowing the great
principle of American life within
the public school system and thus,
through the children of the nation,
to degrade it by destroying the
one vital, principle which marks
our nation as different from all
others—the great (principle of hu-r
m^n 'equality as proclaijj^d in. the
; Amcu'ican .^Declaration 4<jf > V Inde
.pjfend^ice^ JX ’’ Clasi c"--ar-'V "
MustProtOct Schools.
"As American citizens, allied
with each other in our trade
unions, with the definite purpose
of making life better and happier
for all the people, we must oppose
with, all the strength at our com
mand the effort now being made to
mutilate our public school system.
"The movement to economize
in public expenditures by curtail
ing public education is an error so
grave that it will lead to national
sterility and stagnation unless it
is corrected; It is based upon the
utterly false assumption - that • a
people 'Who have . tasted- of the
higher and finer things of ;life,
through eduation, will, develop a
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C. H.Robinton, Pres. 38 W. Fifth St. 'A. G. Craig, Sec.-Treas.
dislike for decent labor. This as
sumption ^rows~ out nf-the equally
false notion that1 the sort of work,
in whichan individual can give ex
pression to all his facfcities^ includ
t ihgihh useh£3i»
^ kra ment^l s^n^k/ is in sonie
highschoolsare devefepihehts‘ in
|he<jftevejh*nt which :fqr C its
objective the 'ciqftaifciie^
$£ education c^ihe-^lea of pyb
iic economy and the5ida,ssifictttfon
of .citizens bn so-called ^inteUi-.
gence levels’ for occupational pur
poses through the classification of
children in the schools. « .l” ,
“The industries which have suc
ceeded in classifying, standardiz
ing, cataloguing and card-index
ing each minute process of manu^
facture find have subdivided Jabor,
accordingly for (purposes of eco
nomic and speedy production, now.
frankly admit that such methods
utterly destroy the .skill . without
vflich industries cannot perpetr
ate themselves. . The alleged ‘ef
ficiency’ made these industries so
helpless that they were compelled
to - turn to the public schools to
revive, through vocational courses,
the trade knowledge , -which 1 was
fast being lost. This false thebry
econpn^ d^^P^; industry
is now being, applied: ik the ipublfc
schools by ■ the Chicago. Board of
Education. It is an example' of
materialistic efitfeieiicy ^phe ’ ihhcjt.
.iydtear ^factory syatfertk of
labor v#npOed its; jtjg education of
the -proponents of the platoon syfr
fem ^*?aho^age; vpf ^ school: rever
noe.” : The teachers answer this
argument, by "saying that c^ply 10
per cent of the $40,000*,000,000
of taxable property in Chicago is
asse&sed^ In this connection the
Chicago teachers make the fojllow
lowittg serious "charges:
“Illegal tax evasion by the rich
is loading the tax burden on the
poor arid at Hie same time robbing
t)ie children'*0f their rightful edu
cational opportunity.
“ Yicious interlocking, tax-fixing
syndicates 4n Chicago, composed
of- ta-ic officials and other Officials*
corporations, coal dealers, insur
ance agents*.contractors,, v owners
of valuably buildings in the. loo#
ahjdelsewhere,- are •profiting>en0r^
These syndicates jare a rich source
pf: catiQiaign fundsfdr.f political
fixing, ea^?ai^n-c6Hectuig syndi
cates at the. expanse of the hon
«st .taxpayers and the children.”
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WORK BEGUN AT SPARTAN
intract has been let By Soutb
• Railway? Company for grading
•,«conctete ^ofl#I W wft
^ built around the
feast ^icte of the city of Spartan
burg; :::^%''-'l'- " ' - '
The now line will eliminate .a;
grade* crossing" oh. the Southern’s
Columbia division at Main Street
which the city of Spartanburg for
years; has wished to remove.
The city has agreed to pay half
of the cost of construiction of the
cut-off line, and at an election held
recently, bonds to the amount of
$250,000 were voted for this pur
pose.
L. C. SING
r lAUNimv
Ail work . i«ne by hand under
% personil supemsioirs of
■ ’ L. & siWG, Pi-op:
tjii Serrice
It Sduth Ct\ircK St.
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