Education: Labor Problems

“Teach labor problems,” is the plea just issued by the Institute for Public Service, of which Julius H. Barnes, of the National Chamber of Commerce, is Chairman.

“If all schools and colleges should imitate the few pioneers who are now teaching the basic facts and principles of labor problems,” says Mr. Barnes, ” it would become vastly easier to understand business cycles, to retain prosperity, to prevent strikes and to bring about cooperation among nations against future wars.”

The statement says in part:

“Of 80 colleges for women, 53 (or nearly two-thirds) have no course in labor problems.

“Of nearly 700 colleges and professional schools for both men and women, over 500 do not advertise any attention whatever to labor problems. The subject is almost unknown in the colleges which train teachers, and is not even part of the model course of study for teacher training schools which is now sweeping the country under the leadership of the Carnegie Foundation.”