Wisdom for Workers

The WPA-Workers' Education project educates workers in their spare time. Across the country 60,000 laborers attend classes before and after hours in mining camps, sugar-beet shacks, cotton warehouses, union halls, construction sheds. Last week 18 State supervisors of WPA-WE reported to Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis Williams and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the gnarls in Workers' Education.

P:Administered by States, Workers' Education suffers badly from decentralization, which is nevertheless what WPA officials as well as educators (fearing charges and reality of dictatorship) want to maintain.

P:In States where antilabor sentiment is strong, educational activities carried on under sponsorship of labor unions is highly suspect, is sometimes suppressed.

P:There is much squabbling in projects involving members of A. F. of L. and C. I. O. unions.

P:Each State has baffling local problems. Example: In Washington, regulations against the transfer of teachers from county to county prevent 5,000 workers at Grand Coulee Dam from having classes for which they have petitioned.

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