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Cook, Alice Hanson / Workers' education in the U.S. Zone of Germany
(1947)
A description of workers' education today, pp. 15-27
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unions. though Only one ilon, tha railroad. .-iorkers, so far has. its on school buildiaii. Wist of the courses are igeanized by the labor, federtion for all union officers. The Bavarialn unions ghavr. baqn able to -st'.1p a residencq school at Berhzck for trainingf works c:unci6ors. Youth leadorship schools have been discussod in a previous stction. The Hesse unions will. shortly ape.n a school for all ranks of- locoal union officers9. Naarly.all. local feddratians havvosoap' kind of worEkcouncillor training of discussion glo UP ; ost of th ase are I;akcn - up withE the dutieso.f the councillor in thu shotp, the laws he has to adrdinistot, :the grievances he has to handle, etc. Except at the residence schaools whor8 there is fiMe for tnore thorough ditcUssions, there is little oppoi4tutlity for cornsideration of the funrda-atal prooulezs of thc aworks Council Law:, arid of the councillors re- latien to the unions. 3. :,IDcA:7?:c)N. c? .,3iA1,ThS' 13 _0CTION TOD .Y - 1. Y~uth .(3k :~. pro)gr~ for " ar ia was draw;n up by thq Land Youth Caoimittee.of the unions .1hic1 includes points on gdneral'schiol ffletn- elusion of trade uniOal .aterials in p ub'Flic schaool curricula; reform of the apprenticeahip syrsten, including suporvsisb of con4itions by the rlnions; coope;ration -iith the Vo]kshochschulen aS a -lans of -.aking up for the 16ow educationai 8tAndards of th1 last few years; spOcialattcntion to work and appreatice probien:s of girls; end i.;pt'veiaont 'of rscreational facilities ror youth. - . lfarc (Leonard Bur-gr). Trad, uni jn youth inNurermberg in Decembor 1945 drew up a prograLl ftr guiqlag their actirities. Jugendkaete'.aav I- be' . organize2 in plants where a substantial number of young people are employed, and7 youth repres naativessit on the w-orks council (Botriabirat). Diseugsion. -and lectures for. youth.ar< held in the. plnts...During the[summor.bof194e, .sovura1: catps. ware rgarlnized by the unions and paid for byV maivagement. In th" summer of 1947,. the. plan. is to accomodate 3.00 children in camps., the union to boar part of the cost. The youth <groups are worl~ing closely ,ith tho district youth committee representing youth. organizations of all kinds, and c~operatinsg with the rr GY. grops. .- 4a n.itch (Luaiiig 'Loc',. ,illi Gingjld). I. strong emphasits pn Jugendraste ih the paiatts; fjrtnlghtiy education il m~etin;s eii plant time usually s se~esdy aftearnoons;. represeatation of youth on the Butriebsrat. th 0ru Youth groups 'are organized in naighbo6hodsa Aith trade union youth leaters Aho have ieceioQd soia traning dt -zde Of ths above schools. The groups ho1 informal discussions, bring in outsidQ spezkers when they 6an, aid piar:'rocreational .venng3 musicd1s, Nnd hikes. . :" . .; . - -
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