PATTERNS OF WORKERS’ EDUCATION

organized labor are represented on the Joint Administrative Board of the

Pacific Coast School.

Public finances have helped the Midwestern and the Western institutions
extend their programs widely beyond their school grounds. The Summer
School for Office Workers and the Southern Summer School, on the other
hand, have concentrated on summer study, with some field work for the win-
ter. The Wisconsin School has held summer and winter classes in many com-
munities and has brought local groups to the summer session for institutes and
conferences.” The Pacific Coast School has maintained contact with nearby
localities through W-.P.A. teachers who must attend the summer program for
training, but as nonresidents. Winter classes also have been held in places
within the vicinity of the School. Those interested in the effects of govern-
ment money and direction might well study the Wisconsin and Pacific Coast
programs. Already the former has experienced a setback, since an unfavor-
able State administration in 1939 temporarily discontinued its work. While
new plans again have been made, the interests of the School will have to be
carefully watched.

The Pacific Coast School for Workers has a more inclusive student body
than have the Wisconsin School for Workers, the Summer School for Office
Workers, and the Southern Summer School for Workers. College students,
teachers, educational administrators, and the general public may attend the
School. However, as in the other institutions, workers constitute a majority
in the resident group although not in the entire school. In 1935 they formed
only 45 percent of the entire student body; only 44 percent in 1936. The
next year they formed 89 percent of the residents but only 52 percent of the
entire school.”

The four schools now recruit most of their students from trade unions, but
this was not always so. For example, the Southern Summer School has been
influenced in proportion to the degree of Southern organization. In 1927,
the first session of the School, only seven out of 25 students were members of
trade unions and all seven were from the United Garment Workers’ Union.
Nine years later 22 of 30 women were trade unionists and many labor organ-

et E. Schwartztrauber, The School for Workers, the University of Wisconsin, Madi-
son, Wisconsin, 1938, passim.

™ Report of the Director of the Pacific Coast School ke i
seleted Great baal ific Coast School for Workers, 1937 (mimeo-

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