STUDENTS IN UPTON, DOWNTON, AND FLUXTON

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unions have developed during the last few years, thus upsetting
of the old community patterns. Company unions became bonafide
rganizations despite the interfering efforts of employers and even the
yed formed pressure groups of their own. The New Deal which
etus to trade unionism also introduced workers’ education to Fluxton
vide basis. Previous to this time, the Board of Education had sponsored
t education for native and immigrant illiterates; other groups had insti-
radio broadcasts, community forums, and public institutes; and a
bureau had furnished lecturers especially for workers’ groups, both
y and in the neighboring industrial communities. A labor college
s formed by several groups. The Work Projects Administration started
ction for the unemployed in Fluxton and then extended courses to em-
workers. Although the community has felt that “Lewis should educate
henchmen,” the program has progressed and at its peak sponsored 78
the average being 60. Summer institutes have been planned for the
onal directors of various trade unions, although the labor organizations
not always cooperated; women have been reached either as members of
unions or of their auxiliaries. The work of the project has been aided
outlying districts by a privately supported school, which organized labor
controlled in large part, contributing 60 per cent of the budget.

hanging patterns in Fluxton have in many instances sharpened conflict
ven opposing philosophies. “Red scares” and “red baiting” and an accen-
| conservatism in the press and among employer and business groups
ppeared in the transitional stage. Workers’ representatives have had
ceed cautiously and new programs have received more than one setback.
Fluxton, as in Upton, the Bryn Mawr Summer School is represented by
mittee and an alumnae unit, the former existing ever since 1921,
p during that year money could 1 not be raised because of adverse com-

Pa ti ng to foxtade representatives of various community groups into whith
ideals of the Bryn Mawr Summer School and of the committee could be
Accordingly, members have come from trade unions, the city’s uni-
, the Y.W.C.A., settlements, various collegiate alumnae, libraries, the

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