Show PENNIES FOR A COLLEGE one hundred thousand workers each give a penny to ruskin college the british trade unions had not in their origin any direct concern with education says the fortnightly re view but it Is a fact of no ordinary significance that some of the leading unions should be taking very great interest in the higher edu atlon 0 the workman tor the last three years some members of the amalgamated society ol 01 engineers have made three levies of one penny each to help on the work of ruskin college auxford this levy pro duces over a year and by means of it six engineers are maintained tor a year a course of study at the col lege smaller but substantial sums have been contributed to the same alon by the london society of corn po by the miners county union by the amalgamated association of twisters and drawers by the derbyshire miners and the durham miners while a large number of other societies appear among the donors and subscribers |