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Show Systematic Plans to i Educate the Workers Ten years of systematic workers' education In America Is being celebrated cele-brated by the educational department of the International Ladles' Garment Workers' union, the first American labor union to convert the leisure . time of Its members Into hours of la- ' st ruction and self-development The trail biased by the international now bas Its ramifications of workers' education edu-cation In various Industries, with Its resultant labor colleges, both resident and nonresident special classes, educational edu-cational activity of the labor press, workers' schools for children and Instruction In-struction for mothers of families de- . t pendent npon the wages of union worklngmen. The experiment of workers' education educa-tion In the women's garment .unions bas attracted the admiration and support sup-port of the -most prominent educators throughout the country. One of the greatest contributions It has made Is that It has forced general Institutions of learning In Its extension divisions to Incorporate more and more Into their curricula courses dealing with trade union problems sucb as strikes' and lockouts, waste, management of Industry, etc |