WORKERS' EDUCATION

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 69, 21 March 1918, Page 2

WORKERS' EDUCATION

m The subject of the Workers' Mivatj tionaj Association was referred to by tho chairman (Mr. C. Watson) at the meet? ing of the Victoria College Council IMb night. The outlook for the • t»rtfln»V classes, he said, was'very .encouraging, but.it was felt that tlie operations should be extended. There would be, more classes this year than previously, and the funds available would en»W« them to widen-the scope of the work. Local bodies were supporting the mov«ment by subsidies, ' but if these wtre paid into the council instead of the Workers' Educational Association they would carry a pourid-for-pound subsidy from the Education Department, thim being provided for by statute. He moved that the tutorial classes be authorised to send letters to the various local bodiM setting out what ha had indicated. In seconding the motion, Professor; Hunter said that the present was very opportune for extending. this work in the .Wellington University, district. .. Mr. Bakewell suggested that private companies and, corporations should also bs circularised. He N felt sure that these concerns would welcome the opportunity for their workers to have economic questions and history placed before them in a proper form. ' " Mr. B. A. Wright, M.P., agreed, add* ing that some private companies were simply at a loss to know how to utilipe their hwjjo .profits, and would welcome the opportunity to hehjj. The motion was carried, together with a further motion to the effect that {( the tutorial classes committee agrees the council ivill be willing to also take over the .preliminary classes now conducted by the Workers' Educational Association. '. '