TAKING THE SCHOOL TO THE FACTORY

HOW ALIEN GIRLS ARE BEING CHANGED INTO INTELLIGENT AMERICAN WORKERS BY
INSTRUCTION DURING WORKING HOURS

In from twenty to thirty-five weeks I. SUMMARY LEAD
an illiterate immigrant girl can be 1. Striking results
transformed into an intelligent, efficient Striking statement
American citizen, in this city, in two sentence to
without interfering with the daily work avoid unwieldy sentence.
by which she earns her living. Only
forty-five minutes a day in a factory
schoolroom is required to accomplish
such striking results.

This has just been demonstrated at 2. Commencement
the first commencement of the only Timeliness brought
school conducted in a New York factory. out immediately after
The classes have been held on striking statement
one of the upper floors of the white
goods factory of D. E. Sicher & Co.,
49 West 21st Street, where the graduation Address has local
exercises were held last Thursday interest
evening.

Forty girls--Italians, Poles, Russians, 3. Graduates
Hungarians, Austrians among Note concrete details
the number--received the first "certificates
of literacy" ever issued by the
Board of Education. Twenty weeks Striking results