early experiments in workers' education

This article was prepared in connection with the program of the Committee on Labor Education Archives of the American Labor Education Service. It is published at this time not only because of its interest to all adult educators, but also because it helps to provide background for a collection of materials on the pioneer days of workers' education which has just been given to the Wisconsin State Historical Society by Hilda W. Smith, pioneer in the field of labor education, and by the American Labor Education Service. A collection of that material which is in duplicate is to be made available to the library of the Institute of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. The work of classifying and preparing this material for use by graduate students was made possible through a gift to the American Labor Education Service by the Fund for Adult Education. Ed.