LABOR FELLOWSHIP MAY OPEN EDUCATION TREND

An "experiment in education" as well as a "progressive step toward intelligent labor leadership," the new Trade Union Fellowship Plan was given final form last night as the University announced the names of the 14 representatives who have been selected by their unions to participate in the program.

"It will be interesting to see," an official in the program said, "what happens at Harvard to these men who are able, but who have in many cases no formal education." Chosen by their unions without regard to scholastic attainments, the men vary in their training from a few who left school at the age of 12 to one who has a Master of Law degree.

"These men are taking courses with the regular Business School students, who are required to have had an A.B. degree," he said, stressing the possibility that, if the teaching problems involved are solved, there might emerge from this experiment a whole new conception of education based on ability, without formal prerequisites.

Although a few of the representatives are full-time officers of their unions, most of them work directly in the factories, and serve as labor leaders only in their spare time. Most thoroughly represented of the nine industries whose delegates are here is the Ladies Garment Workers Union, which claims four of the 14 men, Samuel J. Hassen, Morris Paladino, Milton Schulman, and George Feffer.

Highest ranking of the unionists is Charles Couner, whi is president of a branch of the American Federation of Rosiery Workers, and a member of the National Executive Board. Most of the leaders, moreover, held important positions, at least in their local unit.

"There is much to be learned," the program official said, "both by these leaders and by the undergraduates."