II. The Socialist Labor Party Press.

(Statement by Arnold Petersen, National Secretary.)

"The Party owns an up-to-date printing and publishing plant located at 45 Rose Street, New York City. It publishes the following papers:

Weekly People (English Weekly).

Arbetaren (Swedish weekly).

Volksfreund und Arbeiter-Zeitung (German weekly).
Proletareets (Lettish weekly).

A Munkas (Hungarian semi-weekly).

Radnicka Borba (South Slavonian semi-monthly).

"In addition to these a Jewish magazine, Neue Zeit, is published irregularly, usually about five or six issues being printed a year."

9. SOCIALISM AND EDUCATION.

The Rand School of Social Science.

The educational work of the Socialist Party has been conducted for the most part in a haphazard way. Definite and systematic courses of study have rarely been persisted in, until the Rand School of Social Science of New York City, answered the demand for training and formulated an educational program. The school, while not strictly a party institution, is owned and controlled by the American Socialist Society, an incorporated body, which has always followed the policy of taking in only Party members. The detailed administration is in the hands of an Educational Director and Executive Secretary, chosen by and responsible to a Board of Directors, elected annually by the Society.

The establishment of the Rand School in 1906 was made possible by an endowment provided, at the suggestion of Prof. George D. Herron, by the late Mrs. Carrie D. Rand, with a contributory fund added by her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Rand Herron, who showed a keen interest in its work till her untimely death early in 1914. The income from this fund is supplemented by tuition fees and by donations from individuals and organizations in sympathy with the purpose of the school.

The school had a very definite object-that of providing an auxiliary or specialized agency to serve the Socialist and Trade Union Movement of the United States in an educational capacity-to offer to the outside public an opportunity for studying the principles, purposes, and methods of this movement; and to offer to the adherents of the movement instruction and training along lines calculated to make them more efficient workers for the Cause.