Second part of an article which appeared in the January 1972 issue of Urban Education," volume 6, number 4. (RJ)

Traces the development of the concept of free public education for workers, children and adults, from the 1820's into the 1900's, through organized labor's efforts to implement such education. (MF)

Contends that if issues are articulated, work is done, are communities developed with sensitivity--without hardening of organizational forms or premature alliances between fearful groups--then the ethnic factor in working-class life can be an important tool for creating both individual fulfillment and social unity. (RJ)

Surveys current educational conditions in England, France, West Germany, Sweden, and Finland. (MB)

School boards may permit incumbent teacher unions access to mailboxes while prohibiting rival unions such access. Dissenting justices argued that exclusive access is discrimination and amounts to censorship and infringement of the First Amendment. School boards should consider carefully before granting exclusive access to incumbent unions. (PB)

The executive director of Advocates for Children describes a collaborative effort between that agency and two locals of the United Automobile Workers Union. Among the projects undertaken since 1969 are educational advocacy activities, psychotherapeutic services, support services for children, and other union benefit programs for members' children.…