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o ot 1 - a HIGHL'NDER FOLK SCHOOL 61-12 ae 4nd e ce Coot t\Pogucs » member of the Kine, iil] and Smelter Workers, recently or- ganized the Dixie ketal Products Company of Bessemer, Alabama, a touch job to judge by previous attempts at unionization there. Currently he is negotiating a contract for the new union. Cecil is also business agent for the Wholesale Local of the Birmingham Retal Clerks. tary Wipers Company. lLil\Yadon, Highlander 1940, joined HalfGibbons in the two week orgenizing thet brought on the victory. Lil Yadon is a board mem- ber of the TW, Local 2. An election was recently ee and von by the THUA at the Leujsyille Sani- Ed \nair, who attended Highlander on the Eleanor Roosevelt Scholarship, is organizing for the ‘malpamated. At the successful Cluctt strike in Atlanta he was in charge of the entertainment on the picket line cnd in the strike tent. , / J, D.\Bradford is organizing for the International Cement, lime, and Gypsum workers (i. F. of L.) in Knoxville. , Hosiery organizer and President of the Highlander Alumni Association, Matt yneh is back in Tennessee after several months of activity in Mississippi. John \ ate, THUA, was one of the contract negotiators at the Mansfield Mills, lumberton, N. C., which brought wage increases ranging from 5 per cent te 153 per cent. John's Union has acquired a new hall, Other Alumi Activity pinayd\pattey's local ILGW, in Atlante, now has a hall. Billye is director of the union's educstional program, and sends the following details. There are classes for white members and for negro members in union procedure, parliamentury law and public speaking, history of trade unions and the IL@W, and study of garment monufacturc. In the recreation line there are bingo games, bowling teams, and tir. I. Q.'s, again for white members and colored members. Plzns are being m.de to extend the classes to Griffin, Georgia, where there arc other Highlander alumi. } Virginia/ Swann was elected recording secretary of her Nashvilic Hosiery Local, lost her job, and is nov working at Gustonia. Nae ee ne redatnchatiammienenmennaiandintttiien ts tie tie nenate af dentnete aninetantt hatte tte”