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HIGHLANDER FOL SCHOOL 61-12 stated that about threo rs ago an old cemetary ccross the road from the Nighlander Folk School, searching for the date on a tombstone. A group of students et the Highlander Folk School were having some sort of a drill in the Folk School ground, A whistle would blow and they would shout and shove each other around, then when the whistle blew again, they would ccase their activity. It wes SEED 2p iion thet thoy were practicing picket-line activity. ihen the students had finished this drill, they sat down and sang songs. One ot the songs was to the tune of "The Old Gray Mare She Aintt Whet She Used to Be," and some of the words which QM overheard were: "Old man ROCSEVELT ain't whet he used to be." Another song which was sung at thot time was "Whose afraid of the big bed cop," sung to the tune of Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf. SEE sted thet upon two occasions severe] years ago he vas shot at from embush, He can think of no reason for this other than his aetive opposition to the Highlander Folk School. SEEMED sicteoc thet the Chattanooga Times, a daily nevspeper, he n partial te the Highlander Folk School, and that irs, nm + i Ww orr2sp ocal c ondent of the Chettanoozea Times, hes complzined irculation hes fallen off because of this. stcted that when the bakery workers were out on strike in the swaner of 1937, RALPH TEFFERTZLLSR came down from the Fclk School und agitated amone the strikers and hed meetings with thom, TurFik- TELLER contactcd QR 2nd purported to be a rapresentative of the > strikers, hon S-_--i -ointed mt thet the strikers had violated their * : existing contrcet with —— by walking out without giving him notice, : SEFFERTULLER said that "The contract vas just a sercp of paper." QD state 2d that his employees, who are monbers of on a.F. of L, Union, heve 7 since sone on record es opposing the iighlender Folk School, oe SS svc lcted thet severcl yecrs ogo 2 smell cyclone blew the roofs off of sev2recl houses at Laager, Tennessee, in Grundy -— ‘County, QM ho is the local representative of the Red Cross, wae. 4 pd i woe appesl ed to the Eed Cross for sid for the victims of the cyclone. A rep- 2 resentctive of the Vationel Red Cross came to Tracy City ond, in company , vith QM icont to Lecger, where the cost of repciring the damaged houses was estimeted. #11 the victims, numbering cbout twelve, seemed very pleased that they were to receive assistance from the Red Cross, but on the following day when the Red Cross representative ond SD ro- turned to Leager in order to have the victims sign certain forms, AD -25 - -