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Highlander Folk School — Part 1

132 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 132 pages OCR'd
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ee ee a a ml I a A, tage li pane 1 im HICHLANLE? FOLK SCHGOL é1-12 Shh carved FPR ON a rete em ery per oy a MMB 2c ty others refused to sign, whereupon the Red Cross represon- tative became angry and tore up the papers. That night, 4M came to end stated that he had reconsidered and wished to accept the amount allotted to him, JER stated thet the reason he had refused to sigm was that JAMES DOMERC.SKI and MYLES HORTON hac come to Laager and had advised him to refuse to accept the «mount proffered by the Hed Cross inzs— much as it was insufficient. SRR cdvised that the Red Cross later paid QM <nd the two others the original emount. stated that <i. ie MMM is 2 friend of DOMBNCy SEI anc HORTOW and a supporter of the Highlander Folk School, At @ recent county American Legion convention, SIEM opposed 2 motion condemning subversive activities. These facts should be borne in mind ah connection with eny investizetion at the Tracy City Post Office, Ir. C. nAKILBY, on amployee of the Tennessee Consolidated Cocl Company, gave the fdllowing udditional informction concerning past activities of the Hishlaender Folk School: In 1938, pote Nyavoit, then business ascent of Highlander Folk School, made 2 trip around the county and told cll persons on relief to come to ralicf hesdqucrters at Tracy City on the following day. The rolicf headquarters hed worked out a system ihereby those on relief were assigned a particular dcy of the week on which to come to tne office, thus simplifying distribution of supplies, The arriveli of all persons on relief on the same day created a jom at the relief hotcdquarters, DOLPH VAUGHN wes there in the crowd and shen questioned by the relisf cgent os to why he had told cll the persons on rolief to come to the office on the same dzy, he stated loudly, "The supplies are here, give thei to them." KILEY stated that Wi, H. MARLOWE, < local man who has been associcted closely .ith the Highlander Folk School, ran as an elector for EARL BRGWDER, Communist ccndidate for President, in the 1936 elections. WILEY steted that the United &ine Workers! Union at Tracy City, Local 5861, went on record sometime zgo as condemning the Highlander Folk School for its activities, LATT BUNCH, International Representctive of the UL, demanded upon seversl occasions thet Local 58681 rescind their condemnation of the Iighlcnder Foik School, This the union refused to do, On Jonusry 32, 194] LATT BUNCH cppeared before Locel 5681 and stated thit he was instructed by the International to inform Loccl 5881 thut they must enéorse the li¢hlender Folk School or BUNCH would be forced to tcke up their charter. On that date Local 5881 endorsed the Highlander Folk School.
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