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» endorsed the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHCOL. The article continued that the demand for labor leaders in the Scuth had made it pessible to offer $100.00 scholarships to twelve men during the menths of Jmuary and February 1936. These interested in such scholarships were advised to telephone Dr. LILLIAN JOHNSON, 7-0679, Memphis, Tennessee, or write to her at No. 11, 25 South wcLcoan Street, Memphis, Tennessec. ime cgraphed shect dated Jume 1, 1941 which is a copy of the resolution adopted by the Tennessee State Industrial Union Council at their second annual convention in Chattanccga, Tennessee, May 31 te June 1, 1941, reiterating its endcrse- ment cf the HIGHLANDER FCLK SCHOOL as a center for workers cducation. The resolution went further and stated that any attack on the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL by an individual cr etrganization will bo regarded as an attack on the orgarizead labor mevenent and such individual cr cerpenizaticn would brand themsclves as cnemics of organized labor in Tennessee and the South. This mimeograrphed sheet will be retained in the files cf the Kncexville Office. mimeo- graphed sheet on certain courses taucht at the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHCCL. Three of these ccurses were Public Speaking, Table of Rules about Motions and Ncte-taking for Minutes of a Meeting. Table of Rules about Motions set out rules of parlimcntary procedure as applied to a union meeting. The above mimcographed course were concerned entirely with their subject mattor @im Sey hoawmeae OO mimcograpied bookletts prepared by HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL EN ee that are numbers onc and two of a series of six called "THE UNICN PRIMER" et Tict. ill be photographed QED: ooklet No. 1 is entitled isest "Why We Need A Union", is four pages long on eight and one-half by fourteen os inch paper. This booklet gives a dcfinition of a trade union and the benefits : of the union. It contends that the industrial barons speak through the political newspapers, through magazine writers, radio commentators and even preachers. Bulletin No. 2 concerns "How the Union Works". It is also four pages long and is on the same size paper as Bulletin No. 1, This Bookiet describes the organization and benefits of the Amalgamated | oe Clothing Workers of American. STINE2“HILLMAN is President of this Union and food "THE ADVANCE" is the publication of the'Amalgamatéd Clothing Workers of re Ses Trust and Saving Eank founded in Chicago in 1922 and the Amalgamated Bank of New York founded in 1923. It is to be noted that the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHCCL maintains an account in the Amalsamoated Bank of New York. i oA . booed America" and points out how the ACWA obtains unemployment insurance and pose cooperative housing. The ACWA operates two banks, namcly the Amalgamated Under "The Marks of a Good Union Mean or Woman" the bulletin has tee f-lorine to say: "The union wints members who seek nothing fcr themselves ond everything for their fcllowmen. It has always been true that thes: who seck to help the common people have been badly treated by the bip and selfish interest cf the world, It was true when Moses led his fellow suffers out in the first strike in Egypt. It was true when @ lowly carpenter of Nazarath was threatened and was nailed to a trec because he went about ‘stirring up the pecple' ", -15-