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Highlander Folk School — Part 3
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racial justice for all. 5 = The right of every group or class to
its own collective bargaining agency. 6 - Equality of all men before
the state and before God. 7 - Cooperation and brotherhood in everyday
life. @8- Not a drop of American blood shed on foreign battlefields.
My Labor Experiences Payifinn
Paul Winn, Vice President, Goodwill Furnace Workers IUMM &
SW, Wrigley, Temessee. This article concerns the organizing of the employees
of the Tennessee Products Corporation at Wrigley, Termessee, Winn mentioned
the dynamiting of a pipeline of the Tennessee Products Corporation during
the strike there the latter part of 1937 and the early part of 1938 and
suggested that the company had planned this dynamiting in order to blame it
on the wnion, Winnst wnion paid his expenses at the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL.
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‘ William Eldridge, Carpenters Local # 74, Monteagle, Tennessee.
a This article is short and is being quoted in its entirety, as follows:
What HIGHIANDER means to Me VWilliasATdridge
"Being a close neighbor of Highlander Folk School end already
having some ideas of what they are doing I have learned what other
Unions are doing turough the students and teachers and their ways
of attacking the bosses and grafters. JI am sure I can put some of
ee this to my use. I think all here will help put a prop under the
sot labor movement.
I have attended the social functions for quite a time and
have really enjoyed the square dances with the real old
mountaineer string music and the ball games. Occasionally I hear
a speaker, which are sc abundant, some being very distinguished men.
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May the Folk School still reap it's share and have more cf these
speakers, especially during school terms, to show students what kind
of people endorse the school so they can talk about it back home.
In this manner more people will become interested in the school and
Unions will send more and more students. Finally, greater steps will
oe be taken by Labor and we will have some of the pie now instead of
Dad. # it all in the sky when we die."
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git is to be noted thet WILLIAM ELDRIDGE is the son of Mr. and Jirs.
“> ARDY ELDRIDGE at whose home it wijl be subsequently reported that the
Young Communist League met. C. #*\KILBY also securcd an affidavit from
which will be subsequently set out.
On and Off the Mountain J. Bxfarlowe
J. D. Marlowe, Bretherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America,
Monteagle, Tennessee. According to J. D. MARLOWE's article, ht was born
en the Cumberland Mountain near Sewance, Tcnnessee, 1917, The pertinent
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