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a . { f° FRANZAAANIEL, we went on the picket linc, my first experience. I was expecting a fight or two but ncthing happened and I was disappointed, In Knoxville, we lived with a grcup cf organizers and TVA office workers. We rented an apartment and did our own cocking, washing, etc. There, we carried on an educational program for the workers Allicnce, and an crganizing campaign fcr the steel workers. We passed cut labor papers and CIO pemphicts, etc. to the workers. Scme took them gladly; others tore them up and threw them cn the ground. The CIO in the latter part of '37 organized and got better wages and conditions for factory workers in and arcund Knexville. In 1940, I began work in the carpenter trade in Chattanooga. I worked there until October and then went te werk in Tullahoma where the Gcvernment was builcing an Army camp. I worked there until the camp was finished; returning to Chattancoga for a wile. After this I camc back home in Monteagle and started to schocl here at Highlancer, After the schccl session’is over I guess I will ec back to Chattanooga to work. I hate to leave the mountain for this is the only place I feel like is home. 1... But people must eat and there aren't many jobs hers. The timber has been cut out; the coal mincs, all but a few, are robbed cut. The living standard for the most part is very icw. If all the people here are to make a decent living what are they coing to do? The WPA pays $30.00 a month. There mst be scmething better." ; C. H. KILBY furnished this office with a mimeccraphed press release “dated May 26, 1941 at Lionteaglc, Tennessee, the pertinent parts of which arc set cut as fcllows: " John ertones, CIO lerislative represcntative and Labor's Non- Purtisar League Director, flayed the Vinson Bill and cther anti~ laber lcgislaticn in an address to Highlander Fclk Schcol students sttending the spring session. Twenty-eight full anc part time students trom rural Georgia tc the textile arca cf Virginia received assurance ef suppcrt inthe fight against the pcil tax. -27-