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Highlander Folk School — Part 3
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furnished this
(qn ae
office with the July 1941 issue of the Highlander Fling, the official
mublicaticn of the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL. The following pertinent articles
are scot out:
NATUMNI ARE CIO DELEGATES
Yiss BILLIB*CAVINESS, a member of UCAPAWA from Memphis, and
a student in Highlander'ts Spring term 1941, was elected a vice-
presidont of the state CIO body at its Second arnual convention
held in Chettanooga May 31, June 1. Obher former students of Highlander
attending the convention as delepatcs we lair, Amalgamated
Clothing Workers organizer apd holder ef the EleanopxRoosevelt
scholarship in 1940; Pa ‘inn, Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Union, Wrigley, Tennessee. Edr anb, ACWA, LaFollette, Tennessee;
Zilphia Horton and Dillargfing were visitors.
HFS Endorsement
A resolution reiterating the endorsement of Highlander was
passed. The resolution took notice of the fact that Highlander had
been attacked recently by organizetions not identified with the labor
movenent and said that "any attack on the Highlander Folk School
by an individual or organization will be regarded as an attack on
the organized labor mevement, and such individuals and organizations
will brand themselves as enamies of organized lsbor in Tennessce and
the South".
The report of Poulfarist opher, cxecutive secretary and treasurer,
showed remarkable progress in expanding the crganizaticn. William
-pturnbdlazer, of the UMWA, was reelected president."
"PLANS LAID FOR SRITERS SCHCOL
Highlander will hold its third annual workshop for student
writers July 28 through August 9. The session rill be under the
diwsstion af the eekhesl and jas heine snranesred by Pou Craon 37 am
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THs TEACHERS
Tsachers will be specially assembled for this session. In
chargc of short steory and poetry will be MaryAiapsicy, novelist,
magazine writer, ond former tcacher of writing at Hood Cclloge.
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