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Highlander Folk School — Part 3

69 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 69 pages OCR'd
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I see in this world today a struggle between the forces of evil and the millions of people opposed to those forces. I consider as the evil forces all of those who continually try to beat down the other group and who try in many ways to make these people subject to the rule of themselves. In this class I incluce the Nazis, Fascists, gangsters, crooked politicians. 'Lords cf the Press! and last but not least the rich employers who are always attemption to destroy democratic labor unions. I remembcr but a short time back the Yugoslav people overthrow- ing the government that was about to make them subject to the rule cf Hitler, and I remcembcr too the strike which the employees of millionairc Ritchie's bus ccmpany called in order to get a decent standard of living. Both these acts were part of the fight of the peoples of this werld against Fascism. In the case of Yugoslavia we sce the part of Fascism called tyranny. In the bus strike we see the part called inequality. ‘The strikers and the Yugceslavs were fighting for democracy, for the right to better one's living standards. Beth groups refused to be pushed around, both were standing up fcr their rights. Bcth fights were equaily impcrtant,. Many more examples can be given cf people refusing to be bullied. The battle now being fcucht by the British, the Russian, the Chinese, the victories won by the Ford, Bethlehem, and Republic Steel employees, the underground battle the conquered but net beaten pecples of ceeupied countries are fighting - - + all these are the great illustrations cf the determination of the masses throughout the werld to revclt against tyranny. I believe that no matter how long the struggle lasts, victory for the masses is certain. As sccn as it becomes the pcwer be~ hina the government then we will have government of the people, by the people, and for the pecple." The Way I Look at It Jigficele Jim Ripgle, American Newspaper Guild, Corpus Christi, Texas. This article concerns Riggle's experience in writing for various newspapers an the country and with Mr. M. ING, Seerctery-Treasurer of the Industrial Union Ccuncil of Corpus Christi. The following pertinent part of Riggle's article are quotcds "When I finished high school I started traveling for different newspapers. I shifted to different purts cf the country: Nebraska, Chicago, then back to Kansas, then Missouri. I began ~{3-
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