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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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Tate au Be Ty Pe oy Te ee el eae tele TE wh cies os Jala ot we ne i ka Re he dee Oe eet abe clr a It is to be noted that WILLIAM EAVES spoke at the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL on September 16, 1941 on "Check up" in Saw Mill and other industries. Reporting Agent was in Tracy City, Tennessee on September 16, 1941 and through C. H. a obtained a circular put out by the HICHLANDER FOLK CALAN annnarrn: 7 telk by RILLIAM EAVES A mans thie pit oLnAvln, concern TE tie telk by WILLIAM RAVES. Accompany ying this circular was another ciarc.war asrourcing that the regular six wee ss term would come to an ent Sut 4 onerjai two wecks term, September Li, to September 27 would be held so that *hovze unable to attond the full six wocks course could attend the last two wetks. The courses were: Public Speaking, Dramatics, Parliamentaz.. tay, Union Problems, Union Putlicity and Labor Legislation. Total ccut Sor the full two wecks was $14.00, however, a limited num» 2 cf cor: lavsnips were availabie. Tre “eb.tr circular also announce. Awite al ne ‘tivnte to be hela -t “he asi SYET? POLK, SCHOOL on Sepawoor 12 eri. PF, @aPTERET, Go ucz.cna] J rotor, Louisiana and are wev> iG International he ,resca cetive. “kere, iiijll and Smelter Workers NETS <2 appear for this week-cnd instature. Atl local unions in Alaa, . ‘~ G.,ia, Tennessee and Kentucky were urgec to sand delegations to seinn tar week-end. Both of the ahove ci: Lars will be retained inti *12.: © the Knoxville Ficld Offiec:. :¢ as he knew not any of the straints wilo aeve attended HIGELANDER FOLKS SC? GOL in the past have come from Grundy County, Tennessee. The gcracuetes of HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL cbtain jobs as labor organizers and thet every student whom he knews who went to HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL, has a job. MYLES HORTON is in a position to get a man with ability as a labor organizer a job. In fact HCRTCN can place more men that are graduates of the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOCL and when all of the graduates of the summer term at the HIGHLANDFR FOLK SCHOOL had bean teken up, HORTCN still had an order for eight labor organzzcrs for District 50 of the C10. GEORGHAITLER, a member of the Excevtive Comuittee of the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL is Presi- dent of District £9 cf vie 710. At the end of the summer term, HORTON was looking crea.o ‘cor vo. vith ability for lcbor organizers to take these jobs and waf if.sra.riar people who had ncovey oven cttcnded the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL. “Ae jut sGavc. torm that the ALCHLANDER FOLK SCHOCL will hold at the sehcr? wviilding at Montcado, Teniessee, this year ended September 27, 3341. Toe aeyt term will be held sosctime after the first of next year, majte ar lirch, however, it might Le May or June of next year before amcvucs “Lusi mill be held at Mcnteagie, Ternessec. We Sept: ocer 24, 1941, the Birmingham Field C1fiec telephoned this office anv ucvocon that in connection With the strike ‘in being held against the Sti ct.gecar Tost at Birmingham, Alabama, ho had shtained from a confidential suvcos: wf information that YOLVERTONMCORZERD,, an attorney at Birmingham, Ale rns , ang a union organizer, T. C. McV#A, an attorney and union orgenizer, JZAAIOYER, EBD®ELFER and HAROLDCTELF:R, the latter being a writer for the Birmingham Post and a leader of the strike, would ~48-
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