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THE HIGHLANDER FLING - Published by t the Highlander Folk &chool VOL. 2, NO.7 MONTEAGLE, Students’ Reunion t For Nov, 22-24 Highlander is jooking forward to seeing old friends agsin at the annual alumni reunion scheduled for Nov, 22-24. Home- coming week-end 45 & very spe- cial occasion, and we are plan- ning a program that should pro- vide food for fun and thought Friday evening will be devoted to the cause of renewing old friendships. A program of gen- eral entertainment is planned. More serious business gets under way Saturday morning, with re- ports of the activities of High- lander. and of alumnj in the field of workers education. Following lunch Wiis Tick, economics teacher, will lend a discussion on the worid situa-« tion and its relation to laber. A rousing game of volley bail, diigeuauet., s iarusdet Sport, will Tound eff the afternoon and work up healthy appetites for the banquet Saturday night. Im- promptu entertainment and sing- ing, followed by folk dancing, is om the evening program. Sunday morning a report will be mad? of the C. I. ©. canven- fon. after ow there will be 8 discussian iabor and poli- tics. Tease an tle week-end wil! be a consideration Ppnerans ef how the Alumni Association ean asisi Highlander. and what student: can do ta help each pier A freewel] ting after Sunday sinner will officially end the Lrarra T FASCIST LEADER | ATTACKS SCHOOL The latest attempt to discredit Highlander by shouting “red” and “fifth columnist" is a forty-two pare pamphiet “The Pith Column in the South. written by Joseph P. Kap, of the Constitutional Educalionsl League. A large part of the pamphiet is devoted to Hick [ar A facsitnile check to Bothtander for §100 is prominent- ap Gay awatujp ds the author of a pam iphlet “The Fifth Col- r eka umn in Washington" which ac- cording ta the NATION, Novem- ber 2. ‘attempts to preve that every New Dealer from the Presi- | tent dows io the most humble clerk is a Communist by convic- tien and oa fifth choice.” Coalummnist John Temple Graves wri In Tne Astewilic ti. colummst by ik wg! Wominued Cn Fage Gwe four, whe from the sxbool, WORKER.STUDENTS enjoying the peace and beauty of the ded the fall term at Highlander, stop at to have # look at the valley below. TENNESSEE NOVEMBER, 1940 mountains, These "Eagle's Cliff,” a few miles Busy Fall Term Trains 27 Students in Better Unionism The fall term for workers, which closed Oct. 26, brought 22 regular. and five special students to Highlander for six weeks of resident study. These students, together with the 203 visitors who came during the session represented 28 international la- bor unions. The students came from ten states ang Mexico. Federico Sal- azar, Mexican electrical worker, was sent to Highlander by tre Pan-American Union as part of & program of exchanging stu- dents between the two coun- tries. He is a member and offl- cer of the labor union for his industry, Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas. The Eleanor Roosevelt schol- arship, announced earlier this year, was awarded to Ed Blair. president af the Amalgamated Clothing Workers local at Nash- ville. In addition to the regular classes in history, economics, un- ion problems, dramatics, pariia- mentary law, union publicity, there were weekly panel discus- sions on problems of interest to labor. The discussion on organ- ‘izing was chaired by Edward F. Callaghan, vice president of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers. Rev. Ellsworth Smith, pastor of the Chattanooga Third Presbyierian Church, led a panel en cooperatives. The panel on national defense was led by Yel- verton Cowherd, Birmingham re- giona) C. 1. 0. director and past commander of the American Le- flon in Alabama Williant Eaves, regional direc- Division, gave an important dis- cussion of the enforcement pro- cedures for the wage and hour law. Copies of his speech were distributed to the press and pub- lic from Mr. Eaves’ Nashville of- fice, and his remarks were met with much interest fromm the stu- dents here ang the general public. Bernard Borah, stithem d- rector of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, taught a class on contracts. Also assisting with classes were Paul Christopher, secretary of the Tennessee In- dustrial Union Council, and Al- ton Lawrence, southern repre- included Lucy Randolph Mason, Public Relations representative for the CG. I. ©. in the South; of the United Rub- Elmer Brown, pres- New York local of George Bass, ber Workers; ident of the the Typographical Union; Vir- gl) Conner, editor of the South- ern News Almanac; Orville Mas- tin, cooperative expert; Gerald Harris, Sr, president of the Aia- bama Farmers Union; Dy. Lil- lian Johnsen, donor ef the High- lander Folk School property; John Schulter, Southern repre- sentative of the United Retail and Wholesale Employees of America: Roy Reynolds, presi- dent of the Chattanooga Print- ing Pressmen's Union; Joe Geld- ers, secretary of the Civil Rights Committee of the Southern Con- ference of Human Welfare, Den- tis Nelson and Preston Valien of Fisk University, and Margot Gayle of the Women's Commit- ; ter for the U, S, Wate and Hour | tee on Abolition of V4 Tax. ope WV) sentative of Labor's Non-Partlsan League. Other speakers during the term Capital Leaders - Plan HFS Party Mrs. Francis Biddie and Mr. Archibald Macleish will give readings from their poems as the feature event of a Highiander benefit at Pierce Hall, Washing- ton, D. ©. on the evening of Dec. 6. The program will include the singing of folk ballads and workers’ songs by Mrs. Zilphia Horton and short talks by Myles Horton and James Dombrowskl of the Highlander staff. The benefit is being arranged by the Highlander Washington committee composed of Mr. Mal- eolm Ross, chairman; Mrs. Clif- ford Durr, vice chairman; Dr. Elizabeth Webb, secretary; Mrs. Michael Straight, assistant sec- retary; and Charles E. Handy, treasurer. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will head the Hst of patronesses and will attend. Other sponsors are Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Carmody, Hon. and Mrs. Lee Geyer, Miss Eath- ryn Lewis, Miss Mary Anderson, secretary and Mrs. Harold Ickes, Mr, and Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, Mr. end Mrs. Corrin Strong, Hon, and Mrs. Benham Baldwin, Hon. and Mrs. John Coffee, Hon and Mrs. John Collter. SCHOOL RECEIVES NEW ENDORSEMENTS Space does not permit us to print the many endorsements and friendly letters that have rome t Highlander in recent months. As we enter the ninth year of service as an educational and cultural center for southern workers we are happy to know that never before has the school enjoyed such widespread sup- port. Labor Leaders: John EL Lewis wrote on Oct. 10. "I should like to take this occasion to commend the work of the Highlander Folk School, and to endorse its program and objectives. I think that the school is performing a noteworthy task in the field of libera] and useful education, and that real recog- nition is due for the generous and effective support which = it gives to the struggies of labor in the South.” Dr. George 8. Counts. presi- dent of the American Federation of Teachers, "I have every con- fidence in the Highlander Folk School as an institution thor- (Continned On Page Two)