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THE HIGHLANDER FLING February, 1941 Robeson, Miss Barbara Wertheim The Nashville committee spon- sored a Public meeting for High- jiander, November th, in the chapel of the Methodist Board of Forcign Missions. Jim Dembrow- ski described the work of the school, and Mrs. C, AR Star, President of the Summerficid Parent-Teachers Association. gave her reasons for endorsing it. reliment of the Sprmep ‘Term wes | 18, the Fall Term 27. Fall Term students represented nine inter- national unions and came from rine southern states and Mexics | (b) Spec.al Session. 9 Junio! inion Camp for the children of Nashville Union members, 13 members; Southern Writers Work- shop for college students and workers, 18 students; Work Gina for America for covtege stude: end workers, 26 members (ec) Institutes: ‘Fri-Staie Con- ference for Hosiery Workers, 40 attending: Informal conference on workers education for Husintse, Professions] and Industrial Sec- retaricr: af the Yo w. ©. A, Wl in “attendance from five southern states; Labor's Non - Purtisan Leaeue PO? atvending from south- Page Two . _. a -_ ~ | Highlights Of 1940, BENEFITS iCounty And { (Continued From Page One) | Community News STUDENTS— jar. Mr and Mrs. Eliot Pratt, Mr lockout, (a) Resident Terms: The en-| and Mrs. Bemard Reis, Mr. Paul Highlander has jong wanted a } EDUCATION, January, 1940; (2) “Yt Takes Courage and Ingenuity”, by Claudia Lewis, PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION, October, 1940; “Highlander Fotk School, An In- formal History", by Leon Wilson, MOUNTAIN LIFE AND WORK, Fall, 1940, i4) “Highlander Fol: School”, part of an article on Folk Schools. py James Dombrow - Labi kiee te, beeen 2G Ski, Journal of Adult Education, Consuniery Cooperatives. it at-| Octeber, 1940; (5) “A Good School tending for tri-state area Tolal|tnder Attack", by Bruce Bliven, attendance, 272. editorial in THE NEW REPUB- PANE DISCUSSIONS DUR-]|LIC, December, 1940. ING RESIDENT TERMS: Staff ef othe Amalgamated Clothing America discussing nerm = Seene.” udu Lotte bere Fy Yr “Organizing Meth- Hal C3 Di- EXTENSION: Mary Lawranct: spent three months in Louisville with a recreational and educa- tional program for truck drivers ad workers, and two Workers 0! ae “The and textile months in Alcoa with aluminum workers. Myles and Zilphia Hor~ hanes _ Lun spent two weeks leading dis- : (Posbea Actin bY! cossion and singing in camps for Jeacer, Alton Lawrence + : : . taba incustrial and professional girls, ° - : Y.W.C. A. Zilphia Horton was bur in charge of the office and organ- ‘lizging for the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers in Nashville. Staff members made frequent trirs | throurhout the southeast visiting alumni, speaking to union groups. attending conferences, local and national. VISITORS: 690 visitors signed the school guest book during 1949. fe Levisla- ery, Workers; “Cur wader, Rey, Elsworth adios herd. Fe hE wan a traveling library as part af its county service. Last month the project took te the road with Mary Lawrance 45 chauffeur end jibrarian. Twice a» week the car tours the county, and people lit- erally wait in the road for it. In January 83 books were withdrawn once, 10 books twice, and 2 book: 3 times. A Sacred Harp singing c'ass directed by Zilphia Horton, has been meeting once a week since December 29th. The average at- tendance Is 15, and it is growing. [Some of the singers recall how their parents and grandparents used to sing the stirring old Sa- cred Harp “spirituals." Old man Summers, grandson of the original settler of Summerfield, walked a mile plus to be with us a few Sundays ago and sald he hadn't heard such singing in fifty years The pottery kiln, built for the Summerfield Cooperative and the school by last summer's Work Camp for America, was fired ex- perimentally and baked a vase tec perfection. The Coop meets twice a week to work up its clay, anc bes be a= there are prospects of some tiful pieces. Maria Stenzel, handcraft teach- er, is beginning # children's class in puppetry. The first production. Hansel and Gretel with overtone of the Jocal labor-Crusader ba! tle, was a smash Success. Highlander gave two Christma: parties, one for children of the Nursery School, another for olde: children. Santa Claus, actine something lixe Dad Horton, dis- pelled the magnificent treasures of clothing. books, and toys ,con- teibuted by iriends of the schon: Parran he t COMM NITY. (1 Helped cim- mumiy organize quilting cooper : v1 pottery kilts %..7 VOors. So aries j 3100 Nursery Gun fyb” seditaet tail MAepee dealye sill | vbase TOCATIONE: 41 ‘ALT TT MEANS 3 _ Paerretta > & SOUTH OF juey On tne pci Ws OF FIELD AND TAC- } 5. Reports of student reamitie ss an Union Probleme, n see Youth Cheon ! foe AR oe PLING, [Ee PUBLISHED. «cD CRUSADERS (Continued From Page Gone) that the mines were manned with strikebreakers, that the company locked out the inin- crs (1 1924 and broke the union, and that for twenty years the as- sets of the company have includ- ed five machine guns. Somebody is going down in his pocket Jor Kulby’s traveling and agitating ex- penses (a lot of which are occur- ring on the company's time) and it is mot, we venture, Mr. Kilby. who is about the biggest deadbeat the mountain has ever known The cos! company has some in- teresting connections with Joseph P. Kamp, the out and out Fascist propagandist whose scurrilous publication “The Fifth Cohumn in The South” we deseribed in thi November FLING, Alvin Hender- son, a leading Crusader and cash- jer of the company controlled First National Bank of Tracy City. gave out the photograph of Mrs. Roosevelt's first hundred dollar check for Highlander which ap- pears in Ramp’s “Fifth Column.” Hundreds of these pamphlets werc distributed in the county just be- fore the projected vigilante march. end convenient take-one piles were kept on the company store counters. ‘Thanks to this “crusade” High- lander has now more friends than ever. “Your fight is our flight,” writes the Goodwill Furnace Workers Union of Wrigley, Ten- nessee, sending a ten dollar con- tribution. It is one of many. A county local of the United Mine Workers of America has passed & resolution endorsing the school Summerfield residents have or- dered Kilby out of their houses when he has come to peddle his “absolute facts.” The fight is by no means fin- ished. The NEW REPUBLIC. which cartied an excellent oc- count of the affair in its Decem- ber Sth issue, says: “There are plenty of people in Tennessee who don’t want a school that prepares efficient spokesmen for labor, and will stoap 4¢ almost anything to destroy It.” Conference On Democracy {| The second State Conference On Democracy In Tennessee will be held in Nashville, February 22-24 with W. O. Lowe as chairman and (Hollis Reid, legislative represeni- ‘ative af the Railroad Brother- hoods, as executive vice-chairman Poli Tax repeal, protection ol civil Wberties, and the rights oi labor will be the main subjert- of discussion. Highlander urges everyone in- terested in the preservation o°