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Highlander Folk School — Part 4
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STOCETOK'S fern, \ “which D they intended to use as a school. a
ecid thet'these individuals, while they were in - .
Allardt, were doing the ectual labor on this building -
themselves, and were living on the premises. . ron
were two or possibly three other women, whose nemes he
aid not know, whose nemes he did not know, who were also’
living on the STOCKTON'S ferm end also that ELIZABETH
HAYES hed merried an organizer for the CIO Hosiery Workers.
RD 6¢ not iow the nane of this C10 organizer.
a eum fr ther advised the writer that
— fo; i ‘after the cbove mentioned people had been on STOCETOU'S ,
j , —— fern for approximately six months, he asked them to an
\ leave beceuse they were living with each other's wifes
end one of them, just which one he did not know, was.
livine with the wife of one of STOCKTOK'S hired hands.
eee QE = svised it wee efter this thet the
~— , cbove mentioned persons proceeded to Montesgle, Tennesses ~
4 ana erected a school there, adding it was his underetend-
t
‘4ng thet they were presently engaged in the operation
of this school. ‘ .
7
“ . que forther ateted thet in hie opinion’,
this school wes composed entirely of Communists and he *,
was surprised to read in one of the newspapers thet MRS, ~.
eo! FRAILLIX D, ROCSEVELT hed given money toward the support
+ RG of this institution. He said it was hie understanding
: — thet it was the purpose of this school te teach labor °°
senisers end eddea thet during the time ther were at
Alierat they did very little of anything end spent most —
a of their time on.the outside of, the building with few
,
clothes on, i ; “i
QED 5254 it wos his opinion thet STOCKTON
~ wes not @ founder or organizer of this school, but being -
@ very generous individual wes only trying to hel»y then
rrA aterted hy giving then’ plece te erect the necessary
cna started by ceiving then’ s lace
ecl.ool building. The vriter wos forther ecvised thet
STCOKTON'S wife rar for the Governor of the Stete of
Tenneesce tn 1956 on the Socialist ticket ond that
Pow eee ee ee wee
Besides the above mentioned persons, ‘theres i hae ie: -
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