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Highlander Folk School — Part 4
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: ever to have graduated from Emory University.
zd DOMBROWSKI, according to while attending Enory tni-
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versity, organized a choir and took on a tour of Europe. QD
atated that DOXBROWSKI was outstanding at Emory University and after .
| £ 70 graduation from Emory he was placed in charge of the alumni association,
ro a | lar and placed it on a sound organizational basis, SRP recalled that
rn ari ool DOMBROWSKT then went to New Yorx City to continue his ministerial studies
—_ at the Union Theological Seminary. While attending EMORY University .
1 4 DOMEROMSKI belonged to the Sigua Chi fraternity.
GED stated that DOMBROWSKI was the only son of a Tampa,
Florida jeweler and apparently came from wealthy parents.
GHEE stated that DOMBROWSKI wrote a doctors thesis in his
senior year at the Union Theological Seninary on the industrial com
ditions in the South. The story, as related to QQ by DOMBROMSEL,
was that DOMBROWSKI decided that in order to write such a thesis it
would be necessary for him to travel in the south and study industrial
conditions, Accordingly DOMBROWSKI started on a tour in the South and
stopped at the city of Gastonia, North Carolina, At this particular
time there was a strike of the laborers at some mill in Gastonia,
was unable to recall the date when this pappened but stated that
it was several years ago.
get Continuing with DOMBROWSKI'S story as told to QR on
4 4 arriving in Gastonia, North Carolina, DOMBROWSKI decided to study the
nee cause of the strike. Approximately two days after arriving in Gastmia
a meting of the town citizens was held, DOMBROWSKI attending this met-
- ing. The people at this meeting were condemning the strikers and DO™
: . BROASEI arose and made a speech in which he stated that before condeming
] t if these strikers and their demands it should be ascertained whether or
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not their demands were legitimate, The people immediately hurled every-
thing in the building at DOMBROWSEI, according to the story, ag told by
DOMBROWSKI to ey DOMBROWSKI was placed under arrest and indicted
| for the filling of a police chief of Gastonia. DOMBROWSKI contacted
a SED by telephone and Qggp went to Gastonia to defend DOMBROWSKI.
SEE st eted that the police chief in Gastonia had been
. a murdered sometime prior to the time of the above related incident and
= a ae DOMBROWSKI was charged for the murder only as a means to hold him in
—— ° jail. QP stated he he was successful in obtaining DOMBROWSKI's
release,
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