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omy he -18- coming into the unions, almost all of them with no previous experience in the labor movement, the need for an educational program was cbvious. The organizers had talxed with Highlander for sometime about an extension program; plans were made with the assistance of Paul Christopher, Executive Secretary of the Tennessee Industrial Union Council and member of Highlander executive council, With the enthusiastic susport of Richard Deverall, educational director of the United Auto Workers Union, the program was launched at the southwide UAW-CIO educational conference in Memphis in October. Harry Lasker, of the High- Jander staff, was placed in charge. The Industrial Union Council, reorganized with a former Highlander student as chairman, was given responsibility for ; the program. By the middle of November seven classes had been organized with an’ average attendance for the weex of sixty. The director attended the meetings of local unions where the most effective work was done, In this way hundreds of workers were reached. For the class-shy workers, “educational clubs" were organized along informal lines, meeting in the homes of members. Considerable time was spent with the uewly organi- reg Ford local, where classes were conducted for the officials and committeemen on the handling of grievances and other press- ing problems that confront a new local. With the assistance of Highlander alumni, the educational director started a mimeogrephed paper for the Industrial Union Council; wrote and mimecgraphe 4 a ten page paaphiet, "This Union Business," for the construction werkers, and @ fcurteen page pamphlet, "The CIO- Yours and Kine" for the Woodworkers local; and compiled a bulletin on unemployment compensation for mass distributicn; and started a lending library. Services of a varied and educational nature were rendered eight internation- al unionse In the January first issue of the "Timber Worker," offie cial organ of the United \oodworkers of America, there is an ton fed story ef the Liomohis educational program and an ape a Le owative accoyrit ef the educational clubs among its locals there, with a,prophecy that the success of the clubs in Lem- phis will probably stimulate the starting ef other clubs in other citics,. . th naed