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6 AORTA ROR soot of EA CREE Mae, carn at LSA RRR SRI ata at WHEREAS HIGHL ANDER ENDORSED: BY- Ch ro © KRESOLUTIOR the Termessee State Tndustr ial Union Counpil.in ¢onetitutional sonvention assembled, in Enoxville, Terme, on May 25, 1940, unanimously adopted the following | resolution! . et A : . *. "WHEREAS the aim of the Highiander Folk Sohool at Monteagle, Tenn- , essee, is to ald in the fignt for complete political and economic - democracy in the South, and . WHEREAS the school condusts a year round educational, recraationsl and organizational program made up of «ix weeks residence terms, in- stitutes and conferences, ond field work with unions, and . WHEREAS teachers and a numter of former studente are orgonizers and officials of CIO unions, and WHEREAS such lubor activities have made the school a target for at- tacks from anti-labor forces, ; THEREFORE be it resolved thut this organization endorse the aims and program of the Highlander Folk School and that the efforts to discredit and defame the school be condemed on an attack on the progressive la- bor movement of the South. ® TUEROPORE bo it resolved that the third unnual convention of the Congress of Indus- 7 “oti? Organizations, assombled in Atlantic City, Hec., concur in this action by the ad eenesses State Industrial Union Council. SUPMITTED BY: William Turnblaser, ‘Chairman, Tennessee Industrial Union Council; President of District 19, United Mine Workers. William Mitch, Chairman, Alabama Industrial Union Coune!l; Southern Dir- ector, Steel Workers Organizing Committes. Edword F. Collaghon, Souttjern Director, American Federation of Hosiery Workers. Foul R. Christopher, Secretcry, Tonnessee Industrial Union Council. . RC. Thomas; International President, United Automobile Werkers, N.Ae Zonarich, International President, Aluminum Workors of Americhe Foul Ragon, Chairman, Chattanooga Industrial Union Council; Represent- ative, SWOC. iedp Smith, Tennessee CIO Representative. WH. Crawford, Choirmn, Birmingh.m Industrial Union Council. Jchn Green, National President, Industrial Union of Morine & Shipbuild- ing Workers of america. Seorge Baldanzi, Executive Vice-President, Textile Workers Union 4 America. jerbert W. Payne, Director Rayon Division, Textile Workers Union of "Amorica . Franz Daniels, National Organizer, Amalgamited Clothing Workers. Philip Van Gelder, Secretnry, Industrial Union of Mcrine & Shipbailding Workers. Frank Rosenblum, Vics-Prasident, CIO; Organizational Director, ACA. F.C, Pieper, Regional CIO Director, New Orleana. Jonn J. Schulter, Southorn Director, United Retail & Wholesale Employees,