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ile Melita | aien using militant labor strikes in an effort to solidify the workers in 4 .«--. aaa - common cause and to impress upon them the necessity of organising in order -!'=.-~ te gain the powers of mubers. In this comection the school issued penphiete. ” ae entitled, "Why We Need the Unione” These pamphlets state that there is phe mane oo always a conflict between lebor and capital and that what ia good for thé” oo management and capital must of necessity be bed for Asbors. ee elk, aoe oe a gabe " ™~, Many of the strikes that were either called by or. sup= . ported by members of the faculty of the Highlander Folk School in the 1950's were called on industries, which because of the depression were not ina po position to accede to the labor's demand, and since the workers were in no position to lose their wages during a protracted strike their efforts wre . in many cases unsuccessful, Thus the Highlander Folk School gained the enmity of ‘both the local community and the companion which they opposede a 7 _ The Highlander Folk School was “also “{netrumental ‘da organizing the Workers Alliance in Grundy County, which was later declared by its Presi- - dent and Secretery, DAVID LASSER and HERBERT BENJAMIN, to be controlled by the Communist Party. In connection with the Workers Alliance, MYLES HORTON, SAMS DOMBROWSEI, and the Highlander Folk School faculty encouraged the sit-down» trike at Monteegle, Tenresses, in February af 1939, This atrila mae ona ef — 6 Wi be w@epew the factore which brought the growing resentment of the community to a head - and which brought into prominence an organization known as the Grundy County Crusaders who bitterly opposed t the school and made every effort ‘to drive at tame from the ooummnst¥e re iar - os i, ‘ : a rr a Grundy County Crusaders were headed aly c. i, xtuBY ¢ ~~ who acted in the capacity of secretary, The Highlander Folk School had already °. . been under fire from the American Legion in Chattanooga and was opposed by na ministers in the community as being a school which encouraged atheia, drunkenness, and immorality, Mr, KILBY, capitalizing on this ill feeling, -~ secured various affidavite and resolutions from individuala and ee who were willing to put themselves on record as denouncing the Highlander ~~ Folk School and amassed a great deal of material in an effort to secure ~~ legislative action in the state courts which would cause a revocation of the school charter and drive it from the community. To this end, resolutions . were passed by the Sewnnes Lodge Number 405 of the Free and Accepted Vesons, by the Grundy County Educational Association, by the Bakers and Confectionary fiorkers Local Number 26, Tracy City, by various Anerican Legiog Posts, and by & iocal branch of the United Mine Workers located at Palmer, Tonne 88006 ‘Affidavits wore obtained from twenty odd persons living - in and near Monteazle who stated that they had attended the Highlander Folk School or been affected by the school in some ways These affidavite were for or ee vem re ee tame Somer ee