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2 py ej ~HIGHLANDER FOLK SCO, ee 71186 To meet the responsibilities placed upon 1t by the wary Highlander Folk School recently set up a Research department. for its alumni, organizers and union members in the South. The purpose of this Research Department ie to put out material with interpretative information on labor legislation and government agencies in pamphlet and outline form; to serve as & news exchange senter between different locals; and to contact union officials and union members individually about some of their own problems as affected by the ware - _ We have just published a short pamphlet on labor-management —— committees. Its real value is demonstreted by the enthusiastic response we are receiving from both government officials and union members. Mr. Reginald Raymond, War Production Board, wrote us, "Your pamphlet on production committees is deeply appreciated. It is frank and cogent." : A district.director of the United Stec] Workers, ordering “a number of copies, wrote, *(Your pooklet) contains excellent material and I believe it will be of great value to ug." Upen genoral request, we ere now sending out simplified. ~ charts and outlines on governmont agencies of importance to labor, on which unions are or con be represented-~-outlining the steps that should be takon to obtain labor representation. To these activities we plan to add the matling of up-to-the-minute newsletters to those who request our services, 368 well as to our extension workers and educctors in the field. | The Research Department is Highlander's latost development. Its successful beginning encourages us to build up a research - gorvice tan Oal1l] not ony time. - ; ie con ocho st sy 5°" ALLINFORMATION CONTAINED " MEREINIS UNCLASSIFIED. aH? DATE bG/er BY s . rom aero cape em cg . - 3 ae eer a - " I Lo we - a ae Sees t ee Porrrag sy grog tan sm SB Nt VE lee,