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a oe = t - QUOTES HORTON 3. |. “You said it was “agreed?” Crouch was asked, “Who agreed?” Crouch replied: “Mr. Horton and Mr. Dombrowski.” Crouch testified that at the same meeting he asked Horton about joining the Communist Party. He quoted Horton, *'as near as I can recall his words,” as replying: “I'm doing you just as much good now as I would if I were a mernber of the Communist Party. a am often asked if I am a Com- munist Party member and I al- ways say no. 3 feel much safer in- having no fear that evidence .might be uncovered te link me ! with the Communist Party, and , therefore I prefer not to become a member of the Communist Party 8, | DOUGLASVILLE’s ‘WEST | Asked if Dog Avest, a Georgian now using near Douglasville, had eee ea anything to do with a ; Such testified . , “He entauthy a had. “ne. Don c & West and Myles Horton were the ~~ 4 uTiginal founders of the High- tows tauder Folk School but the Rev. oS cum West had earlier left... te a - become, first, Socialist state sec- retary for Georgia; then, my as- sistant in North Carolina in the ’ “Communist Party as: district es trade union director of the Coni- tat munist Party; then, as Kentuc + state organizer for the Co ar nist Party; and now I undergt ~ is 2 writer for Mr. Aubre gs lenis’ paper, and ‘Wiliams, who publishes the ee S. hern Farm and Home maga- ; ‘sine in Montgomery, Ala., is a _ iwcinber of Highlander’s execu- _.. + «vauedl. He bas been affiliat- ‘ed with many organizations la- oe heled “subversive” by the House = ;*ommittee on Un-American ‘Ace ees juvites.) eet! MR tae Daily Worker would be car- ‘|ried where all the students would ls able to see it, “and I was | later informed by Mildred . White |, that this was done and that there ‘ was considerable reading of the; Daily Worker.” When Horton took the stand at |: the hearing, Sen. Eastland asked t(him if Mildred | White had attend- fled Highlander. © “If she did it was many years |? : "! ago and J have no list of students ~ + but if she attended she did not = bi ‘tend as a Communist party mem | ber,” Horton replied. .| “We accept no students from ' the Communist party and never |4 have,” Horton testified. He balked when asked tf Dom- | prowsid was affiliated wih High: lander. : “Couldn't 1 give iny reasons’ why I doen't want to answer?" Horton inquired, _ EASTLAND OBJECTS f Eastland replied that he did not cane 5 ne! - want “‘Teasons,” only an answer, "and when Horton persisted and | - tried to read a statement, Fast- land declared, “We are not going ; to have any self-serving declara- ‘| tions." 1 On Eastland’s orders, a federal Marshal removed Horton from ‘| the hearing room. Horton says the reason hé re‘ ‘fused to answer questions con-' cerning Dombrowski was that,’ “Tm not going to be an in; former.” i In the 5%4-page prepared state- ment that Horton never got to E to the subcommittee, he blasted the committees of Sen. McCarthy and Rep. Velde, ac- cusing them of using undemo- cratic methods “under the guise f fighting communism.” _._.. The statement also critic Eastland’s sui . Pa Integration of the public schools, said Horton in his state- ment, would “spectacularly re- fresh the Democratic thesis everywhere.” And he added, “I suppose that In the eyes of some of the members of this commit- tee, opposition to segregation is ‘subversive.’ — Another witness at the hearing, John ‘utler, identified as a for- iner “functionary of the Commu: |_ nist Party in Alabama, testified he attended a meeting of Com- munist Party leaders in July of iM? in the Birmingham hotel raom of James Dombrowski Butler testified that Dombrow- ski was introd to him as a ommunist ler swore by AlicoP“Lawrence, who in No vember, '1956," was ‘indicted on & fiatge of conspiring to file al” -. alse non - unist affidavit | , with the National Labor Relations | — Board. As a labor union official, wawrence was required to file a non + Communist affidavit with NLRB, - ygpeawrence also was @ member a TEAN $e of the Highlander faculty during | the school's early days. <->). - N.C. MEETING On Aug. 13, 1938, wee Prftey, niesident of Metal Tra epart- - ment of the AFL, testified before a the Dies Committee on Un-Amer- ican, Activities, and named Aiton Lawrence and Myles Hor- ten as persons who “attended a! secret convention in North Caro-| ina, at which time plans ~ were! made for spreading the revolu- ticnary theories throughout the | South.” “| “In connection with this,” Frey testified, “I might mention that the Highlander Folk School at Monteagle. Tenn., was mixed up in this secret convention, in which , these CIO organizers took a very prominent part,” In Tuesday’s Atlanta Con- stitution: What Hight | Reighbors think of the Tut a ey a5