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aa] OT eo de ai Back ot > i ‘ "art IV, The Frogram of EFS, A. Pesident Prorram- fo) Purnose- To provide a culturel and educational center for the tr-ining of « native leadership for the southern labor movement. (bo. Progrom- Two resident terms 6 yerr, each lasting 81x weeks. In the past these hrve cove in the summer and winter. In 194% the resident terms will be held in the Spring cnd Fall. This will le: ve the summer free for week-end institutes for local end international unions. The students cre carcfully selected by the educational committees of their unions or co-operatives. There are no formal educational requirements other than the ability to read ond write and < desire to serve the libor move- ment. One or two college students cre accepted each term but such students must plun to work full time in the labor movement or in social work. In the Winter Torm of 1939 27 students came from ten southern states, from San Antonio to Richmond and represented 9 international unions. The courses are grouped in two eategories: first, the prac- tiexl "tool" courses in the work of the union, e.g. public specking, snd parliamentary law, tri.de union problems, jour- noalism, mimeogriphing, poster muking; and secondly, the beckground und culturnol courses such as dremetics, cconomics, folk duncine cnd group singing, history and recreational pro- grems. The methods are a combinction of lectures, discussion and work-shom. The miterial as frr -s possible is based on the exvericence of tho students. “lesses ere informal. Tn the work-shov cl:ss students experiment with visucl mater-~ fels, reducing mtericls from their clrss:s ‘nd experience to grephic form in charts, posters, etc. ‘Somrles of this materifl wil? be secon in the verious nublications of the class in Sngplish and Journalism. (see the publication list of HFS’, There is an cttempt to relcte the .meteri.1 from the various classes, for excmple, the dr-«metics group wrote published and produced five pleys this summer. The dramutic motericl wos drawn from the students' exporience and from their discussions in union problems, economics und work-shop classes. Special lecturers augment tho rogular teuching stcff during . resident term, About twenty-five or thirty prominent pro- gressive lecders of thy south drawn from labor, governmental eee eae ect ae a SE RE Sm RBI te ee tn. . . a