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HIGHLANDUR FOLK SCHOOL 61~12 AT TRACY CITY, TENJESSES: eimermassmcatarerarenrsacesamermnss Lumber npany, Tracy City, stated ‘thst he made a delivery of lumber to the High- Cull lender Folk School in 1939, Q@iPwent into the main building of the school in search of souveone to take deliver of the lumber Un atdand snhawnéc eat OGD GC Va GOumonS GO Land ocsivery lone 41 A dg alo NHOVacea cnar tS ores the wall of one of the dowmstairs rooms depicting how to organize a meeting by parliamentary procedure and how to get control of a meeting. He saw no evidence of mountain craft work, SMD wclated that JAMES DOLDACYSKI took motion pictures of the strikers during the .P.A. strike in Tracy City in January and February of i379. Por these motion pictures, the strikers wore their oldest and most tattered clothing, Sirls from the Highlander Folk School made speeches to the VoiP aA Strikers eas te thetr ri ahte welS wel edtys GUPLKEST 2s Lc Gale Guvse save the following information concerning the W.P.A. strike in Grundy County in January and February of 1939: CHARLES }ADAL'S, County Road Superintendent, was a former student and sympathizer of the Highlander Folk School, He demanded to be allowed to appoint all W.F,4. foremen on road projects, This the W.F.4, suthorities rofused to allow him to do, Inmmedictely thereafter, agitation commenced ! for a strike of the W.P.A. workers. am often saw JALES DOMBROVSKI and bales EORTON cut on W.P,A. projects talkine to the workers, DOwPRCWSKI and HORTON would leave when QM cane within hearing distance, when the otrike was called, the W.P.A. workers took over the W.P.a. office at Tracy “otty and sta ged a sit-dow strike. HORTON and DOKPROWSKI brought girls fren the lighlander Folk School to the W.P.4. office where the strike was in progress, These persons from the Highlander Folk School made specches to the strikers, edvising them as to the proper method of conducting the strike and the girls from the Hichlander Folk School donced with the strikers in the “eP.A. office. aA great deal of liquor was in evidence at the W.P.A. office during the sit-dowm strike, @§MM stcted that it is his understanding that some of the girls from the Highlander Folk School had sexual relations with some of the strikers, He has no proof of this cllegation, (ap further steted thet clthough at the time of the strike about seventy-five perecnt of the ¥.P.4. workers in Grundy County were associated with or sympathizers of the Highlander rolk School, only two or three W,.P.A. workers no heve anything to do with the Wighlender rolk School,