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eee, . cm ee 0 ee a _ 6 eer] the South is that in New Orleans where 10,000 workers have been Te brought into the Union, Early in the year Mr. FRED PEIPER, regional | director of the CIO, called on Highlander to assist him in setting = i up an educational program to instruct these new union members in the techniques of collective bargaining and in sound union principles and prectices. MARY LAWRANCE, who hed done extensive work in Loulsville, Kentucky and Al coe, Tennessee, was assimmed to New Orleans. = me a a Sg? oe er ee ee ee _ Pa Mise LAWRANCE teught several gproups composed of union officers and “4 union men with an averege attendence of between 75 and 100 between rs April 10 enc Mey 9, 1940, ‘Four local officiale were selected by " the Induetrial Union Council to attend the Highlander Folk School cs spring term, Mey 12 to 24, 1941. Seven New Orleans students who “ were sent to Highlander Folk School for intensive training were of considerable arsietence to Miss LAWRANCE, At Memphis, Tennessee A strong lebcr movement has brought thousands of new men into the union at Memphis, almost ell of them with no pre- + , vious experience ig the labor movement. Plans were made with the aséictance of PAULJCHERISTOPHER,: executive secretary of the Tennescee Tuc, end membere of the Highlander Executive Council for the pro- ee vieion of ean educetionsl program, Enthuslestic eunport was received Sag from RICHARD DEVERALL, educational director of the United Auto Workers oe . Union, and the program was leunched in the south-wide UAW-CIO educa- am tional conference in Memphis in October. HARRY LASKER, of the mw Hichlender eteff, was placed in charge. Seven classes were orgenized ty with an evereace ettencance for the week of 60, end in this way SP . hundreds of workers were recched, A mimeogrephed paper for the Industria] Union Council war sterted and « mimeorraphed ten-pare 4 pamphlet entitled "Thie Union Business" end a fourteen-page pamphlet entitled "Whe CIO--Yours end Mine" were published and a lending librery cterted, Highlender Folk School wes represented at the stete ran conference on democrecy, IKrchville, Tennessee, February 22, 1941; the Berea Student Labor Conference in March; Conference of Southern ~ Hountcin Vorkerc, Knoxville in the spring; Neshville borrd meetings of the Soutnern Conference on Human Velfere and the Tennessee Comuonweclth yederation; Moulders end Mountere nationr] convention, i Cnsticnocca, July; United Textile Workers of America netional con- vention, New York; CIC nrtional convention, Detroit, November, aes mid Vee ils - Vicits were mde to a freat many loccal wniongs end services of too varied and extended e& nature to be itemized were