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Sasa inteed pin da ys icHLanpER Fork Scnoor, MonTEAGLE, ~. j. SEPTEMBER, 1939 FLING “BEC. 562, FP. L. & R” SPEAKERS FEATURED AT RESIDENT TERM Built around the ¢7 full time resi- dent students, the summer term at Highlander brought more than 300 workers and union officials to the school during the six werks period, Opening with a Fourth of July celebration featuring $. H. Dal- mple, internatiena, presulent of the United Rubber Workers, as the principal speaker, Uhe summer ses- sion continued to feature the speech- es of visiting officials aod conferences with southern leaders Carloads of grubber workers from Gadsden, shirt “workers from Nashville, textile workers fram Dalton, and other “eroups with ao graying: interest im 4 q : SLT ML asidh ko Sti sito, LaTe TO i Menteagl: during the term. Here | ‘Ghey consiled with their Jeaders, ALL ABCARD! Field trips are fun. But they mean also physical hardship and finan- met new fricnds and fellow workers, ‘and took part in the musical, edu- eatanal and tectanonal programs Tang combveted as part at the resi cial expense, Going to Dalton, Ga,, summer students left one day at noon on the truck shown above, Picnic supper was eaten off the back of truck between matinee and evening performances, Return trip up the mountain ended at three o'clock the next morning. ident schol! work, Phe cuatot wt cc regaalacty by Ssumraner students inchided Labor i . res 2 eee pela Denion “Siete. ha Myles tha | Field trips for participation in la- ap Pacers ha Witham But | bor activities were made to Laager Wek beets et ona Porton] and Nashville, Tenn., and Dalton, Saed benica Thor foursalin, by Ga, by staff and students during BU ds Bh ae Work) Highlander’s summer session for ds Nias da sian.e. Pariamen-| workers. mca 7 ss okingy by] Before 600 striking textile work- M vi wi butik. ers, members of TWUA, a play cre- : alter sup on kok palin Ti oS PreRr am, te Doe been | ‘| July 2t. The program also included te take par an feading: songs them: | demonstrations of folk dancing, @ 1s. F fai oogouraced to te avy! the SUIT. SO that pret ee a Ee how ti Teac ing of labor songs, led by William’ Raittrick. Phe entire production was under direction of Zilphia Horton Vand Chouteau Dyer of Highlander’s dramatres department. Both matinee and evening performances were piv- Be | en. The final meeting closed with a speech by Ralph Gay, local organizer for the Textile Workers Union. Z:l- phia Horton remained at Dalton arshe towns rrevity SB Thar kebeet his was crmetuiet | Wile J-und, south Dae cescecer tec ait the ede Bhat Slots enn ay be fda ttt deat slait Students » Posters, car- tettals, and tur drama Les, losrueed to make charts pit hth eat i yk by : " lines. aot Maas 3 ‘ t Two other original plays were EO, i plank aa Ine preparation given before the Amalgamated prachioction of ccipinal skits and Clothing Workers local at Nashville on August 4. One was a musical tine owricen by Zilphia Horton, “Lolty-Pop Poppa,” which portrays |ahe paternalism of employers and ean . fluted tae wearing bis cn le oder Were: T Thor wee od Highlander Group Presents Programs For Unions; Makes Extension Trips During Summer Session dents’ collective action in drama class, was based on knowledge which they had gotten in economics class. Reports from the Amalgamated lead- ers are that several new members joined up as a result of the meeting and program that might. A union picnic at the scene of the ated by the Highlander students,+ cooperative gardens operated by peo- was presented in a Dalton Theatre, | ple in Grundy county was the occa- | talk by Myles [fortun, ahd the sing-’ ‘the United Mine Workers, Hod Car- sion which took the graup ta Laager August 6. There, local members of riers and Workers Alliance, with their families joined in a program of music and speaking. The Highland- er group was accompanied by a num- ber of visiting unton officials, includ- ing Clyde Mills, Southern Direc- ‘tor of the Amalgamated Clothing over the week-end to lead singing | at a mass meeting and on the picket, Workers, and organizers Mike Smith and Bill Poythress. The cooperative gardens are work- ed by union families who will share the produce at harvest time. Money for sced and fertilizer was furnished by Highlander Folk School. Two garden projects are running in the county: § families are cooperating at Laager and 19 at Altamont. The Al- tamont people have had te work in the face of biner opposition from anti-union forces, which was carried |ary authority, and chairman of the NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE ESTABLISHED IN COUNT Working people of Grundy Cow ty have already begun preparatior for the 1940 elections by the estal lishment of a county wnit of Labor Non-Partisan League. Following previous organizatic work and preparations of a constit tion by a committee of county lea ers, including Myles Horton, del. gates met at the Tracy City cour house, August 20, and set up th Grundy County Committee of th League. The constitutional convention we a model of labor unity, includin defegates from the Workers All ance, United Mine Workers, an two A. F. of L. unions; Hod Ca riers and Teachers Federation. Alton Lawrence, southern direc ter of Labor’s Non-Partisan League Matt Bunch, district representativ: of the Mine Workers, Mike Smith of the ACWA, and Paul Ragon president of Chattanooga CIO Coun cil, were among the visiting speaker: Officers elected for the coming yca are all members of the UMWA John Cleek, chairman, H. L, Me Carver, vice-chairman, and Leo Geary, secretary-treasurer. Three resolutions were passed b the forty delegates, one endorsin Estes Kefauver as candidate for Cor gress in the Third District, anothe urging other groups in Tennessee t form units of Labor’s Non-Partisa League, the third approving th New Deal program and declarin support of New Dea! candidates i all county, state, and national office SCHOOL FOR WRITERS HELD AT HIGHLANDE Fourteen young writers from a over the East gathered at Highland: this summer for the first writers” session to be held here i the history of the school. This snark a pioneering move in workers’ edu cation and a significant unity be tween labor and progressive force: The Summer Workshop for Studen Writers, sponsored jointly by High lander and the League of Americar Writers, opened for a two weeks period on August 21, Volunteer teachers were brough? to Monteagle by the League. Lillian Barnard Gilkes, journalist and Jiter- Speen