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Fue HigHLanver Fine Serraxpex 193 n fos for AH (Alfred A. Knopf, $2.00} tieca: Fackiel proposed that govrrnment |p business make jobs by underwrung program of expansion. ‘The author be- eves that lower prices, larger output and Hanning of production would bring back rosperity under the profit system. Chester M. Wright, A. F. of L. publiaty gent, describes the labor movemcat for © general public in a well-written hitde olume, Here Comes Labor (MacMillan, 6Cj. One of a scriny calied "The Peoples rary," this book is a fine exampte of “lear, simple and appealing |terature. But 4 is naturally not an objective report, and ‘nfortunately tends to be a defense of Wil- jam Green and his fellow-rulers of the A. F. of L. ZILPHIA HORTON EDITS SONG BOOK FOR UNION A book of workers’ songs, collect- isd and arranged by Zilphia Hor- “on, Highlauder’s Director of Music, and sponsored by Roy R. Lawrence, Vice-president of the Textile Work- Lac GPs Wumawen al sktueliga, Js Gal ress. The book. cntided Labor Songs. contains sixty four of the most popu- ‘ar songs sung by union workers in the South. There are introductory uitements by Fmil Rieve, president a TAViA, § - Hillman. presi- i hing clo thy al ed BUR LE Workers, and John TL. rn ed he PWUA's Southeastern office, which woundee the Sieectton of Mr Law- Lewis, enec. Issue fore the press of Tae state Toe Winston Salem, at hie new publication as printed | Doieianoy cn uarked paper and sore ino a twocoler scover. Iq is 7 he stile copies, with jer quantity orders. a heald be directed office, Adanta Nat diay, Adanta, Ga. a Sed following . s the date set tor a reaues at all Righland ee deli. soe Death b> ASML all who have been students at wollte return for that . 4 propram of thowship wall be pre- : the get-together ‘This is che jirst homecoming brocrarr attempted at the school, auc it is expected to fee EL etd ampartinities . “arian acai exon af views on la- problom:y in the various fan aad f bees yo i e . Summer Program Has STUDENT SPEAKER Reached 2,000 People Approximately 2,000 people, rep- resenting 21 international unions, were reached directly by various | phases of Highlander’s summer pro-, gram since July 1, according to cal. culations by Myles Horton, educa- tional director. Horton’s estimate in- cludes the work in Grundy County, field wips, institutes, resident term, visitors. Ten of the organizations represented are a part of the CIO, tight belong to the A. F. of L., and the remainder are unaffiliated. This estimate does nor include staff activities in June, during which Myles and Zilphia Horton were on , the staff at the Bluc Ridge, N. C., Student Christian Conference, at- jtended by 500 young people. In the same month Zilphia taught music to 100 YWCA girls at their Southern Industrial Conference. | Bilt Gillis, High Point, N. C. tex- tile worker, practices “Public Speak- ing” on fellow students. Students this summer thought the training in speaking and parhamentary proced- ure so important that they wanted more than just the class periods. So they initiated the custom of allowing SPEAKERS FEATURED (Cont'd} the United Mine Workers, Ala- bama; Edward F. Callaghan, TWUA director for Tennessee. Ed Johns. hosiery organizer, Chattanooga: Pauline Galloway and Bernard Bor- j one student to give a short talk dur- ing the evening meal, thus giving everyone more opportunities for speech-making. ah. ACWA organizers, Greensboro, N.C. ! "bhe al labor leader, list of labor feaders wit spoke, at Highlander continues with R. R. Is Held at School ‘Lawrence, southern director of the , : | TWUA: CIO representatives Yelver-| Seventy-six workers, organizers ten Cowherd of Birmingham and and officials of the American Fed- T. J. (Brush") Smith of Nashville; eration of Hosiery Workers jammed Alton Lawrence, southern director of {the Highlander Folk Schoo! and ‘Labor's Non-Partisan League; and overflowed into two Montecagle ho i Lawrence Rogin, educational direc- tels for the union’s week-end confer- ‘ter of the American Federation of |&nce July 1 and 2. ‘ Hosiery Workers, who presented a Lawrence Rogin, national educa- program of sound movies, including | tional director, came from Philadel- the Highlander film, “People of the | phia for the event. Second vice-presi- Cumberland.” dent Edward F. Callaghan and or- com the Amaloamated anizers Full F, M From the Amal QMiZers isnt Pra gamatec o ning | & zici, Matt Lynch, New York; Mike Smith, Knoxville; | present. Workers were drawn from iGriselda Kuhlman and Bill Poy-|the union’s branches in Tennessee, | thress, Nashville, The Textile Work-| Alabama and Georgia. lers were represented by Joe Dobbs, Chattanooga; R. H. Brazzelt, Nash- ‘ville; Lucy R. Mason, Atlanta; Ralph \Gay and Tommy Sparks, Dalton; ; . sibert William, Alahama director; | #orfds who is now preparing a hook and C. E. Earnhardt, Georgia direc-}0n the New Deal; Rev. John B. ‘tor. Thompson, University of Okta- Legislation affecting unions was|homa; and Dr. Willard Uphaus, of jexplained by: Frank Coffee, Social the Religion and Labor Foundation, | Security Board; Warren Woods, Na- | tional Labor Relattons Board; Mrs. ling seminar of 15 ministers, teachers Elizabeth Thompson, J. O. McMa-|and students. han and L. Goodmaa, of the Ten-| The resident summer students Ensssee Public Welfare Department; |came from seven international un- and Dr. Malcom Little and Dr. J.|ions and the Y.M.C.A., about one Herman Daves, of the TVA. third of them being members of the }_ Other speakers were: Dr, Arthur}Amalgamated Clothing Workers. who was accornnacic 4 travel he t 1 Wa: | WAG Was accompanied By a tiavei- WITH THE ALUMNI Ceeail Holmes, president of th United Rubbers Workers local : Gadsden, Alabama, was with us fc the Fourth of July. He told how bi had stopped a company union movi ment by circulating a mimeographe leaflet among the workers. Cec ‘learned how to do typing and mimi ographing at Highlander last winte ! . * * | Mart Lynch, American Federatio of Hosiery Workers organizer, is i [charge of the union office at Nast ‘ville, where the workers have won ' great victory at the Se-Ling hosier plant. « Dillard King and Leute Vaugh were delegates to the constitution: convention which set up the Grund County unit of Labor’s Non-Partisa: League. * * Horace and Margaret Bryan te turned from ‘Texas for the two weeks’ session of the League c American Writers. They repo: widespread violations of the Wag and Hour Law in Jack Garner's tei ritory. “Fhe only enforcement in th }pecan industry is what the unio (ounpels,” said Horace. | . Cd Christine Eversole Benson ha been doing volunteer work at P: ducah, Ky., for the ACWA an ILGWU. She was in charge of campaign which succeeded in stop Ping the sales in local stores of gar ments made by open shop manu facturers. Highlander alumni around th Louisville - Lexington - Wincheste larea in Kentucky are holding regu Workers came Elizabeth Hawes, | Ed Johns, and Frank Bradshaw were : lat meetings to coordinate theic wort and report progress to each othe! They recently journeyed to Cincin hati and presented a program o plays and music learned at High lander, before an audience of strik ing clothing workers, The group ir cludes Hazel Sargent, Katherine anc Elizabeth Crim, Zola Spiegel, Lilhar Sargent, Bull and Peggy Flannagan fackye KealleR. They are planning to incubate 100 hen eggs and presen the new-born chicks to Highlander * Besse Poythress writes that bott mills and WPA projects are closing down in Mississippi. Telesforo Quic do reports the same thing in Texas It looks like the southern tories art beginning in advance of 1940 thei: campaign to starve the peoole intr