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Page Two NASHVILLE BANNER SLANDERS WORKERS rey a Th, Nwdville Banner does not like organized labor. It does not like labor schools. In September the Banner sent its reporter, My. Richard Battle, to Grundy Coun- ty to get a story about the Folk Behool. The article raises the eld vred” issue again and also announces the amazing discov- ery that bankers, manufacturers, pnd anti-labor employers do not like Highlander. Mr. Battle does net quate our neighbors, In fact he does not seem to think high- Ty of mountain people in gen- erai, for he speaks of them With frank contempt. “The country people, the residents of cluttered cabins and untidy shacks,” is his wan of descubing these proud and sturdy Amencans. As mat- of f anyone who Enews the mountain people Knows that yer their cabins usually are models of titiness and neatness. We worde,; what Mr Battle's house Wllalta dae ke ac had only $e) a year cash income, which js oatl that thousands of moun- tain families receive Mr Battle could not find 8 single) perean syripashetic to the Tonehoa He writes Yet we boven eAiowinr sicned state- ment trom a neuhbar ta whom eet + tald) him most of the mwuntlain ped- % just ton- . Of the the toe een ys king for ca, fur 2 Fears ‘utile school of well known iooks and «a Rosenwald .oo "TD am glad to know of much geod ster Fotk School perunity, both ena altruistic ha proved their especialiy to the poor Mis ©. BR. Starr, the P.-T. A. wrote, srinien is that they Landa uhlty.” Tidney, rector jefe, wrote. of the ouble jude- consecrated . summimnu- Ly Believe it d”° And Dr. . bevker, editor caer Kivview, sald, : tader Folk : an impor- swatsable service in relief Bs- scrutiny conditions teole al r 1 setae hE ated frei ie ef omelitical aid social fae a ath ite ribie candivions of Liv- vos. unelserimin- THE HIGHLANDER FLING Fall Week-End lastitutes The annual institute for hos- jery workers from Tennessee, Alabema and Georgia was con- ducted this fall by Larry Rogin, educational director of the AFPHW, and members of the Highlander staff. Hosiery union officials stated that this institute was the most successful in the history of the Tri-State organl- zation. Dr. Ellsworth Bmith, coopera- tive expert and pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, led an Institute on Cooperatives participated in by rural and urban leaders. Representatives of 22 labor or- ganizations gathered for a LNPL Institute directed by A. A. Hartwell of the national office of the League and Alton Law- rence, Southern representative. The final week-end Institute was on Workers’ Education and was conducted by the Highlander staff for Business and Profes- sional, and Industrial YWCA secretaries from five southern states and the D. of C. GUEST NEWS Mrs. Virginia Durr, vice chalr~ man of Highlanders Washington Committee, and Barbara Price, secretary to John L. Lewis, stayed with us for a week. Dr. Liliian Johnson, donor of the Folk School property, visited us for a week during the fall term. Paul Christopher, secretary- treasurer of the C. I. O. in Ten- nessee, was guest of honor at the Farewell Banquet. N. A. Zonarich, president of the Aluminum Workers of Amer- ica, came by for an afternoon shortly after the term. ate and derogatory journalistic exploitation of the Highiander Folk School's ideals and activi- ties by zealous newspapers which are alarmist in Intention not oniy tend to jeonardize the good work of the Highlander Folk School buf increase suspicion of a free press in America.” And from Henry M. Thompson, mer- chant of Tracy City, our County seat, comes the following. “ After spending 48 years with thi think T peapie of this section, T know quite a lot of what has, and is going on here.. . I have been to the school on numerous occasions, have had ample op- portunity to find out if they were Communists or were teach- ing that theary tn the school, and will state that I heve never one thing that seen or heard would jead me to believe they were anything but a group of Americans trying io help the people of the Cumberlands en- joy more of the American way of life.” NEW ENDORSEMENTS (Continued From Page One} oughly devoted to the interests of working peopie and the cause of American Democracy.” Ed- ward 5, Callaghan, peoond vice president of the American Fed- eration of Hosiery Workers and southern director, “After a num- ber of years with having contact and personal visits to the High~- lander Folk School we have found {it to be the most out- standing of its kind in the United States.” — Nasbviiie Trades and Labor Council: In September when the Nash- vile Banner carried an un- friendly article the Nashville Trades and Labor Council pass- ed a strong resolution, “Resolved: That the Nashville Trades and Labor Council In its regular meeting, Sept. 25, 1940, expresses regret at the dissemination of the groundless rumors against the Highlander Folk School; that the Council regards attacks on the schoo) as a part of the basic opposition toward the labor movement in general; that the Council expresses confidence in the fundamental soundness of the objectives of this labor school; that the resolution be sent to the press.” - John Dewey: “When the Highlander Folk School was founded, I wrote that I regarded it as one of the most important social educational projects in America. The achieve- ments of the school in the past eight years confirm my original judgment. The move- ment is one of the most impor- tant, if not the most important, bulwark of democracy. Helping southern unions to educate an intelligent native leadership, and in promoting a better under- standing of collective bargaining, the Hichlander Folk School is making a considerable contribu- tion of democratic institutions.” isbor Ministers; Rev. Eugene Smathers, Big Lick, Tenn. Presbyterian minis- ter, author of a pamphiet re- cently published by the Fellow- ship of Southern Churchmen on the church and the community. “In this day when democracy is on the defensive it is exceeding- ly important that every group in our population be accorded = its rights. This includes labor's right to organize and to have schools which prepare its leaders for their task in a democracy. The one labor school which is doing this task well in the South Rev. Marshal) Wingfield, pas- js the Highlander Folk Schoo. : ” as November, 1546 FASCIST LEADER (Continued From Page One) zen, October 31, has some inter- esting biographical data on the author of these pamphlets. “Kamp has a record a mile long a5 4% fellow-worker with Fascists America. . . . Keeping in that the only Pifth Column “i this war which has betrayed any country has been composed of Faselsts, it is interesting to read that until 1937 Kamp edited the pro-Fascist magazine THE AWAK- ENER. On his staff were Harold Lord Varney, Fascist propagand- ist, and Lawrence Dennis, author of “The Coming American Fas- cism." When the AWAKENER suspended publication, Kamp wrote to a follower, “The work will be carried on by the Con- stitutiona! Educational League’ mrecent vehicle) present vehicle (Kamp's 7 Kamp was one of the sponsors of the Hotel Biltmore meeting et which General Moseley was asked to Tide the white horse for an American Fascist putsch.” Leaders of the Constitutional Educational League were sub- poenaed by the LaFollette Com- mittee and ordered to bring all records. The day before Mr. Eamp leaded the records in his car and disappeared. In his tes- timony before the Committee Mr. Chester A. Hanson, Secretary- treasurer of the Constitutional ‘Educational League, stated that ~ the purpose of the League was “education pertaining to the Can- stitution.” Testimony developed the fact that the Constitutional Educational League had nothing to do with the Constitution or with education. Testimony before the Commit- tee also showed thai the League sold 40,000 copies of a pamphlet, “Join the CIO and Help Build a Soviet America” to the Republic Steel Company which were dis- tributed wherever steel workers were trying ts or Th were trying t organize. The south was flooded with these pamphlets during the campaign of the Textile Workers Organiz- ing Committee in 1937. tor First Congregational Church of Memphis, moderator of Ten- nessee Conference and Historian- in-chief of Sons of Confederate Veterans, “ . .. the school is do- ing an excellent and much need- ed work in its area.” ¥. W. C. A. Secretary: Miss Josephine Abrams, in- dustrial secretary, YWCA, Knox- ville, Tenn., “The school is do- ing a fine piece of work not oniy for the students but also for the community as a whole. I only wish there were more places do- ing similar work.” Pe = ORES