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THE Published by the Highlander Folk School VOL. 3, No. 3 MONTEAGLE, TENNESSEE PLANS LAID FOR! WRITERS SCHOOL Highlander will hold its third! annual workshop for student writers July 28 through August 9. The session will be under the di- rection of the school and is being Sponsored by Paul Green, Wiliam §. Enickerbocker, Julia Collier Harris, Millen Brand, Babette Deutsch and Genevieve Taggard. The Teachers i Teachers will be specially as-' sembled for this session. In charge of short story and poetry will pe! Mary Lapsley, novelist, magazine writer, and former teacher of writing ot Hand Patera Charities W. Ferguson, an asso- ciate editor of “The Reader's Di- gest’ and author of “Fifty Mil- lion Brothers" and “The Confu- j sion of Tongues." will teach non- fiction writing, inchiding the spe- tigi subjects of radio journalism and the Picture story. Teaton No Tones formerly of the Carolina Playmakers and a pley- i sta tof Paw Green: Wo Rech, now 3 meber of Missouri State: College where he directs ! anuual Mudwestern Folk will teach pilay- the Drama Festival, writing Guest Speakers & nunaer of well-known South- Harry Harrison Kroll, Ida L! Moore, H.C. Nuxon ameng others, have wi ten that they will visit the school during .1¢ Workshop, their plans permitting at that time. Those fierested in should apply at once to the Work- shop Director, Leon Wilson. Total enrolling cost of the session. tuition and) board ‘ncluded, is $30: one week, $15. JUSiGRS CAMP - Al HluHMtLANDVER Twenty-three boys and giris be- {ween the ages of eight and fir- teen have completed the second ental dgumeor Union Camp for Workers’ cinidren at Highiander, which was held during the two weeks folowing June Q, Zilphia Horton and Margaret Boyan wero in charge of the camp. Zilphi. teught folk dancing and Singing; Maria Stenze] held class- es in arts and crafts. The boys pea miedo weed dhnin ann Bete HIGHLANDER FLING JULY. 1841 AT THE TENNESSEE C10 CONVENTION: Left +- right: Zilphia Horton; William Turnblazer, president. Dastricte 19, UMWA_ and five HFS alumni: Edna Lamb, past president, Local 95, ACWA, LaFolictie; Dillard King, irater- nal deicgate from the Summertield Cooperative: Paul Winn, vice_president, Lo- cal 314, LUMMSW, Wrigley; Ed Blair, it iness, financial secretary, UCAPAWA local, Memphis. ACWA organizer, Nashville; Billie Cav- Twenty-Eight Workers. Attend Spring Term Twenty-eight organized workers, equally divided! between full and part-time students, attended the short Spring course at Highlander, May 12 to 24. Among the representatives of 15 APL, CIO and unaffiliated nation- al organizations were sugar and construction workers from New Orleans, boatmen and packing house workers from Memphis, and teachers, office workers and min- ers from eight states. With few exceptions, the students were of- ficials of newly-formed organiza- tions. The reguiar staff was assist- ed by John T. Jones, ClO leg- islative representative, and La- ber's Non-Parilsan League di- recior; William Eaves, regional Wage and Hour director; Hollis W. Reid, legislative representa- thye of the Railroad Brotherhocd and chairman of the Tennessee Commonwealth Federation; Paul BR. Christopher, state CIO secretary; Lewis Jones, Amer- jean Fedrration of Teachers, Fisk University: William Denton, chairman Atlanta Industrial Union Councli and member of the United Automobile Work- eves Maroarat Tomant ment, Columbia University: und Alton Lawrence, Southern LNPL representative. The two weeks' session provided an opportunity for yarious groups to get together. Eighty-one rep- resentatives of 23 national unions from all branches of organized ta- bor met for a week-end confer- énce on Southern problems. Offi- 'eials of the Tennessee Common- wealth Federation, the Southern ‘Conference for Human Welfare and LNPL discussed @ concerted attack on the poll tax and anti- social legislation. Peopie from the community joined the students in evening classes, square dances, singing, ball games and picnics. The regular six weeks’ summer term vill be held from Ang, 18 to Sept. 27 for men and women of office, factory, field and mine. A limited number of scholarships | covering aH expenses are avail- able. The second = scholarship provided he Mra Ronsevelt. will ALUMNI ARE CIO DELEGATES Miss Bulie Caviness, a member of UCAPAWA from Memphis, and & student in Highlander's Spring term 1041, was elected a vice- President of the state CIO body at its second annual convention heid in Chattanooga May 31, June 1. Other former students of High- lander attending the convention as delegates were Ed Blair, Amal- ‘gamated Clothing Workers organ- izer and holder of the Roosevelt Eleanor scholarship in 1940; _ Paul Winn, Mine, Mill and Smel- ter Workers Union, Wrigley, Tenn., Edna Lamb, ACWA, LaFollette, Tenn.; Zilphia Horton and Dil- jard King were visitors. HFS Endorsement A resolution reiterating the en- dersement of Highlander was Passed. The resolution took notice of the fact that Highlander had been attacked recently by organ- Leations not identified with the ta- bor movement and said that “any attack on the Highlander Folk School by an‘individuai or organ- ization will be regarded as an at- tack on the organized Iabor move- ment, and such individuals and organizations will brand them- selves as enemies of organized la- bor in Tennessee and the South.” ‘The report of Paul Christopher, executive secretary and treasurer, showed remarkable progress in expanding the organization. Wil- liam Turnblazer, of the UMWA, was reelected president. Sacred Singers Have Meet Here An all day singing with “dinner on the grounds” was held at the schoo! in April. The songs were those of the “Original Sacred Harp," a choral collection contin- uously in use in the rural South for 97 years. Thirty members of the Summer- field Sacred Harp Class partici- pated and were joined by seven yeteran Sacred Harpers from Law- rence County, the Tennessee stronghold of this kind ef music. Mr. L. P. Odem, speaking for the visitors, urged the Summerfield Class to attend one of the Law- rence County conventions, and the Summerfield group asked the visitors to return. The Summerfield Sacred Harp Class, directed by Zilpha Horton nf the Biohlander Staff has met