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Page Two ‘Circle Four And D ‘ o-Si-Do!” Work Cump, tional Student a tract for reforestation. Other Nursery School, construction of jointly conducted '? square dancing alone. The 1957 by Highlander and the Interna- Service, had for its main project the clearing of projects incituded repairs ta the a potter's wheel. Observation trips to T. V. A. areas, the Cherokee National Forest, and an Alolama tertile center were tmportant features of the program. COMMUNITY AND: Farah dete ated Samke tae COULUINGT TD NEWS With (hs climmmer program of Tesidagiie uetiun otnnleed, classes ate how as prepress for the Sum- eo or 7 Pidhs liv found clay has been TOY. A technictans: re Work Camp built a pottery wheel: thes * fired experiement- of the Summer- eld fuse Tatlve are working heat ao getery making and hope fo come out in the spring with eleg er. prude. Dilla;d King and Maria Stenzel are continuing the whittling class of iast winter, when the young People of the community learned ! on the sone sim; als) saan tte w . HHRbiis, horse: brgts, l and dacs with their pocket knives. Biogen fs again the " nichts. The fee te clase im peattere at | eae td gud oof Carundy ton to her ather ac- an Payne js now hand- i elie idbrary. The . rl. eOrnplete oa yoo? services in clreulat- 7 its and chidien ite county, Nursery School Parne plans to keep the v School going until sTovided the weather Bali Veuht sed YO OMe CES Gor. Tout tins come igroup singing, 1 AES Rirls of the com- anc they will help her | Parliamentary law, public speak- ing, publicity, In Cilnton Maria Stenzel, Highlander com- munity worker, spent the week of Cetober Qith in Clinton, Tennes- see, Where she organized a rec- reational program for the Hosiery | Workers. The violently anti-union Magnet Mills recently defeated the union fh their efforts to be- barganing agent for ihe Magnet workers, The union spirit {s undaunted: organization con- tinues. Impetus for the program came out of the post-election ra)ly, at Which Myles Horton and Mariq Stenzel had charge of recreation. Program included decorating of the union hall, poster making, comunlitee work, start of a square dancing zroup and organization of a string band. A Hallowe'en party was the; /figh spot of Sister Maria’s week. Grundy-Macion Conference Officers and members of two Grundy County UNITED MINE VORKER locals met with Hugh Rankin, UMWA district repre- sentative, at the school, October the 18th, and worked out plans for an orgsnization campaign among the truckers and sawmill j workers of Grundy and Marion counties, conduct the chiidren’s Christmas party at which forty or fifty Sum- merfield children will say “Howdy to puaranteed genuine Senta Claus and carry off pres- ents sent by friends of the munity and af the school. com- ROANE COUNTY On September 25th two C. 1. 0. organizers were extended the gra- cious hospitality of Roane County, Tennessee, company thugs and Police. Climax to the brutal tor- turing was the application to naked Nlesh of free-flowing South- erm tar. ~ Despite the nationwide Ppublic- ity given the affair and the c. I. O's posted offer of a thousand dollars, county of Roane and state of Tennessee have ao far. suc- ceeded in failing to ‘make any arrests. Commemorating the county employers’ careers of anti- union Gutlawry (the present case is part of a rich tradition) Paul Christopher, state C. I. o. Secre- tery, is getting out a pamphlet entitled “TERROR IN ROANE COUNTY.” Text is the work of Horace Bryan, writer and former Highlander student: the cover is by Maria Stenzel, (Summer Term Continued +] Auto Workers representative, Memphis; John Bouche, C. 7. ©. representative, New Orleans; Keng Li, rural ¥. W. C. A. sec- retary from China, Student Activities During the fifth and sixth week, on request of the Students, & special study was made of state and federal labor Jepisiation, St- dents made two field trips to take part in union meetings: one to the Retail Clerks of Whitwell, November, 1941 HFS ALUMNI TO CONVENE A Thanksgiving banquet will climax the third annua! reunion of the Highlander Alumni, No- vember 28th, 29th and 30th. Maria Stenzel, alumni secretary, has te-~ celved letters from many former students planning to be here for the big week-end. The schedule Says discussions, volley ball, danc- ing. In response to our call, activity reports are nog wooming in from all alumni. These will be used in Working up a detailed survey of Highlander's first ten years in labor education, The tenth year, 1842, is coming at us head on. Handle Workers of Sequatchie, Tennessee. “WE'VE GOT WORK 'TO DO," a Play written by the students to show labor's role in the de- fense emergency, and calling for acceptance of the Murray De- fense Plan, was performed twice fer enthusiastic audiences, Among the full-time students Were hosiery workers, inland boat- men, construction workers, a newspaper employee, an auto worker, a postal worker, a fed- eral employee, a student of iabor Jaw. Students came from Okla- homa, Louisiana, Texas, 'Tennes- see, Washington, D. C. For the second time the Pan-American Union sent 8 Latin American worker who came this year from Colombia, South America. CHARLES W. FERGUSON, an associate editor of the READER'S DIGEST, discusses the onetime candidate for governor of Tennessee, tis third annual WRITERS WORKSHOP this teachers were Novelist Mary Lapsley, Missouri State Teachers College, Nixon of Vanderbilt University; of the Federated Pressj William FR. McDaniel, ‘think-piece’ with Kate Bradford Stockton, Highiander held summer. Other Playwright Lealon Jones of Guest speakers included H. C. Henry Zon, Washington. Bureau director Tennessee Federal Writers Program. Students were writers, school teach- ers, College students, trade unionists.