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Highlander Folk School — Part 5
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Other spe.kors worct hike Smith, Tonnossce dircetor of the
amiltomoted Clothing Workers of amoriess bis C. ardurson, IRSW
represunti tives Lugh Ronking United iiins Workcre of Amrics, dis-
trict represent-dives O. S. Baxtur, suberclional dirvetor of the
Stecl Workers Orgrnizing Comaittcc, Che ttzncoza; itt Lynch, ALT=
dernn Podvrutior. Of Hosicry workers ropr spentet tivc;} Froud Schmidt,
Unitcd Toxtil, worzurs of woarria.j Roseme Wlkur, Retsil aid Wholo-
srl. Cloris, rhiledclphic; John Boucho, Ci0O ruprcesentitin, Hew
Orleans; Front: allen, rUiiS.., Bossumury Edword Woods, Intern.tionsl
gmcricen Newspeoer Guild reoreusent: tive, Birminzhan; ond Virginia
Foster Durr, cxccutive vievechirman of the Ncticacsl] Committcue to
sbolisn the Poll Tax, sluoxtniric, Virginia.
Se WaT TERS? OR NSHOP
Tho third annual summer warl:shop for writcrs, July 28-august
9, brovrtht toscther twelve students from six southern statcs and
from Illivois, wow Yor, cud th. vistrict of Colucic,
This year the vorashon ws ontiruly in the hands of tho High-
land -7tf T silson wes tho dircetor, Fiction wes teu sht by
wry Lo eley, writer and former terencr of eruetive writing at
Hood Colleure, lieryland. The mfority of the students wrote ond
fiuisheod at losst two storias each.
Charlvs Ferguson, cn associ:te editor of the Renders’ Dis est,
oneouraged the usc of dignlindor for svurce metcricl in the nrop-
aration cf different kinds of articles :nd news stories. For proce
ticu.l cxpericnces, Mre Fer suson took his cluss (by imzinction)
inte cditor's officeus, into homes of '"persourlitics' for intervicws,
end inty cross country buses for the 'ersucl cequnaijtanee' story.
Ono of his sossiuns wes e uducted in the mamoer of "Informrtion
Please’, encthcr in the uanner cf ec country church revival. Text in
the latter ecse wos 'Evurybody trl*s cbout Henven cin't soint thcro',
und the students wore imorcssively ceutioned th.t 1] who tlk cbout
writing cre not zolng to be writers if thuy simply telk about dt.
Lezlon Jones, frecult: member of Uissouri St:.c Tegchurs Collose,
iustruct.d the students in the ort ond ernft of nlsymking. Individ-
vor worl: ses tyr'ncd incnd criticized by the grap. Tho second
wool cf the mession ths entire eless workud out wid purfurnicd a pley
on Hichlonder.
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