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Pave Two | “Cirele Four And Do-Si-Do!” | { THE HIGHLANDER FLING WOrkK Culnpers cuacied sc coe sguare dancing alone. The 1941 Work Camp, jointly conducted by Highlander and the Interna- tional Student Service, had for its main project the clearing of Other Uinnce bee nt Poe notoriety tina Gowrate fOr TEPOTEscacien. Nursery School, constrection of eroiests included repairs to the Feces wena. feo a potter’s wheel. ‘Observation trips to T, ¥. A. areas, the Cherokee National Forest, and an Alaben. " COMMUNITY AND: COUNTY NEWS | Wh the - ommer proprem of residence Vrms completed, c.asses are now in pregress for the Sum- voy roomity | i Tre lecsly found clay has been aLaivaed ty FT. Vo aA. technicians; teow. .cevs Work Camp bunti “he sereni a pottery wheel; the | hon be ce fired experiement- aliy, members of the Summer- hela Cooperative are working amtaimoaut tT very making and hope | to com: cut in the spring with 2 Marné.uui product. Dillarc King and Maria Stenzel of last winter, “when the young nesnle of the community Jearned ; thew aba. Vautits, Aorees, HOS, and dors with their pocket knives. Squat dancing is again the : it les nights. Tp foe Gs tere in pottery at baaeer orettn end of Grundy In addition to her “other face tivities. Joar Payne is now hand- ome ihe tlayeling lihrary. The eho, 4... ihortly conipiete 4 rls ovecr oof service in circulat- | ray foe o4iits and children | pul in the county. Nursery School Joan Fayre plans to keep tne Nursery Scheel going until r Mtee de wettier naa Soult pas “Mo. veg Weekly meeiings for the teen age girls of the com they will help her peru textile center were important features of the program. parliamentary law, public speak- i ing, publicity. In Clinton Mauris Stenzel, Highlander com- munity worker, spent the week of Ovtober ZTth in Clinton, Tennec- see, where she organized a rec- reational program for the Hosiery Workers. The violentiy anti-union Magnet Mills recently defeated the union in their efforts to be- come barganing agent for the Magnet workers. The union spirit iis undaunted; organization con- tinues. Impetus for the program came out of the post-election rally, at which Myles Horton and Maria Stenzel had charge of recreation. Program included decorating of the union hall, poster making, einoing cormmittear wink, Sing sig, SIEMIIRISioe start of a square dancing group and organization of a string band. A Hallowe'en party was the rani high spot of Sister Maria’s week. Grundy-Marion Conference Officers and members of two Grundy County UNITED MINE WORKER locals met with Hugh Rankin, UMWA _ district repre- sentative, at the school, October the 18th, and worked out plans for among the truckers and sawmill workers of Grundy and Marion counties. conduct the children's Christmas party at which forty or fifty Sum- merfield children will say “howdy” to a guaranteed genuine | Sante Claus and carry off pres- ents sent by friends of the com- munity and of the school. ern tar, I. O's posted offer of a thousand ceeded i a i ——<—$<$ eee an organization campaign : PAMPHLET ON ROANE COUNTY On September 25th two C. I. O. organizers were extended the gre- cious hospitality of Roane County, Tennessee, company thugs and Police. Climax to the brutal tor- turing was the application to naked flesh of free-flowing South- Despite the nationwide public- ity given the affair and the C. dollars, county of Roane and state of Tennessee have so far suc- in failing to make any Commemorating the county employers’ careers of anti- union outlawry (the present case is part of a rich tradition) Paul Christopher, state C. I. ©. secre- tary, is getting out a pamphiet entitled “TERROR IN ROANE COUNTY.” Text is the work of Horace Bryan, writer and former Highlander student; the cover is by Maria Stenzel, arrests. (Summer Term Continued) Auto Workers representative, Memphis; John Bouche, ©, I. O. representative, New Orleans; Keng Li, rural ¥. W. ©. A. sec- retary from China. Student Activities Buring the fifth and = sixth week, on request of the students, & special study was made of state and federal labor legislation. Stu- dents made two field trips to take part in union meetings: | one to 4b— Weta Lt Ve uinlL ier AD of wre i421 ad Tiutweul, a ees See eS ‘ ra November, 1941 HFS ALUMNI TO CONVENE A Thanksgiving banquet will climax the third annua) reunion ro Pee Pe © eee | Rr ot ine Highlanders FAI, vember 28th, 28th and 30th. Maria Stenzel, alumn! secretary, has re- 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 no weoming in from all alumni. These will be used in working up a detailed survey of Wiehlendarts Aret tan wasre in SUMED S sey Wad ple labor education. The tenth year, 1942, is coming at us head on. Handie Workers of Sequatchie, Tennessee. “WE'VE GOT WORE 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 for 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 labor law. Students came from Okla- homa, Louisiana, Texas, Tennes~ see, ‘Washington, D. C. For the second time the Pan-American Union sent a Latin Americen worker who came this year from a ee Pe Colombia, Soin WALLIT SLL CHARLES W. FERGUSON, an associate editor of the READER'S DIGEST, discusses the ‘think-piece’ with Kate Bradford Stockton, onetime candidate for governor jis third annual WRITERS WORKSHOP this summer. Highlander held Other of Tennessee. teachers were Novelist Mary Lapsley, Playwright Lealon Jones of Missouri State Teachers College. Nixon of Vanderbilt University; of the Federated Pressi William Guest speakers included H. C. Henry Zon, Washington Bureau R. McDaniel, director Tennessee Federal Writers Program. Students were writers, echool teach- érg, college students, trade unioniste.