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Me te CEE gee Oe ” The ii ghlender Folk “School also ‘applied ‘for & $1,000 ” Lode 2. subsidy from the Federal government which had been granted by the goverm: -\-) ment but was held up by Governor COOPER of Tennessee pending an investigation | by JACK SCANDLYN, Inspector of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, © Inspector . fs SCANDLYN also reported that the Highlander Folk School was controlled by Come munists and spreading Communist doctrines, however, he had no. evidence to -: back his findings. SCANDLYN in his report placed a great deal of stress on if immorality surrounding the school, stating that the students believed dn rise free love and drank to exceste > . . 8 tore - _ , 2 4 te ak wg aoe ” * * na The file of the sighlander Folk School also contains ss numerous newspaper clippings from the Chattanooga and Nashville papers which. iilicate that the school was to be investigated by the Dies Committee, how. ever, there is no information in the file which would indicate the results oe of the Dies Committee's investigation if, in fact, one Was made mo. oak. : As a result of the cohsolidating of all these reports into the hands of the Grundy County Crusaders, together with material which moe was collected by them, there was a proposed march on the Highlander Folk School by the Crusaders at which time it was planned that the members of” the faculty be forcibly ..ejected from the county. On November 13, 190, a march of the Highlander Folk School was averted by holding a meeting of the representatives of the Grundy County Crusaders and members of the faculty in a session held at Sewanee University. At this tine the Grundy County he . Crusaders hurled accusations at the Highlander Folk School, stating that a arn cas a "hot bed of Communiam." JAMES DOMBROWSKI, Highlander Folk School \. °°. ;.- faculty, answered for the school and explained that the school was purely ? ee .a@ labor school and stated that in the event that the Crusaders could prove = +he school was Commumistic that it would immediately move from the county. | The Grundy County Crusaders, however, were unable to produce any evidence _ which would indicate that the schocl was controlled by the Communist ‘Partys * mM INDICATIONS OF COMMUNIST CONTROL OR INFLUENCE IN THRE ADMINISTRATION OF TE . - 7 os SNIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL a R ~ ee The Highlander Folk School at its inception was founded . ; ; ~ Ly LLDZS HORTON who was know to be a Socialist at that time and by DON WEST big: a who had openly stated that he was a Communist, In the report of Special Acent QB dated February 26, 1942, at Atlanta, Georgia, it is stated | that WEST attended the Berry School at Rome, Georgia, and quit because he was not in sympathy with the school system. He later returned and endeavored to organize the students of the school in a strike because the school charged tuition and received help from HENRY FORD, a capitalist. “