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woe ee oe ee —_ — co wa WEST Tater attended Vand erdilt Univer i scholarship to study abroad and is reported to have exten In 193), WEST was active in the Communist Party in Atlanta ; with the Angelo Herndon cases WEST later founded and was a director in the. a eye Southern Folk School at Kennesau, Georgia, WEST was reported by MICHAEL * a, GOLD in an article which appeared in the Daily Worker to be a young mountaineer poet who became revolutionary and studied Marx and Lenin for the purpose of. organizing negroes and white farmers in Georgiae West was | also active in a the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Kentucky, =. Cos FE 1 me oom Re Coyotm ener a rT a Re te ® WEST returned to Georgia in November, 190, “where be spent a vear as a ih rn uinister in Moansyiiits Georgia, resign ve _ ing in September, 19liLe © eS a he yee TSE, os at. . “ay. * * MALCOLM CHISHOLM, a charter member of the “school, was: ' killed fighting for the Spanish Loyalists, (Report of Special Agent = aap 12-50-10 at Knoxville, Tennessee). Cee | 2TLLA HAWES: alias Elizabeth Hawes, also a charter menber” of the Highlander Folk School, was know to be an organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and a member of the Socialist Party at the time she joined the staff of the school, She later married FRANZ DANIEL, also an- organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and was A leader -. in ny militant labor strikes, both in Tennessee and in North Carolina, we ; substantiated by no other evidence or corroborated by “pe no other statementse 2 ee + JAMES DOMBROWSKI was also a charter member of the Highe- i: . . lander Folk School and a faculty member of the school until the Spring of 192 when he resigned his position to become secretary for the Southern Conference for Human Welfare with headquarters at 202 Presbyterian Building, Nashville, __ Tennessee, Many of the affidavits which are on file in the Knoxville Field ~ Division contain statements that DOMBROWSKI had expressed himself as being in . sympathy with the Russian form of government, that he thought that revolution” : Was Snevitable, and that the capitalists ote should be overthrown. ry on ee ; DONBROWSKI is reported to be imbued with a | r) eS of saving mankind and has been particularly interested in helping - southern labor and attempting to improve working and living conditions in the South. There is no indication that he would blindly follow the Communist Party lines or that he is influenced by any foreign powers MYLES HORTON, a founder and present director of the High- lander Folk School, has stated that he was a Socialist, but he later forsook the Socialist Party to devote his interest to labor and has on many occasions