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ees i oe 18% & The Bureau by letter of , 192° bf 7 in reviewing the summary report of Special Agent in Knoxville, Temmesses, dated September 12, 192, advised that y concluded that . ths investigation failad to reflect Communist control or domination _ in the conduct of the Highlander Folk School at Monteagle, Tennessee, although there are many indications of liberal if not radical interests in it. The Knoxville Field Division will maintain contact with informants in the vicinity of Monteagle in order to be kept advised of any change in the contral or poliey of the school, as well as its activities, officers and SPONBOrS » At a neeting of the Executive Council of the Highlander Folk School held at Monteagle March 28, 19,3, the comeil recognized that the present struggle to defeat the Axis required tha school to intensify its activities “in behalf of democracy.* The meating of the ~ council was rather fully written up in the Highlander Fling, official publication of the school in the following editorial; “Nembers discussed the work done in the Summer- field Community by the school-—work which continues to have widespread results aven though many of cur neighbors have left for the armed services amd some have temporarily left the comnunity to work in defense plants. The scheol functions as a rural settlement house here in this Cumberland community and as a training school for labor leaders in its extension activities, : Consideration was givan to proposed recreation ne pregrams for Tannesses trade unions, Cther subjects discussed included revival of tha research and publications department when a suitable person can be found to replaces BiliZlkuss, drafted; establishment of a nursery scheol demonstration project, and the setting up of a nation-wide Highlander Associaticn ta provide support for the school's activities, sf Sve whi tlowsky reported that more than $70 of tha necessary $200 had been realized for the Bill Buttrick Memorial Cabin ; through the sale of Bulauttrick's picture. when sufficient money is voy raised, a cabin for boys will be built in memory of this young HFS teacher, rn who was one of the pioneers in Southern labor education, Liss Zhitlowsky also reported thet Maria_ “otenzel had made a trip to Knoxville when CIO unionists held the dedication