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is the executive director. Among the witnesses who testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security in New Orleans was one John Butler who had formerly been a functionary of the Camunist Party in Alabama. In the course of his testimony, Mr. Butler stated that he attended a meeting of Commmist Party leaders in July of | 1942, in the Thomas Jefferson Hotel in Birminghem, Alabama. Mre Butler stated that Alton Lawrence introduced James Dambrowski to him on that occasion as a Communist Party member. (See Senate Sub- committee on Internal Security Hearings, March 18, 1954, page 45.) According to Mr. Butler, this meeting of Communist Party ls aders wes held in Dombrowski's own hotel roan. In November, 1956, Alton Lawrence was indicted on a charge of conspiring to file a false non- Communist affidavit with the National Labor Relations Board, which affinitalsa he tha w el ole OS oe by the Taft-Hartley Act. (See New York Times, November 17, 1956.) Alton - Lawrence ia currently an official of the Communist-controlled international Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. In the early period of the Highlander Folk School, Alton Lawrence was a member of its faculty. On August 13, 19358, Mr. John P. Frey, president of the Metal Trades Department of the AFL, ~ testified before the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities, and named Elizabeth Hawes, Alton Lawrence, and Myles Horton as persons who "attended a secret convention in North Carolina, at which time plans were made for spreading the revolutionary theories throughout the South." Mr. Frey further testified: "In connection with this I might mention that the Highlander Folk School at Monteagle, Tennessee, was mixed up in this secret convention, in which these three C.I.0. organizers took a very prominent part." (See Dies Committee Hearings, Volume 1, page 126.)