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Eight of the above-named, currently active, Negro bishops are officially connected with the Southern Con- ference Educational Fund. They aree Bishop S. L. Greene, Bishop F. L. Lewis, Bishop Edgar A. Love, Bishop Herbert Bell Shaw, Bishop Stephen Gill Spotis- wood, Bishop Charles Ewbank Tucker, Bishop Charles Cecil Coleman, and Bishop Frank Madison Reid. The aim of the Communist penetration of non-Com- munist organizations is not necessarily to recruit mem- bers of the Party, but rather to create a favorable climate of opinion for certain limited objectives of the Communist program. In this way, the stain of Com- munism is removed from these objectives, and thus they appear to be the objectives of men of goodwill. Highlander Folk School Seminar Over the Labor Day weekend (August 30-Septem- ber 2, 1957), Highlander Folk School, at Monteagle, feunessce. siaged its 25th anniversary seminar on “the human aspects of the integration struggle.” Notorious Communisis, veteran Communist fellow travelers, and Negro leaders in all the recent major incidents attending integration were present at the seminar (The incident of Little Rock had not yet occurred.) Before taking up the records of the prominent inte- grationists who were present, it is necessary to take a jook at the Highlander Folk School and its ideological Orientation. The Hightande: Folk School at Monteagle, Tennes- se, was organized around 1932 by Myles Horton and Don West. (See testimony of Paul Crouch, May 6, 1949, Subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities, page 193.) In his testimony, Mr. Crouch said: “I would like to mention in this connection that the Highlander Folk School at Monteagle, Tennessee, was a school organized by Myles Horton and Don West, and which’ Mr. (James) Dombrowski shortly thereafter jolaed.” Paul Crouch, who gave the foregoing testimony con- cerning the Highlander Folk School, was the top Com- munist Party functionary in the South. His Communist record given to a Senate committee by Crouch himself attests his importance: The major positions I held in the Communist Party were the head of the Communist Party's de- partment for infiltration of the Armed Forces of the United Siates, a representative of the Communist Party of the United States to the executive committee oda Uwanuuuist ludernational in Moscow, a mem- ber of a commission in Moscow to draft plams to infiltrate and subvert all the armed forces of the world, and operate as honorary regimental comman- der of the Red Army, a special student at the Frunze Miltary Academy in Moscow; I was a member of the editorial staff of the Daily Worker, official organ of 16 H i the Communist Party, a member of the various com- missions of the central and national committee of the party, State or district organizer for Florida, for Utah, for North and South Carolina, and Tennessee, edjtor of the Communist magazine, The New South, the official organ for the Southern States, member of the district bureau of the Communist Party for Ala- bama, Mississippi, and Georgia, and chairman of the control commission of the Communist Party for that area, a member of the district bureau of the Communist Party for Caiifornia, for Nevada, and Hawaii, national secretary of the Anti Imperialist League, and many other minor positions. Speaking of James Dombrowski, Mr. Crouch testified as follows: “I have met officially with him on a number of occasions as head of the Communist District Bureau of Tennessee . . . at this conference Mr. Dombrowski gave me the impression of being completely pro-Com- munist and anxious to collaborate with the Communist Pany and follow its leadership, without taking the risk of actua) Party membership.” In March 1954, the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security held hearings in New Orleans on the subject of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., of which James Dombrowski was and is the executive director. Among the witnesses who testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security in New Orleans was one John Butler who bad formerly been a functionary of the Communist Party in Alabama. In the course of his testimony, Mr. Butler stated that he attended a meeting of Communist Party leaders in Inly of 1942. in the Thomas Jefferson Hotel in Birmine- July OF iy42, HE Oe aDOMes #CLSrSen SiVile a arin ham, Alabama. Mr. Butler stated that Alton Lawrence introduced James Dombrowski to him on that occasion as a Communist Party member. (See Senate Subcom- mittee on Interna) Security Hearings, March 18, 1954, page 45.) According to Mr. Butler, this meeting of Communist Party leaders was held in Dombrowski’s own hotel room. In November, 1956, Alton Lawrence was indicted on a charge of conspiring to file a false non-Communist affidavit with the National Labor Re- lations Board, which non-Communist affidavit is re- quired of trade union officials by the Taft-Hartley Act. (See New York Times, November 17, 1956.) Alton Lawrence is currently an official of the Communist- controlled International Union of Mine, Mill and Smel- ter Workers. In the early period of the Highlander Folk School, Alton Lawrence was a member of its faculty. On August 13, 1938, 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 con- vention in North Carolina, at which time plans were 17 > Ra ye, niin aM ae 9