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ae mm me eae pe ne neem be purchased by the school, They would be made accessible to the students,. that everywhere possible the instructors would refer to the Daily Worker, to news that had come in it, to encourage the students to read it, and 4t was agreed that the Communist Party should have a student, a leader, sent there as a student whose job it would be to look around for pros- pective recruits, and Mildred White, now in Washington, D. C. was selected to attend the Highlander Folk School for the purpose of recruiting for the Communist Party and carrying the Communist Party line among the student body there,' ‘ki, Arens; fYou said it was agreed? Who agreed?! "Mr, Crouch; ‘Mr. Horton and Mr, Dombrowski.‘ "Mr, Arens: 'Did you ever solicit Mr. Horton for membership in the Communist Party?! | "Mr, Crouch: ‘tI did,t "Mr, Arens: 'Tell the circumstances of that solicitation and what transpired.! . . "Mr. Crouch: ‘At that meeting after we discussed the school I esked Mr. Hortor! to become a formal member of the Communist Party and his reply was, as near as I can recall his words, tI'm doing you just &s much good now as I would if I were a member of the Communist Party. i am often asked if I am a Communist Party member and I always say ‘no’, T feel much safer in having no fear that evidence might be uncovered to Veet ms inte the Communist Party, and therefore I prefer not to become a member of the Communist Party.t" (Pages 135-136) Crouch also identified Rev. Don West and Myled Horton as “original founders" of the Highlander Folk School but said West had earlier left to engage in Socialist and Communist work in Georgia, North Carolina and Kentucky. (more )