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Agitprop, union organizing, and socialist education were controversial activities, and conservatives repeatedly attacked the labor colleges. Following tenantfarmer organizing and civil rights activities in eastern Arkansas, Commonwealth College was investigated by the state legislature in 1935. Conservatives sought to abolish the school, but they were blocked by nationally known liberals and others, who endorsed the college and raised money for its defense, including Jane Addams, Alexander Meiklejohn, Albert Einstein, H. L. Mencken, Scott Nearing, and George S. Counts. Support from liberals such as John Dewey, Stuart Chase, and Sinclair Lewis also helped protect Brookwood from political attacks and, more important, from financial insolvency during the Depression. Liberals could not protect the schools from the corrosive effects of competition between different labor unions and political groups. Debates over whether the colleges should affiliate themselves with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) or other groups such as the...
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