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Interview #47: Haslach, Henry W.

UW-Madison TEI edition, March, 2010

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Haslach, Henry W. (1942- )
[Oral History Program interview with Henry W. Haslach, 1976]
number 47
(Teaching assistants strike of 1970)
University of Wisconsin, 1976

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Contents

[Title Page]

[abstract]

First Interview

00:00:27–00:01:09 HH's role in TA bargaining in 1976.

00:01:09–00:04:03 Background of work stoppage.

00:04:03–00:05:00 TA Stewards' Council.

00:05:00–00:06:28 Who organized strike.

00:06:28–00:08:13 TAA office on North Brooks Street...

00:08:13–00:09:46 Married TAs not less involved.

00:09:46–00:10:42 Joan DeBardeleben, daughter of UW regent...

00:10:42–00:11:38 Why math department has high proportion...

00:11:38–00:13:47 Chemistry department threat to German department.

00:13:47–00:15:02 Some significant gains--right to petition...

00:15:02–00:17:00 UW administration had moved quite a way...

00:17:00–00:18:31 Bargainers rotated to give experience...

00:18:31–00:20:24 Faculty bargainers remained silent...

00:20:24–00:22:16 Changes in TA union following strike vote...

00:22:16–00:23:15 Union more militant now than before strike...

00:23:15–00:23:51 United Faculty's position.

00:23:51–00:25:20 Women TAs. Campus more sexist and racist...

00:25:20–00:26:55 HH teaching remedial math....

00:26:55–00:28:49 Need for public and students to have a...

00:28:49–00:29:33 Attitude of TAs not in TAA.

00:29:33–00:30:37 Engineers' participation in work stoppage.

00:30:37–00:31:16 General unanimity on goals among TAA members.

00:31:16–00:32:25 Support of other unions.

00:32:25–00:33:22 Harrington's arrogance offended legislature...

00:33:22–00:35:24 TA communication with people in state...

00:35:24–00:39:26 HH's background. Trinity College...

00:39:26–00:40:08 First encounter with civil rights violence.

00:40:08–00:41:08 Joins Americans for Reappraisal of Far...

00:41:08–00:43:54 Not interested in student movement at...

00:43:54–00:46:27 Bob Zwicker leafletting fieldhouse where...

00:46:27–00:49:53 HH's draft position; HH's own research.

00:49:53–00:50:54 Beginning of TAA. TAs face problem--by...

00:50:54–00:52:26 HH got involved in summer of 1967....

00:52:26–00:55:35 Strike vote. Muehlenkamp consulted Frank...

00:55:35–00:57:06 Arranged meeting with Chancellor Young...

00:57:06–00:58:36 Legal position of TAA....

00:58:36–00:59:55 Election in May to form a union.

00:59:55–01:01:43 Once recognized, set up union cards, dues...

00:00:13–00:06:39 Why HH dropped out of SDS in 1969....

00:06:39–00:07:44 Young equates TAs with Reds.

00:07:44–00:08:44 AFL-CIO position on TAs; Teamsters' position.

00:08:44–00:13:09 TA Radical Caucus, its origins. Ineffectiveness.

00:13:09–00:14:46 How HH, Marketti, Muehlenkamp and Fred...

00:14:46–00:17:42 Marketti's background....

00:17:42–00:20:46 Women in TAA. Charges of sexism....

00:20:46–00:23:26 Bruce Vandervort, his subsequent career.

00:23:26–00:25:07 Union starts going downhill....

00:25:07–00:27:46 Women's issues as TA issue....

00:27:46–00:29:00 New University Conference....

00:29:00–00:30:19 Harvey Goldberg and his TAs. Math department.

00:30:19–00:30:57 Educational Reform Association.

00:30:57–00:32:51 Bargaining in summer 1969....

00:32:51–00:34:23 Doremus on issue of not firing TAs.

00:34:23–00:36:06 Young's strategy. Nature of union bargaining.

00:36:06–00:36:45 Faculty-TA committee.

00:36:45–00:38:35 Fred Sherman giving legal advice....

00:38:35–00:40:13 Announce strike vote on January 8th...

00:40:13–00:41:35 Concerns and reservations about joining...

00:41:35–00:42:57 Getting money. $17,000....

00:42:57–00:44:33 General disillusionment and anger that...

00:44:33–00:46:14 TAA role in department-TA affairs.

00:46:14–00:49:47 Non-TA grad students' views....

00:49:47–00:52:32 Night before strike. Young's threat not to talk.

00:52:32–00:53:43 Don Eaton (teamsters) and law firm begin...

00:53:43–00:55:37 Eaton proposes Feinsinger....

00:55:37–00:56:54 TA considers joining Teamsters.

00:56:54–00:58:27 Feinsinger begins mediating.

00:58:27–01:01:31 Threat of injunction and jail....

00:00:09–00:02:10 Feinsinger's role in negotiations...

00:02:10–00:04:42 Reasons for strike date selected...

00:04:42–00:05:52 TA membership meeting for vote.

00:05:52–00:06:53 HH relations to math faculty.

00:06:53–00:07:35 HH comments on teaching.

00:07:35–00:11:03 HH appointment to Board of Public Works...

Second Interview

00:11:25–00:12:15 Weakness of TAA in early seventies due...

00:12:15–00:13:01 Women are now participating on an equal level.

00:13:01–00:14:58 Comments on present competition among...

00:14:58–00:17:22 TAA not dead. Revitalized....

00:17:22–00:19:05 HH's role now is as delegate to Madison...

00:19:05–00:20:51 Now that TAA has access to computer tapes...

00:20:51–00:24:14 Audit was a sham. Legislature is afraid...

00:24:14–00:25:48 Comments on proposal to hire an undergraduate...

00:25:48–00:28:32 Comments on teaching in college of...

00:28:32–00:30:42 On remedial math courses....

00:30:42–00:33:00 Also lecturing on his thesis in algebraic...

00:33:00–00:35:00 On Anatole Beck.

00:35:00–00:37:28 Army Math Research Center....

00:37:28–00:41:19 Science for the People....

00:41:19–00:42:48 A lot of work done in biological sciences...

00:42:48–00:45:26 No officers, met in people's homes...

00:45:26–00:50:10 In archives found all original papers...

00:50:10–00:51:03 Summary was published in Cardinal.

00:51:03–00:52:08 Question as to whether any protest at...

00:52:08–00:55:08 Sapped a lot of energy, didn't continue...

00:55:08–00:56:22 No effort to involve social scientists...

00:56:22–00:59:19 Science for the People interested in IES...

00:59:19–01:00:48 Bryson a big name in security type analysis...

00:01:10–00:02:36 HH interviewed Bryson twice.

00:02:36–00:04:51 Graduate students’ views about research...

00:04:51–00:09:19 HH's experience teaching in Baraboo...

00:09:19–00:11:59 Students there either too poor to go...

00:11:59–00:17:22 Ways HH would change campus....

00:00:00–00:02:00 Haslach came to UW in 1965....

00:02:00–00:05:26 About how ARFEP got organized and started...

00:05:26–00:06:31 About Math students being interested in...

00:06:31–00:10:10 HH views about CEWVN, hostile toward this...

00:10:10–00:12:41 HH attracted to SDS because it was not...

00:12:41–00:14:44 HH again compares CEWVN and SDS, specifically...

00:14:44–00:17:13 Marty Tandler, President, SDS....

00:17:13–00:18:50 Personalities of people involved in these...

00:18:50–00:19:57 People who were involved in community...

00:19:57–00:23:19 More about origin of theory and policies...

00:23:19–00:26:45 Multi-issue vs. single issue; form that...

00:26:45–00:30:23 Du Bois Club. HH not involved with this group.

00:30:23–00:31:07 Again about differences in attitudes and...

00:31:07–00:33:31 HH comments about Robert Cohen, his...

00:33:31–00:34:47 Committee for Direct Action part of SDS...

00:34:47–00:38:31 Cohen and others were arrested--HH arrested...

00:38:31–00:40:52 Demonstration at engineering building...

00:40:52–00:42:28 Cohen and HH bailed out by student-raised...

00:42:28–00:44:59 Committee for Direct Action and involvement...

00:44:59–00:49:14 As President, HH immediately severed SDS...

00:49:14–00:50:21 More about Zwicker and Cohen....

00:50:21–00:52:03 HH comments on general belief that...

00:52:03–00:53:34 Disappearance of passive resistance and...

00:53:34–00:55:07 Percy Julian, HH and fall Dow demonstration...

00:55:07–00:59:21 About Percy Julian, attorney in Madison.

00:59:21–01:00:05 HH comments about Sewell.

00:00:00–00:06:43 HH discusses John Coatsworth....

00:06:43–00:11:39 General social situation at this time...

00:11:39–00:14:02 About TAA. Mulvihill Report as a...

00:14:02–00:15:33 Jim Stern's seminars; James Marketti...

00:15:33–00:17:11 HH anti-union at this time, TA's not...

00:17:11–00:19:35 Meeting with Tom King, HH, and Muehlenkamp...

00:19:35–00:25:53 More on Jim Stern. Bryant Kearl, Arlen...

00:25:53–00:27:32 About paying bus drivers with funds...

00:27:32–00:29:58 HH talks about Minneapolis and effort to...

00:29:58–00:30:25 TAA didn't get strike support from Madison...

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