LWB Exclusive: An e-mail correspondent uncovers just how far back Yale's resistance to the right of its graduate students to organize goes:
so i'm working on this paper about this guy jerome davis, a div school professor fired in 1936, allegedly for being a left- radical. davis was also the president of the local american federation of teachers local. the aaup investigated, and this was the statement (almost in its entirety) from President James Rowland Angell (who I'm assuming must have some relation to another asshole Rowland) to their investigatory body on January 8, 1937: “Academic freedom is in fact threatened far more by the proposed unionization of teachers in the American Federation of Teachers and by that kind of pressure than it has ever been at Yale, or can conceivably become during the present generation.” the more things change...
posted by Josh Eidelson at 12/13/2004 09:06:00 PM
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ah, jerome davis. . . i wrote a paper about him last year. not in the sellout AAUP report that more or less exonerates the university, but at the end of the AFT report about the case, there's this great diagram that's this web of corporation members and, like, the three wall street companies they're all connected to and the 80 or something various interested business connections amongst them all. . . and the way that's tied in with the report is so un-outdated.
You should all read Deborah elkin's dissertation (in the microfilm room in SML) which deals at legnth with the Jerome Davis case but also goes into great detail (3-4 chapters) about the roots and founding of what is now Local 35 and its early years. Go check it out. I think that quote may be in it as well - it's like 700 pages long and i didn't have time to read the whole thing.
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