Series 1, Subseries 8. Correspondence, 1940-1943. [microform]

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Series 1, Subseries 8. Correspondence, 1940-1943. [microform]

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Include correspondence relating to social security protection; to federal mine safety inspection; to the extension of workmen's compensation to all interstate employees; to physical examinations for workers; to federal health and disability insurance; to the need for extending social security protection to farm workers; to a proposed joint meeting of the American Association for Labor Legislation and the Rural Sociological Society to discuss Mexican workers in the United States; and to wartime conditions; also condolence letters on the death of John B. Andrews. Major correspondents include Arthur J. Altmeyer, C. Clively, C. Edwin Gilmore; Merritt L. Gordon, Harold L. Ickes, Morris Leeds, and H. Pillsbury Style.

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Cornell University Library

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Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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Leeds, William M.

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Altmeyer, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1891-1972

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Administrator. From the description of Reminiscences of Arthur Joseph Altmeyer : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527063 ...

Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952

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Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946

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Clively, C.

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Green, William, 1870-1952

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American Association for Labor Legislation

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In 1905 a small group of economists formed the American Association for Labor Legislation. The group's initial purpose was the study of labor conditions and labor legislation in the United States. By 1909, however, under the leadership of John Andrews, this "study" group took an activist turn and began actively promoting, lobbying for, and effecting major changes in worker's compensation, occupational health and safety, and child labor laws. The legislative program of the AALL is defined and tra...

Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969

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Gilmore, C. Edwin.

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Witte, Edwin E. (Edwin Emil), 1887-1960

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Gordon, Merritt J., b. 1857.

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