Series 1, Subseries 6. Correspondence, 1930-1935 [microform].

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Series 1, Subseries 6. Correspondence, 1930-1935 [microform].

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Includes correspondence relating to workmen's compensation; to vocational rehabilitation; to lobbying for the regulation of fee-charging employment agencies; to the financial conditions of the Association; to social insurance; to pensions; to unemployment remedies; to unemployment relief bills; to the Association's survey of unemployment across the United States; to public works projects; to the Association's "American Plan for Unemployment Insurance"; to the Wagner Employment Bill; to the New York Conference for Unemployment Reserves Legislation; to the Wisconsin Commission for Unemployment Reserves Legislation; to unemployment reserves; to the Croweel vs. Benson decision; to a national system of public employment offices; to federal encouragement of state unemployment reserves; to workmen's compensation for railroad and interstate workers; to social security; to the question of state vs. national social insurance; to the United States Commission on Economic Security; and to the Railway Labor Executives' Association. Major correspondents include Arthur J. Altmeyer, Elizabeth Brandeis, Thomas L. Chadbourne, Joseph P. Chamberlain, John R. Commons, Grace L. Coyle, Miles M. Dawson, W.M. Doak, Walter F. Dodd, Dorothy J. Douglas, Ernest G. Draper, Mary E. Dreier, John A. Fitch, William Green, Robert M. La Follette, Isador Lubin, Thomas J. Parkinson, Frances Perkins, Railway Labor Executives' Association, Paul Raushenbush, Franklin D. Roosevelt, I.M. Rubinow, Rose Schneiderman, Eustace Seligman, Ida Tarbell, Robert F. Wagner, Fred Wilcox, Edwin E. Witte, and Leo Wolman. Other individuals and organizational correspondents of national significance or who wrote with some frequency include Mary Anderson (director, Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor); Felix Frankfurter; Olga Halsey (former American Association for Labor Legislation staff); John Randolph Haynes; Frank Hering (chairman, Fraternal Order of Eagles); Thomas Kennedy (president, United Mine Workers of America, District 7); New York Conference for Unemployment Insurance Legislation (John Fitch, chairman); Irene Sylvester (Mrs. Chubb); and United Mine Workers of America.

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