American Association for Labor Legislation. Series 1, Subseries 3. Correspondence, 1915-1920.

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American Association for Labor Legislation. Series 1, Subseries 3. Correspondence, 1915-1920.

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Include letters relating to the passage of the Hughes-Esch bill; to prohibiting phosphorous in matches; to health insurance; to relief of unemployment through public works; to workmen's compensation; to unemployment insurance; to methods of reporting accidents on the job and occupational disease; in support of a federal museum of safety; of standards legislation in the compressed air industry; and of cleanliness regulations for lead workers. A six-day workweek is advocated in the correspondence as is the three-shift system. Reorganization of state labor bureaus, especially in Kentucky, Maryland, and New Jersey are discussed, as is the use of labor laws in wartime; war emergency measures; the Robinson-Keating bill; the Federal Public Employment Service; amendments to workmen's compensation legislation which would exclude profit-making insurance carriers; coal mine safety; universal health insurance for workers; a minimum wage for women; and maternity insurance. Also addressed is the Donahue-Davenport health insurance bill; attacks on health insurance as being "un-American" by the New York League for Americanism and the Association's efforts to combat such opposition; and the Sterling-Lehlbach (federal workers' retirement) bill. There are, in addition, reports by I.M. Rubinow on the Zionist movement in Palestine. Major correspondents include Charles Barnes, Stephen Bauer, Middleton Beaman, Milton Fairchild, Henry B. Favill, Irving Fisher, S.S. Goldwater, Samuel Gompers, John Randolph Haynes, Frederick L. Hoffman, Edward Keating, Alexander Lambert, V.E. Macy, James Maurer, Royal Meeker, Frances Perkins, Joseph Robinson, I.M. Rubinow, Sophy Sanger, Henry R. Seager, and Irene Sylvester Chubb. Other individual and organizational correspondents of national significance or who wrote with some frequency include the American Federation of Labor; British Medical Association; Joseph P. Chamberlain; Samuel Gompers (president, American Federation of Labor); Paul U. Kellogg (director, "Pittsburgh Survey", CHARITIES AND THE COMMONS); Samuel McCune Lindsay (secretary, National Child Labor Committee, president, American Association for Labor Legislation, staff director, Republican National Committee); Walter Lippmann; Meyer London; Irene Osgood Andrews; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; and the Royal Meeker Commission.

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