American Association for Labor Legislation. Series 1, Subseries 3. Correspondence, 1915-1920 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Includes 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