Correspondence: 1909, Mar 22 - 1910, Mar 18., 1909-1910

The investigation into phosphorous poisoning continued and developed into the "Phossy Jaw" study. Interest arose in the Association in workmen's compensation and the Illinois 10-Hour Law, and John Andrews became the paid executive of the organization at about this time. Louis Brandeis wrote to Arthur Kellogg (5/26/09) about the pension bill of the Boston and Maine Railroad. The letter is significant for its early discussion of certain provisions which eventually were adopted into the American old age pension system. Correspondence during this period relates: to changes in legislation in regard to job hazards, insurance, employment office regulations, and child labor. The organization cooperated extensively with Brandeis and Josephine Goldmark in the preparation of material with which to fight defeat of the Illinois 10-Hour Law. Louis Brandeis expressed his gratitude to Andrews (11/30/09) for the information Andrews gathered for Brandeis' work on the 10-Hour case brief. John R. Commons wrote Henry W. Farnam (12/25/09), suggesting that the Association would do better to concern itself with active lobbying for measures it supported rather than with organizing. Since the state branches of the Association were not proving satisfactory. Commons thought that they should be discontinued. Early in 1910 the executive office was transferred to New York City where it remained for the life of the Association. In February John Andrews began to collect information on a contributory workmen's compensation insurance plan; and the Association continued to refine this plan for the next thirty years.