Correspondence: 1915, Mar 9 - Aug 18., 1915

Andrews continued to work daily on health insurance. Most of the correspondence deals with this bill. At the end of May, Samuel Gompers resigned as Associate Vice President. There is commentary on this event from several people, including an undated letter (circa June) from Milton Fairchild to Henry Seager, in which he reports that: "Gompers says he has changed the name of the Association to the Ameri-can Association for the Assassination of Labor Legislation." John Andrews' letter to James Maurer (7/12/15) is an excellent example of the strategy employed by the Association in exploiting emo-tions to explain the need for their legislation. This letter deals with the death of two "sand hogs" who were buried alive in an accident that "...could not have occurred if our bill for the protection of compressed air workers had been in force in Pennsylvania." On August 9, a series of letters and a questionnaire on relief of unemployment through public work was sent out. Replies were received for the next several months.