Correspondence: 1916, Jan 1 - Apr 21., 1916

John Andrews sent Samuel McCune Lindsay the tentative program for 1916 (1/7/16), providing an excellent synopsis of the year's work. The program on social insurance was to stress workmen's compensation, health insurance and unemployment insurance. Accident and disease reporting, support for the federal bill for a Museum of Safety, and the urging of passage of the standard bill for compressed air workers and a cleanliness bill for lead workers were to dominate the industrial safety and hygiene phase of the Association's work. To meet the abuses of the so-called continuous industries, a one-day-rest-in-seven bill was advocated, as was the three-shift system. Finally, the Association was to urge reorganization of state labor bureaus, especially in Kentucky, Maryland, and New Jersey, as a means of making the administration of existent labor legislation more effective. The health insurance standard bill was introduced in Albany and Boston. John Randolph Haynes approached Andrews (1/29/16) and volunteered a substantial contribution if the AALL would make coal mine safety the first priority of its program. Through May, Royal Meeker, Middleton Beaman, and others worked with the Association in urging passage of the Kern-McGillicuddy Bill (workmen's compensation for District of Columbia). In April, Andrews testified before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Labor in favor of the establishment of a Commission for Investigating Social Insurance. Frederick Hoffman resigned from the Association in a letter to Irving Fisher, in protest against the AALL's insistence upon compulsory health insurance.