Correspondence: 1928, Mar 19 - 1928, Sept 30., 1928

The passage of the Fitzgerald Bill providing workmen's compensation for private employees in the District of Columbia was the highlight of the spring and summer. Merger of the AALL and the AAOAS was still advocated by Paul Douglass and by I. M. Rubinow and Stephen Wise, who were longtime advisers of Andrews. Before the Fitzgerald Bill was enacted, Margaret Hobbs James had succeeded to the position of AALL lobbyist. Andrews congratulated her on the bill's enactment (5/14/28) and the following day assigned her to work on the Jones Bill for the vocational rehabilitation of industrial cripples. The Ribnik vs. McBride decision of the Supreme Court upset the AALL's efforts to regulate private fee-charging employment agencies. There is correspondence with Robert Wagner which leads to his intro-duction in Congress of an AALL-drafted bill providing for public em-ployment bureaus. Andrews wrote Sophy Sanger (7/18/28) that he would be attending some of the international social workers conferences in Paris in July, and hoped to spend some time after that in Britain gathering material on British labor law administration. On his return in September, he wrote to Frank Hering of the Eagles, proposing that they undertake a joint study of old age pension systems in New York State.