Correspondence: 1930, Jan 7 - May 31., 1930

John Andrews and some AALL staff members remained in the South, particularly in Florida and South Carolina, organizing support for workmen's compensation. Ida Tarbell requested background information (1/28/30) for an article on vocational rehabilitation. The Association's work in New York State was largely in the form of lobbying for control of fee-charging employment agencies. Andrews was discouraged by the long fight against such agencies and wrote Joseph Chamberlain (3/13/30) that if AALL could not get that bill passed this year, it might just as well give it up. Fred Wilcox, Chairman of the New York State Committee on Unemployment Problems, sent Andrews a copy of the committee's report (3/25/30). Financial conditions continued to create severe constraint on the Association's activity, and Thomas Chadbourne informed the Association (4/7/30) that he would not be able to renew his annual gift of $10,000. A mid-year meeting was held in conjunction with the National Con-ference of Social Work. The AALL's program included workmen's compensation, social insurance, old age pensions and unemployment remedies. April through June saw concentrated work on the unemployment relief bills that Robert Wagner had introduced. Wagner informed Andrews (5/28/30) that these bills should be passed before the Association's unemployment insurance bill was introduced.