Correspondence: 1931, June 3 - Nov 10., 1931

The familiar themes of unemployment prevention, workmen's compensation for the South and the need of the AALL for financial support recur throughout this period. A form letter sent in early June (6/4/31) indicated that at the mid-year meeting which would be held in Minneapolis, the chief topic was to be the prevention of unemployment. In July a telegram to the AALL office from John Andrews (7/15/31) indicated that he was working in North Carolina on workmen's compensation legislation. Later, Andrews wrote Ernest Draper (8/31/31) that Cochrane was still working in the South, particularly in South Carolina. The Executive Secretary's correspondence with John R. Commons (8/14/31) and a letter from Paul Raushenbush discuss the AALL's sponsorship of an education program in Wisconsin on unemployment insurance, financed primarily by Raushenbush and Elizabeth Brandeis. In September (9/19/31) the program, called the Wisconsin Commission for Unemployment Reserve Legislation, accelerated.