Correspondence: 1941, June 1 - 1945, Dec 31, n.d. , fragments., 1941-1945

Andrews wrote Morris Leeds and others (1/15/42) of his interest in regularizing the textile industry and stopping its practice of running three shifts for some weeks and then shutting down in others, The threat of the second world war was felt. Andrews cautioned the membership "to be watchful lest (by) their short-sighted good intention many of our labor laws be broken down" (2/1/42). Andrews complained to C. Edwin Gilmore (2/2/42) that "We are in a tidal sweep of federalization in the field of labor legislation." Plans for the annual meeting were discussed with Professor C. Clively in October (10/8/42), which suggested a joint meeting with the Rural Sociological Society on Mexican workers in the United States and the general need for extending social security protection to farm workers. One of Andrews' last letters in the collection, written shortly before his death, is to Barbara Peterson of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, explaining that for the first time the AALL's annual meeting would be cancelled ". . .on account of wartime conditions."