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Scope and Contents The Association continued to devote its work in November and December to the ever increasing problems of unemployment, with a renewed interest in public works projects to reduce the ranks of the jobless. John Andrews, John Fitch, Grace Coyle, Mary Drier, Rose Schneiderman, and many others formed a committee to push unemployment insurance in the New York State legislature under the auspices of the AALL. Governor Roosevelt requested John Andrews' concrete proposals to fight unemployment...