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Box 5

 Container

Contains 54 Results:

Unemployment Insurance - New York City, 1934

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents

Mr. Epstein's opinion on the Municipal Assembly Bill on unemployment insurance

Dates: 1934

Unemployment Insurance - Byrne-Killgrew Bill (New York State), 1935

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents

Letters from the AASS requesting its delegates to bring as many persons as possible to the hearing on unemployment insurance held in Albany in 1935; major union leaders were requested to do the same (i.e. David Dubinsky); letters from the AASS urging their friends to pressure two particular Senators (Dunnigan and Byrne) for passage of the bill, many of these letters are included

Dates: 1935

Unemployment Insurance - New York - Complaints, 1938-1941

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents

Letters from dissatisfied New Yorkers who are not receiving the unemployment benefits they feel they should, or have been promised; replies from the AASS - most of which admit helplessness until the state law is simplified by amendment

Dates: 1938-1941

Unemployment Insurance - New Jersey, 1934-1942

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Katherine Wiley of the Consumers League of New Jersey, Vincent Murphy, of the New Jersey Federation of Labor, and others re passage of a state law on unemployment insurance and the guidance the AASS could provide; also, Mr. Epstein's appearance before the Unemployment Compensation Commission of New Jersey in which he outlined many proposals and answered questions; general correspondence with officials of the Commission

Dates: 1934-1942

Unemployment Insurance - New Hampshire, 1934-1940

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Herman Feldman, Chairman of the New Hampshire Commission on Unemployment reserves, re federal legislation on unemployment insurance and New Hampshire's own bill; correspondence with the Unemployment Compensation Division of the Bureau of Labor re reports being sent to Mr. Epstein for comment; related correspondence with Mr. Feldman re his appointment to the Commission and his views on unemployment insurance

Dates: 1934-1940

Unemployment Insurance Division - Nebraska, 1937

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents

Nebraska. Correspondence re a request from the Unemployment Compensation Division of Nebraska for articles on unemployment compensation laws of the states; reply from the AASS

Dates: 1937

Unemployment Insurance - Missouri, 1937-1940

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents

Criticism from Robert Cummins, Chief of Research and Statistics on Missouri's Unemployment Compensation Commission over the interpretation of unemployment insurance by the AASS's Social Security; reply by the AASS; criticism of the Social Security review of the Missouri Unemployment Commission from Andrew Murphy, Chairman of the Commission; correction of a Social Security article on the Missouri legislative situation, from a member of the Missouri Senate

Dates: 1937-1940

Unemployment Insurance - Michigan, 1937-1940

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with the Michigan Unemployment Compensation re the Majority Report of the Interstate Conference Committee on Experience Rating; also, a letter suggesting the AASS hire Dr. Otto Neuberger for a research position

Dates: 1937-1940

Unemployment Insurance - Massachusetts, 1933-1941

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents Correspondence with the Mass. Unemployment Compensation Commission re biographical sketches of its members and requests for info.; Mr. Epstein's criticisms of the Federal Social Security; Act; the AFL's Resolution on Unemployment Insurance (1934) ; correspondence re state efforts to establish unemployment bills - especially with John McLaren, Chairman of the Workers' Education Council; company reserves plan vs. single state pooled funds is hotly debated in unemployment legislation;...
Dates: 1933-1941

Townsend, Fr. F.E. (Townsend Plan), 1934

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

Letter from Dr. Townsend, president of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd., asking Bishop Francis (Pres. of the AASS) for his opinion of a plan for universal old age pensions; Francis's reply is included

Dates: 1934