Employment agencies -- United States

Records consist of correspondence, committee minutes, reports, financial records and research documents generated by staff members to facilitate legislative programs. These research materials deal with the following subjects: general labor law, general social insurance, health insurance, occupational safety, diseases and accidents, labor law administration, pensions and old age benefits, unemployment, wages, hours of work, working conditions, workers' compensation and unionism.

Files dealing with union difficulties with Communism during World War II and the McCarthy era.

The collection is composed of the minutes of the meetings of the Council and related materials for the years 1942, 1947, 1948, 1949, and 1950, but it is not complete. It contains reports of the New York State Department of Labor on employment agencies and unemployment, and a number of pamphlets on the various aspects of unemployment insurance.