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Show III LAWS IN OF . COUNTRY j NEW YORK. Dec. 25. Labor stand-jards stand-jards in tho peace treaty and after-war measures for demobilisation of sol-jdicrs. sol-jdicrs. sailors and munition workers and their re-absorption into industry 'with adequate protections against un-j un-j employment, accident and sickness, (Will bo discussed at the twelfth annual meeting of the American Association for Labor Legislation, to be held in Richmond, Va., December 27-2S. it was announced at the headquarters here today. "Problems of labor reconstruction. ( now suddenly upon us, will have undivided undi-vided consideration at this year's I meeting," says Secretary John B. Andrews. An-drews. "During the war protective ! standards for labor won state and fed-eral fed-eral recognition as a sound basis upon ! which to secure increased output and (maintain the fitness and efficiency of . the industrial army With the return of peace the United States, in preparing prepar-ing for the coming tests of economic self-reliance, is now called upon to adopt legislative protections for the workers at least equal to the minimum i protections extended to labor m allied j countries, again our friendly rivals in ! (he world's markets. Among the measures meas-ures pressing for immediate action arc j the , vocational rehabilitation of crippled crip-pled industrial workers as provided in I.Iia Onill. T-..1.1 J ,i j me- oiiin.ii-ijiinh.ucau Din jiuw perming ; in congress, the further development ( i by legislation of a federal suite em-1 i ployment service on an adequate per- manent basis as a safeguard against I ever-recurring unemployment crisis, J and the early enactment by the states i of workmen's health insurance laws to bring about a health first movement ' similar to the safety first campaign stimulated by workmen's compensation Legislation." wProf Samuel McCune Lindsay of Columbia, Co-lumbia, now serving with the bureau of war risk insurance, in his presidential presiden-tial address will discuss next steps in social insurance in the United States j With particular reference to the grow-1 ing movement for state-administered j health insurance, along the lines of the Lloyd George act in England. At the session to be devoted to problems prob-lems of demobilization, Hugh Frayne, I chairman of the labor division of the I war industries board, will discuss the practical aspect of mustering out the war workers. International phases of labor reconstruction, recon-struction, particularly the demand of inter-allied labor conferences for the inclusion of a universal minimum of protective standards in the final agreement, will be considered at the meeting, with papers on "Labor n the Peace Treaty" by John T. Andrews, secretary of 1hc assocation, and on "Constitutional Considerations." by Major Thomas I. Parkinson, director of the Legislative Drafting Department Depart-ment at Columbia University, and Dean William Draper Lewis, of Phila- flplnhin TTnllnM-in ry o r, be devoted to "the psychology of labor unrest," with addresses by Robert B! Wolf of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, Corpo-ration, and Prof. Edward A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin. Federal and state officials will participate par-ticipate in, a round-table discussion of workmen's compensation In relation to crippled industrial workers, now pressing for immediate consideration with the return of disabled soldiers and sailors and the prospects of early passage of legislation to provide vocational vo-cational rehabilitation for maimed victims of industrial accidents. Brier reports will be made by George P. Hambrecht, chairman of tho Wisconsin Wiscon-sin Industrial Commission; C. A. Pressor, Pres-sor, director of the Federal Board for Vocational Education; V. Otis Robertson, Robert-son, director, Vocational Training division. di-vision. Massachusetts Industrial Accident Acci-dent Board; Harry A. Mackey, chairman chair-man of the Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation board; P;iul II. Douglas, of Reed College, Portland, Oregon -Lee Scott of the West Virginia Workmen's Work-men's Compensation Commission; R. M. Little, director . of the American Museum of Safety, former chairman of the United States Workmen's Compensation Com-pensation Commission; and John Mitchell, chairman of the New York Industrial Commission. |