American Association for Labor Legislation
131 East 23d St., New York City October 20, 1925.
My dear Miss Addams:
It was a great disappointment to me naturally that the article didn't materialize which we both hoped you could send me before the end of August.
But in view of recent important developments I'd like to think that circumstances have held you in reserve, so to speak, to write an article which I am most anxious to have in our forthcoming Review and which you can do best of all -- perhaps with only a little time and effort.
I hope you will permit me to suggest how I think you can at this time render the Association a great service.
You attended in Paris in 1900 the initial meeting of the Association for Labor Legislation. Just twenty-five years later, September, 1925, our old friends of the Association in all countries met at Berne and reorganized with an ambitious unified program to meet new conditions. The international associations of Labor Legislation, Unemployment, and Social Insurance have now been merged into a unified "International Association for Social Progress."
Our December Review will contain a report of the international amalgamation which in effect brings the other countries to the more effective unified plan of organization which was adopted long ago here in the United States through our American Association for Labor Legislation.
We would deeply appreciate for this same December Review an article by you reflecting your interest in the Association for Labor Legislation during its first quarter century and commenting upon the importance of work of this character and its significance in protecting the safety and health of working men and women in all industrial countries. [page 2]
To refresh your memory and to provide dates and specific items for your information and convenience we have prepared the enclosed suggestive memorandum. You may draw upon it in any way and as fully as you wish. I am sure you will feel that we are justified in including the brief outline of the practical achievements of our own organization during the nineteen years it has served as the American section of the international bodies. If you would like to have additional points looked up in this connection we will be most happy to send you the information promptly.
Now will you not try and find an hour in one of your busy days to give us the benefit of your reminiscences and your hopes concerning our particular work? It will be in sufficient time if we can have your article by the first week in November.
Very sincerely yours,
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