Download or read book Proceedings of the First American Meeting written by American Association for La Legislation and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the First American Meeting: America Association for Labor Legislation Madison Wis;, December 30-31, 1907 The American Section of the International Association for Labor Legislation was organized February 15, 1906. Previous to this time Hon.Carroll D. Wright, then United States Commissioner of Labor, was the American Representative of the Association. There were seven American correspondents of the International Association, namely, Professors Farnam, Jenks, Taussig, Warner, Willoughby, Mr. Clinton Rogers Woodruff, and Dr. Adna F. Weber, of the Department of Labor, New York. In October, 1905, Dr. Weber addressed a letter to the other correspondents concerning the advisability of organizing a Section, and a meeting was called for December, 1905. At this meeting, held in connection with the American Economic Association, it was decided toorganize an American Section, and a committee was appointed, consisting of Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Henry W. Farnam, Henry R. Seager, Richard T. Ely, with Adna F. Weber as Chairman. Dr. Weber called a general meeting for February 15, 1906. About thirty-five persons were present at this meeting and a definite organization was formed, with Richard T. Ely as President, Adna F. Weber, Secretary, and Isaac N. Seligman as Treasurer. It was voted to have nine vice-presidents, and a General Administrative Council, consisting of twenty-five members. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.