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16 Am. Lab. Legis. Rev. 5 (1926)
Legislative Notes

handle is hein.journals/alablegr16 and id is 7 raw text is: Legislative Notes THE standard bill for rock dusting coal mines to prevent coal dust explosions-prepared as an aid to state legislation by the American Association for Labor Legislation as a result of conferences with public officials, labor officials, mining engineers and safety experts-has been introduced by Assemblyman William B. Belknap in the Kentucky legis- iature. 0 AN editorial in the New York World, January 3, under the heading Our Learned Societies, remarks: How many of them are there, anyway? Right here in this city have met the American Economic Association, the Association for Labor Legislation, the Political Science Association and the American Sociological Society. The American Association for the Advancement of Science has sent columns of news from Kansas City. The Modern Language Association met in Chicago. The Amer- ican Historical Association met in Ann Arbor. These are only half of the major luminaries twinkling in the holiday sky; * * * Once the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the most ven- erable of all, dared to grapple with physics, chemistry, biology and all the other branches. 'Sections' were established to give expert attention to diverse fields, and the sections grew into independent associations. * * * The paradoxical fact is that the more specialized these bodies become the more attention the public gives them. * * * Knowledge is not crying aloud unheard. 0 THE Fitzgerald bill (H. R. 487) to provide workmen's accident insur- ance for wage-earners in private employments in the District of Col- umbia was approved February 27 by the sub-committee on insurance of the House District committee. The Underhill bill, brought forward as a substitute on behalf of commercial insurance companies, received the support only of Representative Underhill himself and one other member, also from Massachusetts. The Fitzgerald bill was reported to the full committee on March 3, and this committee, for the third time, favored the Fitzgerald bill, but immediate submission of a favorable report to the House was blocked by Underhill. 0 ON February 8 a bill passed in the House of Representatives providing for mothers' pensions for the District of Columbia, to be administered through a Mothers' Aid Board. FivE counties in Wisconsin have accepted the provisions of the state old age pension law of 1925. In Milwaukee county, the center of the

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