Tuck School Conference

Some 200 industrial and political leaders of New Hampshire gathered in Hanover on November 16 for the Conference on Unemployment Insurance sponsored by the Tuck School. Dr. Paul H. Douglas, nationally known economist from the University of Chicago, and Thomas H. Eliot, associate solicitor of the United States Department of Labor, delivered the main addresses of the Conference, which was enlivened by constant bickering between Communist and American Federation of Labor representatives.

The Conference was organized to provide an open discussion on unemployment insurance, which seems likely to be enacted by the New Hampshire Legislature. The report of the New Hampshire Commission on Unemployment Reserves, of which Professor Herman Feldman of Tuck School as chairman, was interpreted and debated in the session following the addresses of the day. Dean William R. Gray of Tuck School presided over the first half of the Conference, and the general discussion was presided over by Eliot A. Carter, member of the New Hampshire Commission.