26 25-50 Years Travel to Convention in 1946

27 1938-1964 40th Anniversary of Workers’ Compensation Administration 1951 marked the 40th anniversary of workers’ compensation administration in the US. All 44 state legislatures that met in regular session in 1951 proposed amendments to workers’ compensation laws of their states and many bills were enacted into law. Seven of ten provinces of Canada also amended their workers’ compensation acts in 1951. IAIABC Resolutions Committee: Resolutions in the 1950s “Be it resolved [by the IAIABC] that the Bureau of Labor Standards of the United States Department of Labor . . . explore existing experience and problems encountered in application of workmen’s compensation laws to agricultural workers, to develop ways and means of stimulating interest among agricultural employers and others to bring about cover- age of hired farmworkers by workmen’s compensation laws and to report progress at the next convention.” 1950 1955 1958