With the country engaged in the greatest war of its history, there was little time or occasion for adopting new labor laws or amending the old. Such changes as occurred in the labor laws of the country were the result of decisions of war administrative agencies, such as the rulings of the War Labor Board affecting wages and the closed shop, and of state labor administrations, which suspended or modified state labor laws regulating the work of women and children in order to ease the existing severe shortages of labor.
Pending recommendations for expanding the country's social insurance system were again held in abeyance. It was known that the Social Security Administration and other agencies had submitted to the President voluminous reports on the subject and recommendations for improving and elaborating the system. But presumably it was not considered advisable to push the matter during war-time. The publication in the fall of 1942 of the Beveridge report, embodying plans for a thoroughgoing reorganization and expansion of British social insurance stimulated new interest in the whole question in this country and made it certain that some action in this direction would be taken either before the war ended or early in the post-war years.
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