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| Creator: | Consumers League of New Jersey |
| Title: | Consumers League of New Jersey Records |
| Dates: | 1896-1988, bulk 1908-1979 |
| Quantity: | circa 55.4 cubic feet (53 record center cartons, 2 wide manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 phase boxes) |
| Abstract: | The Consumers League of New Jersey was established in 1900 as an affiliate of the National Consumers' League by a group of middle-class women seeking to improve the working conditions of women and children in industry through public education and legislative action. It sought reform through child labor laws, through minimum wage and maximum hour laws and through legislation regulating factory, retail, household and migrant working conditions, including mandated improvements in workplace health standards and safety. While continuing to fight to consolidate earlier achievements, the organization shifted its agenda during the 1960s and 1970s to issues such as consumer credit, consumer fraud, food prices, the use of pesticides and food additives, national health insurance and environmental pollution. The League's records consist of executive committee minutes; annual meeting files; president's files; executive secretary's files; legislative files; financial and membership records; child labor files; consumer credit files; Medicare and Medicaid files; migratory labor files; minimum wage files; pesticides files; radiation poisoning files; workers' compensation files; subject files for other areas of concern; anniversary celebration files; biographical and historical files, including a compiled history through 1950; consumer conferences files; publications, including publications from national and other state leagues and organizations; Consumer Education Foundation files; Consumer Federation of America files; photographs; and scrapbooks. |
| Collection No.: | MC 1090 |
| Access: | Stored offsite. Advance notice of two working days required to consult bulk of collection. (Only oversize scrapbooks in boxes 56-58, plus the oversize materials in box 59, available without advance notice.) Listening to audio recordings included is dependent both on their condition and on the availability of appropriate playback equipment. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Rutgers University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives |
Background, Membership and Organizational Structure
The National Consumers' League, with its state and city affiliates, was founded in 1899 by Florence Kelley. Its founders believed that consumers should be aware of the conditions under which the goods they buy are produced. Its members crusaded against industrial practices and the exploitation of women and children. Initially, it operated through research, study, publicity and propaganda to educate the public, but soon began to campaign for legislative action. (1)
One of the most active of the state leagues was the Consumers League of New Jersey, founded in 1900 in East Orange. The Consumers League of New Jersey was a small organization of middle-class women who lived in the major cities and towns of northern New Jersey. These women believed that they had the responsibility of representing the interests of their working-class sisters, who did not have the resources to represent themselves. The organization never had a large number of members; the high point was 675 in 1922. (2) It was run by a volunteer Board, President (3) and ad-hoc committees based around important issues; the Executive Secretary, who was paid a small salary, ran the day-to-day operations of the organization. The influence of the League, however, was disproportionate to its modest size and structure.
Factory Investigations and Reform in the Retail Trade
During its early years, the Consumers League of New Jersey investigated the sanitary and working conditions in factories to see if they warranted the National Consumers' League label. (4) Another early campaign sought to improve working conditions in the retail industry. Beginning in 1901 and continuing until the First World War, the League held a massive publicity campaign to convince people to do their Christmas shopping early, in order to alleviate the hardships that clerks faced in the days leading up to Christmas. During this period the League also tried to convince people to shop early, particularly during the hot summer months, and pressured merchants to close by 5:00 p.m., allowing shop assistants to go home at a reasonable hour. When League members discovered shop assistants were not allowed to sit down, they sponsored a bill in the State Legislature requiring seats in stores, which was finally passed in 1911. (5)
Protective Legislation for Working Women and Minimum Wage Laws
During this early period, the League also investigated the conditions under which women factory workers were laboring. Partly in response to League pressure, Senator Walter Edge introduced a bill reducing the maximum hours for women workers in stores, bakeries, laundries and factories from twelve to ten per day. The bill was passed after a major publicity campaign by the League including a survey of physicians who concluded that the "long hours of toil menaced the health of the next generation." (6) During the First World War, League president Juliet Cushing investigated women's night work in the munitions industry and in the Passaic woolen mills: her findings revealed that women night workers felt themselves to be in danger, they were being paid less than men, and their children suffered from delinquency and undernourishment. The League campaigned for the Night Work Bill (1923) which prohibited women from working in factories, laundries and bakeries between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Nothing was done to enforce the law, however, so the League sponsored a penalty clause bill every year until one was passed in 1937. (7)
In their factory inspections, the members of the Consumers League also became aware of the low wages earned by women workers. In 1923, the League was asked by the Labor Department to survey the cost of living for women workers. They discovered that half of the women were making less than was needed to support themselves, let alone the families which many of them were helping to sustain. Based on this study, a bill was introduced in the State Legislature to establish a permanent Minimum Wage Commission. Progress on the bill was stalled, however, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared a Washington, D.C., minimum wage law unconstitutional. In response, the National Consumers' League drew up a Model State Law, which was adopted in New Jersey and for which the League began to actively campaign.
In 1933, the State Legislature passed a law for women and children in factories, stores, bakeries and laundries which provided for wage boards to set rates in specific industries based on the cost of living. Appropriations for the first wage board were only secured, under pressure from the League, in 1937. Helena Simmons, former President and Executive Secretary of the League, became chairman of the first board, the Laundry Board, which recommended increased wages and eliminated distinctions between white and African-American workers in the laundry industry. Simmons also administered a team of 300 housewives who conducted another cost of living survey (1938) which provided the basis for succeeding wage orders. The minimum wage was gradually extended to other industries, including restaurants, beauty shops, light manufacturing, outer wear, and cleaning and dyeing establishments. (8)
The League's support for limitations on hours and night work for women led to conflict with the National Woman's Party which had introduced an equal rights amendment to the federal constitution in the early 1920s. (9) The League feared that passage of the ERA would invalidate the protective legislation for which it had worked so hard. For instance, in 1922, Mrs. R.A. Irving of Haddonfield was asked to resign from the Executive Committee because of her public stand in favor of the National Woman's Party and the ERA. Although she defended herself, the other members insisted that she resign. (10) The League continued to support the hours and night work restrictions until they were repealed in 1968. (11)
The Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (1938), which applied to both men and women, set minimum wages and maximum hours for workers in interstate commerce. In 1939, Consumers League, League of Women Voters of New Jersey, and other organizations supported a bill (which was defeated) to bring wages of men and women working in intrastate commerce in line with those covered by federal law. (12) In the 1950s, the League formed another inter-organization committee which again campaigned for a state wage and hour bill. At the same time, the League continued to support wage orders in individual industries and entered amicus curiae briefs in several cases when industries attempted to have the orders declared unconstitutional. The objective of a full coverage Wage and Hour Law was achieved in 1966. (13)
Industrial Home Work
The League was also concerned with the welfare of women who worked in the home. In 1905, League Executive Secretary Elizabeth Butler investigated home work being sent out by button factories in Newark and discovered that home workers were being paid less that women doing the same work in factories. Furthermore, licensing standards requiring the inspection of homes were not being enforced, so that some homes were becoming breeding grounds for disease. In fact, Butler herself died of tuberculosis which she contracted through her investigations. It was only in 1917, after the "powder puff scandal," where infantile paralysis was linked to homes where children were employed making powder puffs, that the Consumers League was able to have legislation introduced which required the regular inspection of homes by the Labor Department or local health officer. (14)
In the following years, the League continued to investigate abuses in industrial home work, maintaining a publicity campaign which included displaying items made by women and children home workers at women's clubs and meetings throughout the state. In 1941, years of pressure from the League finally led to the passage of a new bill which regulated wages, required the licensing of employers and home workers and prohibited children under 16 from working. (15)
Industrial Diseases and Workers' Compensation
In the 1920s, Consumers League of New Jersey entered a new area of concern: industrial health. In 1923-1924, Executive Secretary Katherine Wiley investigated lead poisoning among pottery workers in Trenton. (16) The League sponsored a silicosis bill in 1927, and, in 1929, investigated a case of mercury poisoning at a hat factory in Belleville. The most spectacular campaign in which the League was involved during this period was the fight to have radium necrosis recognized as a compensable disease under the Workmen's Compensation Act. During the First World War, young women at the U.S. Radium Corporation in Orange, New Jersey, were employed painting luminous dial watches with a radium material. Apparently, the women were directed to point up their brushes with their tongues, imbibing radioactive paint. After the war, it was discovered that these women were dying of anemia and a disease called radium necrosis which ate away their jawbones. (17) The initial investigation was made by Katherine Wiley, who was called in by the family of one of the women in 1924. (18) Radium necrosis was not, however, one of the nine compensable diseases recognized by the State Workmen's Compensation Board, so the victims had to go through the court system to receive damages. The League campaigned successfully to have radium necrosis added to the list in 1926, which was too late, however, to benefit women who had suffered from radium poisoning before the law was passed. The League aided them with their law suits until 1935, when all proceedings for damages against U.S. Radium were stopped. One of the last victims of radiation poisoning from the Orange plant died in 1969.
In 1944, Dr. Alice Hamilton, a Harvard professor and pioneer in industrial health, who had recently been elected chair of the National Consumers' League, urged the New Jersey League to lobby for a compensation bill covering all industrial diseases. In response, Consumers League of New Jersey established an inter-organization committee to lobby for such an act in the State Legislature. In 1947, Dorothy Burns, an employee of the Westinghouse Corporation, brought suit against her employer for beryllium poisoning; beryllium was used for coating fluorescent tubes. Although Burns died before the suit could be settled, the case proved a catalyst for the new bill, which was signed in 1949, making all industrial diseases compensable and extending the time during which workers could discover illness. There were still exceptions, however: the League fought against the exclusion of silicosis, asbestosis and occupational hernias, which was repealed by 1951. (19)
Child Labor Legislation
The Consumers League was also a leader in the campaign against child labor which culminated in the Child Labor Act of 1940. As early as 1902, Consumers League investigated children working in the glass industry in South Jersey and in the mills of the Passaic Valley textile region. At that time, the minimum age was twelve, which could be suspended if a family was poor. (20) The League's publicity campaign contributed to the passage of the 1904 Child Labor Law, and of legislation in 1911 which prohibited children from working in certain dangerous trades, the definition of which was expanded in 1914. (21) In 1930, the League sponsored a bill which extended the prohibition from working in "dangerous trades" to 16 and 17 year olds, which was eventually passed in 1933. The comprehensive Child Labor Law of 1940, which restricted hours, prohibited night work, and raised the age limit, was made possible through a large inter-organization committee chaired by Mary Dyckman of the Consumers League. After its passage, the League had to fight many attempts to weaken the law. (22)
Migrant Labor Reforms
The issue of child labor was closely tied to that of migrant labor, because, during the early part of the century, many children worked as migrant laborers on farms. Consumers League first addressed this issue in 1905, with the publication of Mina C. Ginger's "In Berry Field and Bog." (23) In 1927, the League sponsored a bill to prohibit the employment of children while school was in session. After the passage of the Child Labor Law in 1940, the League turned its attention to adult migrant labor. Many African-American families from the southern states were coming to New Jersey to work. A League investigation found appalling conditions in the potato-growing areas of central New Jersey. Along with church and civic organizations, the League formed the Inter-Organization Migrant Committee which prepared a brief on migrant conditions which was presented to Governor Edge in 1944. The brief described unsanitary conditions in some migrant camps: "In one place visitors stopped to speak to a woman preparing supper. She held a limp black piece of food in her hand. When she shook her hand, the black color proved to be a solid mass of flies on a piece of raw fish." (24) The brief helped lead to the Migrant Labor Act of 1945, which set up a Migrant Division of the Labor Department and created the Migrant Labor Board (the two public representatives on the Board were also members of the League Executive Committee until the 1950s) to regulate and investigate the use and treatment of migrants. The League continued to advocate and lobby for migrant workers well into the 1960s, as more foreign labor from Puerto Rico, Mexico and the British West Indies entered New Jersey.
Food Safety, Environmental Concerns and Consumer Credit
Although the Consumers League of New Jersey continued to fight to consolidate earlier legislative achievements, during the 1960s and 1970s its agenda shifted toward issues related to personal consumption and the environment, such as the inspection of food, the use of pesticides, pollution, consumer fraud, food additives, and packaging requirements, as well as a major campaign to protect consumers from extortionate credit schemes.
Under the presidency of Nancy Hawkins (1961-1963), the League was active in support of Truth-in-Lending legislation. The Chairman of the League's Consumer Affairs Committee, Dr. Irene Oppenheim, testified in favor of the Truth-in-Lending Bill introduced in the U.S. Congress by Senator Paul Douglass. The League also continued to be active at the state level. Lois Guthrie, who succeeded Oppenheim, campaigned against the Small Loan Bill, because the interest rate stated in the bill did not correspond to the true annual interest rate based on a declining balance over time. In 1963, the Board of Consumers League formed a special Consumer Credit Committee which was chaired by Susanna Zwemer's brother George A. Peirce, a retired engineer and mathematician. The League's Board adopted a list of objectives:
George Peirce worked tirelessly, attending every session of the Legislature and constantly drafting and redrafting amendments and bills. With the help of sympathetic Governor Richard J. Hughes, all the objectives were achieved in a six year period (1964-1970). (25)
Activities in the 1970s and Beyond
In 1971, Consumers League of New Jersey organized the Consumer Education Foundation to conduct workshops, conferences and other educational programs in the field of consumer protection. Projects included the Consumer Consultant Training Program, which was designed to educate consumers to be aware of fraud and abuses. As well as sponsoring research projects and publications, the Foundation assembled and maintained a research library, named for League member Mary Cross, which was used by students at local colleges.
By the 1980s, the scope and activities of the Consumers League of New Jersey was shrinking. The Foundation was dissolved in 1980. The League itself suffered from a decline in membership, the aging of longtime members and financial problems. In addition, many of the League's functions had been gradually taken over by government agencies and other consumer groups. By 1997, it still published a quarterly newsletter and several pamphlets (including one giving a list of low interest credit cards) and occasionally testified before the State Legislature.
(1) Clarke A. Chambers, Seedtime of Reform: American Social Service and Social Action, 1918-1933 (Westport, CT: 1963), p. 4-6.
(2) Felice Gordon, After Winning: The Legacy of the New Jersey Suffragists, 1920-1947 (New Brunswick, NJ: 1986), p. 60.
(3) A list of the Consumers League of New Jersey's Presidents, with the dates of their service, is included as an appendix to this document.
(4) Consumers League of New Jersey, Fiftieth Anniversary Booklet, 1950.
(5) Susanna P. Zwemer, "History of Consumers League of New Jersey," unpublished manuscript, 1950.
(6) Fiftieth Anniversary Booklet.
(10) Minutes of the Executive Committee (June 2, 1922), Box 1, Folder 1.
(13) Susanna P. Zwemer to Donald Sinclair (August 25, 1966).
(18) Report of the Secretary (June 6, 1924), Box 7, Folder 9.
(19) Claudia Clark, "Glowing in the Dark: the Radium Dialpainters, the Consumers' League, and Industrial Health Reform in the United States, 1910-1935" (Rutgers University Ph.D. dissertation, 1991), p. 374-375. Subsequently published as Radium Girls (Chapel Hill, NC, 1997).
(21) Philip Charles Newman, The Labor Legislation of New Jersey (Washington, D.C., 1943), p. 85.
(23) Reprinted in Lydio F. Tomasi, ed. The Italian in America: the Progressive View, 1891-1914 (New York, 1978), p. 271-277.
(24) Consumers League of New Jersey, Brief Concerning Labor Camps for Migrants in New Jersey, 1944.
(25) Susanna Peirce Zwemer, "Reminiscences of the Consumer Credit Committee."
The Consumers League of New Jersey records consist of approximately 55.4 cubic feet of material, spanning the period 1896 to 1988, with the bulk dating from 1908 to 1979. The collection also includes the records of a subordinate organization, the Consumer Education Foundation, and a file of copies of selected records of the Consumer Federation of America, of which Consumers League was a member. Most of the collection is in paper format, comprising correspondence, minutes, reports, newspaper clippings, publications and scrapbooks. Other formats are photographs (stored together) and a few audiotapes (located in the MIGRATORY LABOR FILES).
The bulk of the Consumers League of New Jersey records is divided into three categories: administrative, subject and historical.
The administrative records (7.7 cubic feet including oversize items) are in the form of EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES, ANNUAL MEETING FILES, PRESIDENT'S FILES, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY'S FILES, LEGISLATIVE FILES, and FINANCIAL AND MEMBERSHIP RECORDS. These files document the operation of Consumers League. They largely consist of correspondence, minutes and reports. Of particular interest are the Executive Secretary's Reports (1914-1915, 1921-1935 and 1939-1942), which give a detailed summary of the League's work. The President's Files overlap with those of the Executive Secretary, as both individuals answered mail which came to the League's office. The Executive Secretary dealt with the day-to-day business of the League and was paid a small salary. The EXECUTIVE SECRETARY'S FILES and the PRESIDENT'S FILES also overlap with the LEGISLATIVE FILES. These files, which also include the files of the Vice-President for Legislation, are all concerned with legislative campaigns in support of League objectives.
The subject category records (40.9 cubic feet including oversize items) document the League's legislative and publicity campaigns, as well as issues which the League monitored. Subjects which have at least a cubic foot of documentation constitute separate record series (MIGRATORY LABOR FILES, MINIMUM WAGE FILES, etc.) while subjects for which there is less documentation are arranged alphabetically within the SUBJECT FILES (10.5 cubic feet). These series, which pertain to the full range of subjects in which the League was interested, mostly contain documents generated by League committees such as the Child Labor and Workmen's Compensation Committees. This material includes minutes, correspondence, reports, legislative bills, and reference materials such as publications from other organizations. There is a great deal of overlap between series. For instance, material about industrial diseases, particularly the radium necrosis cases at the U.S. Radium Corporation in Orange, New Jersey, can be found in the RADIATION POISONING FILES, WORKERS' COMPENSATION FILES and the Occupational Diseases heading in the SUBJECT FILES. Information about child labor can be found in the MIGRATORY LABOR FILES, since many children worked as migrant laborers, and, in cases concerning injuries to minors, in WORKERS' COMPENSATION FILES. Finally, material about the League's opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment can be found in the PRESIDENT'S FILES as well as in the SUBJECT FILES.
The historical materials (4.85 cubic feet including oversize items) comprise files the League kept on its own history (ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FILES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL FILES), files on League conferences in the 1960s, and files of League publications, photographs and scrapbooks. There is some duplication between the BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL FILES and subject records, because the biographical files document some of the work individuals did in the League as well as in other organizations. The ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FILES also include historical materials that were displayed or otherwise used to celebrate League anniversaries. The publications include a partial run of the League's Bulletin, as well as duplicates of some publications found in the subject records. Publications are divided into two series: PUBLICATIONS, published by the Consumers League of New Jersey, and PUBLICATIONS FROM NATIONAL AND OTHER STATE LEAGUES AND ORGANIZATIONS, which were received from other consumer organizations and kept for reference purposes. Photographs were removed from the BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL FILES and ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FILES, as well as from the subject series, and placed in a separate series for preservation purposes. Scrapbooks on specific subjects are included in the appropriate subject files, while general scrapbooks constitute their own series.
The two remaining series in the collection are those pertaining to the Consumer Education Foundation and the Consumer Federation of America. The CONSUMER EDUCATION FOUNDATION FILES (.95 cubic feet) include correspondence, reports, pamphlets and other materials documenting the educational, research and fund-raising branch of the League founded in 1971. The CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA FILES consist of one cubic foot of material, primarily minutes, received from the Consumer Federation of America. This material documents joint activities undertaken by consumer organizations throughout the nation during the period 1966 to 1977.
At other repositories: Fragmentary records of the Consumers League of New Jersey are held by several other repositories in New Jersey. The library of Seton Hall University Law School in Newark holds the records of the Workers' Compensation Committee from 1970 onwards. The New Jersey Historical Society in Newark holds a small collection of Consumers League of New Jersey records, most of which are duplicate minutes and correspondence. In addition, the Society possesses a collection of Susanna Zwemer's personal papers, which concern her work for the Consumers League of New Jersey and other organizations. The Newark Public Library also holds duplicate board minutes and newsletters, as well as a collection of personal papers of Mary L. Dyckman (League President, 1947-1956, later active on various Consumers League committees) that pertain in part to her activities on behalf of the League.
The records of the National Consumers' League are held by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. In addition, some records of the National League are held by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library, which also holds the records of the Consumers' League of New York City. Both the National and New York leagues had a close relationship with the New Jersey league.
At Rutgers University Libraries: In its cataloged collections of printed materials, Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers holds several Consumers League of New Jersey publications including a more complete run of the Bulletin.
Relevant manuscript collections in Special Collections and University Archives include another collection of Mary L. Dyckman papers (MC 1148), together with another collection of Susanna Zwemer's papers (MC 1398). The Dyckman papers were received with the records of the Consumers League of New Jersey, but constitute a separate collection. Primarily relating to Dyckman's work on behalf of the League, these papers also document her childhood and involvement in social welfare activities in Orange, New Jersey. The repository's Susanna Peirce Zwemer papers document Zwemer's work on the revision of the New Jersey Constitution (1939-1948) in conjunction with the League of Women Voters of New Jersey and other organizations.
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Consumers League of New Jersey Records. MC 1090. Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
The records of Consumers League of New Jersey were received from the organization through President Susanna P. Zwemer between 1960 and 1989. They were received in twenty-four different accessions which were incorporated into one collection divided by subject and document type. The original accession of 1960 consisted primarily of minutes and documentation of the League's early campaigns. Later on Zwemer donated materials on specific campaigns such as child labor or minimum wage, once the League's goals in that area had been achieved. With the materials, she enclosed her reminiscences of each campaign, which are included in the historical files. Most accessions consisted of only three or four boxes. An exception was twenty-nine boxes of material which were received in 1980 when the Consumer Education Foundation was dissolved. As well as containing publications on consumer issues, the Foundation's library held records of the League concerning workers' compensation, consumer credit and other subjects. Susanna Zwemer, trained as a librarian, organized the records herself, with help from students doing projects at local colleges. The current organization is based on her efforts.
This section provides descriptions of the materials found within each record series. Each series description is followed by a container list, which gives the titles of the folders and their locations in the numbered boxes that comprise this collection.
| EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES, 1921-1987 (.6 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Meeting minutes of the Board of Consumers League of New Jersey (the Board is also referred to as the Executive Committee before 1969 and as the Board of Directors thereafter) and related documents. The Board met bimonthly, except for the summer months. Special meetings and some annual meeting minutes are also included. | ||||||||||||||||
| The bulk of the series is composed of meeting minutes, letters received, copies of letters sent, and Executive Secretary's reports. Also included are Board lists, financial statements, resolutions, newspaper clippings, and occasional reports sent to the National Consumers' League. | ||||||||||||||||
| Subjects discussed include legislation, actions of the Board, publications, membership, progress of investigations, and exhibits. Includes reports of the work of various committees on such subjects as child labor, migrant labor, workers' compensation, air pollution, industrial safety, and fundraising. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest is a memorandum describing the work of the Consumers League (1929). | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1-16 | 1921-1960 | ||||||||||||||
| 17-25 | 1963-1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | 1985-1987 | |||||||||||||||
| ANNUAL MEETING FILES, 1922-1987 (1 cubic foot) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Documents generated by the annual meeting of the Consumers League of New Jersey. The annual meeting was similar to a conference with guest speakers and presentations, as well as a separate business meeting for the Board, and where yearly Board elections were held. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include minutes; yearly reports of committees, Board members, and the Executive Secretary; agenda; announcements; financial statements; letters received; copies of letters sent; resolutions; annual reports; ballots; memoranda; programs; Board member lists; and occasional copies of legislation and newspaper clippings. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summarizes League activity throughout the year. Subjects covered include League finances and membership. The correspondence is generally concerned with nominations for the Board, letters of acceptance or rejection, and invitations to the annual meeting. Of particular interest are reports covering areas of League work, such as child labor, migrant workers, employment, and industrial safety. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 27 | 1922-1928 | ||||||||||||||
| 28-32 | 1933-1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 32-41 | 1945-1955 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 1-4 | 1956-1958 | ||||||||||||||
| 5-17 | 1960-1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 18-22 | 1974-1978 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | 1985-1987 | |||||||||||||||
| PRESIDENT'S FILES, 1930-1979 (3.3 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject heading and thereunder grouped chronologically; oversize item filed separately. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Correspondence of the president of the Consumers League of New Jersey. The bulk of the series consists of letters received, copies of letters sent, drafts of letters sent, memoranda, and attached materials. Document types also include some newspaper clippings; newsletters; copies of legislation; and occasional press releases, agendas, minutes, resolutions, pamphlets, and an inaugural address. | ||||||||||||||||
| The series contains letters from individuals, labor unions, other consumer organizations, and government offices and officials. The correspondence is mostly concerned with conferences; legislation; and inquiries for information, League publications, and possible internship and employment opportunities. | ||||||||||||||||
| The League often responded to the concerns and complaints of private individuals, as exhibited by letters exchanged with legislators and officials, and letters from other organizations asking the League to co-sponsor legislation. | ||||||||||||||||
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| 59 [oversize] | 1 | Certificate Awarded to Elizabeth S. Magee, General Secretary of the National Consumers' League, May 22, 1957 | ||||||||||||||
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| 2 | 24 | Center for Analysis of Public Issues: Correspondence, 1970-1971 | ||||||||||||||
| 25 | Division of Consumer Affairs, 1970-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 26-27 | Executive Committee--Correspondence, 1965-1966 and 1968-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 28-29 | "For the Consumer" Column, 1968-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 30-33 | General Correspondence, 1930-1941, 1944-1948 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | General Correspondence: New Jersey Institute on the Community, 1947-1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 35-39 | General Correspondence, 1949-1953 | |||||||||||||||
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| 3 | 1 | General Correspondence: Legislative Conference, 1953 | ||||||||||||||
| 2-4 | General Correspondence: Reed, 1957-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | General Correspondence: Legislation, 1959-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | General Correspondence: Statements (Mrs. Reed), 1959-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | General Correspondence: Reed, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | General Correspondence: Executive Committee, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | General Correspondence: Hawkins, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | General Correspondence: Reed, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | General Correspondence: Executive Committee, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 12-13 | General Correspondence: Hawkins, 1962-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | General Correspondence: Zwemer, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | General Correspondence: Quotes re: League, 1962-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | General Correspondence: Executive Committee--Reapportionment, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | General Correspondence: National League, 1963-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | General Correspondence: National Service Corps, 1963-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | General Correspondence: Executive Committee, 1963-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 20-22 | General Correspondence: Zwemer, 1964-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | General Correspondence: Senior Service Corps, 1965-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 24-27 | General Correspondence: Zwemer, 1966-1967 | |||||||||||||||
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| 4 | 1 | General Correspondence: Executive Committee, 1967 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | General Correspondence: Junior Women's Club, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 3-5 | General Correspondence: Zwemer, January-December 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | General Correspondence: Executive Committee, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 7-10 | General Correspondence: Zwemer, 1969-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 11-15 | General Correspondence: Stochaj, 1971-1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | General Correspondence: Stochaj and Ingham, 1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | General Correspondence, 1976 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | General Correspondence: Freeman, 1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 19-22 | National League Correspondence, 1938-1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | National League Correspondence: 50th Anniversary Dinner, 1949-1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 24-26 | National League Correspondence, 1950-1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | National League Correspondence: Citizens Committee on Fair Labor Standards Act, 1955-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 28-29 | National League Correspondence, 1960-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 30-31 | National League Correspondence, 1975-1977 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | 1-2 | National League Correspondence, 1978-1979 | ||||||||||||||
| 3-9 | National League Testimony and Reports, 1967-1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | New Jersey Nutrition Council--Correspondence, 1970-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | News Releases, 1965-1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Office of Consumer Affairs, 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Office of Consumer Affairs--Correspondence, 1972-1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 14-18 | President's Committee on Consumer Interests: General, 1965-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | President's Committee on Consumer Interests: Legislative Reports, 1967-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | President's Committee on Consumer Interests: Manual, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | President's Committee on Consumer Interests: Reports, 1964-1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | President's Committee on Consumer Interests: Speeches--Esther Peterson, 1964-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | President Nixon's Committee on Consumer Interests--Correspondence, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 24-27 | Requests for Information, 1969-1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Speaking Engagements (Mary Dyckman), 1945-1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 29-30 | Speaking Engagements, April 1964-November 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Speaking Engagements (Susanna Zwemer), 1970-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Speaking Engagements (R. Stochaj), 1971-1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 33-34 | United States Department of Labor--Correspondence, 1953 and 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| EXECUTIVE SECRETARY'S FILES, 1912-1958 (1.5 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject heading and thereunder grouped chronologically. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Administrative files of the Executive Secretary who was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the League as well as being involved in all aspects of its work. Chiefly consists of correspondence (grouped as Executive Committee, General, Membership and National League) and supporting materials with several folders of reports and one folder of speeches. The supporting materials include photocopies of newspaper clippings, lists of Board members, programs, questionnaires, surveys, publications, reports, minutes, notes, legislation, memoranda, and newsletters. | ||||||||||||||||
| The Executive Committee correspondence (1931-1958) primarily concerns nominations to and resignations from the Executive Board and Executive Committee, as well as correspondence about raising money, the organization of the Annual Meeting, the administration of the Consumers League office in Newark, attendance at hearings, distribution of publications and plans to celebrate League anniversaries. Of particular interest are a letter about the relationship between the Consumers League and the League of Women Voters of New Jersey and a discussion of the impact of war on Consumers League programs. Also includes newspaper clippings about potential Board members. | ||||||||||||||||
| The General Correspondence from 1912-1914 concerns speaking engagements, a membership and fund-raising drive, and the campaign for early Christmas shopping. Also includes correspondence with local Consumers League branches such as Elizabeth, Morristown, and Montclair, primarily about membership and fund-raising. Correspondence from the 1930s includes discussion of night work, migratory labor and child labor legislation. Of particular interest are studies of piece-work in the women's dress industry and of the number of African Americans employed in hospitals. Also includes copies of letters sent to state legislators and officials, and letters from other organizations asking the League to co-sponsor legislation. | ||||||||||||||||
| The Membership Correspondence (1940-1957) primarily consists of letters asking people and organizations to join Consumers League, correspondence with other state leagues about people who have moved, and correspondence about raising money. | ||||||||||||||||
| The National Correspondence (1935-1942) consists of correspondence with the National Consumers' League. During this period the headquarters of the National League were in New York City and it had close relations with the New Jersey League. Includes advice, correspondence asking about events in New Jersey, as well as notices sent out to all state leagues about dues and the Annual Convention. Reports sent by the New Jersey League to the National give a summary of what the New Jersey League was doing. Also includes discussion of legislation which affected more than one state. | ||||||||||||||||
| The Reports (1914-1915, 1921-1935 and 1939-1942) were read by the Executive Secretary at the quarterly Executive Board and Annual Meetings of the League. They give detailed summaries of the League's work during each time period. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | 35 | Correspondence: Executive Committee, 1931-May 1936 | ||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | 1-6 | Correspondence: Executive Committee, September 1936-December 1948 | ||||||||||||||
| 7-9 | Correspondence: Executive Committee, 1950-1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 10-14 | Correspondence: General, January 1912-June 1913 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 15-19 | Correspondence: General, September 1913-June 1914 and December 1914 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Correspondence: General, 1912-1913 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 21-23 | Correspondence: General, 1913-1914 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 24-25 | Correspondence: General, 1922-1928 | |||||||||||||||
| 26-32 | Correspondence: General, 1930-1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 33-37 | Correspondence: General, 1942-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 38-40 | Correspondence: National League, 1935-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | 1-5 | Membership--Correspondence, 1940-1946 and 1948-1957 | ||||||||||||||
| 6-7 | Membership Lists, 1925-1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 8-16 | Reports, 1914-1915, 1921-1935 and 1939-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Speeches and Pamphlets, 1930-1940 | |||||||||||||||
| LEGISLATIVE FILES, 1932-1977 (.8 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Grouped by document type and subject and thereunder arranged chronologically. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Correspondence and supporting materials documenting the legislative work of the League. Includes files of the Vice-President for Legislation. Much of the correspondence is with members of Congress and the state legislature. Document types include correspondence, reports, conference programs, bills, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, flyers, press releases, notes on hearings, drafts and scrapbooks. | ||||||||||||||||
| Subjects covered in the earlier files include the League's campaigns in support of legislation regulating night work, working hours, industrial home work, migrant labor and protecting women and minors. Of particular interest is a resolution (January 26, 1933) from the Waiters and Cooks Union, Atlantic City local chapter, supporting the Night Work bill for women, whom they felt were taking men's jobs during the Depression. Other correspondents include the Unemployed Union of New Jersey, the New Jersey Committee of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement, the YWCA and the New Jersey Women's Trade Union League. | ||||||||||||||||
| Correspondence from the 1960s concerns legislation to protect the elderly, newspaper boys, and migrant laborers. Also includes the campaigns for legislation to protect consumers from unethical practices and for improved food safety. Of particular interest is the League's campaign against the repeal of protective legislation for women in 1967-1968. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | 18 | Conference--Division of Aging, 1965 | ||||||||||||||
| 19 | Conference--Legislative Forum, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 20-23 | Correspondence--General, 1932-1938 and October 1939-November 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Correspondence--General, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 25-26 | Correspondence--General, January-May and October-December 1965 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Correspondence--General, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 28-29 | Correspondence--General, 1967 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 30-34 | Correspondence--General, 1968 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 35-36 | Correspondence--General, 1969 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 37-39 | Correspondence--General, 1970-1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Correspondence--Governor Hughes, 1964-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | Correspondence--Motor Vehicle Dealers, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 42 | Food Stamp Program--Scrapbook, 1969-1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 43 | Meat and Poultry Inspection--Scrapbook, 1968-1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 44 | New Jersey Student Service Commission, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | Newspaper Clippings, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||||||
| 2-4 | Scrapbooks, 1973-1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Wage Payment, 1957 and 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 6-7 | Women: Hours--Printed Materials, 1953-1954, 1965 and 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 8-9 | Women: Hours (S.463), January-August 1968 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| FINANCIAL AND MEMBERSHIP RECORDS, 1923-1970, bulk 1923-1951 (.4 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by folder heading and thereunder chronologically; oversize items filed separately. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Documents fundraising and finances of the Consumers League of New Jersey including League budgets and membership figures. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include financial statements, correspondence, requisitions, reports, invoices, leaflets, and ledgers. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest is the financial crisis of 1932, when the League office had to close for the summer, and the ensuing fundraising campaign. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 59 [oversize] | 2 | Bank Records, 1923-1924 | ||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | 10 | Financial Records: Wiley, Secretary, 1923-1925 | ||||||||||||||
| 11 | Financial Records: Simmons and Moorfield, Treasurers, 1937-1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Financial Records: Simmons, Secretary; Moorefield, Treasurer, 1940-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Financial Records, 1944-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Financial Support--Membership Appeals, 1931-1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Financial Support--Membership Campaign, 1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Financial Support--Membership Leaflets, 1937, 1941, 1950 and 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Financial Support--Membership Responses, 1937-1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Financial Support--Money Raising Projects, 1937-1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Ledger [i.e., list of addresses], circa 1930? | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Ledgers, November 1931-April 1932 and October 1932-May 1933 | |||||||||||||||
| CHILD LABOR FILES, 1914-1975 (4.5 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Grouped chronologically. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Documents generated by the Child Labor Committee of the Consumers League of New Jersey. Includes material sent to the League and kept for reference. Also contains correspondence of long serving chair, Mary L. Dyckman. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include correspondence (letters received and copies of letters sent), publications, press releases, reports, minutes, notes, and newspaper clippings. | ||||||||||||||||
| The series contains information about children in agriculture, industry, and street trades. Documents League involvement in the creation and implementation of child labor legislation such as the 1940 Child Labor Law, which was a major victory for the League. Also documents challenges to the 1940 law, such as attempts to exempt bowling alley pin boys and newsboys, and, in the late 1950s, opposition based on a belief that the restrictions added to juvenile delinquency. Though most of the material in the series is post-1939, there is also some documentation of the League's earlier efforts for stricter child labor standards such as the 1914 Child Labor Laws and 1933 legislation that restricted the use of child labor in dangerous occupations. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest are several government publications from 1916 concerning child labor in the street and industrial trades. Also of interest is material concerning the recruitment of students during World War II for agricultural labor. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | 21 | Correspondence, 1914-1940 | ||||||||||||||
| 22 | Publications: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1916 and 1928 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Correspondence, 1930-1931 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | National Child Labor Committee, 1930-1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Laws, 1931-1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 26-27 | Correspondence, 1932-1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Street Trades Report: Detroit-Wisconsin, 1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | National Child Labor Committee, 1939-1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | White House Conference, 1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Hearing of Bill A-174, 1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Draft Bill, 1940 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | 1 | Law, 1939-1940 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Conference, 1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | League Committee, 1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 4-7 | Correspondence, 1940-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Bowling Alley, 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Publications, 1941-1942 and 1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Senate Bill 298, 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Clippings, 1940-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 12-14 | Correspondence, 1941-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Correspondence: Laws, 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Correspondence: S.298, 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Correspondence, 1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Student Service Commission, 1942-1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Correspondence: Stokes Material, 1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Laws with Amendments, 1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Reports and Correspondence, 1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Farm Labor, 1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Student Service Committee: Minutes 1942-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 24-25 | News Clippings, 1942-1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Student Service Committee Reports, 1942-1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Reports, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Correspondence, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | 1 | Correspondence, 1943 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Student Service: Law, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Philadelphia Conference, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 4-6 | Student Service Commission, 1943-1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Bowling Alleys, 1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Injured Newsboy, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Assembly Bill 141, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Wartime Employment, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Food Store Order, 1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Student Service: Vermont, 1945-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Correspondence, 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Alway Report and Correspondence, 1945-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Student Service Commission, 1945-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | National Child Labor Committee, 1945-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 17-18 | Correspondence, 1946-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Rural Youth Alliance, 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Correspondence, 1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Governor's Committee on Youth: Report, 1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Correspondence, 1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Governor's Conference on Youth, 1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | War Emergency Labor Standards, 1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Mid-Century Conference on Children and Youth (Federal), 1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | N.J. Mid-Century Conference, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Cafiero Bill, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Report: New York Department of Labor, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Clippings and Articles, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Correspondence and Reports, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Child Labor Commission: Congressional H.R.1271, 1951-1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Farm Reports, 1951-1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Walter Giles Killed, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Farm Hazards, 1952-1953 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Juvenile Delinquency Conference, 1953 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Farm--Correspondence, 1953 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Farm--Hazardous Occupation, 1953 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | 1 | Correspondence, 1953 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Bowling Alleys, 1953-1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Demonaco vs. Renton, 1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Canon Smith Report, 1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Farm Labor Conference, 1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | N.J. Juvenile Delinquency Commission: Statistics, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Youth Employment, 1955-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Child Labor Study Commission: Correspondence, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | N.J. Juvenile Delinquency Commission: League Testimony, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Law Revision Plans, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Conference and Correspondence, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Printed Matter, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | N.J. Delinquency Commission, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | News Clippings, 1955-1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Correspondence: N.J. Grange, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Juvenile Delinquency re: Child Labor Laws, 1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | School Dropouts and Supreme Court Delinquency Report, 1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Juvenile Delinquency: Supreme Court Committee Report, 1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Theatrical Productions, 1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Juvenile Delinquency: Supreme Court Committee Report--Comments, 1956-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Work and Study Programs, 1956-1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Child Labor Study Commission: Youth Employment Trend Tables, 1956-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Newsboys--Legislation (S.101), 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Youth Study Commission: School-Work Program, 1956-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Legislation--Newsboys and Payroll Carriers, 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Theatrical Performers, 1957-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Legislation: Children's Camps, 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Regulations: Labor Department Conferences, 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Legislation, 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Study Commission Hearing, 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Committee to Study Law (N.J. Labor Department), 1957-1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Kinney Report, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Baby Sitters, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Gasoline Dispensers, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 35-36 | School Dropouts, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Summer Camps, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | Changes in Laws and Regulations (proposed), 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Youth Study Commission, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Child Study Conference (New Jersey Labor Department), 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | Employment and Delinquency, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 42 | Hazardous Occupations, 1958-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 43 | National Advisory Committee on Young Workers, 1958-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 44 | Newsboys: Legislation--Analysis, 1959 and 1965-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 45 | Federal Laws and Regulations, 1958-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 46 | Legislation (Haines' Bill), 1958-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | 1 | Agriculture, 1958-1959 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor: Speeches, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Accidents and Violations, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Trends in Employment, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Legislation, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | N.J. White House Committee and Governor's Conference, 1959-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | League Conference (Changing Job Opportunities for Youth), 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Proposed Federation Regulations, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Manpower Training and Development, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Legislation: Agriculture, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Theatrical Performers (A.384, A.154), 1962-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | National Committee on Employment of Youth, 1962-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Youth Employment (Federal Bills), 1962-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Youth Employment Training Opportunities, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Study Commission Resolutions, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Youth Employment: Scrapbook, 1963-1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Employment Certificate, 1963-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Vocational Education, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Newsboys: Legislation--Correspondence with Governor Hughes, 1964-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Youth Employment Services (YES), 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Job Corps, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Newsboys: Permits, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Stay in School Campaign, 1964-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Newsboys: Legislation and Correspondence with Legislators, 1964-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Newsboys: Legislation and Correspondence with Organizations, 1964-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Rescue Squads, 1965-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Summer Jobs, 1965-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Gasoline Service Stations, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Reports of Youth Employment Committee, 1966-1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | School Work Experience (Economic Opportunity Programs), 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Newsboy Permits (S.445), 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Hazardous Occupations (Federal Regulations 2,3,7,13), 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Hazardous Occupations: Dyckman Correspondence, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | School Bus Drivers, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Hazardous Occupations, 1967-1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Hazardous Occupations (FLSA Regulations, Hearings), 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | Farm Machinery, 1968-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Vocational School Graduates, 1968-1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Restaurants, 1968-1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | Ruotolo Article: Analysis of Fair Labor Standards Act--Child Labor, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 42 | Identification Cards, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 43 | School-Work Experience (Federal Regulation), 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 44 | Youth Employment: Scrapbook, 1969-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| CONSUMER CREDIT FILES I, 1950-1976, bulk 1961-1970 (3.5 cubic feet) | |||||||||||
| Arrangement: Organized in ten subseries. | |||||||||||
| Summary: Primarily documents the work of the League's Consumer Credit Committee from 1964 to 1970, when retired engineer and mathematician George A. Peirce, Susanna Zwemer's brother, served as chair. Document types include correspondence, minutes, testimony, bills, notes, drafts, charts, calculations, newspaper clippings, publications, broadsides and scrapbooks. | |||||||||||
| Divided into ten subseries: George A. Peirce; General; Banking; Borrower's Handbook; Consumer Credit Protection Act; Retail Installment; Secondary Mortgages; Small Loans; Uniform Consumer Credit Code; and Wage Assignments and Wage Garnishment. | |||||||||||
| The George A. Peirce subseries includes biographical material, drafts, background materials and copies of his writings, as well as correspondence with members of Congress and New Jersey Legislators and reports to the League. The General subseries includes subjects for which there was too little material for a separate subseries, such as Consumer Education, Debt Collection, First Mortgages and Insurance. The remaining subseries document specific legislative campaigns and projects in which Peirce played a leading role. | |||||||||||
| Of particular interest is background material and drafts of the Borrower's Handbook (1966-1967), designed by Peirce to be used by consumers in shopping for credit. The Secondary Mortgage subseries documents seven bills (1965-1970) designed to lower the interest rate and give borrowers protection against unreasonable charges and misleading advertising. Small Loans (1964-1967) includes the effort to change small loan law, using the annual percentage rate devised by Peirce and abolishing wage assignment, the deducting by employers of wages in order to pay debts. The Uniform Consumer Credit Code, which was passed in 1978, was opposed by the League because it invalidated New Jersey consumer credit legislation such as the setting of maximum interest rates for loans. | |||||||||||
| Also documents the campaign for the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (1968) which included legislation concerning Truth in Lending, Extortionate Credit Transactions and Restrictions on Wage Garnishment, the practice by which the court authorized wage deductions to pay a debt. Regulation Z addressed the compliance of individual states with the Act. | |||||||||||
| CONSUMER CREDIT FILES I / George A. Peirce | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 1 | Bill Drafting, 1968-1969 | |||||||||
| 2 | Bills--Analysis, 1964-1969 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Lobbying, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 4 | Legislative Goals--Amendments, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| 5 | "Growth of Consumer Credit"--Draft, undated | ||||||||||
| 6 | Proposed Uniform Consumer Credit Code, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Background For Uniform Consumer Credit Code and Truth-In-Lending, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Truth In Lending--"For the Consumer," 1969 | ||||||||||
| 9 | Background For Wise Use of Credit, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||
| 10 | High Cost of Borrowing, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Workbook #2--Guidelines For Consumer Groups, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 12 | "The Add-On Charge for Installment Buying," 1966 | ||||||||||
| 13 | Biographical Data, 1971 | ||||||||||
| 14 | Correspondence--Legislation, 1963-1970 | ||||||||||
| 15 | Correspondence--Peter Moraites, 1964 and 1968 | ||||||||||
| 16 | Correspondence--Tanzman; McDermott, 1965-1970 | ||||||||||
| 17 | Correspondence--N.J. Legislators, 1966-1969 | ||||||||||
| 18 | Correspondence--U.S. Senators, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| 19 | Correspondence--J. Minish, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| 20 | Correspondence--Richard Morse, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 21 | Reports Sent to League Members, 1966 and 1968 | ||||||||||
| 22 | Correspondence--M.R. Neifeld, 1965-1968 | ||||||||||
| 23 | Reports to League Board, 1966-1970 | ||||||||||
| 24 | Consumer Credit Study, 1962-1967 | ||||||||||
| 25 | Laws--New Jersey, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| 26 | Financial Tables Workbook, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
| 27 | Reference Material, 1964-1968 | ||||||||||
| 28 | Revolving Credit, 1967 | ||||||||||
| CONSUMER CREDIT FILES I / General | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 29 | Consumer Education Advisory Committee--Correspondence, 1969-1974 | |||||||||
| 30 | Consumer Education Advisory Committee--Minutes, 1969-1974 | ||||||||||
| 31 | Consumer Education Seminars, 1967-1969 | ||||||||||
| 32 | Credit Insurance, 1958-1969 | ||||||||||
| 33 | Debt Collection--Legislation, 1968 and 1971-1976 | ||||||||||
| 34 | Extortionate Interest Rates (Loan Sharking), 1964-1968 | ||||||||||
| 35 | First Mortgages, 1964-1968 | ||||||||||
| 36 | Insurance Premium Finance Companies, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||
| 37 | Mortgages--Scrapbook 1964-1970 | ||||||||||
| 38 | Newsletters, 1965-1970 | ||||||||||
| CONSUMER CREDIT FILES I / Banking | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 39 | News Clippings, 1969 | |||||||||
| 40 | Bank-Check Law (S.262), Ch.64 PL 1968, 1966 and 1968 | ||||||||||
| 41 | Banking Act (Article 12)--Bill Drafting, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 42 | Banking Act (Article 12)--Calculations, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 43 | Banking Act--S.604/S.657--Correspondence, League Opposed, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 44-45 | Banks and Savings and Loan Bills, 1967-1969 | ||||||||||
| 46 | Chapter 171, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 47 | Minimum Charge, S.293, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 48 | Savings and Loan Bills, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| 49 | Banking Act--George Peirce Model Bill, 1969 | ||||||||||
| CONSUMER CREDIT FILES I / Borrower's Handbook | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 50 | Annual Percentage Rates for Installment Credit--Ad ("Shop for Credit"), 1967 | |||||||||
| 51 | Annual Percentage Rates for Installment Credit--Basic Tables, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 52 | Annual Percentage Rates for Installment Credit--Correspondence, 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 14 | 1 | Annual Percentage Rates for Installment Credit--Draft and Printed Copies, 1967 | |||||||||
| 2 | Annual Percentage Rates for Installment Credit--Revision (Revolving Credit), 1967 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Correspondence, 1966-1969 | ||||||||||
| 4 | True Annual Interest Rates for Installment Loans--Printed Book, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 5 | True Annual Interest Rates for Installment Loans--Worksheets, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Simple Annual Interest Rates for Installment Loans--Drafts, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Simple Annual Interest Rates for Installment Loans, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Simple Annual Interest Rates for Installment Loans--Distribution, 1966 | ||||||||||
| CONSUMER CREDIT FILES I / Consumer Credit Protection Act | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 14 | 9 | Conference Report, 1968 | |||||||||
| 10 | H.R. 11601--Correspondence--Congresswoman F.P. Dwyer, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||
| 11 | H.R. 11601--Correspondence--Congressman J.G. Minish, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||
| 12 | H.R. 11601--Correspondence--Revolving Credit, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 13 | H.R. 11601--Correspondence--Revolving Credit (Richard L.D. Morse), 1967 | ||||||||||
| 14 | H.R. 11601--Correspondence and Clippings--(Wage Garnishment), 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
| 15 | H.R. 11601, 1967 Statement, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 16 | Magazine Articles and Leaflets, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| 17 | Proposed Regulation Z--Hearing (H.R. Banking and Currency Committee), 1969 | ||||||||||
| 18 | Text of Public Law 90-321, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 19 | Proposed Regulation Z--Comments, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 20 | Proposed Regulation Z--State Compliance, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 21 | Regulation Z Adopted--Text, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 22 | Regulation Z--State Enforcement and Comments, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 23 | Regulation Z--State Enforcement on Wage Garnishments, 1969-1970 | ||||||||||
| 24 | H.R. 11601, 1967--Report--Banking and Currency Committee, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 25 | H.R. 11601--Correspondence--Borrower's Handbook--Congressmen, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 26 | H.R. 11601--Letters to Congressmen--Passage in the House, 1968 | ||||||||||
| CONSUMER CREDIT FILES I / Retail Installment | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 14 | 27 | Installment Rate Advertising--Legislation, 1965 | |||||||||
| 28 | Installment Loan Rate Advertising Act--Small Loan Company Ads, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| 29 | Installment Rate Advertising--Fraud, 1964-1968 | ||||||||||
| 30 | Installment Rate Advertising--Banks and Savings and Loans, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
| 31 | Home Repair Contracts, 1965-1968 | ||||||||||
| 32 | Laws and Hearings on Regulations, 1961-1966 | ||||||||||
| 33 | Massachusetts--Full Disclosure, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 34 | Full Disclosure Bills and Rules, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 35 | Motor Vehicle Financing, 1960-1966 | ||||||||||
| 36 | Cooling Off Period, 1967-1969 | ||||||||||
| 37 | Time Sales Act--Tanzman Bills--Comments, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 38 | Time Sales Act, 1968--S.402--Summary, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 39 | Time Sale Acts--Drafts with Comments, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 40 | Time Sales--Separate Drafts for Bills, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 41 | Laws, Other States, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| 42 | Nebraska Law, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 43 | Pennsylvania Law, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 44 | Holder in Due Course, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| 45 | Collection and Delinquency Charges (Contracts), 1966-1969 | ||||||||||
| 46 | Credit Cards, 1968 | ||||||||||
| CONSUMER CREDIT FILES I / Secondary Mortgages | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 14 | 47 | Investigation, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| 48 | (A.522 and S.244)--Analysis, 1965 | ||||||||||
| 49 | (A.522 and S.244)--Correspondence, 1965 | ||||||||||
| 50 | (A.732--Ch. 91 PL 1965), 1965 | ||||||||||
| 51 | (A.522 and S.244)--Hearing, April 28, 1965 | ||||||||||
| 52 | 1967-1969 / Investigation, Perth Amboy News, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 53 | 1966-1968 / Loan Study Committee Hearing, February 9, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 54 | Laws of Other States, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 55 | Stefanelli and other Court Cases, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
| 56 | (S.643 and S.283), 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 15 | 1 | Tanzman (S.283)--George Peirce Analysis, 1968 | |||||||||
| 2 | Garibaldi (A.673), Amended, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Credit Life Insurance Costs, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| 4 | Tanzman (S.857)--George Peirce Amendments, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Tanzman (S.506) Endorsed, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 6 | George Peirce, Calculations, Insurance Costs, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Tanzman (S.289), Ch.205 PL 1970, 1970 | ||||||||||
| CONSUMER CREDIT FILES I / Small Loans | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 15 | 8 | History of Laws, undated | |||||||||
| 9 | Bills to Investigate and Outlaw Wage Assignments, 1964-1967 | ||||||||||
| 10 | Court Cases, 1950-1953 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Scrapbook, 1965-1969 | ||||||||||
| 12 | S.218 (Senator Stout) Correspondence by Lois Guthrie, 1964 | ||||||||||
| 13 | S.218--George Peirce Rate Computations Compared with Law, 1964-1966 | ||||||||||
| 14 | S.163 (Stout)--Correspondence Opposed 1965 | ||||||||||
| 15 | S.163 (Stout)--Testimony by George Peirce at Hearing, 1965 | ||||||||||
| 16 | S.163 (Stout)--Analysis by George Peirce, 1965 | ||||||||||
| 17 | A.841 (Tanzman)--Correspondence and Flyers, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 18 | S.196--Testimony, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 19 | Analysis--S.196 and A.841 Compared, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 20 | A.841--Law Revision, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 21 | S.316--Draft Copy, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 22 | S.316--Worksheets Comparing with A.403, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 23 | A.403--(Tanzman)--Correspondence and Flyers, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 24 | A.403 (Tanzman)--Amendments, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 25 | A.403 (Tanzman)--Worksheets on Amendments, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 26 | A.403 (Tanzman)--Vote in Assembly, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 27 | A.403--Ch.94 PL 1967, 1967 and 1969 | ||||||||||
| 28 | A.439 (Albanese) Amended, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
| 29 | A.439 (Albanese) Analysis and Fact Sheet, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 30 | A.439 (Albanese)--Correspondence--Business Groups, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 31 | A.439 (Albanese)--Correspondence--Congressmen, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 32 | A.850 (Pfalz)--Ch.131 PL 1969; Bills by Senators Guarini and Dodd, 1967-1969 | ||||||||||
| 33 | Case Histories for Testimony--Douglas Bill, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| 34 | Connecticut Law, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 35 | Department of Defense--Analysis by Richard Morse, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| 36 | Department of Defense Directives, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| 37 | Department of Defense Directives--U.S. Treasury Visit, 1966 | ||||||||||
| 38 | Massachusetts Laws, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||
| 39 | S.750 (Senator Douglas)--Correspondence--Congressmen, 1963 | ||||||||||
| 40 | N.J. Bill A.520 (Albanese), 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| 41 | N.J. Bills A.505; S.419; A.331, 1964-1966 | ||||||||||
| 42 | New York Law, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 43-44 | Scrapbooks, 1962-1969 | ||||||||||
| 45 | S.5 (Senator Proxmire)--Testimony by National Consumers' League, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 46 | S.5 (Senator Proxmire) Text--Committee Report, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 47 | S.750 (Senator Douglas) Correspondence with National Consumers' League, 1963 | ||||||||||
| 48 | S.750 (Senator Douglas) Correspondence--N.J. Committee for Truth in Lending, 1963 | ||||||||||
| 49 | S.750 (Senator Douglas)--Hearing--Oppenheim Testimony, 1963 | ||||||||||
| 50 | S.750 and H.R.4070--Newark Hearing--Correspondence, 1963-1964 | ||||||||||
| 51 | S.1740 (Senator Douglas) Testimony of National Consumers' League, 1961 | ||||||||||
| 52 | S.2275 (Senator Douglas)--Fact Sheet, 1965 | ||||||||||
| CONSUMER CREDIT FILES I / Uniform Consumer Credit Code | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 16 | 1 | Working Draft #4, 1967 | |||||||||
| 2 | New York Bar Association Meeting, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Chicago Hearing--Draft #6, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 4 | Working Draft #8, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Final Draft Adopted, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Opposition (AFL-CIO), 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Opposition (League)--Resolution, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Opposition (League)--Analysis, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 9 | Opposition (League), Letters to Legislators, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 10 | Opposition (League), George Peirce Workbook, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Opposition (Consumer Federation of America), 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| 12 | Opposition (R.D.L. Morse Correspondence), 1968-1970 | ||||||||||
| 13 | Opposition (State and Local Consumer Groups), 1968-1970 | ||||||||||
| 14 | Opposition (News Clippings), 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| 15 | Code Amendments Recommended, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 16 | Code Amendments Recommended--National Association of Bank Supervisors, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 17 | Analysis--National Association of Consumer Credit Administrators, 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
| 18 | Analysis, Senate Committee on District of Columbia, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 19 | Code Approved and President's Consumer Advisory Council, 1968 | ||||||||||
| 20 | Analysis, Consumer Research Foundation (California), 1969 | ||||||||||
| 21 | League Statement, H.R. Banking and Currency Committee, 1969 | ||||||||||
| 22 | State Law, Texas, 1967 | ||||||||||
| CONSUMER CREDIT FILES I / Wage Assignments and Wage Garnishment | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 16 | 23 | Small Loan Law, 1966-1969 | |||||||||
| 24 | Prohibited Lenders, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||
| 25 | Correspondence and Bills, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
| 26 | Discharge of Employee, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||
| 27 | Information File, 1966-1969 | ||||||||||
| CONSUMER CREDIT FILES II, 1968-1982 (.5 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Unarranged. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Files of the Consumer Credit Committee primarily from the 1970s. Document types include correspondence, minutes, reports, testimony, bills, press releases, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings and publications. | ||||||||||||||||
| Documents the League's ultimately successful campaign for Holder in Due Course legislation, the closing of a loophole which protected financial institutions from all legal remedies in cases where illegitimate contractors negotiated installment loans and then passed them on to banks to collect. Also documents the League's effort in 1977 to amend the 1948 Banking Act, clarifying and simplifying the interest rate structure, and lobbying for the Federal Trade Commission's Credit Practices Rule (16CFR Part 444) concerning unfair credit practices, which was adopted in 1977. In 1978, the League supported the Consumer Credit Reform Act, which, in cases of repossession, prohibited collectors from forcing creditors to pay attorney's fees and required creditors to either elect to repossess or sue for the unpaid balance rather than do both. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest is the Assertive Consumer Workshop (1978) developed by the National Consumers' League, which the New Jersey League sponsored. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | 28-30 | Scrapbooks, 1968-1982 | ||||||||||||||
| 31 | Warranties (Federal)--Hearings, 1979-1980 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Warranties (Federal), 1980 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Assertive Consumer Project, 1978 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Bank Loans (Rates) Legislation, 1976 and 1981 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Credit Practices Trade Rule (FTC), 1975-1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Franchise Practices--Legislation, 1970-1971 and 1976-1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Holder in Due Course--Legislation, 1967-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | Universal Money Order Company (Bankruptcy), 1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Committee Minutes and Correspondence, 1974-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Consumer Credit Reform Act, 1978 | |||||||||||||||
| MEDICARE AND MEDICAID FILES, 1944-1972, bulk 1960-1972 (1 cubic foot) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject heading and thereunder chronologically. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Documentation of the League's involvement in the establishment of health insurance for the indigent and elderly at the state and federal levels. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include resolutions, government publications, manuals, statements, pamphlets, press releases, news clippings, copies of proposed and actual legislation, correspondence, minutes, memoranda, newsletters, and lists. | ||||||||||||||||
| Seventy-five percent of the series documents League President Susanna Zwemer's service on the New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council (1969-1971), the body which oversaw the implementation of Medicaid in New Jersey. | ||||||||||||||||
| Also documents the League's support for health insurance legislation for the elderly, including the Social Security Amendments Bill of 1945 (Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill), culminating in the establishment of the federal Medicare program in 1965. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | 1 | Medicare, 1960-1962 and 1965 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Medicare: Forand Bill, 1957-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Medicare: Murray-Dingell Bill, 1944-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 4-5 | Medicare: News Clippings and Miscellaneous, 1964-1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Medicare: Social Security and The Aging (White House Conference), 1960-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Annual Report, 1969-1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Annual Report--Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services, 1969-1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Correspondence Regarding Meetings of Council, 1971-1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Cost of Medicaid--Statement by Commissioner McCorkle, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Federal Law, 1968-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Financing Welfare and Health--Report of Inter-Governmental Advisory Commission (F. Dwyer), 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Hearings--Vol. 1 and 2 Legislation, April 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Hearing--Vol. 3 Legislation, April 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Legislation, 1969 and 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Legislation--Medicaid--New Jersey, 1960-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Legislation (S.850) and News Clippings, 1968-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Licensing Nursing Homes--Legislation and News Clippings, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 19-20 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Manuals, 1969-1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Medicaid Bulletin--Hospital Service Plan of New Jersey, 1971-1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Medicaid Workshop--Conference on Social Welfare Issues, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Meeting, June 23, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Meeting, September 17, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Meeting, June 6, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Meeting, June 17, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Meeting, August 12, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Meeting, August 26, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Meeting, September 23, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Meeting, November 9, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Meeting, January 20, 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Meeting, February 3, 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Meeting, March 17, 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Members--Advisory Council, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: New Jersey Medical Assistance and Health Services Act, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Newsletter--New Jersey Health Services Program, 1971-1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Prudential--Information on New Jersey Health Services Program, 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council: Staff Bulletins to Council, 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | State of New Jersey Health Services Program Pharmacy Manual, circa 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| MIGRATORY LABOR FILES, 1905-1979, bulk 1939-1971 (8 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Bulk arranged alphabetically by folder heading; a few sections of related folders grouped chronologically; oversize item filed separately. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Documents generated by the Migratory Labor Committee of the Consumers League of New Jersey which fought to improve conditions of migrant laborers in the state. The correspondence is primarily of Mary L. Dyckman, long-serving Chair. Also includes documents received and kept as reference files from other organizations, such as the New Jersey Migrant Labor Board and the National Consumers' League, as well as state and federal agencies. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include correspondence, reports, state and federal publications, speeches, minutes, surveys, copies of proposed and actual legislation, charts, bibliographies, newsletters, notes, conference material, press releases, material used in litigation, and audiotape. Several scrapbooks and news clippings are included. Photographs have been removed to the photograph series. | ||||||||||||||||
| Documents the League's advocacy of compulsory insurance under workers' compensation, a minimum wage, protection of the right of collective bargaining, recreation centers, day care, educational facilities for children and adults, and health care for migrant workers. Also documents the League's investigation and reporting of infractions against the 1940 Child Labor Law, which outlawed the use of children under the age of twelve. Documents preparation of the Brief Concerning Labor Camps for Migrants in New Jersey, which helped lead to the Migrant Labor Act of 1945. Also documents the service of League members on the Migrant Labor Board and the League's continuing advocacy for migrant workers into the 1960s. | ||||||||||||||||
| The series also includes material concerned with migratory labor from other states and foreign countries, documenting the shift in the origins of migrants after World War II. Subjects covered include wages, migrant camps, child labor, health, living conditions, recruitment, transportation, and education. While most of the material contained in the series is concerned with migrants in agriculture, there is also some material concerning the canning industry in 1943 and much of the later material is also concerned with migrants in industrial occupations. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest are site reports, which offer descriptions of actual living conditions at migrant labor camps throughout New Jersey. Also of interest is a 1932 study "Migrants as a Social and Educational Problem in New Jersey," which, as the League proved, contained erroneous statistics and was funded by a cranberry grower, and a speech, given in response to the 1940 Child Labor Law, in which the same grower claims that "the custom of whole families migrating to the farms for the busy season seems to be strictly in accordance with God's harmonious laws." (Box 19, Folder 33) Another interesting item is a League reprint of "The Forgotten People" by Dale Wright (1961) which recounts the author's six months as a migrant laborer. | ||||||||||||||||
| Also includes audiotapes (reel-to-reel) of the 1965 Migrant Information Meeting. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | 1 | Agricultural Workers Union, 1952 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Antipoverty Program, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Baltimore Conference, 1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Bibliography, 1965-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Bishops' Committee Newsletter, 1961-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Bishops' Committee for Migrant Workers--Newsletters, 1962-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Briefs and Materials Pertaining to Migrants, 1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 8-9 | British West Indies Workers, 1959 and 1962-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Bulletin of Women's Bureau: Canning Industries--N.J. and N.Y., 1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Bulletins, 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 12-13 | Camps, 1944-1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Camps: Canneries Survey, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Camps: Report, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Camps: Standards of Other States and Suggestions for N.J., 1941-1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Canning Industries: Report, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Children, 1923-1931 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Children's School Law, 1946-1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Code Hearings, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Code Hearings: Testimony, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Code Hearings: Transcript, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Collective Bargaining, 1948-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Collier's Article, 1943 and 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Commission to Investigate the Employment of Migratory Children, 1931-1932 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Community Action with the Seasonally Employed, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Conference, 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Conference, 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 29-33 | Conference, 1956-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Conference: East Coast Migrant Conference, 1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Conference: East Coast Migrant Conference--Program, 1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Conference: Labor Standards, 1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Conference: Princeton, 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | Conferences and Reports, 1951-1953 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Coordinating Conference, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | 1-2 | Correspondence and Reports, 1937-1943 | ||||||||||||||
| 3-4 | Correspondence, 1944-1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Correspondence Concerning Migrant Labor Law of 1945, 1944-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Correspondence, 1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Correspondence from Organizations, Including Articles, 1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Correspondence, 1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Correspondence and Reports, 1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 10-11 | Correspondence, 1950-1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Correspondence and News Clippings, 1951-1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 13-28 | Correspondence, 1953-1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Correspondence and Publications Concerning Laura Fair Study, 1932-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Correspondence: Governor Edge, 1943-1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Correspondence: Princeton Student's Article, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Correspondence: Mary Heaton Vorse Article, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Cranberry Bogs (Ms. White's Speech), 1930 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Cranberry Case, 1939-1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Crew Leader Registration [2 photographs removed], 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Day Care Centers, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | 1 | Department of Labor: Children's Bureau--Migrant Pamphlets, 1943-1944 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Douglass College Project, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Dyckman Correspondence, 1949-1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 4-5 | Education, 1947-1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Education of Children, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Education (Seaboard Migration), 1951-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Education (Summer Schools), 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Education: Children, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Education: Proposed Amendment to Public School Law, 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Employment Agencies: Crew Leaders, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Excerpts from "America's Own Refugees," 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Farm Act, 1933 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Farm Labor Program in Texas, 1943-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 15-17 | Farm Security Administration, 1939-1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Farm Security Administration: Publication, 1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Farm Security Administration: Rural Rehabilitation, 1943-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Federal Hearings (Trenton), 1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Federal Hearings (Washington), 1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Federal: Humphrey Hearings, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Federal: Humphrey Hearings--Testimony, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Federal: Legislation, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Federal: Legislation, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Federal: Legislation (Williams Bills), 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Federal: Legislation--Hearings, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 28-30 | Federal: Legislation, 1961-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Federal: Legislation--Housing, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Federal: Legislation, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Federal: Mexican Workers, 1954-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Federal: Proposed Legislation, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Federal: Schooling for Children, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Field Trips, 1952-1953 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Food Producers Council vs. Holderman: Brief, 1959-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 38-39 | Food Producers Council vs. Holderman: Source Material for Brief, 1959-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Food Producers Council vs. Male, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | 1-2 | Foreign Workers, 1963-1965 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | "The Forgotten People": League Reports, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | "The Forgotten People": Scrapbook, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Miss Mina Ginger's Report [Italian Migrant Workers], 1905 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Grapes of Wrath and Other, 1939-1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | "Harvest of Shame": Clippings, 1960-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Health, 1944-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Health and Surplus Foods, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Health Services (Federal Grant), 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Health Survey, 1945-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Hearing Regulations, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Inter-Departmental Committee, 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 14-15 | Inter-Organization Committee, 1945-1946 and 1950-1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Interstate Conference on Migratory Labor, 1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Labor Code Hearing, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Labor Code: New Jersey, 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Labor Contractors, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Labor Contractors: "Labor and Its Recruitment," 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Labor Department: Federal, 1944-1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Laws, 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | League Committee: Reports, 1963-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Legislation, 1941-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Legislation, 1956 and 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Legislation, 1959-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Legislation, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Legislation, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Legislation (A.957) [2 photographs removed], 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Legislation, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Legislation (A.464, A.465, A.466), 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Legislation, 1970-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Legislation: Correspondence, 1961-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Legislation: Federal, 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Legislation: Federal Aid to Education, 1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Legislation: Labor Camps, 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Legislative Delegation [photograph removed], 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | Legislative Meeting, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Lettuce Boycott, 1970-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | List of 1937-1944 Material in Files, 1944? | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | Magazine Reprints, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 42 | Material for Speakers, 1941-1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 43-46 | Mexican Workers, 1953-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | 1-3 | Mexican Workers, 1961 and 1963 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Mexican Workers: Federal Legislation, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Mexican Workers: Legislation, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Mexican Workers: New York Times Articles, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Mexican Workers: Publications, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Migrant Centers (Willette Proposals), 1964-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Migrant Coalition, 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 10-12 | Migrant Health Program, 1963 and 1965-1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Migrant Health Program: Conferences, 1963-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Migrant Health Program: Eastern States Migrant Health Conference--Conference Materials, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Migrant Health Program: Eastern States Migrant Health Conference--Reports, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Migrant Health Program: Health Education Materials, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Migrant Health Program: Kent Report, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Migrant Health Program: Reports, 1963-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Migrant Health Program: Social Service Unit, 1963-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Migrant Information Meeting, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Migrant Information Meeting: Program, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Migrant Information Meeting, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 23-25 | Migrant Information Meeting [audiotape], 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Migrant Labor Act, 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Migrant Labor Board, 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 28-29 | Migrant Labor Board, 1965-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 30-32 | Migrant Labor Board: Advisory Education Committee, 1959-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Migrant Labor Board: Budget, 1951-1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Migrant Labor Board: Legislation, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | 1-3 | Migrant Labor Board: Meetings, 1956-1960 and 1963 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Migrant Labor Board: Correspondence, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Migrant Labor Board: Meeting Report, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Migrant Labor Forum, 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Migrant Labor Law and Code, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Migratory Labor Notes: Newsletter of President's Committee, 1955-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Migratory Patterns: Maps, 1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 10-13 | Miscellaneous, 1947-1948, 1950-1953 and 1959-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Montclair High School Program, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | "My Day" by Eleanor Roosevelt and "Joads" Press Release, 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor: Conference, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor: Hearing, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor: Newsletter, 1959-1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 19-22 | National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor, 1950-1951 and 1956-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor--Bulletin, 1952-1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 24-27 | National Sharecroppers Fund--Reports, 1951-1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 28-29 | New Jersey, 1943-1944 and 1947-1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | New Jersey Conference on Rights of Migrant Workers, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | New Jersey vs. Shack, 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 32-35 | News Clippings, 1940-1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | News Clippings--re. Education, Etc., 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | News Clippings: New York World Telegram, 1953 | |||||||||||||||
| 38-39 | News Clippings, 1944-1947 and 1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Newsletter: "The American Child," 1954-1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | Office of Economic Opportunity: National Conference, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 42 | Office of Economic Opportunity: News Releases, 1968-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 43 | Party Platforms, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 44 | President's Committee on Migratory Labor, 1955-1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 45 | President's Commission on Migratory Labor: Recommendations to, 1951-1952 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | 1 | President's Committee on Migratory Labor: Working Papers and Newsletters, 1955-1960 | ||||||||||||||
| 2-9 | Printed Material, 1952, 1955-1960, 1962-1964 and 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Public Health Reports, 1945-1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Publications, 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Publications: Connecticut--Transportation, 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Publications: "Harvest Nomads," 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Publications: Post War Economic Welfare, 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Puerto Rican Contract Workers, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Puerto Rican Questionnaire, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Radio Broadcasts by John Stochaj, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 18-23 | Reports, 1940-1943 and 1945-1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Reports: with Comments, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Report: "Atlantic Coast Migratory Movement of Agricultural Workers (War Years)," 1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Report: Migrant Labor Board, 1949-1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Report: National Consumers' League, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Report: New York, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Robb [Senior] Thesis [Princeton University], 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Rural Problems Committee: New Jersey Welfare Council, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | "Safeguarding Young Workers in Wartime Agriculture," Article, 1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | School Laws, 1943-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 33-36 | Scrapbooks, 1945-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Scrapbook: California Migrants, 1959-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | Scrapbooks, 1960-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | 1-4 | Scrapbooks, 1963-1979 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Seminar: "Seeds of Progress," 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Social Security, circa 1916, 1949 and 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Speeches: Paul S. Taylor, 1945-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Statistics, 1960-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Summer School, 1963-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Surplus Foods, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Task Force: Conference, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Task Force: Cultural Centers, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Task Force: Final Report (Summary), 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Task Force: Follow Up Meetings, November 1968 and January-February 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Task Force: Interim Report, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Task Force: League Recommendations, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Task Force: Meetings, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Testimony on Humphrey Bills (Canon Smith), 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Tolan Committee Reports (H.R.5510), 1941-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Transportation, 1956-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | U.S. Housing Act, 1937 | |||||||||||||||
| 22-23 | U.S. Regulations, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | U.S. Senate Subcommittee: Correspondence, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 25-26 | U.S. Senate Subcommittee: Hearings, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Violations, 1970-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 28-29 | Visits to Camps, 1966 and 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Welfare Needs, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 31-32 | Welfare Needs: Meeting, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Williams--Zelenko Bill: Legislation and Correspondence, 1961-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 59 [oversize] | 3 | "Heartless Harvest" in Collier's, September 1947 | ||||||||||||||
| MINIMUM WAGE FILES, 1911-1972, bulk 1932-1968 (6 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Grouped chronologically; oversize item filed separately. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Documentation of the League's study and advocacy of a minimum wage for workers. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include correspondence, reports, minutes, press releases, notes, statements, conference materials, newspaper and journal clippings, court documents, and publications. | ||||||||||||||||
| Documents League involvement in the creation of a state minimum wage. The earlier section contains information about the establishment of a minimum wage for women and minors in specific industries, such as laundries and restaurants. After the passage of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, the League campaigned for a minimum wage for both men and women. Also includes documentation of several court cases challenging the constitutionality of the establishment of a minimum wage. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest are the Cost of Living Survey (1937-1938), the Wage Survey (1943-1944, 1955), and the League's draft of the Minimum Wage Bill (1952-1953). Also of use are several histories of the minimum wage in New Jersey dated 1951. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | 1 | Publications, 1911 and 1926 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Publications and Documents--National Consumers' League, 1915-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Cost of Living Survey, 1922 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Publications, 1920-1937 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Correspondence and Reports, 1932-1933 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Constitutionality, 1933-1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Minimum Wage Law--Scheidemann Reminiscences, 1933 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Laundry Board, 1933-1937 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Legislation--Correspondence, 1934-1937 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Laundries--Order #1, 1934-1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Wearing Apparel--New Jersey Order #3, 1934-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Cleaning and Dyeing--Order #4, 1935-1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Legislation (A.40), 1935-1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Committee to Protect Minimum Wage, 1937-1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Laundry Board, 1937 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Candy Industry, 1937-1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | General, 1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Hearing--Repeal Minimum Wage Laws, 1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 19-21 | Cost of Living Survey--Correspondence, April 1937-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Cost of Living Report, 1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Cost of Living Survey--Sources, 1937 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Cost of Living Survey--Questionnaires and Results, 1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Federal Fair Labor Standards Act--Background Materials, 1938-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Copies of Wage Orders, 1938-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Appropriations, 1938-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | New Jersey Wage and Hour--Draft Bills, 1938-1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Legislation (A.40), 1938-1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 30-31 | General, 1914 and February-December 1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Minimum Wage and Night Work Law, 1939-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Legislation (A.40), 1939-1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Negro Report--Race Prejudice, 1939-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Scrapbook, 1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Welfare, 1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | General, 1940-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | Scrapbook, 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Standards for State Laws, 1940-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Letters and Statements, 1941-1948 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | 1 | New Jersey Restaurants Wage Order #6, 1941-1943 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Oyster Shucking Industry, 1941-1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | General, 1942-1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wage Surveys, 1943-1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Wage Survey--Retail Stores, 1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Pepper S.1349 (H.R.3914), 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Laundry Wage Board--Correspondence, 1940-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Laundries, Cleaning, and Dyeing Establishments: Hearings, Reports, Minutes, 1944-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 9-10 | Laundry Wage Board Minutes, 1945-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Laundry Board, 1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | List of Laundries and Dyeing Establishments with Number of Employees by Counties, 1945-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | News Clippings, 1946-1947 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | New Jersey, 1946-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Requests for Retail Trades Board, 1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Federal (Pepper-Hook Reference), 1946-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Federal Portal to Portal Act, 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Retail Trades Board--Hearing, 1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Retail Trades, 1948-1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Memo for Governor Driscoll from Kempson, 1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Federal Labor Standards--Mrs. Kempson, 1949-1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Massachusetts, 1949-1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Mrs. Kempson, 1949-1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | General, 1950-1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Scrapbook, 1950-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Correspondence and Miscelleous, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | 17th Annual Conference on State Minimum Wage Administration, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | 1 | CLNJ Draft of Minimum Wage Bill, 1952-1953 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Printed Material for Drafting of Minimum Wage Bill, 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | "A History of Minimum Wage Orders in the State of New Jersey," 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | "Wage Laws of New Jersey" by Kathyrn G. Sugrue, circa 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | History of New Jersey Minimum Wage Laws and Private Employment Agency Law, undated | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Correspondence (A.25), 1953 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | General, 1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Legislation, 1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Wage Board Petitions, 1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Wage Survey, 1954-1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Inter-Organization Committee: Minutes, Memos, Members, 1953-1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Inter-Organization Committee: Material Issued (Numbered in Sequence), 1953-1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Inter-Organization Correspondence--Legislators--[Automobile] Caravan, 1954-1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Inter-Organization Committee, 1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Inter-Organization Committee: Correspondence, 1955-1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Historical, 1955-1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 17-18 | Wage Survey Report, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Cost of Living Data, 1954-1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Candidate Questionnaire, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 21-22 | Laundry Wage Board Hearing, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Restaurant Wage Board: Minutes, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Restaurant Wage Board: Hearing, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Mercantile Wage Board, 1955-1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Amusements Board (Proposed), 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Correspondence, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | 1 | Legislation, 1955 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Federal, 1955-1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | General, 1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Legislation, 1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Wage Orders #9-#11, 1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Legislation (Hotels), 1956-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Correspondence, 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Legislation, 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Lane vs. Holderman: Background Material, 1946-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Lane vs. Holderman: Constitutionality of Law--Background Material, 1932-1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Lane vs. Holderman: Correspondence, 1955-1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Lane vs. Holderman: Correspondence, Amicus Curiae Brief, 1955-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Lane vs. Holderman: Roger Hinds Biographical File I, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Lane vs. Holderman: Roger Hinds Biographical File II, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Lane vs. Holderman: Supreme Court, 1955-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Loft vs. Holderman, 1955-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Loft vs. Holderman: Background Material, 1955-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | [J.] Abbott [& Son, Inc.] vs. Holderman, 1955-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | [J.] Abbott [& Son, Inc.] vs. Holderman, Source Material for Brief, 1956-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Atlantic City Hotel Association vs. Holderman, 1955-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Restaurant Association Incorporated vs. Holderman, 1955-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Bridgeton Hospital Association [et. al.] vs. Holderman, 1934-1956 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | 1 | Federal: Correspondence, 1957 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Federal: Statements, 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Model State Bill, 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Miscellaneous, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Legislation, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Publications and Biographies, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Federal: Correspondence, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | "Cost of Living for Women Workers," 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Federal: 20th Anniversary, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Federal: Washington Trip, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Federal, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Federal: Testimony, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Federal: League Testimony, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Agriculture, 1959-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 15-16 | Federal, 1960-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Beauty Culture Board, 1959-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Hairdressers vs. Male, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Legislation, 1959-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Legislation: Correspondence, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Legislation, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Laundry Board Fact Sheet, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Laundry Board Fact Sheet: Testimony, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Laundry Board Fact Sheet: Notes of Grace Reed [of Consumers League of New Jersey], 1961-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Hawaii, 1960-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | California, 1960-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Pennsylvania, 1960-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Hotels, 1960-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | 1 | Retail Trade, 1960-1961 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Legislation: Correspondence, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Legislation: Drafts of Bill (A.508), 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Legislation: Correspondence, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Legislation: (S.306), 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Pennsylvania Regulations, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Laundry Board Hearing, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | New York, 1962-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Laundry Board Minutes, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Laundry Board: Disinterested Parties Defined, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Cost of Living Budgets, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Correspondence, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Hearing: Correspondence, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Hearing: League Statement, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Hearing: Statements--Other Organizations, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Hearing: Census, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Legislation, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Scrapbook, 1964-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | State Laws, 1964-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Federal: Correspondence, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Correspondence, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Federal: Correspondence, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Correspondence, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Hearing Regulations, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Canneries Board, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Seasonal Amusements Board, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Seasonal Amusements Board: Hearing, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 28-29 | Hotels Board, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Correspondence: R. Stochaj, President, 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 59 [oversize] | 4 | Broadside--Minimum Fair Standards, Mandatory Order Number 3, June 3, 1942 | ||||||||||||||
| PESTICIDES FILES, 1939-1973, bulk 1949-1963 (1.8 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by folder heading. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Documentation of the League's investigation of pesticide use, and its effect on consumers. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include correspondence; newspaper and magazine clippings; pamphlets; reports; copies of actual and proposed state and federal legislation; copy of Canadian legislation; leaflets; government publications; lists; technical journals; and occasional statements, press releases, and a television news program transcript. | ||||||||||||||||
| Subjects covered include diseases caused by pesticides, protection of workers from the harmful effects of pesticides, organic farming, and non-chemical pest control. The correspondence mostly concerns a study on pesticide use by Mary K. Farinholt, The New Masked Man in Agriculture (1962), published by the League. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest are responses to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), the controversial series of articles and book about the danger of pesticide, which inspired the League's study. Also of interest are the "Poison Pants Incident" file (1961) which documents a case of pesticide-contaminated blue jeans sold at a second hand store spreading disease, and a court case involving the effect of chemical spraying on neighboring farms. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | 1 | Air-Dusting (Spraying), 1949, 1959 and 1960-1961 | ||||||||||||||
| 2-3 | Articles and Pamphlets, 1958-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Boberg Case, 1964-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Carbamates ("Seven"), 1960-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Rachel Carson--Responses to, 1961-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Cases, 1955-1956 and 1961-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| See also "Hazards," "States' Health Information" and "Toxicology." | ||||||||||||||||
| 8-9 | Correspondence, 1961-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Dermatology, 1960-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Education, 1951-1953, 1955-1956 and 1960-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Education: Farm Bureau, 1960-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Education: Industry, 1956-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Education: National Safety Council, circa 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Education: States, 1957, 1962 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Education: States (California), 1951-1953 and 1960-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Education: U.S.D.A., 1960-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Entomology Research Division: U.S.D.A., 1960-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Farm Labor Facts, 1957-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Foreign--Canada, 1939 and 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Forms and Formulations [for Study], 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Hazards, 1954 and 1957-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| See also "Cases" and "Toxicology." | ||||||||||||||||
| 23 | Hazards (California), 1958 and 1960-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Hazards: Humans and Wildlife, 1956, 1960 and 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Model Bill (Sale in-State), 1946-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Model Bill: Parathion, 1949, 1958-1959 and 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Names in the Field, 1961-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | "New Masked Man in Agriculture": Publication, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | "New Masked Man in Agriculture": Reactions to, 1962-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 30-31 | Non-Chemical Pest Control, 1948 and 1959-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Organic Farming, 1956 and 1960-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Poison Control Centers, 1961-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| See also "Toxicology." | ||||||||||||||||
| 34 | Poison Pants Incident, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Precautions Recommended, 1949, 1955 and 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | 1 | Present Health Programs, 1961-1962 and undated | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Promotion of Use, 1959 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Recommendations, 1959-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Recommendations: California Growers Report, 1960-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Regulations: More Needed?, 1961 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Resistance of Insects, 1958 and 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Respiratory Devices, 1961-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 8-10 | Scrapbooks, 1961-1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | States Health Information and Statistics, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | States: Laws and Regulations (Arkansas, California, Indiana), 1959-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | States: Laws and Regulations (Kansas, South Carolina), 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | States: Laws and Regulations (North Dakota), 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | States: Laws and Regulations (Puerto Rico), 1953, 1955 and 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | States: Laws and Regulations (Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia West Virginia, Wyoming), 1961 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Surveys (of History, Effectiveness, Etc.), 1956 and 1960-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Toxicology, 1956-1957, 1960 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| See also "Hazards" and "Cases." | ||||||||||||||||
| 19 | Workmen's Compensation, 1958-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| RADIATION POISONING FILES, 1923-1979 (1 cubic foot) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Grouped alphabetically by folder heading. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Documentation of the League's research into diseases caused by exposure to workplace and medical radiation, and its advocacy of preventative measures. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include articles, news clippings, correspondence, notes, newsletters, reports, and some legislation. | ||||||||||||||||
| Documents early cases of radium poisoning, and the League's support of the New Jersey Radiation Protection Code (1960-1963) and the Federal Radiation Protection Act (1968). The League lobbied against attempts to change the code and kept files on contaminated sites. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest is an article written by Katherine Schaub (1932), who contracted radium poisoning while working as a watch dial painter. Also of interest are the Metz case (1936-1940) and the Kober case (1948), concerning beryllium and radium poisoning respectively. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | 20 | Beryllium Poisoning--Conference Correspondence, 1926-1947 | ||||||||||||||
| Also includes radium material. | ||||||||||||||||
| 21 | Beryllium Poisoning--Conference, 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Beryllium Poisoning--Kober Case, 1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Beryllium Poisoning--Notes, 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Correspondence, 1926-1936 | |||||||||||||||
| 25-27 | Magazine Articles, 1929 and 1959-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | 1-2 | Magazine Articles, 1962-1963 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Miscellaneous--Copies of Reports, News Clippings, 1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | National Consumers' League Statement; New Jersey Consumers League Statement, November 20, 1956, and 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | New Jersey Radiation Protection Act and Reports, 1963-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | New Jersey Regulations, 1960-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | News Clippings and Federal Survey, 1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Occupational Diseases--Reports and Articles, 1923-1929, 1952 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Pamphlets and Reports, 1959-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Radiation Protection Code--S. Zwemer Testimony, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Radiation Protection Act (Federal), 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Radiation Protection--Hearing Background Material, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 13-14 | Radiation Protection--Correspondence, 1964-1966 and 1968-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Radiation Protection Hearing, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Radiation Protection, News Clippings, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Radioactive Landfills: Correspondence--Orange, N.J., Factory, 1978-1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Radium Cases: Article, 1926 | |||||||||||||||
| 19-20 | Radium Cases: Correspondence, 1924-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Radium Cases: Correspondence--Dyckman/Hamilton [Dr. Martland and Cases], 1951-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Radium Cases: Dyckman Reminiscences--Transcript of Interview, undated | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Radium Cases: Metz Case, 1936-1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Radium Cases: Photostats, 1925-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Radium Cases: Seidman Death, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Radium Cases: Sullivan Death, 1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Radium Poisoning--Orange, N.J., Factory--News Clippings Summarized, 1978 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Radium Poisoning--Correspondence [reproductions], 1926-1936 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Radium Poisoning--Correspondence (Reproductions--Originals at Library of Congress), 1924-1925 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Radium Poisoning--Fryer Case--Berry Papers (Index of Originals at Library of Congress), 1957 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Radium Poisoning--Fryer Case--Berry Correspondence [reproductions], 1925-1930 and 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Radium Poisoning--Fryer Case--Wiley Correspondence with U.S. Radium Corp. [reproductions]; essay, "The Dial Painters Story," 1924 and [1960s] | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Radium Poisoning--Fryer Case--New Yorker Article, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Radium Poisoning--Regulation, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Radium and Radiation--Nuclear--Scrapbook, 1948-1979 | |||||||||||||||
| WORKERS' COMPENSATION FILES, 1924-1982, bulk 1939-1982 (3.9 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Grouped alphabetically by folder heading. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Records generated by the Workers' Compensation Committee of the Consumers League of New Jersey. Before 1970, the Committee was named "Workmen's Compensation." | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include correspondence, memoranda, copies of state and federal legislation, newsletters, pamphlets, reports, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and some press releases. | ||||||||||||||||
| Documents the League's campaign to secure a full coverage law for work-related accidents and diseases, largely achieved in 1949. Later files document the League's attempts to eliminate exceptions to the law (such as agricultural workers), to extend the number of years in which compensable illness could appear, and to increase benefits for disabled workers. In 1967-1971, the League campaigned to protect workers in cases of second injury. Along with other organizations such as the AFL-CIO, the League testified in front of federal and state commissions such as the Ozzard, Nimmo, and Debevoise Commissions, which studied the feasibility of changes to the law. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest is the earlier portion of the series which documents the League's involvement in securing protection of newsboys, work done on the radium poisoning of watch dial painters, and attempts to include workers in war industries. Also of interest is League work on other industrial diseases, such as silicosis in miners and stonecutters. | ||||||||||||||||
| This series also contains scrapbooks of news clippings concerning workers' compensation legislation and lawsuits (1969-1982). | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | 36-37 | Correspondence, 1942-1943 and 1950 | ||||||||||||||
| 38 | Disease and Nuisance Claims: Clark Case Correspondence, 1968-1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Disease and Nuisance Claims: Mesothelioma--Correspondence, 1968-1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Disease and Nuisance Claims: Nuisance Claims--Correspondence, 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | Dyckman Reports, 1975-1981 | |||||||||||||||
| 42 | 50th Anniversary, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 43 | "Labor Security in Post War Period," 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 44 | Legislation, 1976 and 1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 45 | Legislation (Benefit Payments), 1979-1980 | |||||||||||||||
| 46 | Legislation--Background: Correspondence with D. Roskein re. Franklin and Petrone Statistics, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 47 | Legislation--Background: Elective Compensation, 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 48 | Legislation--Background: Governor's Conference on Workmen's Compensation, 1960-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 49 | Legislation--Background: Legislative Proposals by AFL-CIO, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 50 | Legislation--Background: Lump Summing--S.60 Opposition--[Monroe] Berkowitz Correspondence, 1962, 1969 and 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | 1 | Legislation--Background: Permanent Partials--Report of International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions, 1966-1967 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Legislation--Background: Permanent Partials--International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions--Reports, 1965-1966 and 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Legislation--Background: Rehabilitation of the Handicapped--Correspondence, 1959-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Legislation--Background: Report in Annual Meeting, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Legislation--Background: Reports and Newsletters, 1958, 1967-1969 and 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Legislation--Background: Statistics; Snyder Correspondence, 1970-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Legislation--Background: Statistics and Court Decisions, 1969-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Legislation--Correspondence, 1948 and 1955-1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Legislation--Correspondence, 1951-1953 and 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 10-13 | Legislation--Correspondence, 1954-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 14-20 | Legislation--Correspondence, 1962-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Legislation--Correspondence, 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Legislation--Correspondence: Agricultural Workers (A.404), 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Legislation--Correspondence: Concerning Agricultural Workers, 1954 and 1957-1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Legislation--Correspondence: 11th Annual Management/Labor Conference, 1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Legislation--Correspondence: Annual Report by Mary Dyckman, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Legislation--Correspondence: Annual Report of the Consumers League, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Legislation--Correspondence: Assemblyman LaCorte, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Legislation--Correspondence: Average Premium Rates, 1939-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Legislation--Correspondence: Average Rates for Insurance per $100 of Payroll, 1962-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Legislation--Correspondence: Concerning Bills A.25, A.77, A.760, 1965-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Legislation--Correspondence: Correspondence and Statistics, 1962-1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Legislation--Correspondence: Court Cases (Clippings), 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Legislation--Correspondence: Dumont and Parker Bills, 1965 and 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Legislation--Correspondence: Hearing, April 22, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Legislation--Correspondence: Joint Legislative Workmen's Compensation, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Legislation--Correspondence: Laws Passed in 1964 and 1965 (U.S. Department of Labor, Etc.), 1964-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 37-38 | Legislation--Correspondence: Laws (Other States), 1964-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Legislation--Correspondence: League Newsletter, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Legislation--Correspondence: Legislation (S.282), 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | Legislation--Correspondence: Legislative Commission--Background for Testimony, 1948-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 42 | Legislation--Correspondence: Legislative Commission References, 1944, 1952 and 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 43 | Legislation--Correspondence: Legislative Commission (Other States), 1960-1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 44 | Legislation--Correspondence: Legislative Commission--Notes and Correspondence, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 45 | Legislation--Correspondence: Legislative Commission--Rate Changes, 1962-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 46 | Legislation--Correspondence: Legislation Other Than Study Commission Bills, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 47 | Legislation--Correspondence: Letter to Members of General Assembly (S.302), 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 48 | Legislation--Correspondence: List of Bills and Dyckman's Comments, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 49 | Legislation--Correspondence: News Clippings, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 50 | Legislation--Correspondence: Report of Legislative Commission, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 51 | Legislation--Correspondence: News Clippings, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 52 | Legislation--Correspondence: News Clippings, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 53 | Legislation--Correspondence: Radiation Protection, 1958-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | 1 | Legislation--Correspondence: Safety (General), 1952 and 1960-1961 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Legislation--Correspondence: Senator Giblin, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Legislation--Correspondence: "Some Observations on Selected Activities of the Workmen's Compensation Program. . . .", 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Legislation--Correspondence: Testimony, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Legislation--Correspondence: Testimony, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Legislation--Correspondence: Testimony--Hearing, February 24, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Legislation--Correspondence: Legislative Bills and Notes, 1968-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Legislation--Correspondence: Second Injury and S.331, 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Legislation and Court Decisions: Average Premium Rates for 25 Years to 1965 [report], 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Legislation and Court Decisions: Kane vs. Durotest; Calvalcante vs. Lockheed Electronics; Schweikart vs. CIBA Corp., 1962, 1966 and 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 11-12 | Legislation and Court Decisions: Correspondence, 1967-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Legislation and Court Decisions: Lawyers Bill (S.357), 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Legislation and Court Decisions: Scrapbook, 1948-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Legislative Hearing: Correspondence, 1968-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Legislative Hearing: Correspondence--Lump Summing (A.361 and S.60), 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Legislative Hearing: League Testimony, February 24, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Legislative Hearing: Testimony--New Jersey AFL-CIO, February 24, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Legislative Hearing: Testimony at Hearing, February 24, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Legislative Hearing: Report to Executive Committee of Consumers League of New Jersey by Mary Dyckman, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Legislative Hearing: Legislative Notes, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Legislative Hearing: Reports and Tables, 1948 and 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Litigation--Correspondence: Study Commission, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | National Commission on State Compensation Law: Correspondence--1972 Hearing, 1971-1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | National Commission on State Compensation Law: Report of Commission, 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | National Commission on State Compensation Law: Testimony of New Jersey and National Leagues, January 24, 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | National Legislation: Williams (S.3060), 1978 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | New Jersey Study Commission: Correspondence (Concerning Lump Summing), 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | New Jersey Study Commissions: Debevoise Commission, 1968, 1970 and 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | New Jersey Study Commissions: Correspondence--Dyckman and Debevoise, 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | New Jersey Study Commissions: Debevoise Commission--Hearing, 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | New Jersey Study Commissions: Debevoise Commission--Comments on Report, 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | New Jersey Study Commissions: Ozzard Commission, 1962-1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | New Jersey Study Commissions: (Nimmo?) League Statement, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | New Jersey Study Commissions: Nimmo Study Commission--Correspondence, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | New Jersey Study Commissions: Nimmo Study Commission, 1967 and 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | New Jersey Study Commissions: Nimmo Commission Report, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | New Jersey Study Commissions: Plone Minority Report, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | New Jersey Study Commissions: Ontario Workmen's Compensation Board, 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Newsboys: Correspondence--New York Law; Parsekian Article, 1955 and 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | Newsboys: Court Case, 1952 and 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 42 | Newsboys: Court Case (DeMonaco vs. Renton), 1954-1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 43 | Newsboys: Court Case (Mississippi), 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 44 | Newsboys: Court Case (Buchner vs Bergen Evening Record), 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 45 | Newsboys: Court Case (Murray vs. Hudson Dispatch), 1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 46 | Newsboys: Court Case (Fitzgerald vs. Newark Star-Ledger), 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 47 | Newsboys: Legislation--Correspondence, 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 48 | News Clippings (Anheuser-Busch Fire), 1953 | |||||||||||||||
| 49-52 | Occupational Diseases, 1940-1944 and 1946-1950 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | 1 | Occupational Diseases, 1949-1955 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Occupational Diseases: Benefit Rates, 1949-1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Occupational Diseases: Cases, 1942-1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 4-8 | Occupational Diseases: Correspondence, 1939-1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Occupational Diseases: Deafness and Waterfront Occupations, 1949-1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 10-11 | Occupational Diseases: Legislation, 1947-1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Occupational Diseases: News Clippings, 1947-1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Occupational Diseases: Publications, 1949-1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Occupational Diseases: Research, 1948-1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 15-18 | Occupational Diseases: Silicosis, 1924-1944 and 1949-1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Ozzard Commission: Annual Report by M. Dyckman, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Ozzard Commission: Correspondence, 1962-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Ozzard Commission: Correspondence with Dean Larson, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Ozzard Commission: Correspondence, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Ozzard Commission: Correspondence (Warner and Jaffe), 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Ozzard Commission: Correspondence and Report of New Jersey Bar Association, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Ozzard Commission: Court Cases, 1957 and 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Ozzard Commission: Draft of Plan of Council of State Governments, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Ozzard Commission: Heart Cases and News Clippings, 1960-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Ozzard Commission: League Committee, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Ozzard Commission: News Clippings, 1964 and 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Ozzard Commission: "Report of Joint Legislative Workmen's Compensation Study Commission," 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Ozzard Commission: Testimony and Reports, 1962-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Ozzard Commission: Testimony (Chambers of Commerce and Manufacturers Association), 1962-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Reports and Publications: Reports of New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry, 1927, 1947 and 1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Reorganization of New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry: Brief and Court Case of Brown vs. Heymann, 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Reorganization of New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry: Correspondence Concerning Opposition to Governor Cahill's Plan, 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Reports and Publications: U.S. Department of Labor, 1934, 1936, 1940-1941, 1945 and 1949-1950 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 38 [half carton] | 1 | Reports and Publications: Publications and Court Cases, 1934 and 1954 | ||||||||||||||
| 2-3 | Reports and Statistics: Accidents (Dyckman Notes), 1948-1956, 1960 and 1966-1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Reports and Statistics: Bureau of Engineering and Safety, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 5-6 | Reports and Statistics: Division of Workmen's Compensation, 1950 and 1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 7-8 | Reports and Statistics: Division of Workmen's Compensation, 1954-1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Reports and Testimony, 1962-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 10-12 | Scrapbooks, 1970-1982 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Second Injury Legislation: Background Material, 1962 and 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Second Injury Legislation: Second Injury Bill (A.928), 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Second Injury Legislation: Correspondence and Reports, 1964, 1967 and 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 16-17 | Second Injury Legislation: Correspondence, 1968-1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Second Injury Legislation: Correspondence (A.273), 1967-1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Second Injury Legislation: Second Injury Conference, 1970-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Second Injury Legislation: Hearing, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Thirtieth Annual Report of Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of New Jersey, 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| SUBJECT FILES, 1920-1979 (10.5 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Grouped alphabetically by folder heading; oversize item filed separately. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Documentation of various areas of League investigation and advocacy. Includes material generated by League committees, and items received from other organizations and individuals and kept for reference purposes. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include correspondence, reports, notes, conference material, pamphlets, fliers, committee meeting minutes, press releases, newsletters, legal briefs, court opinions, statements, and copies of testimony given before government bodies. | ||||||||||||||||
| Subjects covered include the structure of New Jersey government departments, sanitation and working conditions in industry, health care, consumer protection legislation, equal rights for women, inspection of meat, poultry and milk, packaging standards, price controls, migrant labor, industrial homework, housing, automobile insurance, lead poisoning, civil defense, the New Jersey constitution, occupational safety, and unemployment compensation. | ||||||||||||||||
| Major areas documented in this series include Industrial Health (1923-1949), which contains information concerning radium poisoning and the expansion of workers' compensation laws to cover all job-related health problems; Industrial Homework (1923-1950 and 1969-1971), which documents attempts to regulate the conditions and wages paid to workers in the home; and Night Work (1920-1951), which concerns the League's support of legislation which restricted women's work at night. | ||||||||||||||||
| The League was also involved in the areas of Unemployment Compensation (1936-1967) and Occupational Safety (1928-1977), including the creation of the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Equal Rights (1923-1963) refers to the League's opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, which it felt would jeopardize protective labor legislation for women. | ||||||||||||||||
| Also documents the League's support of Fair Packaging (1965-1968) and Weights and Measures (1961-1978) legislation to standardize descriptions of size and weight on product labels. The League also supported Meat and Poultry Inspection (1957-1975). In addition, the series contains information concerning Milk Price Control (1960-1977), though the League never took a formal stand on this subject. | ||||||||||||||||
| Food Producers vs. Male (bulk 1959-1961) documents an attempt to have the Migrant Labor Law declared unconstitutional, while Ackerman Dairies vs. Kandle (1969) concerns a challenge to milk dating. The original statute was upheld in both cases. | ||||||||||||||||
| Also documents the League's work with other organizations, such as the New Jersey Defense Council (1940-1942), a group created during World War II to help facilitate the war effort; the Citizens Health Council, an inter-organizational body which coordinated the exchange of health information; and the Labor Standards Committee (1931-1942), an inter-organizational committee formed to sponsor labor legislation. The League also played a part in the 1947 revision of the New Jersey Constitution, and was involved in the 1970s movement to reform the New Jersey Legislature (1973-1976). The Office of Economic Opportunity files (1964-1966) refer to the creation of this temporary office in accordance with the Federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to initiate and modify state programs. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest is the Candy White List (1928-1932), which includes a listing of candy companies that met or exceeded standards of cleanliness and wages, as well as reports on specific companies by League investigators. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | 1 | Administration: New Jersey Governor--Correspondence, 1948-1950 | ||||||||||||||
| 2-4 | Administration: New Jersey Governor / Administration--Correspondence, 1951-1953 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Administration: New Jersey Governor; Administration--News Clippings, 1959 and 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Administration: U.S. Department of Labor (Appropriations), 1947-1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 7-8 | Administration: New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry--Reorganization, 1941 and 1946-1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Administration: New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry--Reorganization, 1969-1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 10-16 | Administration: New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry, 1950-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Advertising: Scrapbook, 1965-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | American Association for Labor Legislation, 1934-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Anti-Poverty: Scrapbook, 1965-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Bureau of Women and Children, 1935-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Bread Enrichment, 1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 22-25 | Candy White List Committee, 1928-1932 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Candy White List: Correspondence, 1928-1931 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Candy White List: New Jersey Factories, 1928-1930 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Candy White List: New Jersey Factories--Reichardt's Cocoa Co., 1928-1929 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Candy White List: New Jersey Factories, 1929-1931 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Car Insurance: Scrapbook, 1969-1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Consumers Advisory Commission: Milk, 1935-1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Citizens Health Committee, 1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Citizens Health Committee: Minutes, 1938-1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Citizens Health Committee: Speech Material for Helena Simmons, 1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Citizens Health Committee, 1938-1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 36-38 | Citizens Health Council, 1944-1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Civil Rights, 1950-1953 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | 1 | Consumer Affairs (Consumer Advisory Committee), 1954-1955 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Consumer Affairs: Correspondence, 1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Consumer Department (Federal)--League Statement, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Consumer Help Television Program, 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 5-6 | Consumer Interests Committee: Correspondence, 1940-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Consumer Needs Committee, 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Consumer Protection Laws: Comments on Book, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Consumer Protection Laws: Contributors' Correspondence, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Consumer Protection Laws: Plans and Source Material, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Consumer Protection Laws: Publicity, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 12-14 | Consumer Protection: Scrapbooks, 1958-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Customer Advisory Committee, 1941-1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Department of Labor: Budget, 1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Department of Labor Standards: Correspondence, 1939-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Division of Consumer Affairs: Scrapbook, 1973-1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Division of Consumer Affairs: Scrapbook, 1974-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Division of Consumer Affairs: Scrapbook, January-June 1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Division of Consumer Affairs: Scrapbook, July-December 1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Division of Consumer Affairs: [Scrapbook]--Millicent Fenwick, 1972-1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Environment: Scrapbook, 1971-1976 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Equal Pay for Equal Work: Correspondence, 1949-1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 25-29 | Equal Rights, 1923-1945 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | 1-5 | Equal Rights, 1946-1954 and 1958-1963 | ||||||||||||||
| 6-7 | Equal Rights: Legal Opinions, 1938-1953 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Equal Rights: Speech Material, 1943-1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Fair Packaging, 1966-1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Fair Packaging: Correspondence, 1965-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Fair Packaging Act: Interpretations, 1967-1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Farmer's Week: Consumer Day [photograph removed], 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Fish Inspection: Legislation, 1967-1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae (background paper), 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae, 1959-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae--Correspondence, 1959-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--Bureau of Labor Standards, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--California, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--California Health Department, 1960-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--Mary L. Dyckman, 1931-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--Florida, Idaho, Iowa, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--Illinois, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--Maryland, Montana, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--New York, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--Ohio, Oregon, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--Other States, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--Organizations, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae Brief--Correspondence--Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae--Photostats of Opinions, 1949-1950, 1952 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae--Correspondence--President's Committee on Migratory Labor, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae--Correspondence--U.S. Public Health Survey, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae--References Used, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae--Correspondence--Rutgers College of Agriculture, 1960-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae--Source Material, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Food Producers vs. Male: Amicus Curiae--Source Material--Pamphlets, 1945-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 42 | 1 | Food Producers vs. Male: [Migrant Labor] Code Hearing, 1959-1960 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Food Producers vs. Male: Defendant's Brief, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Food Producers vs. Male: News Clippings, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Food Producers vs. Male: Petition for Leave to File Brief, 1960-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Food Producers vs. Male: Plaintiff's Brief, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Food Additives: Scrapbook, 1966-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Food and Drug Administration: Scrapbook, 1964-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Food and Drugs: Scrapbook, 1970-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Food Inspection: Retail Food Stores--Advisory Committee, 1971-1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Food Packaging: Net Weight, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Food Prices: Scrapbook, 1966-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Food Stamp Program: Legislation--White House Conference on Food, Hunger, Health, 1969-1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Food Sanitation: Scrapbook, 1970-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 14-16 | Frauds: Scrapbooks, 1960-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Fresh Fruits and Vegetables: N.J. Regulations, 1964-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 18-19 | Governor's Equal Opportunity Committee, 1963-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Governor's Health Committee, 1939-1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Health Aid Act: Legislation, 1965-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Household Employment, 1935-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Household Employment: National Committee Correspondence, 1965-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Housing: Newark, N.J., 1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Household Employment: Standards, 1945-1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Household Employment: Statements, 1967-1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Housing, 1935-1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Hunger: Food Stamps--Scrapbook, 1967-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Industrial Health: Activities, 1938-1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Industrial Health: Appropriations, 1937-1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Industrial Health: Committee--Correspondence, 1942-1943 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 43 | 1 | Industrial Health: Committee, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Industrial Health: League Conference, 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Industrial Health: League Survey, 1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Industrial Health: Massachusetts Occupational Hygiene, 1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Industrial Health: Medical Care Article, April-June 1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Industrial Health: N.Y. Industrial Hygiene Division, 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Industrial Health: (Pottery Survey), 1923-1924 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Industrial Health: Poisonous Trades, 1925-1937 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Industrial Health: Public Health Nursing, 1933-1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Industrial Health: State Health Departments, 1933-1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Industrial Health: U.S. Public Health Service Survey (Williams), 1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 12-18 | Industrial Homework, 1932-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Industrial Homework Bill, 1935, 1938 and 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 20-25 | Industrial Homework: Correspondence, 1930-1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Industrial Homework Law, 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 27-28 | Industrial Homework: Legislation, 1969-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Industrial Homework: Report to Commissioner of Labor, 1923 | |||||||||||||||
| 30-31 | Industrial Homework Standards Committee, 1931-1935 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Industrial Homework Standards Committee: Correspondence, 1933 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Industrial Homework Standards Committee: Minutes, 1933-1934 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 44 | 1 | Insurance (Auto), 1965-1970 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Labor Board, 1934-1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Labor Conference, January 1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Labor Department Office Building: Correspondence, 1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Labor Laws for Women and Equal Rights Amendment, 1947-1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Labor's Non-Partisan League, 1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Labor Standards, 1931-1935 | |||||||||||||||
| 8-13 | Labor Standards Committee, 1932-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Labor Standards Committee: Correspondence, 1932-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Labor Standards Committee: Minutes, [1930s] | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | League Committees: Correspondence, 1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | League of Women Shoppers, 1936-1937 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | League of Women Voters: Correspondence, 1935 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Legislative Reform: League of Women Voters Hearing (Full Time Legislator), 1976 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Lead Poisoning: Scrapbook, 1967-1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Legislation: New Jersey, 1946-1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Legislative Reform: Correspondence, 1973-1976 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Legislative Reform: Hearing (Bar Association), 1976 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Licensing Study Commission, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Margarine Legislation--State and Federal, 1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Meat and Poultry: Advisory Code Committee, 1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: Advisory Committee to Write State Law, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 28-29 | Meat and Poultry: Correspondence, 1958-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: Advisory Committee (Kent Notes), 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: Beef Import, 1964-1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: Correspondence and News Releases, 1970-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: Federal Wholesome Meat Act--Correspondence, 1967-1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: Federal Wholesome Meat Act--Testimony, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: Federal Regulations (Sausages), 1968-1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: N.J. Law, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: N.J. Proposed Agriculture and Food Department, 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: News Clippings, 1965-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: Poultry Inspection Act (Federal), 1967-1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: Proposed Transfer to USDA, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: Proposed Transfer to USDA (Statement Working Papers), 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 42 | Meat and Poultry: Legislation, 1958-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 43 | Meat and Poultry: Seals of Quality, 1957-1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 44 | Meat and Poultry Inspection: Transfer to U.S.D.A.--Correspondence, 1974-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 45 | 1 | Metropolitan Northern New Jersey: Federal Executive Board, 1973-1976 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Milk, 1931-1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Milk Dating: Ackerman [Dairy Co.] vs. Kandle--Amicus Curiae Brief (R. Hinds), 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Milk Dating: Ackerman vs. Kandle--Correspondence--R. Hinds and S. Zwemer, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Milk Dating: Ackerman vs. Kandle--Correspondence--R. Hinds and S. Zwemer (New York City Hearings), 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Milk Dating: Ackerman vs. Kandle--Correspondence--H. Glickman and S. Zwemer, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Milk Dating: Ackerman vs. Kandle--Defendant Briefs, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Milk Dating: Ackerman vs. Kandle--Opinion of the Court, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Milk Dating: Ackerman vs. Kandle--Plaintiff Briefs, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Milk Dating: Ackerman vs. Kandle--Testimony at Trial (Notes), 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Milk Dating: Ackerman vs. Kandle--Text of Bills, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 12-13 | Milk Dating: Correspondence--Other States, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Milk Dating: Legislation (A.360), 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Milk Dating: Legislation (S.367), 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 16-17 | Milk Dating: Legislation, 1967 and 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Milk Price Control: Hearing, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Milk Price Control: Hearing--Milk Dating, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Milk Price Control: Hearing (Office of Milk Industry), 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Milk Price Control: State Court Case, 1969-1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Milk Price Control: Suspension, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Milk Quality: Inspection of Oranges, 1963-1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Milk Quality: Standardization, 1964-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Milk Control: News Clippings, 1962-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 26-27 | Milk Control: Scrapbooks, 1963-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Miscellaneous, 1932, 1945, 1956, 1966, 1968 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | National Conference on Social Work, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | National Government Label, 1937-1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | National Health Insurance: Scrapbook, 1968-1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | National Labor Relations Board: Helena N. Simmons, October 1934-April 1935 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | National Recovery Act, 1933-1935 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | New Jersey Civil Defense, 1950-1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | New Jersey Constitution Convention, 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 46 | 1 | New Jersey Constitution Correspondence, 1947-1949 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | New Jersey Constitution Foundation, 1944-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | New Jersey Constitution Foundation: Newsletters, 1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | New Jersey Constitution: Revision, 1943-1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 5-8 | New Jersey Defense Council, 1940-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | New Jersey Defense Council: Consumer Interests Committee, 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | New Jersey Defense Council: Correspondence, 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | New Jersey Defense Council: News Clippings, 1941-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | New Jersey Defense Council: Reports, 1941-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | New Jersey Health Department: Reorganization (Plans), 1945-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | New Jersey Health Department: Reorganization--Larger Local Health Units Bill, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Night Work, 1935 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Night Work: Correspondence, 1923-1929 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Night Work: Correspondence, 1934-1937 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Night Work: Correspondence, 1940-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Night Work: Correspondence, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Night Work: Passaic Survey, 1920 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Nurses' Union, 1936-1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Occupational Diseases, 1928-1932 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Occupational Diseases: Pamphlets, 1928 and 1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 24-26 | Occupational Safety: Legislation, 1954-1957 and 1963-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Occupational Safety: Official News Releases (Department of Labor), 1954-1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Occupational Safety: OSHA Legislation, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Occupational Safety: OSHA--State Plan--Legislation, 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Occupational Safety: OSHA--State Plan--Correspondence, 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Occupational Safety: OSHA--State Plan--Publicity, 1974-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 47 | 1 | Occupational Safety: OSHA State Plan--Testimony, 1974 | ||||||||||||||
| 2-3 | Occupational Safety: Scrapbooks, 1960-1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Office of Economic Opportunity: Correspondence--Meetings, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Office of Economic Opportunity: Correspondence and Meetings, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Office of Economic Opportunity: Job Corps, 1964-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Office of Economic Opportunity: Legislative Commission--Testimony, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Office of Economic Opportunity: New Jersey, 1965-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Office of Economic Opportunity: Rural Poverty Committee Reports, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply, 1938-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Packaging and Labeling: Scrapbook, 1964-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 12-13 | Pollution: Scrapbooks, 1962-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Poultry Inspection, 1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Poultry Inspection: Federal--Correspondence, 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Poultry Inspection: Federal--Legislation, 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Price Control: Correspondence, 1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Princeton University: Industrial Relations Section, 1936-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Private Employment: Legislation, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Private Employment Agencies: Legislation, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Product Safety: Scrapbook, 1969-1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Publications: Mr. Gribbon's Speech, [1953?] | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Public Welfare: Conference, 1962 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Public Welfare: Correspondence and Addresses, 1966-1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Reorganization: Labor Department, 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Reorganization: Labor Department--League Opposition to A.950, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Reorganization: Labor Department--News Clippings, 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Reorganization: Regional Local Health District Act, 1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 29-31 | Rehabilitation: Correspondence, 1956-1966 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 48 | 1 | Rehabilitation: Correspondence, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Rehabilitation for the Aging, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Safety: Scrapbook, 1966-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Seats and Night Work: Women, 1946-1953 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Strike at Consumers' Research [Washington, N.J.], 1935 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Strikes (Kay Dunhill), 1935-1937 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Student Farm Commission: Newspaper Clipping, 1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Unemployment Compensation, 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Unemployment Compensation: Agriculture, 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Unemployment Compensation: Committee Report, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Unemployment Compensation: Correspondence, 1936-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Unemployment Compensation: Correspondence, 1948-1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Unemployment Compensation: Correspondence, 1951-1952 | |||||||||||||||
| 14-15 | Unemployment Compensation: Correspondence, 1954-1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 16-17 | Unemployment Compensation: Correspondence, 1958-1959 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Unemployment Compensation: Correspondence, 1961-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Unemployment Compensation: Correspondence, 1966-1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Unemployment Compensation: Disability Benefits, 1960-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Unemployment Compensation: Reed Report, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Unemployment Compensation: Research Material, 1960-1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Unemployment Compensation: Sickness Benefits, 1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 24-25 | Unemployment Compensation: Sickness Benefits--Correspondence, 1945-1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Unemployment Compensation: Sickness Benefits--Legislation, 1947 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Unemployment Compensation: News Clippings, 1947-1948 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Unfair Packaging Hearings, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Unions: Label, Etc., 1933-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Weights and Measures, 1966 | |||||||||||||||
| 31-32 | Weights and Measures: Bills, 1969-1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Weights and Measures: Correspondence, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Weights and Measures: Endorsed by Guarini, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 35-37 | Weights and Measures: Legislation, 1961-1965 and 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | Weights and Measures: Model State Packaging and Labeling Act, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Weights and Measures: News Clippings, 1971-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 49 | 1 | Weights and Measures: Opposed (Forsythe), 1968 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Weights and Measures: Scrapbook, 1963-1978 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Welfare, 1949-1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Workers Education, 1936-1943 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Work Week, 1941-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 6-7 | Works Progress Administration: State Advisory Council, 1935-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Working Conditions: Case Studies, 1932-1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Working Conditions: Complaints, 1935-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Working Conditions: Department Stores, 1935-1938 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 59 [oversize] | 5 | "The Human Price of a Bargain" from Delineator, March 1933 | ||||||||||||||
| ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FILES, 1907-1975, bulk 1926-1975 (.4 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Grouped by anniversary and thereunder arranged alphabetically by folder heading; oversize items filed separately. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Documentation concerning anniversary dinners, luncheons, and, in 1975, a conference. The anniversary dinners and luncheons, while more elaborate, also functioned as conferences with programs and invited speakers. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include programs, correspondence (letters received and copies of letters sent), pamphlets, committee lists and minutes, invitations and answers, leaflets, news clippings, contracts, newsletters, press releases, invitation and attendance lists, and agendas. Also included were several photographs, which have been removed to the photograph series. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest are the Fiftieth Anniversary files which include material used in exhibits such as a copy of A Brief Concerning Labor Camps for Migrants in New Jersey (1944). Also of interest is a history of the League's office of Executive Secretary. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 49 | 11 | 25th Anniversary, 1926 | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | 30th Anniversary, 1930 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | 50th Anniversary: Background Material, undated | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | 50th Anniversary: Citations Given at Luncheon, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | 50th Anniversary: Committee, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | 50th Anniversary: Correspondence, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | 50th Anniversary: Exhibit--Child Labor [photographs removed], undated | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | 50th Anniversary: Exhibits--Migratory Labor [photographs removed], 1944, 1947 and 1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | 50th Anniversary: Exhibits--Wages and Hours--Industrial Homework [photographs removed], 1907, 1917, 1936 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | 50th Anniversary: History of the League--Typed for Booklet, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | 50th Anniversary: Invitations to Luncheon, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | 50th Anniversary: Letters--Members, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | 50th Anniversary: Luncheon Program, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | 50th Anniversary: Occupational Disease Exhibit [photographs removed], 1944-1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | 50th Anniversary: Publicity--News Clippings, Correspondence, Miscellaneous, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | 50th Anniversary: Seating Arrangements, 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | 50th Anniversary: Speakers--Correspondence, Miscellaneous, 1944 and 1951 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | 70th Anniversary: Attendance, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | 70th Anniversary: Committee, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | 70th Anniversary: Correspondence, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | 70th Anniversary: Program, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | 70th Anniversary: Publicity [photographs removed], 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | 70th Anniversary: Sponsors, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | 75th Anniversary: Conference--Miscellaneous, 1975 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 59 [oversize] | 6 | Broadside Commemorating 50th Anniversary of the League, December 1949 | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Hand-Lettered Sign Used on Easel, undated | |||||||||||||||
| BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL FILES, 1923-1982 (.6 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Biographical files grouped alphabetically by surname, followed by subject files arranged alphabetically by folder heading. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Biographical files of presidents, board members, and executive secretaries of the Consumers League of New Jersey, as well as figures in the National League. Also includes general historical materials about the New Jersey League. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, newspaper clippings, reports, minutes, and miscellany. | ||||||||||||||||
| Includes files on League presidents Mary L. Dyckman and Helena Simmons, and board members Edward Flynn and Canon Robert Smith, as well as a typescript copy of Edward Flynn's memoirs. The historical files include a 1979 radio script created for a National Consumers' League project about the Orange, New Jersey, radium poisoning case, and a history of the League until 1950 written by President Susanna Zwemer. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 49 | 35 | Mrs. G.W.B. Cushing, 1923, 1926, 1930, 1933, 1951 and undated | ||||||||||||||
| 36 | Mary L. Dyckman: Biography and Speeches, 1939-1956, 1978 and 1982 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Mary L. Dyckman: President's Correspondence--Minimum Wage, 1937-1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | Mary L. Dyckman: President's Correspondence--Child Labor, 1941, 1953-1959 and 1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Mary L. Dyckman: President's Correspondence--Migrants, 1951, 1966 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Mary L. Dyckman: Labor Notes, 1937-1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | Mary L. Dyckman: Civil Rights--Correspondence, 1949-1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 42 | Edward G. Flynn: Biography and Speeches, 1955-1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 43-45 | Edward G. Flynn: "Adventures of Eddie," 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 46 | Alice Hamilton, 1959, 1969 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 47 | Florence Kelley, 1926-1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 48 | Elizabeth A. Magee, 1943-1947, 1954-1955, 1958 and 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 49 | Harrison S. Martland, 1952 and 1954 | |||||||||||||||
| 50 | Grace F. Reed (Mrs. M.C.), 1955-1963 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 50 | 1 | Grace F. Reed: President--Writings and Testimony, 1957-1960 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Helena N. Simmons, 1933-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Helena N. Simmons: President's Correspondence, 1923-1936 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Helena N. Simmons: Correspondence--Civil Liberties, 1939-1944 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Helena N. Simmons: Speeches--Minimum Wage, 1937-1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Canon Robert D. Smith, 1947-1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Katherine G.T. Wiley: Biography and Writings, 1923-1929 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Susanna Zwemer--Reminiscences of Campaigns, 1966-1982 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Biographical Sketches of Members, 1944, 1959, 1963, 1966-1967 and 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | History of Consumers League of New Jersey (1900-1950), undated | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs: Legislation Meeting, 1936 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Radium Poisoning: Radio Script, 1979 | |||||||||||||||
| CONSUMER CONFERENCES, 1964-1968 (.6 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by conference year and thereunder alphabetically by folder heading. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Documentation of conferences held during the 1960s by the Consumers League of New Jersey. | ||||||||||||||||
| The bulk of the series consists of correspondence. Other document types include pamphlets, lists, leaflets, agendas and programs, press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, memoranda, fact sheets, minutes, workshop booklets, and a floor plan. | ||||||||||||||||
| Documents the planning, execution and aftermath of conferences, as well as issues discussed at conferences, such as teenage consumers, the creation of the New Jersey Office of Consumer Protection, consumer credit, and food buying skills. Also of interest is a 1964 proclamation by New Jersey Governor Richard Hughes, declaring October 5, 1964, Consumer Day. The 1964 dinner conference was held in honor of the Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs to the President and Assistant Secretary of Labor, Esther Peterson. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 50 | 13 | Esther Peterson Dinner: Correspondence, 1964 | ||||||||||||||
| 14 | Esther Peterson Dinner: Correspondence after Dinner, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Esther Peterson Dinner: Exhibits, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Esther Peterson Dinner: Planning Committee, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Esther Peterson Dinner: Proclamation for Consumer Day, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Esther Peterson Dinner: Program, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Esther Peterson Dinner: Publicity, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Esther Peterson Dinner: Reservations, 1964 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Correspondence, 1964-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Exhibits, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Invitations, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | News Releases, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Program, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Reservations, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Correspondence, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Correspondence with Organizations, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Exhibits, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Program, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Registration, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Report, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Steering Committee Minutes, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Advisory Group, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Directory, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Invitations, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Program, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | Workbooks, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| PUBLICATIONS, 1908-1988, bulk 1908-1978 (.5 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by folder heading and thereunder chronologically. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Publications produced by the Consumers League of New Jersey. | ||||||||||||||||
| Types of publications include newsletters, booklets, pamphlets, brochures, broadsides, programs, leaflets and court briefs. | ||||||||||||||||
| Includes the League's newsletter, the bi-monthly and later quarterly Bulletin (1927-1988, with gaps), which provides information regarding League activities and objectives; The Borrower's Handbook (1966-1967), which was published to help borrowers determine annual percentage rates on loans and installment plans, and several brief histories of the League. | ||||||||||||||||
| The amicus curiae briefs filed by the League in J. Abbott & Son, Inc. vs. Holderman concern an attempt to declare the League-supported minimum wage law unconstitutional. Also included in this series are various issue-related brochures, as well as the useful New Jersey Consumer Protection Laws (1964-1974) published by the League. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 50 | 39 | Amicus Curiae Briefs: Abbott and Son, Inc. vs. Holderman, undated | ||||||||||||||
| 40 | Borrower's Handbook, 1966-1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | Directories of Consumer Protection Agencies, 1967, 1972 and 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 42-43 | Miscellaneous, 1908-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 51 | 1 | Miscellaneous [continued], 1908-1975 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | New Jersey Consumer Protection Laws, 1964, 1971 and 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Newsletters, 1927-1938 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Newsletters [with gaps], 1939-1946 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Newsletters, 1947 and 1950-1955 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Newsletters, 1968-1971 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Newsletters [with gaps], 1972-1978 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Newsletters, 1985-1988 | |||||||||||||||
| PUBLICATIONS FROM NATIONAL AND OTHER STATE LEAGUES AND ORGANIZATIONS, 1896-1969, bulk 1902-1969 (.5 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by folder heading and thereunder chronologically. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Publications produced by the National Consumers' League, several state leagues and other organizations. | ||||||||||||||||
| Types of publications include newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, booklets, leaflets, and reports. Includes many reprints from journals. | ||||||||||||||||
| Predominantly publications of the National Consumers' League including the Bulletin (1934-1939); annual report (1902-1912); and various issue-related pamphlets, brochures, and miscellany including solicitations for money. A small amount of material (two folders), consists of publications from other state consumers' leagues and other organizations. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest is Florence Kelley's The Working Child (1896) and the three Consumers League of New York series Behind the Scenes in a Hotel (1922), Behind the Scenes in Candy Factories (1928) and Behind the Scenes in Canneries (1930). | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 51 | 9 | Consumers' Leagues: Other States, 1903-1936 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | National Consumers' League, 1896 and 1904-1918 | |||||||||||||||
| 11-12 | National Consumers' League, 1920-1929 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | National Consumers' League, 1930-1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | National Consumers' League, 1941-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | National Consumers' League: Annual Reports, 1902-1905 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | National Consumers' League: Annual Reports, 1906, 1909-1910 and 1912 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | National Consumers' League: Bulletin, 1934-1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Other Organizations: Miscellaneous, 1902-1936 | |||||||||||||||
| CONSUMER EDUCATION FOUNDATION FILES, 1966-1979, bulk 1971-1979 (.95 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by folder heading. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Documents generated by the Consumer Education Foundation, a branch of the Consumers League of New Jersey. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include correspondence, conference materials, kits, minutes, reports, pamphlets, news clippings, and court documents. | ||||||||||||||||
| Documents educational, research, and fund-raising activities of the Foundation. Of particular interest are the Consumer Consultant Training Program (1971-1977), designed to inform and help organize consumers for action, and the Metric Conference (1978-1979), held to discuss reasons for use of the metric system, and to propose ways to facilitate the transition from the English to the metric system of weights and measures. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 51 | 19 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--Correspondence, 1971-1977 | ||||||||||||||
| 20 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--Description, 1972-1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--Food Marketing Seminar (Stochaj), 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--Grant Applications--Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Stochaj and Freeman), 1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--Grant Application--Kit for Foundations, 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--Grant Application--Private Foundations, 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--Grant Correspondence--Organizations, 1976 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--Grant from Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Information, 1975 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--Grant--Proposal to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1976 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--Kits for Workshops, 1966, 1971 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 52 | 1 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--Newark Office of Consumer Action, 1975 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--Ocean County (Billerman), 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--YWCA--Montclair, 1972-1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--YWCA--Orange and Maplewood, 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Consumer Consultant Training Program--YWCA--Plainfield, 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Correspondence--General, 1973-1975 | |||||||||||||||
| Includes two letters from Millicent Fenwick. | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Kit for Consumer Assembly, 1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Metric Conference, 1978-1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Metric Conference: Arrangements, 1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Metric Conference: Committee Minutes, 1978-1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Metric Conference: Correspondence, 1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Metric Conference: Kit, 1978-1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | Metric Conference: Materials Sent by Speakers, 1978-1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | Metric Conference: Publicity, 1978-1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Minutes and Secretary's Report, 1971-1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Projects: Complaint Analysis (Liloia), 1973-1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | Projects: Consumer Assembly Participation, 1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Projects: Consumer Complaint Directory (Parkinson), 1972-1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Projects: Directory, 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 | Projects: Motor Vehicle Task Force (Muller), 1979 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 | Projects: Plans, 1972-1978 | |||||||||||||||
| 22 | Projects: Small Claims Questionnaire, 1976 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 | Projects: Teachers' Group, 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Projects: Workshops--Financial Planning (Matejic), 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Publications: Bibliographies of Consumer Pamphlets (P. Fletcher), undated | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Publications: Consumer Series #1-6, undated | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | Publications: Consumer Series--1974 Edition, 1972-1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 28 | Publications: Materials Issued, 1977-1978 and undated | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Publications: State Sanitary Code Summary, 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | Publications: "Youth! Think!" by Alice Ruotolo, 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Repossession Laws and Practices: Correspondence, 1972-1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 | Repossession Laws and Practices: Court Cases, 1971 and 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| 33 | Repossession Laws and Practices: Paper by Steven F. McCabe, 1979 | |||||||||||||||
| CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA FILES, 1966-1977 (1 cubic foot) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by folder heading and thereunder chronologically. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Copies of administrative documents generated by the Consumer Federation of America, of which the Consumers League of New Jersey was a part. The Federation was formed in the 1960s by city, county, regional, and state consumer organizations to serve as a clearinghouse for information, promote consumers' rights, create programs, and to analyze and take action on consumer issues. | ||||||||||||||||
| Document types include board minutes, correspondence, statements, newsletters, news clippings, pamphlets, conference materials, and notes. | ||||||||||||||||
| Predominantly records of the Annual Meeting, Board meeting minutes, reports, and mailings. Consumer Assembly (1968-1977) refers to a consumer conference held yearly by the Federation covering a variety of consumer issues. The Annual Meeting (1968-1977) was similar to a conference, but dealt with Federation business and elections to the Board. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 52 | 34-40 | Annual Meeting, 1968-1972 | ||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 53 | 1-5 | Annual Meeting, 1973-1977 | ||||||||||||||
| 6-14 | Board Meetings, 1969-1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | CFA Consumer News and Comment--Newsletter, 1973 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | Consumer Action--Newsletter, 1967-1968 | |||||||||||||||
| 17-23 | Consumer Assembly, 1970-1972 and 1974-1977 | |||||||||||||||
| 24 | Consumer Assembly: Correspondence, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Consumer Assembly: Materials Distributed, 1968-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Consumer Assembly: Speeches, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 27-28 | Correspondence, 1967-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | Formation: Steering Committee, 1966-1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 30 | International Aviation Policy: Statement, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 | Membership, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| PHOTOGRAPHS, circa 1920-1970 (.2 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Grouped by subject. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Photographs of League officers and events. All photographs are black-and-white. | ||||||||||||||||
| Included are portraits of League presidents, executive secretaries, and board members. Most of the photographs depict formal bill signings by the governor of New Jersey or League conferences (1940-1970). Also contained in the series are sixteen photographs of migrant housing (circa 1950) that were used as visual aids for League testimony at a Federal hearing. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of particular interest are copies of photographs taken to accompany "The Forgotten People," a 1961 article in the World Telegram & Sun in which the author reports on six months he spent working as a migrant laborer. Also of interest are five small photographs depicting child labor in agriculture during the late 1930s. The series also contains a photograph of Consumers League of New Jersey founder, Juliet Cushing (circa 1920s). | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 53 | 32 | Child Labor, circa 1930s | ||||||||||||||
| 33 | Migrant Labor, circa 1950 | |||||||||||||||
| 34 | Migratory Labor: "The Forgotten People," 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Portraits, circa 1920-1960 | |||||||||||||||
| 36 | Portraits, 1961-1970 | |||||||||||||||
| 37 | Governor Moore Signing the Child Labor and Education Laws, June 25, 1940 | |||||||||||||||
| 38 | Governor Edge Signing Industrial Homework Law, 1941 | |||||||||||||||
| 39 | Governor Edge Signing Migrant Labor Act, 1945 | |||||||||||||||
| 40 | Group Photos from Various Events, 1946, 1957, circa 1960, circa 1965 and 1968-1969 | |||||||||||||||
| 41 | Governor Driscoll Signing the Occupational Disease Bill, 1949 | |||||||||||||||
| 42 | Group Photos from Biographical Files of Mrs. Grace Reed, circa 1950 and 1956 | |||||||||||||||
| 43 | Governor Meyner Signing Migrant Crew Leader's Bill, 1961 | |||||||||||||||
| 44 | Consumer Conference, 1965 | |||||||||||||||
| 45 | Migratory Labor--Caravan to Legislature, Dec. 4, 1967 | |||||||||||||||
| 46 | 70th Anniversary Dinner, 1970 | |||||||||||||||
| SCRAPBOOKS, 1904-1976 (1.95 cubic feet) | ||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Bulk arranged chronologically; oversize volumes filed separately in numbered phase boxes. | ||||||||||||||||
| Summary: Primarily consist of mounted newspaper clippings but also include correspondence, minutes, agendas, programs, brochures and broadsides. Several scrapbooks have lost their covers so are stored in folders. Loose newspaper clippings have been photocopied. | ||||||||||||||||
| Documents League members and activities, and subjects of interest to consumers which the League monitored. Most of the clippings are from the Newark Evening News, but there are also a number of clippings from the Star-Ledger and the New York Times. The League used these scrapbooks for reference, but stopped keeping them in the late 1970s because of a shortage of manpower. | ||||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 54 | [enclosure] | 1931-1937 | ||||||||||||||
| [enclosure] | 1932-1934 | |||||||||||||||
| [enclosure] | 1935-1941 | |||||||||||||||
| [enclosure] | Labor Standards Committee, 1937-1942 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | Folder | |||||||||||||||
| 55 | 1 | Clippings [in enclosure], 1904-1907 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Clippings [in enclosure], 1909-1919 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 1926-1939 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | 1937-1958 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | General, January-May 1976 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | General, June-August 1976 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | General, September-December 1976 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | ||||||||||||||||
| 56 [phase box] | 1913 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | ||||||||||||||||
| 57 [phase box] | 1913-1915 | |||||||||||||||
| Box | ||||||||||||||||
| 58 [phase box] | 1935-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| Term | Name | |
| 1900-1930 | Mrs. G.W.B. Cushing (Juliet) of East Orange | |
| 1930-1935 | Mrs. Harriman N. Simmons (Helena) of Elizabeth | |
| April-November 1935 | Mrs. Clinton E. Mosher (Ethel C.P.) of Bloomfield
Resigned due to ill health. |
|
| November 1935-April 1936 | No president | |
| April 1936-1938 | Herman Marx | |
| May 1938-1940 | Mrs. Allan P. Ames (Mary) | |
| May 1940-1947 | Mrs. Richard A. Zwemer (Susanna) | |
| November 1947-1956 | Miss Mary L. Dyckman | |
| November 1956-April 1961 | Mrs. Marion C. Reed (Grace) | |
| April 1961-1963 | Mrs. Arthur Hawkins (Nancy) | |
| June 1963-June 1971 | Mrs. Richard A. Zwemer (Susanna) | |
| June 1971-1975 | Mrs. John Stochaj (Ricki) | |
| June 1975-May 1977 | Mrs. Roger Ingham (Sylvia G.) of Tenafly | |
| May 1977-1978 | Dr. M. Herbert Freeman of Montclair | |
| May 1978-1979 | Roberta Halligan | |
| May 1979-April 1985 | Frederick F. Stecher of Newark | |
| April 1985-1998 or later | Neil Fogarty, Esq. |