Consumers League of New Jersey Records

Organized in 16 boxes :

Box #1. Index of the files, description of the files presented to Rutgers University Library, the League publications, leaflets about "Minimum Wage," "Migratory Labor," and "Child Labor," files labeled as "Food Marketing Consumer Action," "Consumers Assembly (1977)," "N.J. Consumers Conference (1967-1968)," and "Mary Dyckman Reminiscences" ;

Box #2. Files labeled as "Consumer Credit (1963-1976)" ;

Box #3. Files labeled as "Child Labor (1940-1970)" ;

Box #4 & #5. Files on "Migratory Labor (1945-1966, 1966-1970)" ;

Box #6 & #7. Files on "Minimum Wage (1942-1958, 1938-1968)" ;

Box #8. Files on various subjects including Medicare (1947-1951), Employment Agencies (1971), Equal Rights Amend (1941-1950), Hours Laws for Women (1968-1971), etc. ;

Box #9. Annual reports (1961-1976), Minutes (1965-1979), etc. ;

Box #10. Files, correspondence, and minutes related to Consumer Federation of America (CFA) (1967-1969) ;

Box #11. Files on Consumer Credit (1965-1970) ;

Box #12. Documents, reports, minutes, and correspondence on Workers Compensation (1967-1977), Occupational Disease (1944-1953), White House Conference (1969-1970), Food Inspection (1970-1973), Meat and Poultry Inspection (1967-1971), Food Stamps (1969-1977), School Lunch (1970-1975), and Economic Opportunities Act (1964) ;

Box #13. Files, documents, and newspaper clippings on Warranty (1967-1979) and Hayden-Magnusson Act ;

Box #14. Files labeled as "Consumer Protection-Weights & Measures (1964-1979)" ;

Box #15. Files and scrapbooks on Consumer Consultant Training Program, Repression Laws & Practice, Workers Compensation, Consumer Education Foundation, and Motor Vehicle Task Force ;

Box #16. Files labeled as "Consumer Consultant Training Program," "Consumer Complaint Directory," "Youth Thinks," "Consumer Education Foundation," and "Consumer Series," etc.

Newark-related material includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Box 1: contains material relating to a New Jersey Consumers Conference (1967-1968) sponsored by the CLNJ, and by the Office of Consumer Protection, 1100 Raymond Blvd., including a work book. "Your Need for the Office of Consumer Protection," by Paul J. Krebs, executive director of the Office of Consumer Protection in Newark; a folder labeled "Publications," with a few brochures from the days when the CLNJ was based in Newark

Correspondence, reports, notes, research material, etc. dating from the time when the CLNJ was based in Newark can be found throughout the collection, including, for example Box 3, file "Child Labor" (1940-1970) and Boxes 4 and 5, files "Migratory Labor" (1945-1966).

Boxes 6 (1942-1958), and 7 (1938-1968) contain folders regarding the minimum wage. Though not directly related to Newark, they do include state-wide surveys of the cost of living and of wages by age, sex, occupation, number of hours worked, and experience; and statements by various CLNJ leaders on behalf of increasing the minimum wage

Box 12: files on "Occupational Disease" (1944-1953) include minutes of a meeting held in the Newark offices of the CLNJ with representatives of the AFL, the CIO, the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, the League of Women Voters to discuss a bill regarding occupational diseases (Dec 1946); and a brief report submitted by Dr. Harrison S. Martland, Medical Examiner of the Essex County Hospital, to Frances Perkins, responding to her request for information regarding "recent deaths in the lamp industry" due to possible beryllium poisoning (Sep 1947)