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TitleSome Mental Hygiene Aspects of Working with Foreign Born Parents. Published in Proceedings of the New Jersey Conference of Social Work. Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting.

AuthorTaussig, Helen

Date Created1930

DescriptionThe Council for Human Services in New Jersey, formerly known as the New Jersey Conference of Social Work, was an umbrella group for social welfare agencies and social workers in the state. In this...

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TitleRenewal of Contracts Memo

Date Created1944-11-15

DescriptionWorking conditions, housing, and wages at Seabrook Farms often failed to meet the expectations of migrant guestworkers. As this memo from November 1944 details, of the 97 Barbadian workers at Seabrook...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleMemo about Disappearance of Barbadian Workers

Date Created1945-08-11

DescriptionDuring the war, the War Manpower Commission (WMC) coordinated the recruitment of migrant guestworkers from the British West Indies. Because guestworkers entered the United States with specific...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleBarbadian Workers Deportation Order

Date Created1945-08-17

DescriptionA letter from the WMC to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization instructs officers with the agency to arrest and send the Barbadians who left their contracts to Florida for deportation.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleLetter from Cecil Roach

Date Created1945-06-27

DescriptionCecil Roach fell ill after coming to the United States as a guestworker, and (illegally) went to Boston to receive care from his sister there. In this letter addressed to President Truman, Roach...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleCollege students working during summer months settle into their apartments and make use of the library facilities

Date Created1945-1946

DescriptionRecruited as part of an agreement between Local 56 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union, which represented workers at Seabrook, and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU), which represented cotton...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleLetter from Aitken to Seabrook

Date Created1944-05-06

DescriptionThis letter, from Bridgeton Mayor Bertram F. Aitken to C.F. Seabrook, discusses why town officials preferred relocated Japanese Americans to “the undesirable southern Negro labor.” Racist...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleMemo on German POWs

AuthorSeabrook, J. M.

Date Created1944-06-17

DescriptionSeabrook Farms acquired 150 German prisoners of war who were being held at a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp in nearby Parvin State Park. Seabrook issued strict guidelines to its employees on...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleYoung college students working on the corn line

Date Created1945-1946

DescriptionWhite officials in the South often prevented black agricultural laborers from migrating as seasonal laborers, and the agreement between Local 56, the STFU, and Seabrook Farms was described by Jack...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitlePrefabricated Gunnison Houses being put together in 1952 to be occupied by the overflow of workers for the Seabrook firm

Date Created1952

DescriptionIn the early 1950s, to accommodate the workforce, which had reached its peak, Seabrook's construction firm began assembling 80 prefabricated Gunnison Houses. These opened for occupancy in 1952. As F....

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)