Description"This is home to a migrant worker and his family - on Route 33 between Hightstown and Freehold, N. J. - where staff writer Dale Wright found conditions no better now than they were eight years ago...
Description"Dwelling which appeared in news photo of Oct. 23, 1961 in N.Y. World Telegram and Sun, Article by Mr. Dale Wright. Located on farm of Mr. Gilbert Magee, Route 520, Marlboro Twp., Monmouth County, N....
DescriptionMrs. Arthur Hawkins, president of the Consumers League of New Jersey, submits a statement to The Honorable B. Everett Jordan, Chairman of the Subcommittee on General Legislation and Agricultural...
DescriptionSenate Bill 1945 was an effort to amend title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949 to enforce restrictions on migrant workers from Mexico in order to better protect American employment and economics. ...
DescriptionThis article from the Workers Defense League newsletter describes organizing among Puerto Rican farm workers over wages and working conditions. The Workers Defense League, founded in 1936 by Norman...
DescriptionThis letter concerns the illegal employment of British West Indian contract workers at Seabrook Farms, as a way to avoid complying with Puerto Rico Migration Division regulations. The Workers Defense...
DescriptionMigrants as a Social and Educational Problem in New Jersey by Laura Fair, was published in the Studies in Education series (no. 3) in the monthly Rutgers University Bulletin in May, 1932, (Series...
DescriptionDale Wright, a World-Telegram Staff writer, went undercover as a migrant worker in Hightstown, New Jersey, and in Florida. He recorded his observations, interviewed other workers, and took photos of...
DescriptionAlberta Gonzalez was born in Puerto Rico in 1914. In July 1950, with economic conditions in Puerto Rico deterioration and viable opportunity for single women in the work force, Gonzalez migrated to...