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Letter, Fay Bennett, Secretary, National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, Workers Defense League, to Marion C. (Grace) Reed, President, Consumers League of New Jersey. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3G15ZC6
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Letter, Fay Bennett, Secretary, National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, Workers Defense League, to Marion C. (Grace) Reed, President, Consumers League of New Jersey.1959. RUcore: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3G15ZC6

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TitleLetter, Fay Bennett, Secretary, National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, Workers Defense League, to Marion C. (Grace) Reed, President, Consumers League of New Jersey.
Date Created1959
SubjectMigrant Labor, Farm Workers, British West Indies, Seabrook Farms, Hispanic Americans, Puerto Rico, New Jersey
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 League, founded in 1936 by Norman Thomas and colleagues in the labor movement, concerns itself with protecting the legal rights of workers. The Consumers League of New Jersey is a small volunteer organization which was founded in 1900 to advocate for better working conditions. In the 1940s and 1950s, both groups sought to publicize the plight of migrant laborers on New Jersey farms.
Genrecorrespondence, letters
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3G15ZC6
LanguageEnglish
CollectionRutgers University Libraries Special Collections General Resources
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives
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