LEGISLATIVE FILES, 1932-1977

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.