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 Series

8. Personnel-Employees, Directors and Policies,, 1917-1983

Dates

  • 1917-1983

Scope and Contents

Summary: Documents activities and performance of employees and board members or officers during and after their employment with Consumers' Research. Also concerns employment policies of Consumers' Research. Includes individual employee and board member files. Subjects include confidentiality agreements, employment applications, bonding, vacation policy, labor conditions, persons wishing to write for Consumers' Research, salaries, staff committees, size of staff, employment statistics, unsolicited manuscripts returned, volunteer workers, and working conditions. The file on F.J. Schlink includes extensive materials on his work at Consumers' Research, at the American Standards Association with Paul G. Agnew (later American National Standards Institution), and elsewhere. The file on J.B. Matthews includes a wide range of writings related to communist subversion. Directors or board members with files include Robert Brady, Stuart Chase, Arthur Kallet, Benson Y. Landis, Ruth A. Matthews, Dewey H. Palmer, M.C. Phillips, Bernard Reis, George Soule, Clark Willever, Charles S. Wyand and others. Employee files include, but are not limited to, Frances Broeme, Elliot W. Cheney, Alexander Crosby, Lisette Dorsch, Krishna Chandra Dutt, Paul Dwyer, Alice Evans, J. Hader, Angelita Von Munchhausen Winkler Hinek, Erma A. Hinek, Frank X. Hinek, Susan Jenkins, Reginald Joyce, Emil J. Lever, Eleanor Loeb, Rachel Lynn Palmer, Robert J. Rogers, and Theodore Scheel (artist).

See also Strike file and Consumers Union File.

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English

Physical Description

(5.5 feet.)

Arrangement

Arrangement: Organized alphabetically by employee or director name and then by subject.