Photograph, Caravan to Legislature (December 4, 1967)
CLNJ Collection
In the 1960s, the Consumers League of New Jersey continued to advocate and lobby for migrant workers, many of whom came from Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the British West Indies. New Jersey Assembly Bill 957, introduced in November 1967, sought to improve the housing of migrant laborers, ensure that they had potable water, rid the state of cramped migrant lodgings which tended to foster disease, and create a Bureau of Migrant Labor within the Department of Labor and Industry to enforce these regulations. The bill passed due to the efforts of many groups. The Consumers League of New Jersey sponsored the “Legislative Caravan,” a demonstration at the State House which included representatives of the Church Women United, the National Council of Catholic Women, the New Jersey Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, and migrant workers.