Editing Consumers' Research (section)

===Founding===
[[File:89 Bowerstown Road, Bowerstown, NJ.jpg|thumb|upright=1|[[Bowerstown, New Jersey|Bowerstown]] offices of Consumers' Research, built 1934–35]]
In 1927 Schlink and Chase, encouraged by the public response to the publishing of their book ''Your Money's Worth'', solicited financial, editorial, and technical support from patrons of other activist magazines to support the creation of an organization to offer consumers the unbiased services of "an economist, a scientist, an accountant, and goodness knows what more."{{sfn|Silber|1983|p=18}} Schlink founded this organization, Consumers' Research, and migrated the existing subscriber base of a [[White Plains, New York]] organization's ''Consumer's Club Commodity List'' to support the ''Consumers' Research Bulletin'' published by his new organization.{{sfn|Mayer|1989|p=21}} This was a publication with the mission to "investigate, test and report reliably … hundreds of common commodities purchased."{{sfn|Silber|1983|p=18}} This magazine would "accept no money or compensation of any kind from manufacturers, dealers, advertising agencies or other commercial enterprises."{{sfn|Silber|1983|p=18}} In 1927 the circulation of the bulletin was 565; by 1932 there were 42,000 subscribers.{{sfn|Silber|1983|p=18}} In addition to the magazine the organization also published books, pamphlets, and reports.{{sfn|Silber|1983|p=18}}

[[File:Bowerstown Road, Bowerstown, NJ - former research laboratory.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Research laboratory, built 1939–40]]
In 1933, Schlink and [[Arthur Kallet]], a board member of Consumers' Research and former colleague of Schlink at the [[American Standards Association]], published ''[[100,000,000 Guinea Pigs]]''.{{sfn|Silber|1983|p=18}} The book was to become one of the best-selling books of the decade and the metaphor of consumers being [[guinea pig]]s exploited by commercial enterprises moved readers as an appropriate description of the public during the [[Great Depression|Depression]].<ref name="McGovern2004" />{{sfn|Silber|1983|p=18}}  Consumers' Research moved in 1933 to [[Washington, New Jersey]] and later the [[Bowerstown, New Jersey|Bowerstown]] in [[Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey|Washington Township, New Jersey]].{{sfn|Silber|1983|p=19}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Gregory L. |title=An Inventory to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., 1910–1983, bulk 1928–1980 |url=http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_introf.html |publisher=Special Collections and University Archives, [[Rutgers University Libraries]] |date=January 1995 |access-date=2007-11-27 |archive-date=2007-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202122000/http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_introf.html |url-status=live }}</ref> After the move Schlink began to take more control over the management of the organization and rapidly hired and fired many staff.{{sfn|Silber|1983|p=19}} When Schlink established Consumers’ Research he appointed his wife and close friends to compose the majority of seats on the board of directors, and staff noted that he held control of hiring, firing, and the organization's editorial and budget decisions. When the organization grew the staff began to question its mission.{{sfn|Mayer|1989|p=21}}