Editing Consumers' Research (section)

===Accomplishments===
From its New Jersey location, Consumers' Research continually organized petitions to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] urging him to establish a federal Department of the Consumer.{{sfn|Warne|1993|p=118}} This department would organize all consumer protection agencies and have as goals the prevention of monopoly and prevention of fraud to consumers.{{sfn|Warne|1993|p=118}} Because of Consumers' Research, and women's groups, and home economics activists, there were a Consumer Advisory Board, a labor advisory committee, and a business advisory committee in the [[National Recovery Administration]].{{sfn|Warne|1993|p=119}} In 1933 Roosevelt appointed [[Mary Harriman Rumsey]] to head the Consumer Advisory Board.{{sfn|Warne|1993|p=119}} [[Caroline F. Ware]], [[Paul Douglas (Illinois politician)|Paul Douglas]], [[Walton Hale Hamilton]], and [[Dexter Keezer]] were other consumer representatives involved in this effort.{{sfn|Warne|1993|p=119}}