BLIND WRITERS
9,000 SIGHTLESS WAR WORKERS Government offices in London are now employing blind stenographers and typists. They take down their shorthand on . machines which prick cut the characters cai long strips of paper. These notes are then transcribed on the typewriter bj* touch. All told there are about 250 blind stenographers and typists at work in Britain many of them with local authorities up and down the. country. Some 220 others have been trained as telephone operators, a number cf whom are employed by the Ministry cf Labour, the Air Ministry and by private firms. In several cities throughout the country 3750 blind men and women are turning out from special factories big quantities of products to help the war effort. Wicker baskets for bread and special ones for carrying Army field signalling equipment are being supplied to the Forces. Baskets are also being made for the Red Gross, hospitals and A.R.P. services. Britain's Ministry of Supply has given a good deal of contract work to the blind, including contracts for thousands of special baskets for carry lng bottles of chemicals and drugs. Brushes and brooms go to the Forces too.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 34, 27 March 1942, Page 3
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192BLIND WRITERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 34, 27 March 1942, Page 3
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