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COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H.R. 14, H.R. 356, H.R. 1855, H.R. 5243

AND

VARIOUS OTHER BILLS RELATING TO EDUCATION AND
ASSISTANCE TO THE BLIND

HEARINGS HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 9, 10,
11, 13, AND 16, 1959

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PART 2

Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1959

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

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Statements (formal) of—

ten Broek, Jacobus, president, National Federation of the Blind_.
Appendix I: Bills to protect the right of the blind to self-expres-
sion through organizations of the blind:

U.S. Senate:

Appendix II:

Page

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Table 1. Blind population of United States, by regions and
States, July 1956...

464

Table 2. Estimate of blindness in United States, by age
groups, 1956 and projections to 1975...

466

Table 2a. Rates per thousand blind population in United
States, by age groups, 1956 and 1975 (projected).
Table 3. Cost of programs for aid to blind, U.S. average, by
States...

467

470

Table 3a. Annual taxpayers' cost of blind programs-Fed-
eral and State, 1957...

Table 4. Estimates of employability among the blind.
Table 5. Employment of blind by type of employment, 1956.
Table 6. Percent distribution of occupations of blind after
rehabilitation..

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Appendix IV:

Tabulation of blind population by State employment quotas
(1956)

493

Biographies of officers, National Federation of the Blind:

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Chapter II. Social and economic integration of blind..

497

Chapter III. Organizations of the blind...

513

Chapter IV. Achievements of the organizations of the blind,
letters, statements, etc..

543

Hayes, Harry E., Kansas State Department of Social Wel

fare..

575

Hines, Harry L., State of Nebraska Department of Services
for the Blind and Partially Sighted.

574

Iowa State Commission for the Blind.

572

Mungovan, John, Massachusetts Division of Services for the
Blind

564

Nevada State Welfare Department

573

Stocker, Clifford A., State of Oregon Commission for the
Blind..

568

Sundquist, Perry, California State Department of Social

Welfare..

566

Statements (formal) of—Continued

ten Broek, Jacobus-Continued

Chapter V. Opposition to organizations of the blind.

Chapter VI. Consultation with representatives of organizations
of the blind..

Articles from Braille Monitor:

"Agency Leaders Make All-Out Attack Against Right-
to-Organize Bill”.

"Backward Hindsight".

Bussie, Victor H., Louisiana State Labor Council, AFL-CIO,
address by, "Organized Labor and Organized Blind".
Formal and informal consultation with representatives of
organizations concerned with welfare of blind..
Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of, Office of the
Secretary, letter February 4, 1958, to Hon. Walter S.
Baring.

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Kennedy, Hon. John F., a U.S. Senator from the State of
Massachusetts, speech:

June 27, 1957

625

February 17, 1959.......

623

Magnuson, Hon. Warren G., a U.S. Senator from the State of

of Washington (news release).

631

Oregon Commission for Blind, motion passed.
Seward, G. (Tim), address by.

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"The Blind and the Right to Organize," address by Jacobus
ten Broek

649

Nagle, John F., president, Associated Blind of Massachusetts,

statement.....

664

Organizations affiliated with National Federation of the Blind, by
States...

667

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