| Description | Interview with John Broadley, Scottish braille press. He continues to talk about the main aims of the National League of the Blind in the 1930s and the effects that his involvement in campaigns for a minimum wage had on his political views. He thinks that his views were shaped more by his upbringing in a mining community which was dealing with the consequences of unemployment, strikes and short working weeks. He discusses the importance of organisation for blind people to have any influence in society, the benefits of contact with sighted people as part of the work of the League, and the limitations of the system of blind welfare that existed in the 1930s. He talks about the numbers of blind people in open employment, sheltered schemes and the professions before the Second World War, and the conditions of employment and welfare at that time. He talks about his own work with the braille press and printing works and its reorganisation to meet the braille needs of the blind in 1948 (tracks 1-5).
Total: 16.25 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0997680 |