| Description | Interview with John Watt, Edinburgh. He continues to talk about opportunities for blind people in employment, his view that the roles of Industrial Advisors to the Blind should be to create new industries in the workshops to enable blind people to make a real contribution and to earn higher wages, the need for changes to the wage structure and for blind workers to be paid more than they would receive in Social Security payments. He talks about the average incomes of blind workers with a family and the expenses involved in keeping a family and making improvements to the home. He talks about the difficulty that members of the National League of the Blind might have in taking industrial action over this issue, other trade unions that the League is affiliated to, the difficulties in getting 100% membership and the main activities of the League in the education and training of young blind people. He goes on to talk about the National Federation for the Blind, and the differences between the two organisations, the wages he received as a trainee at in a sheltered workshop, and his belief that blind people and those with other disabilities should have the opportunity to receive the average wages that sighted people get, and to take part in the full range of social activities that are available to sighted people. He feels that blind people should be represented on more government committees and that government funds should be set aside for the development of mobility aids (tracks 1-10).
Total: 34.06 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0769280 |