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Title: Transcript of testimony, Benjamin M. Schowe, September 27, 1944
Created: September 27, 1944
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe outlines testimony given before a House subcommittee regarding deaf labor
Subject: Legislative Hearings

Title: To A Select List of Placement Officers, Benjamin M. Schowe, April 10, 1941
Created: April 10, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Open letter to various employment placement officers asking them to fill out information cards about deaf employees
Subject: Job placement--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Worker's Compensation--Deaf, Employment--Deaf--Statistics

Title: Telegram from Marcus Kenner to Kreigh B. Ayers, December 7, 1937
Created: December 7, 1937
Creator: Kenner, Marcus L.
Type: Correspondence
Description: Kenner informs Ayers that the Work Projects Administration does not tolerate discrimination and that the National Association of the Deaf is dealing with the issue
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Work Projects Administration

Title: Telegram from Leonard M. Elstad, President of Gallaudet College, to Benjamin M. Schowe, September 1952.
Created: September 1, 1952
Creator: Elstad, Leonard M.
Type: Correspondence
Description: Elstad hopes that Schowe can come to conference, says Firestone needs to finance the trip.
Subject: Congresses and conventions

Title: Telegram from Fred R. Rauch to Benjamin M. Schowe, April 16, 1940
Created: April 16, 1940
Creator: Rauch, Fred R.
Type: Correspondence
Description: Rauch informs Schowe he cannot meet with him in person but will send a member of his staff in his stead
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Telegram from Benjamin M. Schowe to E.R. Abernathy, January 3, 1940
Created: January 3, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe telegrams Abernathy to inform him of the Work Projects Administration regulations that are causing layoffs of deaf workers
Subject: United States. Work Projects Administration, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Sees 'Malice' In Columnist's Analysis of Student Unrest (Akron Beacon Journal, October 19, 1970)
Created: October 19, 1970
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe's letter addresses Beacon Journal's column on student unrest
Subject: Letters to the editor, Student Political Activity

Title: The principal of KIDS National Centre for Cued Speech : replies to Jill Mansfield : comments from a cueing colleague
Created: March 1, 1975
Creator: Dixon, June P.
Publisher: Royal National Institute for the Deaf (Great Britain)
Type: Correspondence
Description: Comments from a cueing colleague appeared in the March-April 1975 issue of the journal Hearing (published by the Royal National Institute for the Deaf)
Subject: Deaf -- Means of communication -- Study and teaching

Title: Only Cure? (Akron Beacon Journal, August 29, 1971)
Created: August 29, 1971
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe expresses his opinion of communes and Nixon's economic policy
Subject: Letters to the editor, United States-- Economic Policy

Title: Memorandum from W.R. Murphy to J.W. Thomas, May 1, 1944
Created: May 1, 1944
Creator: Murphy, W.R.
Type: Correspondence
Description: Murphy asks permission for Schowe to give a presentation at the Michigan School for the Deaf
Subject: Public Relations

Title: Memorandum from Herbert E. Day to Benjamin M. Schowe, February 5, 1934
Created: February 5, 1934
Creator: Day, Herbert E.
Type: Correspondence
Description: Day points out that some surveys were returned with some questions unanswered
Subject: Deaf--Employment--Statistics

Title: Memorandum from F.C. Harrington to All State Work Projects Administrators, May 2, 1940
Created: May 2, 1940
Creator: Harrington, F.C.
Type: Correspondence
Description: Harrington establishes changes in regulations regarding deaf workers on Work Projects Administration projects
Subject: United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Memorandum from Benjamin M. Schowe to W.R. Murphy re: Reprimand, April 15, 1943
Created: April 15, 1943
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe writes why Drake complained about his job.
Subject: Labor Unions, Performance Standards, Employee Morale

Title: Memorandum from Benjamin M. Schowe to W.R. Murphy re: Reprimand, April 15, 1943
Created: April 15, 1943
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe says that morale throughout the deaf unit is poor
Subject: Employee morale, Performance Standards

Title: Memorandum from Benjamin M. Schowe to W.R. Murphy, February 21, 1951
Created: February 21, 1951
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe tries to convince Murphy that it is in the company's benefit to send Schowe to deaf conferences
Subject: Public Relations, Employees Recruiting, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States

Title: Memorandum from Benjamin M. Schowe to T.W. Osborne, June 7, 1949
Created: June 7, 1949
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe is upset that the Silent Worker is endorsing Goodyear without mention of Firestone who has been generous in hiring the deaf
Subject: Public Relations, Partisanship

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