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Title: Speech in Detroit, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe discusses war's impact on employment opportunities for deaf workers and determination on part of the deaf
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States

Title: Suggestion for Radio Talk to Employers--ESAD Diamond Jubilee Broadcast: The Business of Being Deaf, Benjamin M. Schowe, August 8, 1940
Created: August 8, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Draft of radio address about deaf employees and work hazards
Subject: Safety and health at work

Title: Suggestions, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe makes suggestions for distribution to employers
Subject: Civil Works Administration, Employment--Deaf--Statistics, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Oralism vs. manualism debate

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: They Answer Her Answer to Ben (Akron Beacon Journal, May 4, 1971)
Created: May 4, 1971
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Clippings
Description: Schowe writes in response to an atheist who denounces public prayer.
Subject: Letters to the editor, Atheism

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: To All Those Employers Who Are Resourceful Enough to Find Rewarding Employment for Deaf Workers, Benjamin M. Schowe, March 17, 1960
Created: March 17, 1960
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe describes the possibilities of deaf in employment
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Vocabulary--Deaf, Lipreading, Oralism--Deaf--United States, Occupational Training

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: Two Chemists of Akron, Thomas W. Osborne, by Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe writes a biography of Thomas W. Osborne
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Occupational Training

Title: Two ways to provide employment for handicapped workers.
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Notes
Description: Schowe writes about how a company goes about hiring deaf and disabled workers and the accompanying accomodations
Subject: Employment--Deaf--United States, Employment--Handicapped--United States

Title: Unrealistic Distinctions, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe focuses on how communication can be facilitated at work between deaf and hearing employees and supervisors.
Subject: Lipreading, Safety and health at work, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Communication--Deaf, Occupational Training, Segregation

Title: War Manpower Commission Note, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Notes
Description: Schowe writes about the inflow of deaf people but that there is not enough jobs for everyone
Subject: United States. War Manpower Commission, Job placement--Deaf

Title: War-Time Evolution of Employment Opportunities For the Deaf, Benjamin M. Schowe, January 3, 1943
Created: January 3, 1943
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe describes the difficulties facing the deaf employee in search for jobs but presents some ideas that work to the deaf employee's advantage
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Deaf--Employment--Statistics, Occupational Training

Title: Without Benefit of Telephone, by Benjamin M. Schowe, October 13, 1958
Created: October 13, 1958
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe writes about his experience of deaf employment at Firestone
Subject: Employment--Deaf--United States, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Safety and health at work, Segregation

Title: A Worm's Eye View of W.P.A. by Benjamin M. Schowe, 1938
Created: January 1, 1938
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Publications
Description: Schowe outlines the discrimination problems that the deaf have faced in gaining government employment
Subject: United States. Work Projects Administration, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

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