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Title: Building for Tomorrow, Benjamin M. Schowe, August 16, 1940
Created: August 16, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe expresses concern about increased discrimination against deaf employees
Subject: Safety and health at work, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Labor Unions, United States. Work Projects Administration, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Worker's Compensation--Deaf

Title: The Deaf Wage-Earners: A Study in Adjustment to Occupation, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Long article about deaf employment by Schowe, includes a lengthy comparsion to deaf employment in Great Britain
Subject: Occupational Training, Segregation, Safety and health at work, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, World War II, Communication--Deaf, War Manpower, Lipreading, Worker's Compensation--Deaf, Vocabulary--Deaf, Sign Language--American, Job placement--Deaf, Oralism vs. manualism debate

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.L. Roberts, April 30, 1940
Created: April 30, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe reports to Roberts about his meeting in Washington and mentions expenditures
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Safety and health at work, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Charles M. Smith, Counsel of Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company, April 16, 1941
Created: April 16, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe tells Smith that his company has indeed discriminated against deaf employees and that the National Association of the Deaf is prepared to fight
Subject: Safety and health at work, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Fred R. Rauch, April 13, 1940
Created: April 13, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe arranges a meeting with Rauch and asks to review certain records regarding deaf accidents at work
Subject: United States. Work Projects Administration, Vocabulary--Deaf, Safety and health at work, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to H.J. Summers, President of St. Louis Division of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf, January 12, 1942
Created: January 12, 1942
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe outlines various evidence that supports the case of deaf employment and asks Summers to deal with local discrimination in St. Louis
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Howard L. Benshoof, August 13, 1941
Created: August 13, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe offers advice to Benshoof
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Deaf--Employment--Statistics, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Leonard Outhwaite, Consultant on Minority Groups, War Production Board, March 8, 1942
Created: March 8, 1942
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe tells Outhwaite that hazards to deaf employees are more imagined than real
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Percival Hall, April 30, 1940
Created: April 30, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe tells Hall his opinion of Wheary and the meeting
Subject: United States. Work Projects Administration, Safety and health at work, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Percival Hall, April 30, 1941
Created: April 30, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe advises Hall to advise Alexander on including deaf employees in minority groups covered by the Office of Production Management
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to S.W. Candee, Manager of Industrial Relations, Tidewater Associated Oil Company, May 2, 1951
Created: May 2, 1951
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe makes suggestions on how Candee can incorporate deaf employees at his company
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Occupational Training, Safety and health at work, Segregation

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Tom L. Anderson, April 4, 1941
Created: April 4, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe talks about leadership and the discrimination case in Missouri
Subject: Labor Unions, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration, Civil Works Administration, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Tom L. Anderson, August 17, 1941
Created: August 17, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe fills in Anderson on what the industrial committee is doing and discusses the work of local placement officers.
Subject: Job placement--Deaf, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Employment--Deaf--Statistics, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Tom L. Anderson, March 30, 1941
Created: March 30, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe outlines the main topics of his committee's work regarding employment and the deaf
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Organizations--Deaf--United States, Safety and health at work, Worker's Compensation--Deaf, Unemployment--Deaf, Occupational aptitude tests

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to W.W. Alexander, April 23, 1941
Created: April 23, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Alexander to help stem discrimination against deaf employees and cites Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company as a guilty party
Subject: Safety and health at work, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to W.W. Alexander, April 23, 1941
Created: April 23, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe appeals to Alexander to reassure employers that deaf employees are not at heightened risk of work injury
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Safety and health at work, Labor Unions

Title: Letter from Byron B. Burnes to Benjamin M. Schowe, May 1, 1941
Created: May 1, 1941
Creator: Burnes, Byron B.
Type: Correspondence
Description: Anderson is ill so Burnes complied Schowe's work on the industrial committee and asks Schowe for final approval.
Subject: Organizations--Deaf--United States, Employment--Deaf--United States, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from Fred R. Rauch to K.B. Ayers, April 10, 1940
Created: April 10, 1940
Creator: Rauch, Fred R.
Type: Correspondence
Description: Rauch admits the need for revision of the Work Projects Administration regulations regarding deaf workers
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from H.J. Summers, President of St. Louis Division of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf to Benjamin M. Schowe, 1942
Created: January 1, 1942
Creator: Summers, H.J.
Type: Correspondence
Description: Summers describes a specific incident of discrimination at the St. Louis Ordnance Plant
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from Percival Hall to Colonel F.C. Harrington, January 8, 1940
Created: January 8, 1940
Creator: Hall, Percival
Type: Correspondence
Description: Hall asks Harrington to consider the new Work Projects Administration rules carefully.
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration, Safety and health at work

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