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Show Various Trades Offer Occupation to Blind Blind men are employed In many engineering factories. In one German electrical ' concern, says the annual report of the National Institute for r lie Blind, more than one hundred sightless people are employed, while double that number are being trained. Blindness. It Is said, is no hindrance to a man looking after two or even three automatic machines. The average aver-age earning capacity of a blind operative oper-ative in these works is considered to he about 80 per cent of that of a normal-sighted man. Ninety blind persons employed in French engineering trades earn about 8") per cent of full wages. A motor factory in America employs 44 blind men. who are given the work for which they seem most competent. |