National League of the Blind and Disabled
The National League of the Blind and Disabled (NLBD), currently a section within the Community trade union, was a trade union in its own right in the United Kingdom throughout the twentieth century (1899-2000), and is said to be the oldest surviving disabled person's organisation in the world.
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| Full name | National League of the Blind and Disabled |
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| Founded | 1899 |
| Members | 3,500 (1982)[1] |
| Journal | The Advocate[1] |
| Affiliation | TUC, Labour |
| Key people | Joe Mann (Secretary) |
| Office location | 465c Caledonian Road, London N7 9GX |
| Country | United Kingdom |
General Secretaries
- 1897: Ben Purse[8] (Northern Section of the League)[3]
- 1899: Peter Miller[8]
- 1900: William Banham[8]
- 1903: Joe Gregory[8]
- 1926: G. E. Glester[3]
- 1928: Alec Henderson[8]
- 1949: Thomas H. Smith[8]
- 1969: Thomas J. Parker[8]
- 1979: Mike Barrett[8]
- 1995: Joe Mann[8]
- 2013: John Park[3]
gollark: ```1. I need a banking system!while true do 2. Nobody is giving me full code samples! The documentation is too hard! 3. Krist is too hard to use! I'll make my own, that should be simpler. 4. Nobody is giving me full code samples for this *harder* project! 5. Hmm, they're telling me to use krist, let's try that again.end[between all steps] STOP MOCKING ME!```
gollark: We're at I think stage 2 again.
gollark: "code samples"Wow, my prediction was correct!
gollark: Well, in that case, use krist.
gollark: I see.
References
- Marsh, Arthur (1984). Trade Union Handbook (3 ed.). Aldershot: Gower. pp. 146–147. ISBN 978-0566024269.
- Arthur Ivor Marsh, Trade Union Handbook, p.132
- Reiss, Matthias (2015). Blind workers against charity: the National League of the Blind of Great Britain and Ireland, 1893-1970. Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire. ISBN 978-1-137-36446-3. OCLC 898925093.
- "The National League of the Blind", Public and Commercial Services Union
- Margaret 'Espinasse, Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.IV, pp.165-166
- Arthur Ivor Marsh, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Vol. 5, p.480
- Baldwinson, Tony (2019). UPIAS - THE UNION OF PHYSICALLY IMPAIRED AGAINST SEGREGATION (1972-1990) : a public record from private files. Manchester: TBR Imprint. ISBN 1-913148-01-7. OCLC 1099943533.
- "Appendix A: Past Officers of the National League" (PDF). Retrieved 18 April 2018.
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