Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1909 — Blind Men in Business. [ARTICLE]

Blind Men in Business.

A business corporation has been successfully established In Vienna by men who are totally blind. The company manufactures brushes and baskets, find all its employes are blind. In the eight months of its existence It has fijled orders aggregating 23,000 kronen, making a fair profit, and has enough orders on hand to justify the enlargement of Its workshops. Sixteen of the employes are skilled workmen, and the company wishes it known that their wares are sold on their "actual merit," that they are put upon the market “in fair competition -with the produet of other concerns,” and that tho blind people want "business not charity.’’