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*d.to;othoal:tets*Disability!0No BarrierFalt;reedero-InJob:USESRlt;'as: InqueDen-irsofn-goenchenn-;s?Efficiency of the 'Handi-capped’ Worker Shown in Figures Compiled by Employment Service.Nemxs.3th*n~iP-sre;ss,atieyowforlil-thetom-thetoats.leyhatbyLed,iogoodWhatever his friends might sayabout 28-year-old Richard Bondof '7329 Union ave., they wouldn't say he is handicapped.Yet 15 months ago more than half a dozen prospective employers turned Dick from their office doors, saying, “We’re sorry. We just don’t have any place for a man with a disability.”Released from an army hospital in Indianapolis where he had been recuperating from severe shrapnel wounds he received at St. Lo two weeks after the 1944 invasion of Normandy, Bond then was looking for a job.But, as he told employers he went to see, he couldn’t do any heavy lifting. Four years and seven months in the army—14 of thosern-royheyon-:k”nancialbutlishMr.bethestu-fni-avyre-im-ohnlivettee36C-An Fred i Drexel compai ed wh 5:50 a. a weelCrossirGoei when Chicag auto c 41, Ne Goetz and clt; legs.Crossu hospiti later.Mor. reckle; appealmornii Friday ued ti invest: Goe west c streetMorga The husba: time to wc sageave.Fun were ' chape' ave. cemet:on-;agoMrs. mod mor the 3 ark mit-outlisiPark o be ause Any,SS15tskedhood;zen-swersamemonths in hospitals here and overseas—had taught him a lot, but not a specific trade.A Break at Last. -So Dick went from one factory office to another for a month. His search wasn’t half-hearted. He put in the whole day every day, looking, looking, looking.After several fruitless weeks, he decided the thing to do was to learn a specific trade. During the short time he had been employed before enlisting for a “one-year” term in the army in 1941, he had worked as a laborer. Two years in Iceland, more months in Ireland and England before St. Lo, had C Hdi intervened. Upon his release from the army Dick was ready to specialize.But the story was the same. He couldn’t find an employer who wanted to train him on the job.“Then one day I happened in here,” Dick said referring to the Sportsman Industries, 6440 Wentworth ave.Now a Cabinet Worker.“I told Mr. Anleitner (Jack Anleitner, one of three owners of the company) I wanted work, but couldn’t-do any heavy lifting.“He said he didn’t care. As long as I was willing to work, he’d find something for me to do.”Dick went to work immediately i and has been there eight hours a| B*m day. six days a week ever since.He has done a little of everything that goes into the construction ol house trailers and kitchen cabinets which the 80-mail industry manufactures. It took him only a short time to become proficient, his employer said. He is now*a dependable wood cabinet assembly man.‘■It’s the best job a man could want,” Dick said yesterday, addingFra land ; ident Chatfc at a i els dEllis Oth man, ident; ave., 8013 tary; son a Anac'serge.Me ter ( BTitl tea, I p.m., lawn Mr view Mrthat he feels better than, he ever ett amschas in spite of the tiny splinters of shrapnel that still are lodged in his body.As for a “disability ” the word isn’t in his own or his employer’s vocabulary.The company has in its employ other men who hold the Purple Heart. A great _percentage of the Sportsman employes are war veterans, doing a good production (Continued on Page 9)ter, f,6906chairEhLion man 3 o’c 2505 Vam liam
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Southeast Economist
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 09, 1947
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