WHEREAS, the United Way holds itself out to the public as the impartial vehicle by which agencies are funded and held accountable for services;
AND, WHEREAS, many sheltered workshops which pay blind workers less than the minimum wage receive United Way funding;
AND, WHEREAS, the fact that United Way support lends credibility to the deplorable practice of paying the blind slave wages and thus increases the damage being done to the blind;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by The National Federation of the Blind in Convention assembled this 15th day of October, 1983 in Gaithersburg, Maryland that this organization calls upon all the United Ways of Maryland to reexamine its practices and cease funding agencies which pay blind workers less than the minimum wage.