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The National League of the Blind and Disabled (NLBD) was a trade union in the United Kingdom.The union was founded as the National League of the Blind in 1899 and it affiliated to the Trades Union Congress in 1902. It was initially led by Ben Purse a piano tuner.The League organised its first strike in 1912. In 1920 it organised marches to Trafalgar Square from Leeds Manchester and Newport in support of what became the Blind Persons Act 1920.