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THE Whitley Report on Industrial Councils raises several questions of peculiar interest to scientific workers. It is proposed that a predominant part of the control of any industry shall be based on the recommendations of industrial councils, bodies composed of representatives of the employers' associations and trade unions concerned. Among the subjects with which these bodies will deal are conditions of employment, technical education, and industrial research (para. 16), which are of special interest to the scientific staff. Owing, however, to the lack of organisation among scientific men, there is no method of obtaining their representation on these councils, and if this is not done these matters will be decided by the other bodies involved, without reference to those whom they particularly concern. The need for such organisation is urgent, for it is made clear (Appendix, question 3) that only trade unions and employers' associations are to be represented, and that any body formed later than the council can be admitted only with the approval of its predecessors. The interests of the scientific workers in any industry, therefore, demand that they should form themselves into trade unions.
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SHEARER, C., KIDD, F. & JEFFREYS, H. The Organisation of Scientific Workers. Nature 102, 144 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102144a0
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