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THIS information and the essential co-operation of industry can probably only be secured by the creation of representative councils for each of the great national industries, and in this way the Tariff Commission will be brought face to face with rationalisation problems, technical questions of scientific development, industrial organisation, and management. In addition to the technical advice of industrial representatives, the co-operation of the banks, co-ordinated, for example, through some such body as the Bankers' Industrial Development Trust, will be required, since intelligent use of the powers of the Committee involves the complete supervision of every question relating to industrial and commercial development. If the Government proposals are indeed directed towards the evolution of such a deliberately planned national economy, there will undoubtedly occur opportunities of making representations to the Commission upon the scientific position of many of our great industries the development of which is dependent upon technical control and scientific research. It is desirable that the Commission should be aware of what scientific opinion is on such great industries as the textile industry, the iron and steel industry, etc., and it is incumbent upon representatives of science to follow these developments with the closest attention and to seize the earliest opportunity of making representations or affording other assistance towards the evolution of a creative and scientific national policy.
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Scientific and Industrial Development. Nature 129, 271 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129271b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/129271b0