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THE anticipated Bill to give effect to the recommendations of the reports of the 'working parties' set up by the Board of Trade, and particularly to provide for the use of a compulsory levy to support scientific research, has now been published and received its second reading in the House of Commons on February 13. The debate on this Industrial Organisation Bill, however, scarcely touched on the issues which are disturbing to those most closely concerned with research, and it is to be hoped that its clauses will receive much more searching and constructive criticism when the Bill reaches the House of Lords. In spite of the fact that all the reports so far received from the 'working parties' have favoured a compulsory levy, it is by no means certain, as Mr. I. J. Pitman and Mr. W. Shepherd pointed out in the House of Commons, that duress will prove more effective than persuasion for the purpose in mind.
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DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS IN INDUSTRY. Nature 159, 381–383 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159381a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159381a0