MOVING IN A VICIOUS CIRCLE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 9, 6 October 1919, Page 6

MOVING IN A VICIOUS CIRCLE

GREAT INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

CALL FOR CO-OPERATION WITH BCUsNUB

. Are tho great industrial countries moving m a vicious circler The maniltsio m the American Federation 01 Labour takes this view, and, moreover, suggests a remedy in an important inauliesio winch has been printed bv "Sconce'copies of which-have been tent to President Wilson, the President of the Senate, and tho Speaker of tho home ot .Representatives. The iollowmy « the text:— "Whereas, scientific research and the technical application of the results of research form a fundamenti-.l basis upon which the development of our industry" manufacturing, agriculture, mining ami others must rest; and "Whereas the productivity of industry is greatly increased by tno teclmic-il application of the results of scieili " ■„ search in physics, chemistrv. biology and and 11 the related sciences; and the Wth and well-being not only of te vorkors bl , of the whole populaHon well are, dependent upon advances in medicine* and sanitation j ik> nat tin w, f° f f 6c !f ntifi(: «dvancemc,,t to 0 i f ? r ° n £ the nati » n is "'any times i..eh r H H,e cost of the ''«^ar 7ll &ea;'ch; and . ''Whereas the jnereased nrodnclivitv of industry resulting from scientific eVeard wa .most potent factor in (he ev r-i c easing struggle of the workers to ra" o their -standard of living, and the im! portance of this factor must steadi v merease Slnce _ (her ; a limit ,J, which the average standard of living of the whole population cannot progress by ho usual methods of readjustment which nut can be raised only by research and the-.utilisation of the results of research inMndiistry; and '<-suircn "Whereas {hero are numerous important and pressmg problems of adminis°V?f regulation now faced by Federal, State, aiid local Governments, tho vise solution of which depends upon scientific and technical research; and Whereas the war has brought homo to at the nations engaged in it the overwhelming importance of science and technology _to national welfare, whether in war or m peaco, and not only is privato initiative attempting to organise far reaching research in these fields on a nntional scale, but in several countries governmental participation and support of such undertakings are already activetherefore be it ' "Resolved, by the American Federation ot Labour in convention assembled that a, broad programme of scientific and technical research is of major import, ance to the national welfare, and should be fostered in every wav bv the Federal Government, and that t.h'e activities ot tlie Government itself in such research should be adequately and generously supported in order that the work may bo greatly strengthened and extended."