SCIENTIFIC AFFA|RS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 62, 10 September 1921, Page 5

SCIENTIFIC AFFA|RS

LABOUR'S LACK OF INTEREST

FUNCTIONS OF TRADE UNIONS.

I («HIT» MtHS ASSOCIATION.—COHMOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABIB ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 9th September. Sir Richard Gregory, speaking at the meeting of the British Association, condemned the trade, unions' lack of interest in scientific problems, pointing out that many pioneer scientists had been men of humble origin. He said that if the unions were true to, their title, instead of being merely wage unions, they would give the same attention to the scientific principles of their industry as they did to claiming the uttermost wages therefrom.

Mr. Bunseiij the Edinburgh trade union leader, replied that it was no part of trade union functions to propagate scientific knowledge. They might as well ask cricket clubs and musical societies to promote scientific lectures. Dr.Kirhmins, speaking at the British Association, declared that tests' of 1,750,000 troops showed that One man out of every forty had a mentality not above that of a normal ten-year-old child.

The anthropology section passed a resolution in favour of the establishment of State-aided Imperial schools of anthropology in the interests of the native races of the Empire.