SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 10 September 1921, Page 7

SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS

LACK OF INTEREST BY LABOUR

BY CA.BIiE~PRF.BS ASSOCIATION-COPY BIGHI

LONDON. Sept. 9. Sir Richaird Gregory, speaking at the British Association, condemned the trade unions' lack of interest in scientific probloms, pointing out that many Eioneer scientists had been men or umble 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. Mj\ Bunsen (an Edinburgh trade union leader) replied that it was no part of the trade union functions to propagate scientific knowledge. They might aa well ask icricket clubs and musical societies to promote scientific lectures.