Union of Professional Men

Progress, Volume XII, Issue 3, 1 November 1916, Page 779

Union of Professional Men

An application has been made at Brisbane to the Arbitration Court that an association of architects, engineers, and surveyors be registered as an industrial union. This came as a great surprise to members of the professions elsewhere, and it has also caused considerable indignation, for it is felt that there would be something derogatory in professions taking the status of trade unions. It is said that a good many of the engineers and surveyors in the civil service are behind the movement. One of the Victorian institutes interested in the matter will take all possible steps to defeat this move, and, if necessary, there will be an appeal to the High Court, for it is contended that the registration would be invalid.

controlling the valve-spindle so as to cause such valve to close after a predetermined number of revolutions of such fan, wheel, or screw. The invention may be carried out in a number of ways in which fans, or water-wheels or screws, of different designs may be employed to actuate the mechanism controlling the valve-spindle.

Artificial Stone. Patent No. 274, by P. Ford and Sons, England. In the manufacture of reflectors, tiles, building blocks, and the like, O "7A. .. A pieces of alabaster or gypsum of irregular . ■ ./. , or uniform size are mixed with cement and moulded or rolled to the desired shape. The articles and blocks so * » formed are then cut and polished. ~KP Ordinary cement is used, and m some instances may be replaced by plastic fj&£± : vulcanite or by semi-transparent or coloured cement. As applied to electric light reflectors p ' p. the moulded shade is turned and polished " and polished and becomes semi-transpar-ent, the light being diffused through the alabaster chips A. Road Making. —A patent, No. 606, has been taken out by L. Litton, of New South Wales, to increase the wearing qualities and facilitate the rolling of a road, by substituting unbroken pebbles for the usual angular pieces of broken metal.