Association of Scientific Workers

Abstract

THE report of the Executive Committee presented on October 28 to the Council of the Association of Scientific Workers is a document containing a record of sustained and useful work. The outstanding event of the last half-year has been the formation in conjunction with the British Science Guild of the Parliamentary Science Committee. The Association has also taken an active part, with other scientific bodies, in the endeavour to save the Research Association of British Rubber Manufacturers from disintegration. To that endeavour has been added an inquiry as to the best means of stabilising the finances of the industrial research associations generally. In this connexion, the Association has joined with the British Science Guild in the appointment of a joint committee; and when the labours of that body are completed it is probable that it will report to the Parliamentary Science Committee with the view of taking action. During the period under review, the University Degrees Bill, promoted by the Association, has received its second reading in the House of Lords without division; but it is not likely to reach the Statute Book before the session closes. A publication of which the Association may well be proud is “Science in Parliament”, a summary of all affairs relating to science dealt with in Parliament. Another achievement has been the establishment of a publicity bureau.