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of the laboratories in these institutions either for direct solution by 
them or for the investigative work to be immediately initiated, directed, 
supervised, and administered by them. 
IV. RESEARCH WORKERS. 
I should also like to refer with your permission to one or two other 
matters which to me appear to merit some attention in the treatment of 
my.subject. One of these has to do with the welfare of the personnel 
required to actually carry out the investigations of industrial research. 
We have in the graduates who are being turned out annually from our 
universities a body of well trained investigators. In the past, as already 
pointed out, many of these have had to go to the United States for employ- 
ment. Weshould, however, retain them in ourowncountry. They could 
be secured and held, initially and in part at least, by the establishment, in 
connection with our Bureau, of Fellowships of about $1500 per annum. 
This is a modest sum and one which could be easily paid by manufac- 
turers for the solution, either complete or in part, of some of their pro- 
blems. I hope this matter will te taken up at once, that the manufac- 
turers will immediately take steps to enable us to secure modest but 
suitable laboratory accommodation, and that they will hasten to bring 
their difficulties to us and endow Fellowships for their solution. We on 
our side are waiting to co-operate most heartily. Another point to which 
I must refer is the treatment of Fellows who succeed in successfully 
solving problems which may be presented. They should not be treated 
in a niggardly manner. Many of them are looking to the industries for 
their future occupation. If they make some new discovery or improve 
a process, they should receive some adequate financial return. The 
manufacturers should be prepared to adopt some system of paying 
royalties to them, or what is better still, they should be given some 
’ financial interest in the firm which profits by their discovery or improve- 
ment ina process. While this would be only fair it would also tend to 
put our industries on a higher plane for it would be putting into operation 
a scheme which would ultimately result in our great industries being 
directed and managed by a body of men who have received not only the 
highest training which our Universities and Technical Colleges can 
furnish, but who have also shown that they possess the power to initiate 
and carry on original investigations, and at the same time have a deep 
sympathy with research methods and know how to co-ordinate these 
with economic values. 
