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covering all the essential industrial 

 research subjects. 



In a general way it is designed to 

 fulfil for Canada the functions now 

 performed for the United States by 

 the Bureau of Standards at Wash- 

 ington and the Mellon Institute at 

 Pittsbvrg. It will provide modern 

 scientific equipment and methods for 

 investigations of Canadian raw mat- 

 terial, industrial processes, and manu- 

 factured products. It will serve as a 

 national laboratory for standards of 

 all sorts, for the testing of materials, 

 for the discovery of methods of utiliz- 

 ing by-products of manufacture 

 hithert > wasted, and generally for 

 experimental work in the application 

 of science to industry. The proposed 

 national research laboratory will also 

 be of incalculable value to the various 

 trade guilds now being promoted by 

 the Research Council in the leading 

 Canadian industries. In fact, the 

 national laboratory with its free ser- 



vices and adequate equipment is 

 almost a necessary first step to the 

 formation of these trade guilds for 

 mutual advancement. 



In Great Britain the trade guilds 

 under the direction of the British 

 Research Council are now taking full 

 advantage of the National Phy- 

 sical Laboratory near London and of 

 similar institutions. In the United 

 States similar advantage is taken of 

 the facilities of the Bureau of Stan- 

 dards and of the Mellon Institute. It 

 may be noted in this connection 

 that the Governments of Great Bri- 

 tain and of the United States are 

 annually spending millions for scien- 

 tific research in industrial lines, to 

 say nothing of many millions more 

 spent by large private enterprises 

 in connection with the laboratory 

 work of large industrial establish- 

 ments. In Canada the total annual 

 amount thus expended is not more 

 than $200,000. 



Labor and Capital Favor Research 



The systematic starving of tech- 

 nical education and scientific re- 

 search just because neither is what 

 is called a "live political issue" ap- 

 parently'' is coming to an end. At a 

 meeting held in Ottawa, a committee 

 consisting of Messrs. G. M. Murray, 

 representing the Canadian Manu- 

 facturers' Association: W. Maclach- 

 lan, of the joint committee on tech- 

 nical organizations, and Tom Moore, 

 president Trades and Labor Congress 

 of Canada, presented to the cabinet 

 a memorandum of joint recommenda- 

 tions drawn up at a meeting of the 

 foregoing bodies. It embraces im- 

 portant suggestions of policy agreed 

 upon by capital and labor as applic- 

 able to Canada's reconstruction per- 

 iod, and its adoption is strongly 

 urged upon the government. 



Among the important representa- 

 tions made by the joint committee 

 is one relating to scientific and 

 industrial research as follows: — 



Having regard to the important 



part which research must necessar- 

 ily play in Canada's industrial re- 

 construction, the appropriation for 

 that purpose should be increased to 

 not less than one million dollars 

 annually. The board handling that 

 work should not be merely advisory 

 as at present, but should he clothed 

 with specific executive powers which 

 powers should preferably be exercised 

 by a board of managers, upo which 

 labor, manufacturers and engineers 

 would all have representation. 



PROGRESS IN TECHNICAL 

 SCHOOLS 



In view of the exacting demands 

 upon industrial skill and efficiency 

 which will be made of every people 

 in the competition for the trade of 

 the world following the period of 

 reconstruction, it is the intention in 

 the next session of the House of 

 Commons to bring in a bill to give 

 force to a Federal policy for technical 

 training of the rising generation. In 



