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Prom 1918 to 1939 the A s s o c i a t i o n campaigned c e a s e l e s s l y
f o r s c i e n t i s t s and eng ineers t o r e c e i v e decent s a l a r i e s and
c o n d i t i o n s . . w h i c h they had n o t . . . and f o r i n d u s t r y and government
t o use s c i e n c e . . w h i c h they d i d n o t . . Among our successes d u r i n g
t h i s p e r i o d c a n he r e c o r d e d the f o r m a t i o n o f the P a r l i a m e n t a r y
S c i e n t i f i c Committee, which brought Science to M . P .r
s . In
a d d i t i o n i t was l e f t to the A s s o c i a t i o n t o sponsor a P r i v a t e B i l l
i n Par l iament t o make i l l e g a l the award of s p u r i o u s sc ience
degrees by commerc ia l l y minded i n d i v i d u a l s . There was, f o r
example, one l a d y who, i f $ft& approved o f y o u _ a f t e r an i n t e r v i e w ,
would award you the D . S c © ( L o n d o n ) . f or a fee of 3 g u i n e a s • In 1936
the A s s o c i a t i o n made i t s f i r s t r e p r e s e n t a t i o n t o D . S . I . R . on
b e h a l f o f D .S
. I . R . f i n a n c e d pos t -graduate s t u d e n t s . At t h i s t i n e
a l s o the A s s o c i a t i o n .attempted t o pursuade the Government t o
i n c r e a s e i t s money spent on r e s e a r c h from £1 n d l l i o n t o £ ? m i l l i o n
but f a i l e d because the Government thought that such a sum w£.s much
too l a r g e . m *>.:<
D u r i n g World War Two the. A s s o c i a t i o n campaigned f o r the use
o f s c i ence i n war and i n the peace t h a t would f o l l o w . Many of the
pos t -war p a t t e r n s i n the development o f s c i ence and t echno logy
f i r s t emerged from conferences organ i sed by the A .s
c . W . I n 1946
the A s s o c i a t i o n produced as a Penguin the f i r s t attempt to prepare
a s c i e n t i f i c p l a n f o r the. development of B r i t a i n combined with
a r a p i d i n c r e a s e i n sc i ence and technology s t u d e n t s . I t may seem
strange i n 1968, t o r e a l i s e , that just* over 20 y e a r s ago there had
t o be a campaign f o r the r a p i d i n c r e a s e i n the number of such
s tudents and for the r a p i d i nc r e ase i n the amount o f money spent
on s c i e n t i f i c researphand development. I t was on ly 10 y e a r s ago
t h a t the f i r s t governmental, surveys were c a r r i e d out t o determine
how much the c o u n t r y was spending on s c i e n t i f i c r e s e a r c h and how
many s c i e n t i s t s1
and* t e c h n o l o g i s t s t h e r e were .
In the past t e n years the A s s o c i a t i o n , w h i l s t d e a l i n g day
i n and day out w i t h the s a l a r i e s and c o n d i t i o n s of s e r v i c e of
mmJAa* numbers, has produced documents on a l l k i n d s o f Science
P o l i c y t o p i c s (Science P o l i c y * - P o l i c y f o r the a p p l i c a t i o n o f the
S c i e n t i f i c Method t o any genera l s o c i a l and economic problem.)
and has made some impact on Government and UriUvers i ty t h i n k i n g .
D e a l i n g s p e c i f i c a l l y w i t h T r a n s p o r t d u r i n g t h i s p e r i o d there
was an' A . S c . W . s tudy group formed i n the London Area which i n c l u d e d
as members. .an a d v i s e r to the M i n i s t r y of T r a n s p o r t , a member of
o f the G . L . C . P l a n n i n g Department, a member from the O p e r a t i o n a l
Research s e c t i o n o f the B r i t i s h T r a n s p o r t Commission, a member
from a N . E . D . C . , a l e c t u r e r i n economics e t c .
• • » • •
I t i s a b a s i c axiom .of the A s s o c i a t i o n that i t e x i s t s as an
o r g a n i s a t i o n t o meet the needs of i t s members and t o advance the
use of jsci.en.ce and technology w i t h i n B r i t a i n . C u r r e n t l y our
members are v o t i n g b y b a l l o t to amalgamate w i t h another
t e c h n i c a l l y based t rade u n i o n t o form the A s s o c i a t i o n of
S c i e n t i f i c , T e c h n i c a l and M a n a g e r i a l S t a f f s and a l r e a d y 50 $
o f our members have p e r s o n a l l y v o t e d . T h i s i s an example of the
democrat ic s p i r i t o f the A . S c . W . . . ' *•
. As . s p e c i f i c examples of what the C o l l e g e Branch alone had
done f o r I . C . S t u d e n t s we c a n po in t t o the d r o p p i n g of the £5
breakage d e p o s i t , the i n s i s t e n c e by I . C . f o r s tudents to repor t
Safe ty Hazards and the care that I . C . takes t o ensure that P . G *
demonstrators are always p a i d f o r t h e i r demonstrat ing work. What
we have ach ieved has a r i s e n from the d i s c u s s i o n s and a c t i v i t y of
the Student Group o f the B r a n c h . Our student a c t i v i t y i s
complementary to tha t of the C o l l e g e Student Unionc and only
a t e c h n i c a l d i f f i c u l t y has prevented our Student Group from
becoming, an. I . C . Union s o c i e t y over these many y e a r s of i t s
e x i s t e n c e . Our T r a d i n g scheme o f f e r s wide d i scount f a c i l i t i e s
and membership has o ther advantages*
There i s much t o d o . . t h e A s s o c i a t i o n i s d e d i c a t e d t o
c o n s t r u c t i v e changes and has an e x c i t i n g h i s t o r y t o prove i t I
So J o i n now u s i n g the p r i n t e d form on the back o f t h i s page
and ALSO COME TO OUR MEETING. . .THURSDAY. .TO-MORROW. .ROOM #08,
E l e c t r i c a l E n g i n e e r i n g D e p a r t m e n t . . . 1 . 1 5 . . . .
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