The Connecticut labor news., 1922-10-27
ENGINEERS PLAN TO
 UNCOVER TRUTH
 OF MUSCLE SHOALS
Federated American Engineering So- cieties to Make Survey and
 Investigation.

By International Labor News Service. Washington, D. C., Oct. 27.-The Muscle Shoals project is to be made
 the subject of an investigation by a special committee of the Federated American Engineering Societies, in accordance with the terms of reso-
 lution just adopted by the executive board of that organization.
 It was the Federated American Engineering Societies which, under
 the presidency of Herbert Hoover, appointed the special committee l which conducted the now famous in
 vestigation into the question of waste
 in industry, finding as a result that per cent of the total waste in industry l lies with management.
 The American Federation of La bor at its Cincinnati convention in 1922 declared i'll favor of the accept ance of the Henry Ford bid on the Muscle Shoals project. In view of the fact that that bid has not been accepted and that steps have not been | taken for the purpose of development of the project, 1t is likely that the proposed investigation by the Fed erated American Engineering Socie- ties will be welcomed alike by labor and the farmers. One of the princi- pal reasons in the A. F. of L. resolu- ton in favor of the Ford project was
 that the development of the project by Henry Ford was in the interest of
 the farmers. The resolution adopted
 can Engineering Societies was as fol-
 lows:
 "Whereas the important national
 question of the completion of the
 Muscle Shoals power proposition has been the subject of great controversy,
 is still unsettled, and the facts regard
 ing 1t have never in a clear and com prehensive manner been placed before
 the public, and
 "Where as wide publication by dis interested engineers of such facts would be a service of great and pos sibly determinative value to the na-
 ton, therefore,
 Be it Resolved, That the President of the Federated American Engineer ing Societies be authorized to appoint a committee of disinterested, distin- guished and skillful engineers, to be selected by a special committee ot the executive board, for the purpose of making a thorough study of the as sembled facts regarding the Muscle O1OdlS plOpOSlliOilS liAAo SSAA1aiii " serve without compensation" The official bulletin of the organl- zation quotes a "very prominent and highly regarded member of the coun- cil' as having made the following statement in discussing the resolu- tion: "The ideal of this organization is service to others. We are seeking opportunities to serve the country, unpaid, unselhshly. There is no or ganization more fitted to select men
 to assemble, digest and state facts ot
 this proposition clearly, for the public benefit It is absolutely true that by
 so doing it encroaches upon an area of great controversy, in which sel- ] fish interests have disported them selves for years. Nevertheless, gen tlemen, the truth is our ideal If by an action such as contemplated this organization brings this situation to
 the open so that there may no longer be disputes as to the fact, it will have accomplished a task of the hrst order"
 The bulletin further announces that
 the process of appointing commit tee and raising the required funds al 1 ready has been started by the officials