The Connecticut labor news., 1924-11-29
ORGANIZED LABOR URGED TO STUDY EVERY PHASE
 OF POWER PRODUCTION

By International Labor News Service. Fl Paso, Texas, Nov 2o.-Recom- mendation that the labor movement of | formed on the power situation is made in report submitted to the American Federation of Labor convention by James F. Noonan and Timothy Healy, labor representatives to the first World Power Conference, held in London June 30July 12
 Mr. Noonan, who is president of the International Broth erhood of Electrical Workers, and MT. Healy, who is presi- dent of the International Brotherhood of Bremen and Oilers, also recommend ed that labor should seek representation at all future conferences on power They express the opinion that further world meetings on power will be held and that in time councils will be de- veloped to shape policies and courses of action.
 The report of MT. Noonan and Mr Healy is in part as follows:
 
 Power Conference held because it was entirely different from the other de- Lucrative bodies to which labor sends representatives and in order that some understanding of the conference may be arrived at; we deem it essential to quote the announced purpose and end of the conference:
 The purpose of the World Power Conference Is to consider how the in dustrial and scientific sources of power may be adjusted nationally and interna- tionally:
 By considering the potential re- sources of each country in hydroelec- tric power, oil and minerals.
 By comparing experiences in the de- velopment of scientific agriculture, irri- gation, and transportation by land, air and water.
 "'By conference of civil, electrical, mechanical, marine, and mining engi- neer,s technical experts, and authorities on scientific and industrial research.
 "'By consultation of the consumers of power and the manufacturers of the instruments of production.
 "'By conference on technical educa ton to review the education methods Ill different countries, and to consider means by which existing facilities may be improved
 By discussions on the financial and economic aspects of industry, national and internationally.
 By conferences on the possibility of establishing permanent world bureau for the collection of data, the prepara- ton of inventories of the worlds re- sources, and the exchange of industrial and scientific information through ap pointed representatives in the various countries
 There has been tendency to regard the World War Power Conference as meeting of scintists and engineers de- voted to consideration of certain prob lems which have only limited sphere ly the property of the specialist There is a certain amount of truth in this If attention is devoted merely to isolated sections of the conference, and not to function of the conference, and in this may lie its lasting significance, bears on wider economic developments and al- though an additional international dis cussion of purely economic difficulties may appear singularly futile after pre- vious experiments in the same line, 1t touches on certain fundamentals which have never before entered into consider ation,
 The difficulty of previous interna- tional conferences has been their essen tially bureaucratic nature, coupled with the preponderance of academic theorists in discussion over those who are every day at grips with the problems dis cussed The World Power Conference is a serious effort to obtain international i, cooperation, not only in experience, but also in practice and knowledge, so that something like practical basis may be established for the great developments of the future
 It has become more and more evil dent that the economic prosperity of the ! world depends on the closer cooperation of engineers, scientists, and economists, since the productive value of any theory or any principle depends on its trans latlon into scheme of development which can be immediately used, either to improve the industrial equipment of any country or to make a more scienti- fc use of the natural resources at its disposal. It is quite useless to base any