The Archive · 1938

Engineers Should Reise Voice

"In this lly, we' Hiave been one mechanical contrivance slaughter over a thousand human beings—this, indirectly, ly" the. responsibility of the engineering profession, and, in no spirit of pacifism, one does feel that the ne has arrived when the engineer: iiould raise his voice in protest.gainst the misuse of the knowledge ho presents to the world, 'This may be an 'Utopian' thought but 1 cannot imagine any more powerful agency than a combination of the engineers of the world raised in protest against needless destruction of life and property, the present Magnitude and the future possibilities of which must be the thought of any of. us who were here In Shanghai during those never-to-be-forgotten months: of last year."

The following committee was ap: pointed for the session 1938/30: Chairman, Mfr. Erle Davies; Vico-Chairman Mr. G. Pickering; Hon.

Secretary and Treasurer Mr, R. M.

Currie; Members of the Committee: J. A. Bonnyman, F. J, Hookham, Y.

Lee, H. G. B. Perry,'S, P. Simpson, 3. RG. Barter and'C. B, Ogilvie.

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