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Tli# Wagner Act sad* it clear that there war® two kinds
of people In Indus try—employers and employees. Hi® Act es-
tablished tha rules of what aaoh group could do and eould not
do In their attempts to axart pressures on one another*
there did this division leave the engineering pro-
fession? Not in tha middle, as may be supposed,
because, in fact, thare was no middle; tha covered
workers necessarily found themselves in mm ©as® or tha
otheri they war© management or they ware labor,?
perhaps tha beleagured engineers oould turn to tha pro-
fessional sooiatias for aid. But to which society? The
engineers maintain between seventy-five and on# hundred or-
ganisations® which are national in extent. They have not
banded toge ther into one large group auoh as the American
Medical Association or the American Bar Association. Any one
engineering society usually had only a small percentage of
the members in any group of engineers in Indus try.
How Interested should an engineering society be in the
plight of the engineer-employees? Although the societies'
memberships are predominantly employees, the officers are
often employers ®r management personnel. could a society
take the side of labor and remain a representative of its
members, employers and employed?
Even if a professional society decided to aid groups of
engineer-employees, could it do so with the funds available
to it? Perhaps not, for several reasons}
7Robert a. Blackburn and others, a Professional Look at
the Engineer in industry, (Washington,""ly ), p. z.
8Ibid., p. vii.
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Montgomery, Austin H. An Analysis of the Progress of Unions in Organizing Professional Engineers, thesis, 1956; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc107884/m1/22/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .