Salow, S. Robert, engineer, Newton, Mass_. Budish, Nathan N., engineer, Seattle, Wash-- Thompson, Paul H., assistant professor, Harvard University Business WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1971 McElroy, Dr. W. D., Director, National Science Foundation___ Robbins, Paul, executive director, National Society of Professional Golodner, Jack, executive secretary of the Council of AFL-CIO Unions for Scientific, Professional & Cultural Employees, accompanied by Sanford V. Lenz, chairman, Professional, Technical, & Salaried Conference Board, Golodner, Jack, executive secretary of the Council of AFL-CIO Unions for Scientific, Professional & Cultural Employees, accompanied by San- ford V. Lenz, chairman, Professional, Technical, & Salaried Conference Robbins, Paul, executive director, National Society of Professional 149 Miscellaneous: Certificate of award presented to C. Laible from RCA----. National Science Foundation-June 11, 1971. National Science Foundation-July 27, 1971_- Office of Management and Budget-June 28, 1971_. Science Resources Studies Highlights-NSF Science Resources Studies Highlights-NSF-September 23, 1971_.. Subcommittee Letter of September 14, 1971 to NSF. NSF's reply of October 12, 1971 with studies___. "Conversion of Scientific and Technical Resources from Defense-Oriented to Civilian Activities”-George Washington University Report_. Report on the Conference on Economic Conversion, March 31-April 1, 1971, by the Coalition on National Priorities and Military Policy.. "Jobs, the Real Crisis," by Keith W. Bose, Washington Post, June 6, 1971_- "Kennedy Asks Program for Jobless Engineers," by James Welsh, Eve- "U.S. Effort Asked to Aid New Cities," Washington Post, June 18, 1971__ "Technical Job Agency Proposed," St. Petersburg Times, June 19, 1971__ "Engineers Trapped by Shifts to New Priorities," Chemical and Engineer- "Ranks of Unemployed Undiminished: Route 128 Picture Still Bleak," by Barbara Rabinovitz, Boston Herald Traveler, November 1, 1971_ "Kennedy and McElroy Differ," Science Magazine, November 5, 1971-- "The New Poor of Seattle," Washington Post, December 2, 1971. Statement from John P. Eberhard, Dean of the School of Architecture and Environmental Design, State University of New York at Buffalo and formerly Director of the Institute for Applied Technology of the Na- tional Bureau of Standards___. Statement from Dr. Robert C. Wood, President of the University of Massa- chusetts and formerly Secretary of Housing and Urban Development-- PART IV-STATEMENTS—Continued Statement from the Air Pollution Control Association___. Page 352 353 369 372 376 Statement from the American Institute of Industrial Engineers_ 381 382 Statement from the American Society of Certified Engineering Technicians 385 Statement from the American Society of Landscape Architects-. 387 388 390 394 400 405 Statement from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-- 407 412 413 414 417 420 431 433 437 439 440 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION CONVERSION PROGRAMS, 1971 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1971 U.S. SENATE, SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D.C. The special subcommittee met at 9:55 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 4232, New Senate Office Building, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, chairman of the subcommittee presiding. Present: Senator Kennedy. want it to be. the action should be. viser; and Roy H. Millenson, minority professional staff member. Committee staff members present: Ellis R. Mottur, scientific adSenator KENNEDY. The subcommittee will come to order. America's greatest resource is the talent of its people. The skills of reduce many of our problems, and help shape the world the way we our scientists and engineers constitute a major portion of that bank of talent. Through their ability and innovative spirit, we can solve or For 25 years the bulk of our technical talent has been devoted to the defense effort and-over the past decade-to the space program. The results have been spectacular. in areas like health, housing, transportation, crime control, public But today the need for their talent is greatest on the domestic front, sanitation, and pollution. This is where our problems are; this is where Yet at this time of maximum need, between one and two hundred thousand technical personnel across the country are out of work, or employed in jobs below their skills. Since each working scientist or engineer generates six to 10 other jobs, this means a potential loss of over a million jobs throughout the Nation. And it means that it will take us that much longer before we can bring our social problems under flicted on the individuals, their families, and communities, we are This situation is intolerable. Quite apart from the hardships inenormous national investment went into the formal education and onUsing their skills, that investment is being wasted, and the whole Nation is the loser. must direct their efforts toward the Nation's real needs. Technical control. misusing our We must most precious national resource-human talent. An Put our scientists and engineers back to work, and we |