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IT is a matter of importance to the representatives of the chemical profession that their aspect of the great coal-tar colour industry should be kept well to the fore in the Government scheme and in any other scheme that may hereafter be put forward. We desire to see the restoration of the industry to this country, and not only restored, but also permanently retained after the war. The discussions of the Government schemes in various parts of the country by dye-consuming organisations, chambers of commerce, and so forth, have all centred round political or economic questions; the vital principle, viz., adequate chemical control, has been subordinated or left out of consideration altogether. While there has been much wrangling over the question as to the method by which the industry may be established and maintained here, whether by free trade or protection, or subvention, or by any other device, the consideration of the questions whether a few years hence there will be anything in the way of dyestuffs worth protecting; whether there will be a sufficient basis of material products left for the politicians and economists and business people to wrangle over has been overlooked. It is not a purely business problem which the Government has undertaken to solve; it is primarily a chemical problem.
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Professional Chemists and the War 1 . Nature 95, 18–19 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095018a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/095018a0