What is your opinion? II

THE August issue of Electricial Engineering carried on this page the announcement of a questionnaire on employment conditions to be sent to AIEE memers in continental United States about the middle of September 1954. If you were on vacation when the August issue came, your Board of Directors urges you now to read that announcement and its explanation of the project, and to resolve to give the questionnaire your thoughtful and prompt attention when it arrives in your mail. The subject of the questionnaire is one of the most important problems now before the engineering profession. It deals with the relation of the engineer as an employee to his employer. Your Board of Directors asked the Committee on Planning and Co-ordination to prepare this questionnaire, test it for clarity, and send it to all the members concerned, so that the answers might be in and available for the Board´s guidance this fall. Before answering questions, there may be a few that you would like to ask; such as: “Who wants to know?” “Why do they want to know it?” and “Why can´t they find out without another of these questionnaires?”