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In an address to the Industrial Co-Partnership Association, Major Urwick discusses some of the problems involved in the association of workers with the higher control of business. Management to-day is becoming scientific rather than political—a task of co-ordinating the contributions of experts rather than of compromising conflicting interests. The new, scientific type of administration demands specialized knowledge and intellectual detachment. Workers who possessed such knowledge should not remain workers ; and members appointed to Boards of Directors for the avowed purpose of representing the interests of a particular section are by definition the reverse of detached. There are further difficulties connected with the committee form of administration. Major Urwick suggests that the solution may come through representation of the workers on a second body, behind the Board, and standing in the same relation to it as the Houses of Parliament to the Cabinet—a body with wide powers of criticism and review, but no duties of actual administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]