ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

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• Document Release Date: March 23, 2012
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r c:. OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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MA FRAHA, 9 August 19L9, pp 10.UJ
No decision has yet been made in selecting a name for the new unified organi-
sation of Czechoslovak scientific and technical societies, The SIA ~ociety of
Engineers and Technicians7 proposed Ustredni technic~ky Svaz (Central technical as~
sociation); we proposed Vedeckoutechnicky.Svaz (Scientific-technical association)
or scientific-technical community CSR. The organization committee of thw Society
of Engineers and Technicians (SIA) has worked out a proposal for the statutes of
the future scientific-technical organization (which we will call VTO hereafter).
This proposal was discussed in the technical section of the organization committee
of the Central Action Committee of the National Front. According to this proposal
the VTO is supposed to have a vertical structure (that is, according to technical
branches) and a horizontal structure (for common tasks). In the vertical organ'-
nation the following branches or sections were agreed upon and will be submitted
to all technical societies, institutiond and other interested parties:
1. Mining
2. Foundry
3. Casting
14. Machines
~. Elektrotechnic ) E) t, c J
6. Water economy
7. Gas, water and sanitation (with central heating and air conditioning)
$. Transportation
9. Construction
10. Ceramics and glass
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1. Registration of members
2. Technical experts
3. Norms
LL. Testing and marking
~. Inventions and patents
6. Research
7. Technical documentation
8. Museums
9? Technical literature
1043 Economic science and practice planning
11. Scientific organization of production and enterprises
12. Safety and hygiene in work
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11. Architecture, area planning, and apartment development
12. Chemicals.
13. Geodesy
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15. Forest technic, wood and paper
16. Food
? ?'17; Textiles and clothing
18. Shoes, leather and rubber.
The original proposal of the SIA also included societies for economic science
and practice, and for graphical technic, and a transportation society divided into
automobile, railroad, aviation and navigation branches. It also included socie?
ties for mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, etc.
For the horizontal structure of the VTO the following departments were agreed
upon;
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These horizontal sectors will be directly under the central leadership of the
13. Technical schools.
1)4o Propaganda
1~. Relations with foreign countries
16. Administration of VTO '
POLAND, where the technical societies are independent and directed by a head organ-
are many who are in favor of a structure similar to those in the USSR, HUNGARY and
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VTOL similarly to the organization of the ROH (Central Trade Organization). There
VTO. The relationship of the vertical sectors (branches) to the central manage
meat is not known as yet. First it was assumed that only the VTO would be an in-
dependent jurisdictional body and that the societies would be dependent upon the
In addition, the Chamber of Engineers has worked out a proposal for a technical
ization, such as the VSNITO in the USSR, the NOT in POLAND and MTESZ in HUNGARL
The legal character, of the VTO is also as yet undetermined,
organization, according to which this organization would be divided into:
1. Technical centers
20 Technical societies
3. Technical institutions
The technical centers would be subdivided into:
aA Centers of technical science
b, Centers of technical work
c, Centers of technical culture,
The center of technical culture would be subdivided into technical societiesa
Membership in the societies would be voluntary and free to all who wish to applyott
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