HC Deb 17 June 1912 vol 39 cc1448-50W
Mr. GRETTON

asked the Prime Minister if he would give the names of the gentlemen who at present form the Industrial Council; and if he will state whether any names have been added or will be added in connection with the forthcoming inquiry into agreements as to conditions of employment?

Mr. J. M. ROBERTSON

supplied the names of the members of the Industrial Council as follows:—

Chairman, Sir George Askwith, K.C.B., K.C.

Mr. George Ainsworth, chairman of the Steel Ingot Makers' Association and President of the Cleveland Ironmasters' Association.

Sir Hugh Bell, Bart., J.P., president of the Iron, Steel, and Allied Trades' Federation, and chairman of the Cleveland Mine-Owners' Association.

Sir G. H. Claughton, Bart., J.P., chairman of the London and North-Western Railway Company.

Mr. W. A. Clowes, president of the London Master Printers' Association.

Mr. J. H. C. Crockett, president of the Incorporated Federated Associations of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers of Great Britain and Ireland.

Mr. F. L. Davis, J.P., chairman of the Board of Conciliation for the Coal Trade of Monmouthshire and South Wales.

Mr. T. L. Devitt, chairman of the Shipping Federation, Limited.

Sir Thos. R. Ratcliffe-Ellis, secretary of the Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Owners' Association, and joint secretary of the Board of Conciliation of the Coal Trade of the Federated Districts, etc.

Mr. F. W. Gibbins, chairman of the Welsh Plate and Sheet Manufacturers' Association.

Sir Charles Macara, Bart., J.P., president of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations.

Mr. Alexander Siemens, chairman of the Executive Board of the Engineering Employers' Federation.

Mr. Robert Thompson, J.P., M.P., past president of the Ulster Flax Spinners' Association.

Mr. J. W. White, president of the National Building Trades Employers' Federation.

Right Hon. Thomas Bart, M.P., General Secretary of the Northumberland Miners' Mutual Confident Association.

Mr. T. Ashton, J.P., Secretary of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, and General Secretary of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation.

Mr. C. W. Bowerman, M.P., secretary of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress, and president of the Printing and Kindred Trades Federation of the United Kingdom.

Mr. F. Chandler, J.P., general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners.

Mr. J. R. Clynes, J.P., M.P., organising secretary of the National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers of Great Britain and Ireland.

Mr. H. Gosling, president of the National Transport Workers' Federation and general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Watermen, Lightermen and Watchmen of the River Thames.

Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P., Friendly Society of Ironfounders.

Mr. John Hodge, M.P., general secretary of the British Steel Smelters, Mill, Iron, and Tinplate Workers' Amalgamated Association.

Mr. W. Mosses, general secretary of the Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades and of the United Patternmakers' Association.

Mr. W. Mullin, J.P., president of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association and general secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives.

Mr. E. L. Poulton, general secretary of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives.

Mr. Alexander Wilkie, J.P., M.P., secretary of the Shipyard Standing Committee-under the National Agreement of 1909, and general secretary of the Ship Constructive and Shipwrights' Society.

Mr. J. E. Williams, general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.

Registrar, Mr. Horace J. Wilson (of the Board of Trade).