§ Chairman
- G. E. Dearing, M.B.E., General President, National Union of Hosiery Workers.
§ Members
- C. Adolphe, Midlands Divisional Officer, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, Leicester.
- J. Anderson, Alderman and Vice Chairman, Derbyshire County Council.
- P. J. Branch, Chairman and Joint Managing Director of Jas Branch and Sons Ltd., Northampton.
- F. E. Brow, Member, Rushden U.D.C., Northamptonshire.
- D. Byford, C.B.E., Chairman, D. Byford & Co. Ltd., Leicester.
- R. W. Chadburn, J.P., Alderman Kesteven County Council.
- J. F. Coe, Transport Manager, Stanton and Staveley Ltd., Nottingham.
- C. T. Forsyth, J.P., Managing Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, Nottingham Co-operative Society.
- E. S. Foster, Alderman, Nottingham County Borough Council.
- Professor S. J. Gould, Professor of Sociology, Nottingham University.
- Sir M. Henig, Alderman, Leicester City Council.
- D. P. Huddie, Director, Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby, and General Manager of their Aero Division.
- S. P. King, J.P., District Organiser, National Union of Agricultural Workers, Lincolnshire.
- A. E. Lester, Member, Nottinghamshire County Council.
- F. Limb, O.B.E., Managing Director, Ericsson Telephones Ltd., Nottingham.
- Col. P. H. Lloyd, T.D., D.L., J.P., Chairman, Leicestershire County Council.
- W. L. Miron, O.B.E., T.D., Chairman, National Coal Board, East Midlands Division.
- Dr. Joan Mitchell, Reader in Economics, Nottingham University.
- T. A. Fraser Noble, M.B.E., Vice-Chancellor, Leicester University.
- R. Wadsworth, Member, Lincoln County Borough Council.
- G. E. Walden, J.P., District Organiser, Transport and General Workers Union, Northampton.
- H. Wileman, J.P., General Secretary, South Derbyshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers.
- K. J. Wilkinson. Managing Director, The Spiral Tube and Components Ltd., Derby.