Social and Industrial Reform; Some International Aspects (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1919 Excerpt: ... APPENDIX I. RETENTION OF THE COTTON CONTROL BOARD. In support of my proposal for the retention of the Cotton Control Board after the war as the Industrial Council of the cotton industry, the Right Hon. J. H. Whitley, M.P., Chairman of Committees (House of Commons), and Chairman of the Whitley Committee, wrote to me (June 26, 1918), as follows: --I have been pleased to read your articles suggesting that the Cotton Control Board might well be retained after the war, as the permanent Joint Industrial Council of the cotton trade, and I venture to hope that your proposal may receive the serious and practical attention of all persons engaged in the trade. Constructive co-operation in tackling the difficulties of war is the best preparation for similar co-operation in dealing with the problems of almost equal magnitude that will arise after the war. By common consent the Cotton Control Board has been the most successful of the "War Emergency Controls," because it was based on the minimum of Government interference, and the maximum of self-government by employers and employed in the trade. This is the principle advocated by the committee over which I have recently presided for dealing with the problems of war, of transition, and of peace; and I should like to see the cotton trade first in the future in this matter as it has been first in some other things in days gone by. The proposal is no mere matter of machinery, for it involves a dual recognition--first, of every man and woman engaged in an industry as an individual, whose welfare and development are a concern to that industry--second, of all work as in a large degree service of the Commonwealth. The absence of such joint organisations has of necessity led the Government to attempt functions for which it could n...