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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-02

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780428192747

Excerpt from Reports of the Delegates, 1903 IN my travels round the world, and more particularly in the United States, it became abundantly evident to me that as a manufacturing country America is forging ahead at a pace hardly realised by either British employer or workman. I therefore came to the conclusion that it would be necessary for the workers themselves to have some insight into these developments, and I decided to invite the Secretaries of the Trades Unions representing the principal industries Of the United Kingdom to accompany me on a tour of investigation of the Industrial situation across the Atlantic. Through the courtesy of Sir Alfred Bateman, who expressed himself much interested in the idea, I obtained an interview with Mr. Gerald Balfour, the President of the Board of Trade. That gentleman not only assured me of his entire sympathy, but desired that his department should render me every assistance possible. To Mr. H. Llewellyn Smith (of the Board of Trade) I especially owe a deep debt of gratitude for his efforts in gaining me information and letters of introduction calculated to be of use to myself and the delegates. Mr. Burnett also rendered most valuable assistance in selecting the Unions to be invited, and with general advice - he being personally conversant with trades unions generally in this country; whilst Mr. Henry Fountain supplied me with a large amount of valuable information showing the advances made in late years by the industries Of the United States, which has been utilised in the appendix printed at the end of the complete report of the Commission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.