Munition Workers in England and France

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Excerpt from Munition Workers in England and France: A Summary of Reports Issued by the British Ministry of MunitionsIn the meantime the problem in England had changed during the last six months of 1914 from a serious unemployment situation in July and Au gust to a definite shortage of labor in December. Early in 1915 a campaign was planned to recruit workers, and conferences were urged to settle the grievances of those already at work. In Pebru ary a committee was appointed to deal with the disputes constantly arising. In March the Board of Trade planned a mobilization of women to do the work of men who had been called to the front, which brought immediate response. In that same month Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Ex chequer, effected a truce with the trade unions which should last through the war, and secured the passage of a bill which gave the government the right to commandeer any factory and turn it over to the production of war munitions. Finally, in April, after eight and a half months of war, it was announced that Lloyd George would head a board to organize the national output of munitions of war, and about a month later, at the time of the formation of the Coalition Cabinet in May, 1915, a Ministry of Munitions was created, with Lloyd George as its chief.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.