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REPRESENTATIVES OF WORKERS. 



Councillor John Beard. Mr. Thomas Lovell. 



Mr. George Dallas. Mr. G. Nicholls. 



Mr. George Edwards, J.P. Mr. Haman Porter. 



Mr. Robert Green. Mr. Robert Richards. 



Mr. J. T. Gurd. Mr. W. R. Smith, M.P. 



Mr. G. E. Hewitt. Mrs. F. R. Toon. 



Mr. T. G. Higdon. Mr. R. B. Walker. 



Mr. W. Holmes. Mr. Denton Woodhead. 



The appointed or " impartial " members were appointed 

 by the President of the Board of Agriculture. Of the 

 sixteen representatives of the employers, the National 

 Farmers' Union were responsible for eight, whilst the other 

 eight were selected by the Board of Agriculture from lists 

 submitted to them by employers' associations such as the 

 R.A.S.E. Of the sixteen workers' representatives, six were 

 selected by the N.A.L.U., two by the Workers' Union, and 

 eight were selected by the Board of Agriculture from names 

 submitted to them by the workers. These eight were gener- 

 ally speaking workers selected from areas where unions 

 were non-existent, but since their appointment they have 

 attached themselves to one union or the other. 



Amongst the appointed members of the Wages Board 

 and the District Wages Committees, one had to be a woman, 

 and the same rule applied to the workers' representatives. 

 The first duty of the Board was to form District Wages Com- 

 mittees, which, with one or two exceptions in England, 

 were confined to the county area. In Wales the counties 

 were grouped to form District Committees. 



No less than thirty-nine District Committees had to be 

 formed, with representatives of employers and workers in 

 equal numbers, and appointed members not exceeding a 

 fourth of the whole numbers of representatives. The 

 formation of these District Committees was not completed 

 until May, 1918. 



The trouble was to get suitable representatives on the 

 workers' side. The farmers, who were better organised than 

 the men, found little difficulty, to appoint their representa- 

 tives ; but amongst the farm workers there were districts, 



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