Report of the
Delegation appointed to Study

Industrial Conditions in Canada
and the United States
of America.

Presented by the Minister of Labour to
Parliament by Command of His Majesty.

March 1927.

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Cmd. 2833.

PART II.-INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES

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Modern industrial relations

Agreements with organised workers

Association of management and labour in the plant ...
General

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PART III.-THE CONDITIONS OF WAGE EARNERS IN THE

No. 2.-Summary of the recommendations of the Committee on the
Elimination of Waste

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No. 4.-Extracts from the report of the second Industrial Conference of representatives of the public called by the late President Wilson in 1920

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No. 5.-Summaries of the following schemes of association of manage-
ment and labour :-

A. Plan in operation on the Canadian National Railways,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and others

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B. Plan of the Dennison Manufacturing Company...

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No. 6.-Conciliation and arbitration in the United States :

(a) Legislative measures

(b) Voluntary agreements

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No. 7.-Conciliation and arbitration in Canada

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No. 8.-Industrial disputes in the United States, 1919-1925
No. 9.-Provision against unemployment, sickness and old age
No. 10.--Welfare and safety work, and factory legislation

No. 11.-Minimum Wages Legislation

No. 12.-Fair Wages Policy in Canada

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No. 13.-Group insurance, stock ownership, savings deposits, building and loan associations and industrial insurance...

No. 14.-Rates of wages and hours of labour in Canada
No. 15.-Rates of wages, earnings and hours of labour in the United

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MINUTE OF APPOINTMENT.

hereby appoint the following persons to form a Delegation to study industrial conditions in Canada and the United States of America, with special reference to the relations between employers and employed, in their bearing upon industrial conditions in Great Britain, and to report thereon:

Sir WILLIAM W. MACKENZIE, G.B.E., K.C. (Chairman).
Mr. ERNEST Bevin.

Mr. MICHAEL B. U. DEWAR.

Mr. JAMES KAYLOR, J.P.

Mr. F. W. LEGGETT.

Mr. I. HAIG MITCHELL.

Mr. C. RANDOLPH SMITH.

I further appoint Mr. H. C. Emmerson to be Secretary to the Delegation.

(Signed) H. J. WILSON,

Permanent Secretary,

for the Minister of Labour.

30th August, 1926.

NOTE.

The estimated cost of the preparation of this Report (including the total expenses of the Delegation) is £3,936 6s. 3d., of which £75 10s. Od. represents the estimated cost of the printing and publishing of this Report.