Industrial League and Council
1915 George Roberts, MP for Norwich, and John Ames, held the first of a series of occasional dinners with a few trade union leaders and a few employers.[1]
1917 the Industrial League was the formal name given to the series of dinners, initially arranged informally, to promote discussion about labour relations between people in industry, the Labour movement and the government, with objective of increasing the good feeling between employers and employed by offering them the means of talking over industrial problems under friendly conditions.
Founders were Rt. Hon. George Roberts, M.P., H. Scholey, C.B.E. and Lee Lathrop Murray
c.1919 The Industrial League and Council was formed, incorporating the Industrial Reconstruction Council and the Industrial League[2]
1919 First in a series of lectures was delivered by Mr G. H. Roberts[3]
This and other discussion fora, such as the National Alliance of Employers and Employed, eventually led to the institution of Joint Industrial Councils to promote communication in industry.
by 1925 the 2 organisations had merged into the National Industrial Alliance[4]