----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+-------------------- | Ministry| Professor| | | |of Labour| Bowley’s | Railway| Miners’| Engineers’ | Cost of | Modified | Wages.| Wages. | Wages. | Living | Index | | +--------+----------- | Index. | (p. 106) | | |Skilled.|Unskilled. ----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------- July 1914 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 ” 1915 | 125 | (120) | 110 | 113 | 110 | — ” 1916 | 145 | (135) | 120 | 129 | 111 | — ” 1917 | 180 | (160) | 155 | 136 | 134 | 154 ” 1918 | 205 | 180 | 195 | 187 | 173 | 213 ” 1919 | 210 | 185 | 225 | 224 | 199 | 255 ” 1920 | 252 | 220 | 280 | 260 | 231 | 309 ----------+---------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------- CHAPTER XIII NORMAL GOVERNMENT LABOUR POLICY Government Departments Concerned—Conciliation and Arbitration—Whitley Councils—Industry’s Own Conciliation Machinery—State Conciliation Machinery—Statutory Minimum Wages—Employment Exchanges—The Work of the Ministry of Labour. Before the creation of the Ministry of Labour in 1916, a general surveillance of labour conditions was maintained by the Chief Industrial Commissioner’s Department of the Board of Trade. The Ministry of Labour was formed in 1916 and absorbed the Chief Industrial Commissioner’s Department, and took over also from the Board of Trade the administration of Unemployment Insurance, Trade Boards and Labour Exchanges. Government Departments Concerned