of right for discussing matters, for eliciting information on doubtful aspects, for pointing out and securing a remedy for objectionable features and for introducing safeguards for the protection of their craft. Hostility softened into suspicion, suspicion mellowed into confidence, and confidence in time begat co-operation. Almost insensibly the scope of these committees widened by general consent, and other workshop grievances, apart altogether from dilution, were submitted for discussion and disposed of in the same amicable way. The engineering employers on the Clyde wholeheartedly supported the scheme, and a number of them voluntarily took the initiative in enlarging the sphere of matters to be discussed. It should not be forgotten that this was in one of the most revolutionary districts of the country, where for their own purposes extremists had been long fomenting workshop grievances. When those grievances were remedied in this way there was very little left for the extremists to turn to their own ulterior ends, and the Clyde settled down. After the Commission was dissolved in October 1916, by the Ministry of Munitions, which did not like to see an outside authority doing successfully what it had previously failed to do, the influence for good of these committees rapidly declined under the hard hand of bureaucratic control. At first I had entertained fears of Trade Union hostility to workshop committees, because local delegates are apt to think that the discussion of workshop grievances is a matter entirely for them, which, if appropriated by a workshop committee, may impair the necessity for their official existence. This difficulty, however, we surmounted in a very simple way. The committee consisted as a rule of seven or eight members elected by the workers in the shop, and an equal number of the representatives of the management. Notice of any meeting of the committee and of the agenda before the committee would be sent to the district delegate of the Union concerned, who would be invited ex-officio, if he cared, to attend and take part in the proceedings. As a rule the delegate invariably did attend, and his presence was most helpful.