ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the movement as it took place in Great Britain. But somebody ought to make the attempt to collect the materials for a world-wide study of the development of workshop organization during the war period. Excluded from power in the official Trade Union organizations, the Amalgamation Committees had been actively proselytizing in the workshops, and had thus paved the way for the growth of workshop organization. Many workshop meetings, convened for the most part by shop stewards in the various works, were held; and as many as possible of the works were persuaded to send delegates to a central body, which was to co-ordinate and direct the whole movement. The Clyde Workers’ Committee remained in being throughout the war period. Its effective power fluctuated from time to time, and it was more than once re-formed in order that it might acquire a more fully representative character.
