Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-02
WILL HOLD LABOR
 CONFERENCES NEXT WEEK.
British Labor Administration Mission
 to Visit Hartford.

The British labor administration mission, which is making a tour of the United States at the invitation of the federal government, will visit Hartford next Wednesday and Thursday, Sov. and 8, and hold three conferences in regard to labor conditions that exist in American munitions factories or can be anticipated in view of British experiences shortly after the start Of the war. One conference will be held with labor leaders of the state, an other with prominent manufacturers and third with representatives Of both labor and capital
 The conferences will be held under the auspices of the Connecticut state council of defense, at whose invita- tion the mission will come to Connecticut. Further details will be arranged by a committee of the council. consisting of Winchester Bennett Dr. p. Chester Brown, Julius Stremlau, William R. Webster and Harris whittemofe of the council and Herbert Knox Smith, chairman of it's committee on man power and labor, and Frank ID. Che rey, chairman Of the committee on in- dustrial survey.
 The mission is going to Hartford for the sole purpose of aiding this country with advice regarding the manufacture of munitions, and there will be no social side to it's stay. connection with the visit and no en- tertainment or formal reception. The members of the mission recently held consultations with the council of na- tlonal defense, the advisory commits sion and Secretary of War Baker at Wa ashington.
 The four members of the mission are all experts in the line of work to their government as we'll as men who were prominent in the affairs of Eng land before the war TkaT are all con- nected with the British ministry of munitions, wnicf. consists of two de- partments, the labor supply and labor regulation departments.
 Sir Stephenson Kent, in addition to being one of the men in general con trol of all the work of the ministry Of munitions, is head of the labor supply department. Before the war Sir Ste phenson was an owner of large coal mines.
 H. w. Garrod, the second member of the mission, is deputy assistant secretary of the labor regulation de- partment of the ministry. Before the war he was a professor of the classics at Oxford University.
 c. H. Baillie, the third member is chief technical dilution officer of the labor supply department. He is in general charge of the task of replac- ing skilled factory employees with un- skilled or semi skilled workers and thus releasing the skilled men for more important and direct war work. His task includes the training of wo- men to fill the places of men trans ferred from industry to the army or from one industry to another. Before the war he was a civil engineer who made a speciality of constructing large power plants.
 Captain Cyril Asquith, son of for mer Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, and a recent Oxford graduate, is in charge of the work of obtaining skill ed men from industry for special work ir the army and of releasing skilled workmen from the army so that they can be used in munitions and similar war industries. His work has become especially important because of the mistakes made by Great Britain early in the war in sending skilled VI orkmen rto the trenches.