Excerpt from National Council of the Pottery Industry: Annual Report for the Years 1918 and 1919 The first meeting of the Council was held on the 11th January, 1918 - a few months after the 'whitley' Report had been adopted by the Government. The foundations of the Pottery Council, however, were laid before the Whitley Committee had published its first Report, the material being mainly obtained from the interest in problems of industrial reconstruction which had been aroused by the Tutorial Class movement in the Potteries District and from the result of discussions on industrial and social problems by the Bristol Industrial Reconstrue tion Council. The origins of the Pottery Council are found, not in the Whitley Report itself, but in a spontaneous attempt on the part of Employers and Employed to reconstruct their industry upon sound business and human principles, and it is a unique fact that the Council preceded the Whitley Committee, not only in its Interim Report but in being the first of National Councils to be established. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.