George Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith

It brought together industrialists and trade union representatives, in an unsuccessful attempt to create a central hub for conciliation and arbitration of disputes.

[4] In 1912 he made a special report for the Government on the Canadian labour laws, and in 1913 arbitrated in the major Black Country trades strike which lasted for two months and involved in the region of 40,000 workers.

In 1919 he retired from his position as chief industrial commissioner,[7] and was raised to the peerage as Baron Askwith, of St Ives in the County of Huntingdon.

He published Industrial Problems and Disputes (1920), British Taverns, their History and Laws (1928) and Lord James of Hereford (1930).

[6] During the First World War, Lady Askwith was a member of the Central Committee on Women's Employment, and was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918.

Caricature entitled "The Conciliator" by Wallace Hester from Vanity Fair, 25 October 1911