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The Cotton Board was an organisation to oversee the organisation, research, marketing and promoting the cotton textile industry mainly based in Lancashire and Glasgow. It existed from 1940, and as a statutory Industrial Development Board from 1948 to 1972. ==Funding, aims and purpose== Prior to the war, the main organisation representing the cotton industry was the Joint Committee of Cotton Trade Organisations, established in 1925.〔R. Robson, The Cotton Industry in Britain (London: Macmillan, 1957), pp. 217–21〕 A voluntary Cotton Board was set up in 1940 to “''promote the welfare of the industry by internal reorganisation, by the development of export trade, scientific research, propaganda and other means''.” Sir Stafford Cripps praised the work of the voluntary Cotton Board in a speech at the Midland Hotel, Manchester on 4 December 1946.〔 The board was given statutory status in 1948 under the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947. The Board had equal representation from industry and trades unions, with four members each, plus three independent members. It was given the power to levy up to £250,000 a year from the industry.〔''A new Cotton Board'', The Times, 5 January 1948, page 2〕 Although it was intended to be essentially focused on changing the industry through its own efforts, David Clayton says: “From the mid-1950s ... the Cotton Board also became a lobby organization demanding changes to industrial and commercial policies.”〔Buy British: The Collective Marketing of Cotton Textiles, 1956–1962 David Clayton, ''Textile History'', 41 (2), 217–235, November 2010〕〔Marguerite Dupree, ‘The Cotton Industry: a Middle Way Between Nationalisation and Self- Government?’, in Helen Mercer, Neil Rollings and Jim Tomlinson eds, Labour Government and Private Industry, the Experience of 1945–51 (Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1992), pp. 137–62.〕 Its headquarters was in Manchester, together with the “Colour, Design and Style Centre”, which became the public face of the board.〔(www.spinningtheweb.org.uk ), access date 2010-12-0-2〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cotton Board (United Kingdom)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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