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During 1967 the decasualisation scheme following Devlin's report was implemented and all dock workers had to be allocated to an employer.

A previous Devlin Committee was appointed by the Ministry of Labour in October 1964 to look into disputes, decasualisation and dissension in the port transport industry.

This he effected by intervention in the local state on ground cleared by the trades boards, the attempted decasualisation of dock labour, and the use of local authority workforces to promote more radical demands on the national state for solutions to crises experienced in local economies.

See he was the man what brought in decasualization during the war.

Decasualization of such occupations as dock labouring was to diminish underemployment.

This was intended to encourage decasualization.

The clauses concerning casual workers were largely ineffective, employers having no interest in decasualization and workers fearing that the alternative was lack of work.

Both supported the introduction of labour exchanges, and decasualization of labour although, as we shall see, they differed on other aspects of unemployment policy.

The introduction of the wages boards completed the decasualization of agricultural labour begun by the licensing of itinerant agricultural gangs in 1867.

Before he became President of the Board of Trade and before the Royal Commission Reports were published, he advocated a package of social reforms including labour exchanges, training of juvenile labour, decasualization, counter-cyclical intervention by the state in industry and military service to absorb some of the unemployed.