From News of the Week, The Spectator, 9 January 1915:
A Commission, under the chairmanship of Sir Ernest Hatch, has been appointed by the Government to advise and help local Refugee Committees in establishing workshops for Belgian refugees. In the recent Report of the Belgian Refugees Committee it was pointed out that the refugees were divided into three groups: (1) Those trained in industries in which there happens to be a shortage of British labour, such as the armament, woollen, agricultural, and motor industries. (2) Those trained in industries in which there is no shortage: tailors, dressmakers, printers, ironmongers, fancy goods makers, and carpenters. (3) Those who have had a professional training. The first group can be easily disposed of; and for the third it is scarcely possible to find openings. Sir Ernest Hatch’s Commission concerns itself with the second group.
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