SNIPPET: Board of Green Cloth, an organization of woollen workers in early 19th-century Dublin. Many employers in the 1820s believed that the board co-ordinated unions in sometimes violent action against them. The British trade union historians Sidney and Beatrice WEBB compounded what was probably an overblown view of the board's influence when they wrote that it was a joint committee of the Dublin trades 'whose dictates became the terror of the employers.'