Governor-General John McDowell.
The Morgan Act was a bill passed by the Grand Council of the Confederation of North America and signed into law by Governor-General John McDowell early in McDowell's first term. As with all the legislation passed by the Grand Council at this time, the act was passed by a bipartisan coalition of McDowell's Liberal Party, which held a plurality of 62 seats in the Eighth Grand Council, and the People's Coalition, a recently-founded reform party with 39 seats.
The Morgan Act "encouraged management and labor to reach equitable solutions to their common problems." However, as was the case with most of the reforms passed during McDowell's first term, the act had no enforcement provisions. Thus, McDowell achieved a reputation as a reformer without having to pay the price of opposition from entrenched interests.