 A serious conflict arose in January as the government kept information on the battlefield (in April at Gorlice) secret to the Duma.In May Guchkov initiated the War Industries Committees in order to unite industrialists who were supplying the army with ammunition and military equipment, to mobilize industry for war needs and prolonged military action, to put political pressure on the tsarist government.On 17 July 1915 the Duma reconvened for six weeks.