MCKAY-COPELAND LASTING
MACHINE, PER 12-PAIR

Men's buff, box calf, seal grain, box grain, cap toe,
Men's split and kangaroo, plain toe,
Men's buff, box calf, seal grain, box grain, plain toe,
Women's split and buff, straight last, plain toe,

Men's split, cap toe, .

Men's buff, box calf, box grain, seal grain, cap toe,

Men's split, plain toe,

Men's buff, plain toe,

Boys' and youths' cap toe,

Boys' and youths' plain toe,

CASE.

Pulling-over and
Operating.

Same price each.

$0 15

14

12

11

09

Lasting by Hand, per 12-Pair Case.'"

Lasting stitched-down shoes, including putting in coun

ter and pulling last, per 12-pair case, $0.32.

By agreement of the parties, this decision is to take effect from and after July 7, 1902, and to be in force for one year.

By the Board,

BERNARD F. SUPPLE, Secretary.

The foregoing annual report is respectfully submitted.

WARREN A. REED,

RICHARD P. BARRY,

CHARLES DANA PALMER,

State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration.

BOSTON, February 2, 1903.

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX.

In 1886 Massachusetts and New York established state boards of arbitration.

A statute of the United States, enacted in 1888, provided for the settlement of controversies between railroads and their employees through the services of special temporary tribunals known as "boards of arbitration or commission." To form a board of arbitration each party in interest chose a member, and the two members chose a third for chairman; but when the commission was formed the President of the United States appointed two members to act with the Commissioner of Labor, who was chairman ex officio. Such a commission in 1894, reporting on the Chicago Strike, recommended changes in the law, and suggested to the states "the adoption of some system of conciliation and arbitration like that in use in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." In 1898 the law was repealed, its essential provisions were re-enacted and procedure was specified with greater elaboration. The statute of 1898 requires the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor to mediate in one way or another between the parties with a view to inducing them either to terminate their controversy by agreement or to refer it to the board of arbitration. The board of arbitration, as under the former act, is constituted in the usual way; but when five days elapse without choice of a third member, the duty of making such a choice devolves upon the two mediators above mentioned.

Twenty-four states in the union have thus far made