fore the first Monday in January of each year in which the legislature is in regular session.

§ 7. In all cases where the application is mutual, the decision shall provide that the same shall be binding upon the parties concerned in said controversy or dispute for six months, or until sixty days after either party has given the other notice in writing of his or their intention not to be bound by the same. Such notice may be given to said employees by posting the same in three conspicuous places in the shop, factory or place of employment.

§ 8. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of said board, either by notice from the mayor of a city, the county commissioners, the president of a chamber of commerce or other representative body, the president of the central labor council or assembly, or any five reputable citizens or otherwise that what is commonly known as a strike or lockout is seriously threatened or has actually occurred in any city or town of the state involving an employer and his or its present or past employees, if at the time such employer is employing or up to the occurrence of the strike or lockout was employing not less than ten persons in the same general line of business in any city or town in this state, and said board shall be satisfied that such information is correct, it shall be the duty of said board, within three days thereafter, to put themselves in communication with such employer and employees and endeavor by mediation to effect an amicable settlement between them or to persuade them to submit the matter in dispute to a local board of arbitration and conciliation, as hereinafter provided, or to said state board, and the said state board may investigate the cause or causes of such controversy and ascertain which party thereto is mainly responsible for the continuance of the same, and may make and publish a report assigning such responsibility. The said board shall have the same powers for the foregoing purposes as are given them by sections three and four of this act. § 9. The parties to any controversy or difference, as specified in this act, may submit the matter in dispute in writing to a

local board of arbitration and conciliation. Such board may either be mutually agreed upon, or the employer may designate one of the arbiters, the employees or their duly authorized agent another, and the two arbiters so designated may choose a third, who shall also be chairman of the board. Each arbiter so selected shall sign a consent to act as such, and shall take and subscribe an oath before an officer authorized to administer oaths to faithfully and impartially discharge his duty as such arbiter, which consent and oath shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of the county where such dispute arises. Such board shall, in respect to the matters submitted to them, have and exercise all the powers which the state board might have and exercise, and their decisions shall have whatever binding effect may be agreed to by the parties to the controversy in the written submission. Vacancies in such local boards may be filled in the same manner as the regular appointments are made. It shall be the duty of said state board to aid and assist in the formation of such local boards throughout the state in advance of any strike or lockout whenever and wherever in their judgment the formation of such local boards will have a tendency to prevent or allay the occurrence thereof. The jurisdiction of such local boards shall be exclusive in respect to the matters submitted to them; but they may ask and receive the advice and assistance of the state board. The decisions of such local boards shall be rendered within ten days after the close of any hearing held before them. Such decision shall at once be filed with the clerk of the district court of the county in which such controversy arose, and a copy thereof shall be forwarded to the state board.

§ 10. Each member of said state board shall receive as compensation five ($5) dollars a day, including mileage, for each and every day actually employed in the performance of the duties provided for by this act. Such compensation shall be paid by the state treasurer on duly detailed vouchers approved by said board and by the governor.

§ 11. The said board, in their biennial reports to the legislature, shall include such statements, facts and explanations as will disclose the actual workings of the board and such suggestions with regard to legislation as may seem to them conducive to harmonizing the relations of and the disputes between employers and employees; and the improvement of the present relations between labor and capital. Such biennial reports of the board shall be printed in the same manner and under the same regulations as the reports of the executive officers of the state.

§ 12. There is hereby annually appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act.

§ 13. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

§ 14. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 25, 1895.

MISSOURI.

[Acts of 1901, page 195.]

Section 1. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, the governor of the state, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint three competent persons to serve as a State Board of Mediation and Arbitration; one of whom shal be an employer of labor, or selected from some association representing employers of labor, and one who shall be an employee holding membership in some bona fide trade or labor union; the third shall be some person who is neither an employee nor an employer of labor. One member of said board shall be appointed for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and all appointments thereafter shall be for three years or until their respective successors are appointed in the manner herein provided. If a vacancy occurs in said board by death

or otherwise, at any time, the governor shall appoint some competent person to fill the unexpired term.

§ 2. The board shall appoint a secretary, who shall hold office during the pleasure of said board, and whose duty it shall be to keep a full and faithful record of the proceedings of the board, and shall also have possession of all books and documents, and shall perform such other duties as the board may prescribe. He shall, under the direction of the board, issue subpoenas and administer oaths in all cases before the board and shall call for and examine books, papers and documents of any parties to the controversy.

§ 3. The compensation of the members of the Board of Mediation and Arbitration and the clerk thereof shall be as follows: Each shall receive five dollars per day and three cents per mile, both ways, between their homes and the place of meeting, by the nearest comfortable routes of travel, and such other necessary traveling expenses as may be incurred in the discharge of their duties, to be paid out of the state treasury upon a warrant signed by the president of said board and approved by the governor: Provided, That neither said board nor the clerk thereof shall receive any compensation except for time actually engaged in the discharge of their duties as set forth in this act and in going to and from the place of meeting.

§ 4. Each member of said board shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, be sworn to support the constitution and faithfully demean himself in office. They shall organize at once by the choice of one of their number as chairman and the board shall, as soon as possible after its organization, establish suitable rules of procedure. Said board may hold meetings at any time or place in the state, whenever the same shall become necessary, and two members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

§ 5. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the board that a strike or lockout is about to occur, or is seriously threatened, involving ten or more persons, in any part of the state, it shall be the duty of said board to proceed as soon as possible

to the locality of such dispute, strike or lockout and place itself in communication with the parties to the controversy, and en deavor by mediation to effect a settlement. Should all efforts at conciliation fail, it shall be the duty of the board to inquire into the cause or causes of said grievance or dispute, and to this end, it is hereby authorized to subpoena and examine witnesses, compel their attendance and send for books and papers with the same authority possessed by courts of record, or the judges thereof in this state. Subpoenas may be signed and oaths administered by any member of the board. Said board is further authorized to subpoena as witnesses anyone connected with the department of business affected, or other persons whom they may suspect of having knowledge of the matters in controversy or dispute, and anyone who keeps the records of the wages earned in such department, and examine them under oath touching such matters and require the production of books and papers containing the record of wages earned or paid. All process issued by said board may be delivered or sent to any sheriff, constable or police officer, who shall forthwith serve or post the same as may be required, and make due return thereof, according to directions, and for such service he shall receive the fees allowed by law in similar cases, payable from the treasury of the county or city wherein the controversy to be arbitrated exists, upon a warrant signed by the president of the board of mediation and arbitration. Witnesses shall receive the same compensation as witnesses in courts of record which shall be paid in the same manner as sheriffs, constables and police officers above mentioned. And the board shall have the same power and authority to maintain and enforce order at its hearings and obedience to its process, as by law is now conferred upon circuit courts.

§ 6. In all cases when any grievance or dispute shall arise between any employer and his employees, said dispute involving ten or more employees, it shall be the duty of the parties to said controversy to submit the same to said board for investigation. Within ten days after the completion of said examination or investigation, authorized by this article, the