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by mediation, to effect an amicable settlement of the controversy. It may inquire into the cause thereof and for that pur. pose has the same power as in the case of a controversy submitted to it for arbitration.

§ 144. Decisions of board.-Within ten days after the completion of every examination or investigation authorized by this article, the board or majority thereof shall render a decision, stating such details as will clearly show the nature of the controversy and the points disposed of by them, and make a writ ten report of their findings of fact and of their recommendations to each party to the controversy.

Every decision and report shall be filed in the office of the board and a copy thereof served upon each party to the controversy, and in case of a submission to arbitration, a copy shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county or counties where the controversy arose.

§ 145. Annual report. The board shall make an annual report to the legislature, and shall include therein such statements aud explanations as will disclose the actual work of the board, the facts relating to each controversy considered by them and the decision thereon, together with such suggestions as to legislation as may seem to them conducive to harmony in the relations of employers and employees.

§ 146. Submission of controversies to local arbitrators.-A griev ance or dispute between an employer and his employees may be submitted to a board of arbitrators consisting of three persons for hearing and settlement. When the employees concerned are members in good standing of a labor organization which is represented by one or more delegates in a central body, one arbitrator may be appointed by such central body and one by the employer. The two so designated shall appoint a third, who shall be chairman of the board. If the employees concerned in such grievance or dispute are members of good standing of a labor organization which is not represented in a central body, the organization of which they are members may select and designate one arbitrator. If such employees are not members of a

labor organization, a majority thereof, at a meeting duly called for that purpose, may designate one arbitrator for such board.

§ 147. Consent; oath; powers of arbitrators.-Before entering upon his duties each arbitrator so selected shall sign a consent to act and take and subscribe an oath to faithfully and impartially discharge his duties as such arbitrator, which consent and oath shall be filed in the clerk's office of the county or counties where the controversy arose. When such board is ready for the transaction of business it shall select one of its members to act as secretary, and notice of the time and place of hearing shall be given to the parties to the controversy. The board may, through its chairman, subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance and take and hear testimony. The board may make and enforce rules for its government and the transaction of the business before it, and fix its sessions and adjournments.

§ 148. Decision of arbitrators.-The board shall, within ten days after the close of the hearing, render a written decision, signed by them, giving such details as clearly show the nature of the controversy and the questions decided by them. Such decision shall be a settlement of the matter submitted to such arbitrators, unless within ten days thereafter an appeal is taken therefrom to the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. One copy of the decision shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county or counties where the controversy arose, and one copy shall be transmitted to the secretary of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration.

§ 149. Appeals.-The State Board of Mediation and Arbitration shall hear, consider and investigate every appeal to it from any such board of local arbitrators, and its decisions shall be in writing and a copy thereof filed in the clerk's office of the county or counties where the controversy arose, and duplicate copies served upon each party to the controversy. Such decision shall be final and conclusive upon all parties to the arbitration.

[Laws of 1901, Chapter 9.]

An Act to create a Department of Labor and the office of commissioner of labor, and abolishing the offices of commissioner of labor statistics and factory inspector, and the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Department of Labor and office of commissioner of labor created.-A Department of Labor and the office of commissioner of labor are hereby created. Within twenty days after this act takes effect the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a commissioner of labor, who shall hold his office until January first, nineteen hundred and five. A successor to such commissioner shall be appointed in like manner and shall hold his office for a term of four years, beginning on the first day of January of the year in which he is appointed. Such commissioner shall be the head of such department and receive an annual salary of three thousand five hundred dollars.

§ 2. Offices abolished; powers of commissioners of labor.-The offices of commissioner of labor statistics and factory inspector, and the state board of mediation and arbitration, shall be abolished upon the appointment and qualification of such commissioner of labor. The commissioner of labor shall have the powers conferred and perform the duties imposed by law upon the commissioner of labor statistics and the factory inspector.

§ 4. Bureaus of department.-The Department of Labor shall be divided by the commissioner of labor into three bureaus as follows: factory inspection, labor statistics and mediation and arbitration. The bureau of factory inspection shall be under the special charge of the first deputy commissioner of labor, who under the supervision and direction of the commissioner of labor shall have such of the powers conferred, and perform such of the duties imposed, by law upon the factory inspector, as shall be designated by the commissioner of labor. The bureau of labor statistics shall be under the special charge of the second

deputy commissioner of labor, who, subject to the supervision and direction of the commissioner of labor shall have such of the powers conferred and perform such of the duties imposed by law upon the commissioner of labor statistics, as shall be desig. nated by the commissioner of labor. The bureau of mediation and arbitration shall be under the special charge and supervision of the commissioner of labor, who, together with the first and second deputy commissioners of labor shall constitute a board, which shall have the powers conferred, and perform the duties imposed, by law on the state board of mediation and arbitration. The powers hereby conferred upon the first and second deputy commissioners shall not include the appointment of officers, clerks or other employees in any of the bureaus of the Department of Labor.

§ 5. Officers and employees.-Except as provided by this act, the deputies, officers and employees in the office of or appointed by the factory inspector, the commissioner of labor statistics, and the state board of mediation and arbitration are continued in office until removed pursuant to law.

§ 6. Construction.-Wherever the terms commissioner of labor statistics, or factory inspector, occur in any law, they shall be deemed to refer to the commissioner of labor, and wherever the term state board of mediation and arbitration occurs in any law, it shall be deemed to refer to the board created by this act. § 7. Pending actions and proceedings.-This act shall not affect pending actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against the commissioner of labor statistics or factory inspector. All proceedings and matters pending before the state board of mediation and arbitration when this act takes effect shall be continued and completed before the board hereby created; and where a grievance or dispute has been sumitted to the state board of mediation and arbitration, prior to the taking effect of this act, the board hereby created may make such further investigation in relation thereto as it deems necessary.

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

§ 9. This act shall take effect immediatel,

Approved February 7, 1901.

NORTH DAKOTA.

[Laws of 1890, Chapter 46, section 7.]

Section 7. If any difference shall arise between any corpora tion or person, employing twenty-five or more employees, and such employees, threatening to result, or resulting in a strike on the part of such employees, or a lockout on the part of such employer, it shall be the duty of the commissioner, when requested so to do by fifteen or more of said employees, or by the employers, to visit the place of such disturbance and diligently seek to mediate between such employer and employees.

OHIO.

[Act of March 14, 1893, as amended by Acts of May 18, 1894, and April 24, 1896.]

An Act to provide for a State Board of Arbitration for the settlement of differences between employers and their employees and to repeal an act entitled "An act to authorize the creation and to provide for the operation of tribunals of voluntary arbitration, to adjust industrial disputes between employers and employees," passed February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

Section 1. That within thirty days after the passage of this act, the governor of the state, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint three competent persons to serve as a State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation in the manner hereinafter provided. One of them shall be an employer or selected from some association representing employers of labor, one of them shall be an employee or an employee selected from some labor organization and not an employer of labor, and the third shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the other two; provided, however, that if the two appointed do not agree on the third man at the expiration of thirty days, he shall be ap

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