§ 14. It shall be the duty of the State Board in the abovedescribed cases to endeavor, by mediation or conciliation, to effect an amicable settlement between them, or, if that seems impracticable, to endeavor to persuade them to submit the matters in dispute to a local board of arbitration and conciliation, as above provided, or to the State Board; and said board may, if it deem it advisable, investigate the cause or causes of such controversy and ascertain which party thereto is mainly responsible or blameworthy for the existence or continuance of the same, and may make and publish a report finding such cause or causes, and assigning such responsibility or blame. The board shall have the same powers for the foregoing purposes as are given it by section nine of this act; provided, if neither a settlement nor an arbitration be had because of the opposition thereto of one party to the controversy, such investigation and publication shall at the request of the other party, be had. And the expense of any publication under this act shall be certified and paid as provided therein for payment of fees.

§ 15. Witnesses summoned by the State Board shall be allowed the sum of fifty cents for each attendance, and the further sum of twenty-five cents for each hour of attendance in excess of two hours, and shall be allowed five cents a mile for travel each way from their respective places of employment or business to the place where the board is in session. Each witness shall state in writing the amount of his travel and attendance, and said State Board shall certify the amount due each witness to the auditor of the county in which the controversy or difference exists, who shall issue his warrant upon the treasury of said county for the said amount.

§ 16. The said State Board shall make a yearly report to the Governor and Legislature, and shall include therein such statements, facts and explanations as will disclose the actual workings of the Board, and such suggestions as to legislation as may seem to the members of the Board conducive to the friendly relations of, and to the speedy and satisfactory adjustment of disputes between employers and employes.

§ 17. The members of the said State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation hereby created shall each be paid five dollars a day for each day of actual service, and their necessary traveling and other expenses. The chairman of the Board shall, quarterly, certify the amount due each member, and on presentation of his certificate the auditor of the State shall draw his warrant on the treasury of the State for the amount. When the State Board meets at the capitol of the State, the adjutant-general shall provide rooms suitable for such meeting.

§ 18. That 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 employes," of the revised statutes of the State, passed February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, is hereby repealed.

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

OHIO-STATE BOARD OF ARBITRATION, ETC.

Section 1. Sections 4, 13 and 14 of said above entitled act [act passed March 14, 1893, page 83, acts of 1893] shall be amended so as to read as follows:

§ 4. Whenever any controversy or difference not involving questions which may be the subject of a suit or action in any court of

the State exists between an employer (whether an individual, copartnership or corporation) and his employes, if, at the time, he employs not less than twenty-five persons in the same general line of business in this State, the Board shall, upon application as hereinafter provided and as soon as practical thereafter, visit the locality of the dispute and make careful inquiry into the cause thereof, hear all persons interested therein who may come or be subpoenaed before them, advise the respective parties what, if any. thing, ought to be done or submitted to by either or both to adjust said dispute. The term employer in this act includes several employers co-operating with respect to any such controversy or difference, and the term employes includes aggregations of employes of several employers so co-operating. And where any strike or lockout extends to several counties the expenses incurred under this act not payable out of the State treasury shall be apportioned among and paid by such counties as said board may deem equitable and may direct.

§ 13. Whenever it is made to appear to a mayor or probate judge in this State that a strike or lockout is seriously threatened, or has actually occurred, in his vicinity, he shall at once notify the State Board of the fact, giving the name and location of the employer, the nature of the trouble, and the number of employes involved, so far as his information will enable him to do so. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the State Board, either by such notice or otherwise, that a strike or lockout is seriously threatened, or has actually occurred, in this State, involving an employer and his present or past employes, if at the time he is employing, or, up to the occurrence of the strike or lockout, was employing, not less than twenty-five persons in the same general line of business in the State, it shall be the duty of the State Board

to put itself in communication, as soon as may be, with such em

ployer and employes.

§ 14. It shall be the duty of the State Board in the above-described cases to endeavor, by mediation or conciliation, to affect [effect] an amicable settlement between them, or, if that seems impracticable, to endeavor to persuade them, to submit the matters in dispute to a local board of arbitration and conciliation, as above provided, or to the State Board; and said Board may, if it deem it advisable, investigate the cause or causes of such controversy and ascertain which party thereto is mainly responsible or blameworthy for the existence or continuance of the same, and may make and publish a report finding such cause or causes, and assigning such responsibility or blame. The board shall have the same powers for the foregoing purposes as are given it by section nine of this act; provided, if neither a settlement nor any arbitration be had because of the opposition thereto of one party to the controversy, such investigation and publication shall, at the request of the other party, be had. And the expense of any publication under this act shall be certified and paid as provided therein for payment of fees.

§ 2. Said [original] sections 4, 13 and 14 are repealed, and this act shall take effect on its passage.

Passed April 27, 1896.

CALIFORNIA.

An Act to provide for a State Board of Arbitration for the settlement of differences between employers and employes, to define the duties of said board, and to appropriate the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars therefor.

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

Section 1. On or before the first day of May of each year, the governor of the state shall appoint three competent persons to serve as a State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation. One shall represent the employers of labor, one shall represent labor employes, and the third man shall represent neither, and shall be chairman of the Board. They shall hold office for one year and until their successors are appointed and qualified. If a vacancy occurs, as soon as possible thereafter the governor shall appoint someone to serve the unexpired term; provided, however, that when the parties to any controversy or difference, as provided in section two of this act, do not desire to submit their controversy to the State Board, they may by agreement each choose one person, and the two shall choose a third, who shall be chairman and umpire, and the three shall constitute a board of arbitration and conciliation for the special controversy submitted to it, and shall for that purpose have the same powers as the State Board. The members of said board or boards, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall be sworn faithfully to discharge the duties thereof. They shall adopt such rules of procedure as they may deem best to carry out the provisions of this act.

§ 2. Whenever any controversy or difference exists between an employer, whether an individual, copartnership, or corporation,