any person who keeps the records of wages earned in such departments and to examine them under oath, and to require the production of books containing the record of wages paid. Subpoenas may be signed and oaths administered by any member of the Board.

§ 5. The decision of the Board herein provided for shall be open to public inspection, shall be published in a biennial report to be made to the Governor of the State with such recommendations as the Board may deem proper, and shall be printed and distributed according to the provisions governing the printing and distributing of other State reports.

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6. Said decision shall be binding upon the parties who join in said application for six months, or until either party has given the other notice in writing of his intention not to be bound by such decision from and after the expiration of sixty days from the date of said notice. Said notice may be given by serving the same upon the employer or his representative, and by serving the same upon the employes by posting the same in three conspicuous places. in the shop, factory, yard or upon the premises where they work. § 7. The parties to any controversy or difference as described in section three of this act may submit the matters in dispute in writing to a local board of arbitration and conciliation; said board may either be mutually agreed upon or the employer may desig nate one of such arbitrators, the employes or their duly authorized agent another, and the two arbitrators so designated may choose a third, who shall be chairman of such local board; such board shall, in respect to the matters referred to it, have and exercise all the powers which the State Board might have and exercise, and its decision shall have such binding effect as may be agreed upon by the parties to the controversy in the written submission.

The jurisdiction of such local board shall be exclusive in respect to the matters submitted to it, but it may ask and receive the advice and assistance of the State Board. Such local board shall render its decision in writing within ten days after the close of any hearing held by it, and shall file a copy thereof with the secretary of the State Board. Each of such local arbitrators shall be entitled to receive from the treasurer of the city, village or town in which the controversy or difference that is the subject of arbitration exists, if such payment is approved in writing by the mayor of such city, the board of trustees of such village, or the town board of such town, the sum of three dollars for each day of actual service not exceeding ten days for any one arbitration.

§ 8. Whenever it is made to appear to the mayor of a city, the village board of a village, or the town board of a town, that a strike or lockout such as is described in section nine of this act is seriously threatened or actually occurs, the mayor of such city, or the village board of such village, or the town board of such town, shall at once notify the State Board of such facts, together with such information as may be available.

§ 9. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the State Board by notice as herein provided, or otherwise, that a strike or lockout is seriously threatened, or has actually occurred, which threatens to or does involve the business interests of any city, village or town of this State, it shall be the duty of the State Board to investigate the same as soon as may be and endeavor by mediation to effect an amicable settlement between employer and employes, and to endeavor to persuade them, provided a strike or lockout has not actually occurred or is not then continuing, to submit the matters in dispute to a local board of arbitration and conciliation, as herein provided for, or to the State Board. Said State

Board may, if it deems advisable, investigate the cause or causes of such controversy, ascertain which party therto 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.

§ 10. Witnesses subpoenaed by the State Board shall be allowed for their attendance and travel the same fees as are allowed to witnesses in the circuit courts of this State. Each witness shall certify in writing the amount of his travel and attendance, and the amount due him, upon approval by the Board, shall be paid out of the State Treasury.

§ 11. The members of the State Board shall receive the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties under this act, and the further sum of five dollars a day each for the number of days actually and necessarily spent by them, the same to be paid out of the State Treasury.

12. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after

its passage and publication.

Approved April 19, 1895. Published May 3, 1895.

COLORADO.

ACTS OF 1897.

CHAPTER 2.-STATE BOARD OF ARBITRATION.

Section 1. There shall be established a State Board of Arbitration consisting of three members, which shall be charged, among other duties provided by this act, with the consideration and settlement, by means of arbitration, conciliation and adjustment, when possible, of strikes, lockouts and labor or wage controversies arising between employers and employes.

§ 2. Immediately after the passage of this act the Governor shall appoint a State Board of Arbitration, consisting of three qualified resident citizens of the State of Colorado and above the ∙age of thirty years. One of the members of said Board shall be selected from the ranks of active members of a bona fide labor organization of the State of Colorado, and one shall be selected from active employers of labor or from organizations representing employers of labor. The third member of the Board shall be appointed by the Governor from a list which shall not consist of more than six names selected from entirely disinterested ranks submitted by the two members of the Board above designated. If any vacancy should occur in said Board the Governor shall, in the same manner, appoint an eligible citizen for the remainder of the term, as hereinbefore provided.

§ 3. The third member of said Board shall be secretary thereof, whose duty it shall be, in addition to his duties as a member of the Board, to keep a full and faithful record of the proceedings of the Board and perform such clerical work as may be necessary for a concise statement of all official business that may be transacted. He shall be the custodian of all documents and testimony of an official character relating to the business of the Board; and shall also have, under direction of a majority of the Board, power to issue subpoenas, to administer oaths to witnesses cited before the Board, to call for and examine books, papers and documents. necessary for examination in the adjustment of labor differences, with the same authority to enforce their production as is possessed by courts of record or the judges thereof in this State.

§ 4. Said members of the Board of Arbitration shall take and subscribe the constitutionel oath of office, and be sworn to the due and faithful performance of the duties of their respective

offices before entering upon the discharge of the same. The Secretary of State shall set apart and furnish an office in the State capitol for the proper and convenient transaction of the business of said Board.

§ 5. Whenever any grievance or dispute of any nature shall arise between employer and employes, it shall be lawful for the parties to submit the same directly to said Board in case such parties elect to do so, and shall jointly notify said Board or its clerk in writing of such desire. Whenever such notification is given it shall be the duty of said Board to proceed with as little delay as possible to the locality of such grievance or dispute and inquire into the cause or causes of such grievance or dispute. The parties to the grievance or dispute shall thereupon submit to said Board, in writing, clearly and in detail, their grievances and complaints and the cause or causes thereof, and severally agree in writing to submit to the decision of said Board as to the matters so submitted, promising and agreeing to continue on in business or at work without a lockout or strike until the decision is rendered by the Board, provided such decision shall be given within ten days after the completion of the investigation. The Board shall thereupon proceed to fully investigate and inquire into the matters in controversy and to take testimony under oath in relation thereto; and shall have power under its chairman or clerk to administer oaths, to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses, the production of books and papers in like mannėr and with the same powers as provided for in section three of this act.

§ 6. After the matter has been fully heard, the said Board, or a majority of its members, shall, within ten days, render a decision thereon in writing, signed by them or a majority of them,