stating such details as will clearly show the nature of the decision and the points disposed of by them. The clerk of said Board shall file four copies of such decision, one with the Secretary of State, a copy served to each of the parties to the controversy and one copy retained by the Board.

§ 7. Whenever a strike or lockout shall occur or seriously threaten in any part of the State, and shall come to the knowledge of the members of the Board, or any one thereof by written. notice from either of the parties to such threatened strike or lockout, or from the mayor or clerk of the city or town, or from the justice of the peace of the district where such strike or lockout is threatened, it shall be their duty, and they are hereby directed, to proceed as soon as practicable to the locality of such strike or lockout and put themselves in communication with the parties to the controversy and endeavor by mediation to effect an amicable settlement of such controversy, and, if in their judgment it is deemed best, to inquire into the cause or causes of the controversy; and to that end the Board is hereby authorized to subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, and send for persons and papers in like manner and with the same powers as it is authorized by section three of this act.

§ 8. The fees of witnesses before said Board of Arbitration shall be two dollars ($2.00) for each day's attendance, and five (5) cents per mile over the nearest traveled routes in going to and returning from the place where attendance is required by the Board. All subpoenas shall be signed by the secretary of the Board and may be served by any person of legal age authorized by the Board to serve the same.

§ 9. The parties to any controversy or difference as described in section 5 of this act may submit the matters in dispute in wait

ing 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 author-
ized 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 exclu-
sive in respect to the matter 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 arbi-
trators 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
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 arbitra-
tion; provided, that when such hearing is held at some point
having no organized town or city government, in such cases the
costs of such hearing shall be paid jointly by the parties to the
controversy; provided, further, that in the event of any local
board of arbitration or a majority thereof failing to agree within
ten (10) days after any case being placed in their hands, the
State Board shall be called upon to take charge of said case
as provided by this act.

§ 10. Said State Board shall report to the Governor annually,

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on or before the fifteenth day of November in each year, the work of the board, which shall include a concise statement of all cases coming before the board for adjustment.

§ 11. The Secretary of State shall be authorized and instructed to have printed for circulation one thousand (1,000) copies of the report of the secretary of the Board, provided the volume shall not exceed four hundred (400) pages.

§ 12. Two members of the Board of Arbitration shall each receive the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) annually, and shall be allowed all money actually and necessarily expended for traveling and other necessary expenses while in the performance of the duties of their office. The member herein designated to be the secretary of the Board shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars ($1200) per annum. The salaries of the members shall be paid in monthly installments by the State Treasurer upon warrants issued by the Auditor of the State. The other expenses of the Board shall be paid in like manner upon approved vouchers signed by the chairman of the Board of Arbitration and the secretary thereof.

§ 13. The terms of office of the members of the Board shall be as follows: That of the members who are to be selected from the ranks of labor organizations and from the active employers of labor shall be for two years, and thereafter every two years the Governor shall appoint one from each class for a period of two years. The third member of the Board shall be appointed as herein provided every two years. The Governor shall have power to remove any members of said Board for cause and fill any vacancy occasioned thereby.

§ 14. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act there is hereby appropriated out of the general revenue fund

the sum of seven thousand dollars for the fiscal year 1897 and 1898, only one-half of which shall be used in each year, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and not otherwise appropriated.

§ 15. In the opinion of the general assembly an emergency exists; therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

WYOMING.

Article 5 of the Constitution of Wyoming has the following provisions for arbitration of labor disputes:

§ 28. The Legislature shall establish courts of arbitration, whose duty it shall be to hear and determine all differences, and controversies between organizations or associations of laborers, and their employers, which shall be submitted to them in such manner as the Legislature may provide.

§ 30. Appeals from decisions of compulsory boards of arbitration shall be allowed to the Supreme Court of the State, and the manner of taking such appeals shall be prescribed by law.

NORTH DAKOTA.

Chapter 46 of the acts of 1890, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor, has the following:

§ 7. If any difference shall arise between any corporation or person, employing twenty-five or more employes, and such employes, threatening to result, or resulting in a strike on the part of such employes, 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 employes, or by the employer, to visit the place of such disturbance and diligently seek to mediate between such employer and employes.

Section four of the law creating the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics of the State of Nebraska is as follows:

§ 4. The duties of said commissioner shall be to collect, collate and publish statistics and facts relative to manufacturers, industrial classes, and material resources of the state, and especially to examine into the relations between labor and capital; the means of escape from fire and protection of life and health in factories and workshops, mines and other places of industries; the employment of illegal child labor; the exaction of unlawful hours of labor from any employe; the educational, sanitary, moral, and financial condition of laborers and artisans; the cost of food, fuel, clothing, and building material; the causes of strikes and lockouts, as well as kindred subjects and matters pertaining to the welfare of industrial interests and classes.

Approved March 31, 1887.