Annual Report of the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration (Volume 1901)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902. Excerpt: ... or territorial transportation of property or persons and their employees, approved October first, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, is hereby repealed. Approved, June 1, 1898. MASSACHUSETTS. Chapter 263 of the Acts of 1886, approved June 2, entitled -' An Act to provide for a State Board of Arbitration, for the settlement of differences between employers and their employees, was amended by St. 1887, chapter 269; St. 1888, chapter 261; and St. 1890, chapter 385. Chapter 382 of the Acts of 1892 relates to the duties of expert assistants. A consolidation and revision of Statutes went into effect December 31, 1901; since that date the Board acts under chapter 106 of the Revised Laws, of which the following are the provisions relating to the conciliation and arbitration of labor disputes: --STATE BOARD OF CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION. Section 1. There shall be a state board of conciliation and arbitration consisting of three persons, one of whom shall annually, in June, be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for a term of three years from the first day of July following. One member of said board shall be an employer or shall be selected from an association representing employers of labor, one shall be selected from a labor organization and shall not be an employer of labor, and the third shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the other two, or if the two appointed members do not, at least thirty days prior to the expiration of a term, or within thirty days after the happening of a vacancy, agree upon the third member, he shall then be appointed by the governor. Each member shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, be sworn to the faithful performance thereof, and shall receive a salary at the rate of t...