ART. 89] ARBITRATION OF LABOR DISPUTES. 1967

board of arbitration, which board shall be composed of one employer
and one employe engaged in the same or similar occupation to the
one in which the dispute exists, but who are not parties to the contro-
versy or dispute, and to be selected by the respective parties to the
controversy; the third arbitrator may be selected by the two first-
named arbitrators, and said third arbitrator so selected shall be presi-
dent of the board of arbitration; and upon the failure of the two first-
named arbitrators, as aforesaid, to agree upon the third arbitrator,
then the chief of said bureau of industrial statistics shall act as third
arbitrator, or he may deputize, in writing, some person officially con-
nected with said bureau to so act, and the said chief, or the person
who may be so deputized by him, shall act as president of said board.

1904, art. 89, sec. 5. 1904, ch. 671, sec. 3.

5. The president of the said board, provided in section 4 of this
sub-title, shall have power to summon witnesses, enforce their attend-
ance and administer oaths and hear and determine the matter in dis-
pute, and within three days after the investigation render a decision
thereon, a copy of which shall be furnished each party to the dispute,
and shall be final.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1904, ch. 671, sec. 4.

6. In all such cases of dispute, as aforesaid, as in all other cases,
if the parties mutually agree that the matter in dispute shall be arbi-
trated and determined in a mode different from the one hereby pre-
scribed, such agreement shall be valid, and the award and determina-
tion thereon by either mode of arbitration shall be final and conclusive
between the parties. It shall be lawful in all cases for an employer
or employe, by writing under his hand, to authorize any person to act
for him in submitting to arbitration and attending the same.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1904, ch. 671, sec. 5.

7. The board of arbitration shall employ a clerk at each session
of the board, who shall receive three dollars per day for his services,
to be paid, upon the approval of the chief of the bureau of industrial
statistics, out of the funds appropriated for the expenses of the bureau
of industrial statistics.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1904, ch. 671. sec. 6.

8. Should the chief of the bureau of industrial statistics or the
person deputized by him, as aforesaid, fail to mediate or secure the
consent of the parties to the controversy or dispute to submit the mat-
ter to arbitration, then the said chief of the bureau of industrial sta-
tistics or the person deputized by him, as aforesaid, shall proceed to
thoroughly investigate the cause of the dispute or controversy; he shall
have the authority to summons both parties to appear before him and
take their statements, in writing or under oath, and having ascer-