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678 BOARD OF LABOR AND STATISTICS. [ART. LXXXIX
employment for unemployed persons who may register in said agencies,
and for the purpose of securing help or labor for persons registering
as applicants for help or labor. The said Board shall investigate the
extent and the cause or causes of unemployment in this State, and the
remedies therefor adopted and applied in the States of this country
and in other countries, and report thereon to the Governor, and shall do
all in its power to bring together employers seeking employees and work-
ing and laboring people seeking employment.
Arbitration of Disputes Between Employers and Employees.
1916, ch. 406, sec. 11.
11. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Labor and Statistics
to do all in its power to promote the voluntary arbitration, mediation
and conciliation of controversies and disputes between employers and
employees, and to avoid resort to lockouts, boycotts, blacklists, discrimi-
nations and legal proceedings in or arising out of such controversies
and disputes and matters of employment. In pursuance of this duty,
the said Board may, whenever it deems advisable, but subject to the
approval of the Governor, appoint boards of arbitration for the consid-
eration and settlement of such controversies and disputes, and may pro-
vide for the necessary expenses of such arbitration boards, and for such
leasonable compensation to the members serving thereon as the said
Board may deem proper, not exceeding, however, the sum of five dollars
per day for each member for each day during which such member is
engaged in work upon said arbitration boards. The said Board shall
prescribe rules of procedure for such arbitration boards, and the said
arbitration boards shall have the power to conduct investigations and
hold hearings, to summon witnesses, and enforce their attendance
through the ordinary processes of law in the cities and counties in which
such arbitration boards may meet, subject to all the penalties for non-
attendance to which witnesses in ordinary civil cases are subject, and
in like manner may require the production of books, documents and
papers and may administer oaths, all to the same extent that such
powers are possessed and exercised by the civil courts of the State; and
said arbitration boards shall make, report and publish findings for the
settlement of such controversies and disputes. The said Board of
Labor and Statistics shall itself have like power to conduct investiga-
tions and hold hearings, summon and enforce the attendance of wit-
nesses, administer oaths, require the production of books, documents
and papers, and make and publish reports and findings with respect to
any and all matters covered by this section. Subject to the approval
of the Governor, the Board may appoint and designate a Deputy, and
fix his compensation, who shall be known as the Chief Mediator, and
who, together with any assistants who may be assigned by the Board,
shall have in charge the execution of the provisions of this section,
under the direction and supervision of the Board. The Chief Mediator
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