268 ARTICLE 7.

ARTICLE 7.

ARBITRATION AND AWARD.

1. Board of public works may arbitrate between corporation in which state is interested and their employees. 2. Arbitration between corporations and their employees. 3. May be conducted by judge or justice of the peace.

4. Special agreements for arbitration to be valid. 5. Parties may be represented before arbi- trators. 6. Award of arbitrators, how made and enforced.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1878, ch. 379, sec. 1.
1. Whenever any controversy shall arise between any corporation incor-
porated by this State in which this State may be interested as a stockholder
or creditor, and any person in the employment or service of such corpora-
tion, which, in the opinion of the board of public works, shall tend to impair
the usefulness or prosperity of such corporation, the said board of public
works shall have power to demand and receive a statement of the grounds
of said controversy from the parties to the same; and if, in their judg-
ment, there shall be occasion so to do, they shall have the right to propose
to the parties to said controversy, or to any of them, that the same shall be
settled by arbitration; and if the opposing parties to said controversy shall
consent and agree to said arbitration, it shall be the duty of the said board
of public works to provide in due form for the submission of the said con-
troversy to arbitration, in such manner that the same may be finally settled
and determined; but if the said corporation, or the said person in its
employment or service, so engaged in controversy with the said corporation,
shall refuse to submit to such arbitration, it shall be the duty of the said
board of public works to examine into and ascertain the cause of said
controversy, and to report the same to the next general assembly.

Cited but not construed in Northern Central R. R. Co. v. Canton Co., 24
Md. 498.

As to arbitration and award, see also art. 75, sec. 50, et seq., and art. 93, sec.
266, et seq.

As to the arbitration of labor disputes, see art. 89, sec. 4, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1878, ch. 379, sec. 3.

2. All subjects of dispute arising between corporations, and any person
in their employment or service, and all subjects of dispute between em-
ployers and employees in any trade or manufacture may be settled and
adjusted in the manner hereafter mentioned.

An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1888, sec. 3. 1878, ch. 379, sec. 2.

3. Whenever such subjects of dispute shall arise as aforesaid, it shall
be lawful for either party to the same to demand and have an arbitration
or reference thereof in manner following, that is to say—where the party