3234 ARTICLE 89

the State as said Commissioner may deem advisable, for the free use of
the citizens of the State of Maryland, for the purpose of securing employ-
ment 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 Commissioner 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 his power
to bring together employers seeking employees and working and laboring
people seeking employment.
See art. 95A.

Arbitration of Labor Disputes.

An. Code, 1924, see. 4. 1912, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1904, ch. 671, sec. 1.

4. Upon information furnished by an employer of labor, whether per-
son, firm or corporation, or by a committee of employees, or from any other
reliable source, that a controversy or dispute has arisen between employer
and employees, involving ten or more persons, which controversy may result
in a strike or lock-out, the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics or such
person officially connected with his office as may be deputized in writing
by the said Commissioner, shall at once visit the place of controversy
or dispute and seek to mediate between the parties, if in his discretion it
is necessary so to do.
As to arbitration and award, see art. 7.

An. Code, 1924, see. 5. 1912, sec. 4. 1904, sec. 4. 1904, ch. 671, sec. 2.

5. If mediation can not be effected as provided for in section 4 of this
Article, the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, or such person offi-
cially connected with his office as may be by him deputized in writ-
ing, may, at his discretion, endeavor to secure the consent of the parties
to the controversy or dispute to the formation of a board of arbitration,
which board shall be composed of one employer and one employee engaged
in the same or similar occupation to the one in which the dispute exists,
but who are not parties to the controversy 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 president 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 Commissioner of Labor and Statistics shall
act^: as third arbitrator, or he may deputize, in writing, some person offi-
cially connected with said office to so act, and the said Commissioner,
or the person who may be so deputized by him, shall act as president of
said board.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 6. 1912, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1904, ch. 671, sec. 3.

6. The president of the said board, provided in section 4 of this sub-
title, shall have power to summon witnesses, enforce their attendance and
administer oaths and hear and determine the matter in dispute, 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.