ART. 89] INDUSTRIAL BUREAU LABOR DISPUTES. 1921.

applicants for help or labor and to advertise and maintain
such office.

8th. The sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, is annually appropriated to pay the salary
of the chief of the bureau of industrial statistics, and the
expenses incident to the execution of the duties of his office;
but no part of said expenses shall be paid until the same shall
have been approved by the governor, and the said official shall
annually return to the comptroller of the treasury the detailed
statement of said expenses, and shall also print the same in
the book of statistics.*

Arbitration of Labor Disputes.

1904, ch. 671. sec. 1.

3. Upon information furnished by an employer of labor,
whether person, firm or corporation, or by a committee of
employes, or from any other reliable source, that a controversy
or dispute has arisen between employer and employes, involving
ten or more persons, which controversy may result in a strike
or lock-out, the chief of the bureau of industrial statistics of.
Maryland, or such person officially connected with said bureau
of industrial statistics as may be deputized in writing by the
said chief of said bureau of industrial statistics, 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.

Ibid. sec. 2.

4. If mediation cannot be effected as provided for in section
1 of this sub-title, the chief of the bureau of industrial statis-
tics, or such person officially connected with said bureau as
may be by him deputized in writing, may, at his discretion,
endeavor to secure the consent of the parties to the contro-
versy or dispute to the formation of a 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
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 afore-
said, to agree upon the third arbitrator, then the chief of said
bureau of industrial statistics shall act as third arbitrator, or
¹ See ante, art 27, secs. 249-252.