The record-union., 1893-01-20
LABOR ANn CAPITAL.
10 Regulate Days Work-Boards
Arbitration on Labor Troubles.

To Regulate Days work-Boards of
Arbitration on Labor Troubles.
Last evening the Assembly Committee
| on Labor and Capital met and first con-
| sidered IAN Act regulating the hours of
labor in sawmiils, shingle-mills, shake
mills and logging camps" The commit
tee voted TO report it favorably to the AS
sembly to-day.
The bill provides that ten hours shall
constitute days work for all mechanics
and laborers working in any capacity IN
any OF the mills designated. For any
work over the specified number of hours
the employer shall pay 40 cents per hour
to every employe.
Any owner, lessee or operator violating
any OF the provisions of this Act shall be
fined not less than $50 nor more than $500
or imprisoned not more than three
months, or both such fine and imprison-
ment, at the discretion of the court.
Assembly Bill No. AZ, defining labor
corporations, and TO provide for the in
corporation, organization and govern
ment thereof, to provide for the regula-
ton of disputes to which labor corpora
tions may be parties by referring the
same to a Board of Cancellation or Arbi-
| tration. Mr.. Finlayson. author, ex-
planned at length its merits. Among other
things the bill provides that the Governor
shall appoint a committee of five to
act as a Board of Arbitration to settle
disputes between labor and capital. In
making the appointments the Governor
shall appoint two, who i'll his Judgment
will be the most representative OF the
laboring classes; two who will be most
representative of the employers. The
fifth Arbitrator, who shall be the presid-
ing officer, shall be selected as most
nearly equally representative OF the in
terestS of both employees and employers.
One of the board shall go out Of office
every year. The board shall have power
to appoint a Secretary, to appoint bailiff
to perform the duties of ianltor, and shall
have hover to employ a stenographer.
The salary of each Arbitrator, except the
presiding officer, shall be 81 800 per year;
that of the presiding Arbitrator 50, 900, the
Secretary 81 200, the bailitf $500. Office
expenses shall be paid out of State funds.
| The Office Of the State Board of Arbitra-
ton shall be in San Francisco. The board
shall have power to issue writs of sum
mons and subpoena as courts of record.
For the purpose of regulating and set
ting disputes or disagreements wherein
labor corporation is party Boards of
Cancellation are provided, TO whom all
| labor disputes shall be referred. The
parties to the dispute shall each appoint
third. The three persons thus selected
shall meet with the Board of Arbitration,
and these eight persons shall constitute
Board of Cancellation for the purpose of
making amicable settlements. 4 refusal
to submit a dispute to a Board of Concili-
alton shall not deprive any corporation
or person of any legal privileges.
The Board Of Cancellation is intended
to be means of accomplishing, if possi-
ble settlement Of the dispute by pro
cess of voluntary conciliation and is in
tended to produce, if possible. an AMIGA
BILE understanding and agreement, and
its decision is intended to be advisory
only. and a demand for an investigation
by Board of Cancellation, made by at
least one of the parties disputant, is in
tended to precede any action by the
arbitrators sitting as a Board Of Arbitra-
ton.
The decree of the Board Of Arbitration
is binding upon all corporate parties to
the dispute. A refusal of corporation,
either capitalist or labor, to abide by the
decision of the board, works a forfeiture
of the corporate franchise.
The object of the bill is not to coerce
any individual in any manner. but to
make the DEGREES of the board binding
upon creatures of the State.
The bill is drawn upon the lines laid
down by some recent magazine articles,
notably an article by Chauncey 4. Black
in the September number of the Forum.
entitled 1.-THE Lessons of Homestead. -
and an article by David Dudley Field, in
the January number of the North A AleTi-
can Reriel0 on the same subject matter.
The committee took no action, and will
again give the bill consideration next
Tuesday evening.
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