The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-11-17
Bureau Of Labor Exhaustive
ly Investigates Its Work
ing In This and Other
Countries
DECLARES IT UNSUCCESSFUL
GOVERNMENT REPORT PUTS
NEW JERSEY IN THE INACTIVE
CLASS STATISTICAL ACCOUNT

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WASHINGTON, Nov. II, 1908.
The practical working of government in
dustrial arbitration here and in other
countries is the subject of an exhaustive
! investigation reported in the Bureau of
Labor official bulletin, which has just
been issued
| The paper is statistical account of
| laws and results of their operation. the
record being brought as closely to date
as the necessary reports and documents
permitted 1t includes all laws in any
land which have been enacted for the
! purpose of providing means for the set
| tlement of collective industrial disputes.
For the United States it shows that
at the beginning of the year 1893 twen-
| ty- four States had passed laws for in
dustrial arbitration or Cancellation, and
one other State by its constitution direct
ed such legislation. The earliest law up
ON the subject was passed in Maryland
in 1878. The State laws have marked
simiiarities in many cases and are group
| ed in four classes as follows
Local arbitration, with no permanent
agency therefor-Maryland New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Texas.
Permanent district or county boards
established by private parties-Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Iowa and Kansas.
Arbitration of conciliation through
State commissioners Of labor-Colorado
Missouri, North Dakota, Washington
Maryland
Special State board or commission for
/ the settlement Of Industrial disputes
New York, Massachusetts,, Montana
| Michigan, California. New Jersey, Ohio
Louisiana, Connecticut, Illinois, Mime
sofa, Wisconsin, Utah, Colorado, Idaho
| Indiana and Missouri.
The report says that the laws in the
first group have all turned out to be
| practically dead letters Much the
same verdict of failure must be pro
nounced upon the second group of laws
Iii PENNSYLVANIA alone was anything
accomplished under this system
OF the ten States with laws for State
4 boards which provide also for local ar.
bitration, in none of the reports of such
boards is any trace to be found that the
latter provision was ever made use OF
except in Massachusetts ard Ohio.
AS to State boards of Cancellation and
arbitration, involving seventeen States
those which have been active relatively
little or not at all are the following nine
States: California, Colorado, Connecticut
Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota
Montana and U5ah.
The remaining eight State boards noi
only have been more active ever s'nct
/ their establishment than the nine men
toned. but also have all published regu
| lnr reports, as required by their laws
They are New York, Massachusetts,, New
Jersey. Ohio. Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana
! and Missouri.
b OF the five states which provide inter
i yention by, State labor commissioners 1ht
/ law was in force in North Dakota bu
i year. In Colorado this was supersed
A ed by a State Board of arbitration, ths
! records, however, showing that during
ten years ending 1897. with II strikes il
4 the State, only three of them is inter
4 vention by the commissioner reported
and in none of the three did he effect
settlement In Missouri considerabl,
4 more appears to have been accomplished
Il In Washington State during two years
! record there were II eases Of inteqve
tion by the commissioner, resulting i
six settlements, two disputes withou
4 strike or lockout and six failures. Ii
Maryland the provision is SO recent tha-
the arbitration law had NOT been test
ed.''