Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-17
WEAK AT ARBITRATION.
Industrial Peace a Condition Gained
b Without Much Effort.

Washington, Nov. 17.--The practical
working Of government Industrial ar
bitraton here and In other countries
Is the subject of exhaustive investiga-
tIon reported In the official bulletin OF
the bureau of labor, which has just
been issued. The paper Is an account
OF laws and results OF their operation
the record being brought as closely to
date as possible. 1t Includes all laws
in amy land which have been enacted
to provide means for the settlement OF
the collective industrial disputes.
The report shows that at the begin
ming OF the year 1905 twenty flour
states had passed laws for industrial
arbitration or cancellation, and one
other state, by It's constitution, direct
ed such legislation. The earliest law
upon the subject was passed in Mary
land In 1878.
Groupings Of Laws.
The state laws are grouped in four
classes, as follows:
Local Arbitration. With No Perma-
nent Agency Therefor--Maryland New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas.
Permanent District or County
Boards Established by Private Par
ties-Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and
Kansas.
Arbitration or Cancellation Thru
State Commissioners OF LaIbor--Colo-
RADIO Missouri. North Dakota, Wash
ington, Maryland
Special State Board or Commission
for the Settlement of Industrial Dis
putes--New York, Massachusetts, Mon
tana, California Michigan. New Jersey,
Ohio, Louisiana, Connecticut. Illinois.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Utah, Colorado,
Idaho. Indiana and Missouri.
First Group Dead Letters.
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.
In Pennsylvania alone was anything
accomplished under this system.
For the ten states with laws for state
boards which provide also for local arr
bitration, in none Of the reports of
such board Is any trace to be found
that the latter provision was even made
use OF except In Massachusetts and
Ohio
AS to state boards Of Cancellation
and arbitration, involving seventeen,
those which have been active relatively
little or not AZ all, are the following
nine states: California. Colorado. Con-
necticut. Idaho. Louisiana, Michigan,
Minnesota, Montana and Utah.
The remaining eight state boards not
only have been more active ever since
their establishment than the nine men,
toned hut also have all published reg
ul&r reports as required by their laws,
They are New York. Massachusetts,.
New Jersey, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois,
Indiana and Missouri.
In North Dakota.
OF the five states which provide In
by state labor commission
ers, the law was in force In North Da-
kota only year. In Colorado this
was superseded by a. state board of
arbitration, the records however. show
ing that during ten years. ending 1897,
with seventy-one strikes in the state.
in only three Of them is Intervention
by the commissioner reported. and In
none of the three did he effect a set
Element.
In Missouri considerably more APP
pears to have been accomplished. In
Washington state, during two years
RECORD, there were twelve cases Of IN
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