The weekly Alaska citizen., 1920-01-26
INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE PLANS REGIONAL BOARDS TO PREVENT
 OR DELAY CAUSES OF STRIKES


 , adjustment and further shall consti- tute an agreement by both sides that they will continue, or re-establisl and continue, the status that existed at the time the dispute arose. The board of adjustment so consti- tuted shall proceed at once to hear the two sides for the purpose oi . reaching determination. Such de termination must be by unanimous vote. In case the board Is unable to reach a determination the question shall unless referred to an umpire as provided In section g, pass upon appeal to the national industrial tri- bunal
 Regional Boards of Inquiry.
 If either side to the dispute fails within the period fixed by the chair man, to select it's representative. the chairman shall proceed to organize regional board of inquiry. Such re- gional board of inquiry shall consist of the regional chairman, two em- ployers selected in the manner spe- cif1ed from the employers panel, and two employees selected in like manner from the employees panel and of the representative of either side that may have selected a representative and agreed to submit the dispute to the board If neither side shall select a representative within the time fixed by the chairman the hoard of inquiry shall consist of the chairman and the four panel members only
 Upon the selection of represent ative, within the specified time, the side concerned shall be entitled to the specified number of peremptory challenges as provided above. The representative shall have the right to sit on the board of inquiry and to take full part as a member of such board in the proceedings thereof.
 The board of inquiry as so consti- tuted shall proceed to investigate the dispute and make and publish re- port or majority and minority reports, of the conclusions reached, within 5 days after the close of it's hearings and within not more than 30 days from the date of issue of the original request by the chairman to the two sides to the dispute. unless extended on unanimous request of the board or the national industrial tribunal. It shall transmit copies of this report or reports to the secretaries of com merce and of labor. respectively. and to the national industrial tribunal, where tn " shall be matters of pub lie record.
 Transformation of the Regional
 Boards of Inquiry into Regional
 Boards of Adjustment.
 At any time during the progress of the inquiry at which both sides shall have selected representatives and agreed to submit the dispute for adjustment. the board of inquiry shall become a board of adjustment by the admission to membership on the board of such representatives. The side or sides which appoint rep "esentatives after the date fixed in the original request of the chairman shall because of it's delay, suffer a reduction in the number of peremp- tory challenges to which 1t otherwise would have been entitled
 The board of adjustment so consti- tuted shall proceed to the determina- tion of the dispute as tho is had been organized within the period originally fixed by the chairman.
 Umpire.
 When a regional board of adjust ment is unable to reach unanimous determination 1t may by unanimous vote select an umpire and refer the dispute to him with the provision that his determination shall be final and shall have the same force and effect as unanimous determination of such regional board.
 Combination of Regions.
 Whenever the questions involved in a dispute extend beyond the boun- daries of single region. the regions to which the dispute extends shall, for the purpose of such dispute. be combined by order of the national industrial tribunal, which shall desig- nate the chairman of one of the , regions concerned to act as chairman in connection with the dispute in } question.
 Two employer members and two employe members shall be chosen l from the combined panels of the re- l gions involved in the dispute under , rules and regulations to be estab- .lished by the national industrial tri- bunal. The members representing the two sides to the dispute shall be } chosen as in the case of dispute 7 in single region.
 r A regional board of inquiry or of adjustment constituted for a dispute extending beyond the boundaries of a single region shall have the same