Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1926-09-02
THIRD INSTAI.LMENT OF new RAILWAY
LABOR ACT NOW RUNNING in THE LEADER

riers and tAks enisees, and fo1
/ other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representative of the
United States of America in
Congress assembled.
Board of Mediation
(e) The Interstate Commerce
Commission, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, and the custodian of the
records, respectively, of the Railroad
Labor Board, of the mediators deslg-
mated in the Act approved June L,
1898, providing for mediation and ar
bitration, known as the Erdman Act
approved July Is, 1918, providing
for mediation, conciliation, and arbi-
tration, known as the Newlands Act,
are herebysauthorized and directed to
transfer and deliver to the Board of
Mediation created by this Act any
and all papers and documents here
tofore filed with or transferred to
them, respectively, bearing upon the
settlement, adjustment, or determine
tion of disputes between carriers and
their employees or upon mediation
or arbitration proceedings held un-
!. der OF pursuant to the provisions of
any Act of Congress in respect to
such disputes; and the President is
authorized to require the transfer
and delivery to the Board of Media
tion, created by this Act, of any and
all such papers and documents filed
with or in the, possession Of any
agency of the Government. The
President is authorized to designate
a custodian of the records and prop
erty of the Railroad Labor Board,
until the transfer and delievery of
such records to the Board of Media
tion and the disposition of such
property in such manner as the
President may direct.
Continued from last week)
Procedure in Changing Rates of Pay,
Rules and Working Conditions.
Sec. 6. Carriers and the represen-
tatives of the employees shall give at
lest thirty days written notice of
an intended change affecting rates of
pay, rules or working conditions, and
the time and place for conference be-
tween the representatives of the par
ties interested in such intended
changes shall be agreed upon within
ten days after the receipt of said no
tice, and said time shall be within the
thirty days provided in the notice.
Should changes be requested from
more than one class or associated
classes at approximately the same
time, this date for the conference
shall be understood to apply only to
the first conference for each class;
~iiG being the intent that subsequent
}eon1e4 erlces in respect to each re-
quest shall be held in the order Of its
receipt and shall follow each other
with reasonable promptness. In ev-
cry case where such notice of intend
ed change has been given, or confer
ences are being held with reference
thereto, or the srvices of the Board
of Mediation have been requested
by either party, or said board has
proffered its services, rates of pay,
rules, or working conditions shall not
not be altered by the carrier until
the controversy has been finally acted
upon, as required by section S of this
Act( by the Board of, Mediation, un-
less period of ten days has elapsed
after termination Of conferences
without request for or proffer of the
services of the Board of Mediation.
Arbitration -
Sec. 7. First. Whenever a con-
troversy shall arise between carrier
or carriers and it's or their employees
which is not settled either in confer
ence between representatives of the
parties or by the appropriate adjust
ment board or through mediation, in
the manner provided in the preceding
sections, such controversy may, by
agreement of the parties to such con-
troversy, be submitted to the arbitra-
ton of a board of three Cor, if the
parties to the controversy so stpulate,
of the six) persons: Provided, how
ever, That the failure or refusal of
either party to submit controversy
to arbitration shall not be construed
as a violation of any legal obligation
imposed upon such party by the terms
of this Act or otherwise.
Second. Such board of arbitration
shall be chosen in the following man.
ner: -,
sMta) In the case of a board of
three the carrier or carriers and the
Representatives of the employees re-
spectively to the agreement to arbi-
trate, shall each name one arbitrator; ;
the two arbitrators thus chosen shall
select a third arbitrator. If the ar
bitrators chosen by the parties shall
fail to,name the third arbitrator with
in five days after their first meeting,
such third arbitrator shall be named
by the Board of Mediation.
(b) In the case of a board of six
the carrier or carriers and the rep
resentatives of the employees, par
ties respectively to the agreement to
arbitrate, shall each name two arbi-