Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1926-09-09

An Act to provide for the prompt
disposition of disputes between car
riers and their employees, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in
Congress assembled,
Sec. 8. The agreement to arbi-
trate--
(a) Shall be in writing;
(b) Shall stipulate that the arbi-
tration is had under the provisions of
this Act;
(c) Shall state whether the board
of arbitration is to consist of three
or of six members;
Cd Shall be signed by the duly
accredited representatives of the car
rier or carriers and the employees,
parties respectively to the agreement
to arbitrate, and shall be acknowl-
edged by said parties before notary
public, the clerk of district court
or circuit court of appeals of the
United States, or. before member of
the. Board of Mediation, and, when
so acknowledged, shall be filed in the
office of the Board of Mediation;
(e) Shall state specifically the
questions to be submitted to the said
board for decision; and that, in its
award or awards, the said, board shall
confne itself strictly to decisions as
othe Questions SO specifically sub
mitted to it; - t''"
(f) Shall provide that the ques-
tions, or any one or more of them,
submitted by the parties to the board
of arbitration may be withdrawn
from arbitration on notice to that eff
feet signed by the duly accredited
representatives of all the parties and
served on the board of arbitration;
(g) Shall stipulate that the sigma
lures of majority of said board of
arbitration affixed to their award
shall be competent to constitute a
valid and binding award;
(h) Shall fix a period from the
date of the appointment of the ar
bitrator or arbitrators necessary to
complete the board las provided for
in the agreement) within which the
said board shall commence its hear
ings;
(i) Shall fix a period from the be-
of the hearings within which
the said board shall make and file its
award: Provided, That the parties
may agree at any time upon an ex-
tension of this period;
I'D Shall provide for the date from
which the award shall become effec-
tive and shall fix the period during
which the award shall continue in |
force;
(k) Shall provide that the award
If the board of arbitration and the |
evidence of the proceedings before
he board relating thereto, when GER
,ified under the hands of at least a
majority of the arbitrators, shall be
lied in the clerks office of the dis
rict court of the United States for
he district wherein the controversy
rose or the arbitration was entered
nto,, which district shall be desig-
lated IN the agreement; and, when so
lied, such award and proceedings
hall constitute the full and complete
ecord of the arbitration;
ID Shall provide that the award,
vhen SO filed, shall be final and con-
lusive upon the parties as to the
acts determined by said award and
S to the merits of the controversy
ecided;
(m) Shall provide that any differ
nee arising as to the meaning, or
he application of the provisions, of
N award made by a board of arbi-
ration shall be referred back for a
uling to-, the same board, or, by
lgreement, to a subcommittee of
uch board; and that such ruling,
when acknowledged in the same man
ler, and filed in the same district
;ourt clerks office, as the original
ward, shall be a part of and shall
AVE the same; force and effect as
uch. original award; and 80
(n) Shall provide that the respec-
i've parties to the award will each
execute the same.
The said agreement to arbitrate,
when properly signed and acknowl-
edged as herein provided, shall not
De revoked by party to such agree
ment: Provided, however, That such
agreement to arbitrate may at any
time be revoked and cancelled by the
written agreement of both parties.
signed by their duly accredited rep
and (if no board of ar
bitration has yet been constituted un-
der the agreement) delivered to the
Board of Mediation or any member
thereof; or, if the board of arbitra-
tion has been constituted as provided
by this Act, delievered to such board
of arbitration.
Sec. 9. First. The award of a
board of arbitration, having been ac-
knowledged as herein provided, shall
be filed in the clerks office of the
district court designated in the agree
ment to arbitrate.
Second An award acknowledged
and filed as herein provided shall be
on the parties as to the
merits and facts of the controversy
submitted to arbitration, and unless,
within ten days after the filing of the
award, "a petition to impeach the
award, yopothe grounds hereinafter set
forth, shall be filed in the clerks OF
fee Of the court, in which the award
has been filed, athe court shall @ehter
Judgment on the award, which .Judg-
ment shall, be, final and conclusive on
'"f Third. Such petition for the i'm m 4
peachment or contesting of any
award SO filed shall be Entertained BY
the court only on one or rsmore of the
following grounds: s.,.5.,s.,. l.r
fa) That the award plainly does
no tconform to the substantive re-
quirements laid down by this Act for
such awards, or that the proceedings
were not substantially in conformity