...owe the public, I desire to inform you that these companies have placed this matter, by wire, before the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor at Washington, who ore authorized by an act of Congress to intercede in such cases, and if you have...

...manner of application of appliances. The act of June I, 1898, known as the arbitration act, directs the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor to use their best efforts, by mediation and conciliation, to settle controversies between railway companies...

...but contracts for stipulated wages can be made. 4. If a contention arises that threatens injury to a carrier, the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission...upon the request of either party to the controversy, put themselves in communication with the parties to the controversy and shall use their best efforts...

...employes of such carrier, seriously interrupting or threaten ing to interrupt the business of such carrier, the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor shall, with all practical expedition, put themselves in communication with the parties to such controversy,...

...of the act designates the carriers to whom it shall apply. The second section makes it the duty of the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor, in case of a dispute between carriers and their employees which threatens to interrupt the business...

...of the various lailroad Brotherhoods and unanimously indorsed; that bill provides shuply this: that the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor should, whenever an interstate strike was threatened, endeavor to conciliate the parties, that is,...

...of the various lailroad brotherhoods and unanimously indorsed;-that bill provides simply this: that the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor should, whenever an interstate strike was threatened, endeavor to conciliate the parties, that is,...

...conditions of employment shall arise between a carrier subject to this act and the employees of such carrier, seriously interrupting or threatening to...Commission and the Commissioner of Labor shall, upon tho request of either party to the controversy, with all practicable expedition, put themselves in...

...failure, within forty-eight hours of their first meeting, the third commissioner shall be named by the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor. This provision would prevent delay, through captiousness or for other reason, in naming the full board....

...carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees, known as the "Arbitration Act," directs the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor to use their best efforts, by mediation and conciliation, to settle controversies between railway companies...