A gradual change has taken place in the method of dealing with questions which present new principles, or which represent questions never before decided.  The Board of Arbitration has appointed Mr. Williams as a committee to investigate and report, with the understanding that if an agreement can be reached by both parties without arbitrators, or, if the parties are willing to accept the decision of the Chairman, then no further meeting of the Board of Arbitration will be required.  This method has proved to be exceedingly satisfactory to both sides and has resulted in a form of government which has gradually taken the place of formal arbitration.  In most cases, the Chairman is able by thorough sifting of the evidence on each side, to suggest a method of conciliation which is acceptable to both parties.

A further experience of the System up till July, 1915, only confirms the above statement.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

LIST OF BOOKS AND REPORTS AND PERIODICAL LITERATURE SUGGESTED FOR READING AND REFERENCE

ABBOTT, EDITH.  Women in Industry.  New York, 1909.

ADAMS, T.H., and SUMNER, H.L.  Labor Problems.  New York, 1909.

ADDAMS, JANE.  The Spirit of Youth in City Streets.  New York, 1909.

ANDREWS, JOHN B. A Practical Plan for the Prevention of Unemployment in America.  New York, 1914.

——­ and BLISS, W.P.D.  History of Women in Trade Unions in the United States.  Vol.  X of the United States Report on the Condition of Women and Child Wage Earners.

BEBEL, AUGUST. Woman in the Past, Present and Future (Trans.).  New York, 1885.

BOWEN, LOUISE DE KOVEN.  Safeguards for City Youth at Work and at Play.  New York, 1915.

BRANDEIS, L.D. Curt Miller v. The State of Oregon.  Brief for defendants.  Supreme Court of the United States.  New York, 1908.

——­ Frank C. Stettler and others v. The Industrial Welfare Commission of the State of Oregon.  Brief and arguments for the defendants in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon.  Consumers’ League, New York, 1915.

——­ and GOLDMARK, JOSEPHINE.  Brief and Arguments for appellants in the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois.  National Consumers’ League, New York, 1909.

BRECKINRIDGE, SOPHONISBA P. Legislative Control of Women’s Work. Journal of Political Economy.  XIV. 107-109.

BROOKS, JOHN GRAHAM.  The Social Unrest.  New York, 1903.

BROWN, ROME G. The Minimum Wage.  Minneapolis, 1914.

BUSBEY.  Women’s Trade Union Movement in Great Britain.  U.S.  Department of Labor.  Bul.  No. 83.

BUTLER, ELIZABETH B. Saleswomen in Mercantile Stores.  New York, 1913.

——­ Women in the Trades.  New York, 1909.

CANADA.  Department of Labor.  Report of Royal Commission on Strike of
Telephone Operators.  Ottawa, 1907.