be required to bring about a friendly meeting with the Company. They were ready, through their representatives, to negotiate a settlement on fair lines but they would not deal with the Company as individuals. They declared they were contending for a fundamental principle and woud continue the strike until the management would acknowledge the right of its employes to organization and representation.

While in conference with the Company we urged the importance of a friendly meeting with the officers or committees representing the men and endeavored to persuade the managers to accede to such negotiations, but without success.

On the following morning the Secretary of the Board renewed the request for a conference between the representatives of the employes and the Company which was again declined by the managers who said "there was nothing to arbitrate," and who declared their purpose to deal with their workmen as individuals, and under no circumstances would they recognize or negotiate with committees of labor unions.

Such was the situation when the Secretary of the Board first met the parties to this controversy on November 25. In this connection I desire to say that the delay in visiting Zanesville was unavoidable on account of serious personal injury to the Secretary and death in his family.

As will be seen each side had taken a stand ́in direct opposition to the other. While the men desired to negotiate a friendly settlement through their official representatives, the Company refused to enter into such negotiations. Neither party desired nor was willing to accept arbitration, and being determined to maintain the position they had taken there was no opportunity for the Board to compose their differences.

C. W. STINE POTTERY COMPANY.

WHITE COTTAGE.

Further disagreement arose in the operation of the C. W. Stine Pottery works at White Cottage in Muskingum County, in October, 1901, but as it came to the knowledge of the Board that less than twenty-five persons were employed by the Company, and no legal application for arbitration could be made to the Board, and as the Board was consequently without jurisdiction to consider the differences alleged to exist between the Company and its workmen, no final action was taken looking to a settlement of the difficulty.

LAW UNDER WHICH THE BOARD OF STATE CHARITIES OPERATES.

(O. L., Vol. 93, pp. 105-106.)

(As amended April 12, 1898.)

SECTION 655. The governor shall appoint six persons, not more than three of whom shall be from the same political party, who shall constitute a board of state charities, to serve without compensation; two of whom, as indicated by the governor, upon the fixed appointment, shall serve for one year, two for two years and two for three years; and upon the expiration of the term of each, his place, and that of his successor, shall, in like manner be filled, for the term of three years. The governor shall be ex officio a member of said board and the president thereof. Appointments to fill vacancies caused by death, resignation or removal before the expiration of such terms may be made for the residue of terms in the same manner as original appointments.

Sec. 656. That the board of state charities shall be provided with a suitable room in the state house. Regular meetings of the board shall be held quarterly, or oftener if required. They may make such rules and orders for the regulation of their own proceedings as they may deem necessary. They shall investigate the whole system of public charities and correctional institutions of the state, examine into the condition and management thereof, especially of municipal and state prisons and reformatories, workhouses, jails, infirmaries, children's homes and state institutions; and the officers in charge of all such institutions, and those who are in any way responsible for the administration of public funds used for the relief or maintenance of the poor, shall furnish to the board, or its secretary, such information and statistics as they may require; and, to secure accuracy, uniformity and completeness in such statistics, the board may prescribe such forms of report and registration as they may deem necessary. And all plans for new jails, workhouses, children's homes, infirmaries, state institutions, and municipal lockups or prisons, and for important additions to, or alterations in such existing institutions, shall, before their adoption by the proper officials, be submitted to the board for criticism and approval. The governor, in his discretion, may, at any time, order an investigation by the board, or by a committee of its members, of the management of any penal, reformatory or charitable institution of the state, and said board or committee, in making any such investigation, shall have power to send for persons and papers, and to administer oaths and affirmations; and the report of such investigation, with the testimony, shall be made to the governor, and shall be submitted by him, with his suggestions, to the general assembly.

Sec. 657. That the said board may appoint a secretary, who shall receive for his services, in addition to his traveling expenses, such salary as may be agreed All accounts upon by the board, not to exceed twelve hundred dollars per annum.

· and expenditures shall be certified as may be provided by the board, and shall be paid by the treasurer upon an order from the auditor of state.

Sec. 658. The board of state charities shall annually prepare and print, for the use of the legislature, a full and complete report of all their doings during the preceeding year, stating fully and in detail all expenses incurred, all officers and agents employed, with a report of the secretary, embracing all the respective proceedings and expenses during the year, and showing the actual condition of all the state institutions under their control, with such suggestions as they may deem necessary and pertinent.

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage.