CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES 1. Disputes received from adjustment boards 59 1. Cases where adjustment boards certify that they have failed to reach a decision. 2. Cases where adjustment boards certify that they will fail to reach a decision within a reasonable time. 3. Cases where Labor Board determines that adjustment boards have failed or are not using due diligence. 2. Disputes received upon application or petition 1. Upon application of chief executive of any interested carrier 2. Upon application of chief executive of any organization of employees or subordinate officers 3. Upon written petition signed by not less than one hundred interested unorganized employees or subordinate officers 3. Disputes received upon Labor Board's own motion if substantial interruption to commerce is threatened 2. Settlement of disputes as to wages and salaries between carriers and employees or subordinate officers 1. Disputes received upon application or petition 1. Upon application of chief executive of any interested carrier 2. Upon application of chief executive of any organization of employees or subordinate officers 3. Upon written petition signed by not less than one 2. Disputes received upon Labor Board's own motion if Administrative activities 1. Reference of disputes as to grievances, rules, or working conditions to adjustment boards 'Decisions on wages reached in conference between representatives of employees and carriers whenever such decision involves possibility of substantial readjustment of carriers' rates. 2. Investigation and research 1. Study of relations between carriers and their employees 1. Wages, hours of labor, and other conditions of employ ment 2. Privileges, rights and duties of carriers and employees 2. Studies to determine just and reasonable wages and working conditions I. The scales of wages paid for similar kinds of work in other industries 2. The relation between wages and the cost of living 4. The training and skill required 5. The degree of responsibility 6. The character and regularity of the employment 3. Publication I. Data and information relating to subjects investigated as above 2. Decision and regulations of Labor Board and adjustment boards 3. Court and administrative decisions and regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission relating to matters under jurisdiction of Board 4. Publicity 1. Publicity in regard to decisions of the Labor Board APPENDIX 3 PUBLICATIONS Decisions. The Railroad Labor Board is required by Section 308 of Title III of the Transportation Act of 1920 to "at least annually collect and publish the decisions and regulations of the Labor Board and the Adjustment Boards and all court and administrative decisions and regulations of the Commission in respect to this title, together with a cumulative index-digest thereof." In conformity with this requirement of the law, the Board has published its first volume, "Decisions of the U. S. Railroad Labor Board "1 giving in systematic and complete form, properly indexed, all the decisions, addenda, interpretations, regulations, and announcements of the board and court decisions and Interstate Commerce Commission regulations from April 16, 1920, the date of its organization, to the end of the calendar year 1920. Some of the important decisions, supplements, addenda, etc., have been published separately, as occasion demanded, for distribution to those interested and to the public. Generally, however, mimeographed copies suffice for administrative purposes. 66 Data and Information Relating to Wages, Hours of Labor, and Other Conditions of Employment. Paragraph (3) of Sec. 308 of Title III of the act, referred to above, directs the board to publish, from time to time data and information relating to questions of wages, hours of labor, and other conditions of employment, and the respective privileges, rights, and duties of carriers and employees to the end that the Labor Board may be properly equipped to perform its duties under this title and that the members of the Adjustment Boards and the Public may be properly informed.” In order to prepare the basis for such investigation and publication the board has prepared a comprehensive functional classification of railroad positions in coöperation with the railroads, the Interstate Washington, Government Printing Office, 1921. Commerce Commission, and other agencies. "Rules for Reporting Information on Railroad Employees together with a classification and index of Steam Railroad occupations," May, 1921. This report on classification of railroad positions in number two of the "Board's Wage Series." Number one was a pamphlet issued August, 1920, "Average Daily and Monthly Wage of Railroad Employees on Class I Carriers, in effect under private control (December, 1917) Under the United States Railroad Administration (January, 1920) and under Decision No. 2 (July 20, 1920) United States Railroad Labor Board." Report No. 3, issued in October, 1921, covers the same subject as Report No. 1, but includes in addition thereto the decreases in wages authorized by the Labor Board in its Decision No. 147, effective July I, 1921. |