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(i) In general the employers and employees of each trade are organized. . . . . (2) Where an agreement exists between employers and employees, all disputes in relation thereto shall be settled by a board of arbitration with an umpire, if necessary. The decision of said board or umpire shall be final. Should either side to the dispute fail to select an umpire, or fail to abide by the decision of the umpire, the dispute in question shall be referred to the General Board of Arbitration within twenty-four hours after such failure or refusal. The question of sympathetic strikes or lockouts, and all questions as to the jurisdiction of trades must be referred to the General Board of Arbitration, it being agreed and understood that such kinds of work as have been heretofore recognized as being in the possession of a trade are not sub- jects for arbitration. ( 3 ) Each association represented in the Building Trades Employers' Association of the city of New York shall elect two arbitrators, who shall serve for not less than six months. (4) Each union, the employers of which are represented in the Building Trades Employers' Association shall elect two arbitrators, who shall serve for not less than six months, and who shall be actively engaged in their trades for an employer in Greater New York at the time of their election. (5) The arbitrators from the unions shall not be business agents. ( 6 ) From this body of general arbitrators not less than four, two from the Employers' Association and two from the employ- ees' unions, shall constitute a Special Arbitration Board. They shall meet within twenty-four hours when notified so to do by the general secretary. .... (8) The unions as a whole or as a single union shall not order any strike against a member of the Building Trades Employers' Association collect- ively or individually, nor shall any number of union men leave the work of a member of the Building Trades Employers' Association, nor shall any member of the Building Trades Employers' Association lock out his employees before the matter in dispute has been brought before the General Arbitration Board and settled. (9) Complaints shall be first addressed to the general secretary of the Arbitration Board, who shall be a paid employee, and by him be referred to the executive committee of the General Arbitra- tion Board composed of an equal number of employers and employees, and it shall be their duty at once to organize a special arbitration board to decide the point at issue. (10) It shall be the privilege of any union or member of the Employers' Association to select from all the general arbi- trators the individuals they desire to act for them, but no general arbitrator can act when the dispute is occurring in the trade which he represents. ( 1 1 ) The general arbitrators must be given power by the interest they are acting for. ( 12) .... Both sides agree to abide by the vote of the major- ity of the board or the decision of an umpire ( 15 ) The members of

this association agree to employ members of the trades unions only, directly or indirectly, when parties to this agreement. It is understood, however, that in any case where a trades union is unable to provide sufficient work- men, the employer or employers in that trade may hire workmen, not