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system of the Grand Trunk Railway into disorder entailing great loss and disaster to the country. The Board was in session for three days, and during that period succeeded in adjusting all matters in dispute. The chief officers of the Company were present throughout the enquiry and evinced the keenest interest in the proceedings. The enquiry ended in an agreement for a year signed by representatives of both parties, and Mr. Charles M. Hays, General Manager of the Railway, in congratulating Professor Shortt on the result, said it but confirmed the opinion he had always held, that if those who were concerned in indus trial differences would only come together and calmly talk over the situation, the chances were altogether in favour of an amicable agreement being reached. The employees were represented throughout the dispute by Mr. A. H. Champion, VicePresident of the International Association of Machinists, and other officers of the union. The other members of the Board were Mr. Wallace Xesbitt, K. C, nominated by the company, and Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, nominated by the employees. It was under stood that the success achieved in this particular case was due in a large measure to the tact, perseverance, and broad sym pathies of the chairman of the Board. A Board, of which the Hon. Mr. Justice Graham of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia was chairman, was shortly after wards established for the adjustment of differences between the Cumberland Rail way and Coal Company of Springhill, N. S., and its employees. In this case there were two points of difference of a technical character. The Board, after considerable investigation involving the examination of a number of witnesses, decided favourably to the men on one of the points in dispute, and favourably to the company on the second point. This decision was not accept able to both parties and resulted in a strike beginning on August i. A second Board was established at the request of the men with

Judge Patterson as chairman. After some efforts to conciliate the parties without an investigation, the second Board was recon vened and proceeded with the enquiry7, subject to objection by the Company on the ground that the strike was still on. The report on this enquiry was regarded by the Minister as of an interim nature only, the investigation being admittedly inadquate. It having been thought that the decision of the first Board had been misin terpreted by the men, their representatives were persuaded to meet Mr. Justice Graham, who furnished them with a written inter pretation of the award of his Board. The men returned to work on October 31st, apparently inclined to refer to a new Board further matters in dispute between the company and themselves. This is the present position of the matter, which is believed to be in a fair way of settlement. In the month of May, a Board was estab lished for the adjustment of differences between the longshoremen of Montreal and the Shipping Federation and Canadian Pacific Railway. In this instance, the dis pute had resulted in a strike before any application had been received by the depart ment. An official of the department visited Montreal and urged the men to return to work, and submit the matters in dispute for adjustment before a Board of Conciliation and Investigation, and, at the end of a week, this course was adopted by the long shoremen. The chairman of the Board was Archbishop Bruchesi. A unanimous judg ment was reached, and, although this was not formally accepted by the longshore men's union, it was accepted individually, as the event proved, by the vast majority of the longshoremen of the port. Of these not less than eighteen hundred signed a contract with the shipping companies on the basis of the findings of the Board, so that further dispute or trouble for the season was prevented. Shortly after the longshoremen's dispute at Montreal, the longshoremen of Halifax