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 1768 PROCLAMATIONS, 1918. (h) The place of each member_ of the National Board rmavoidably detained from attending one or more of its SSSIQHB may be filled by a substitute to be named by such member as his regular substitute. The substitute shall have the same representative character as his principal. _ (i) The National Board shall have power to appomta Secretary, and to create other organization under it as may be in its judgment necessary for the discharge 0 its utlm. (j) The national Board may apply to the Secretary of Labor for authority to use the machinery of the Department in its work of conciliation and mediation. _ _ (k) The action of the National Board may be invoked in respect to controversies within its jurisdiction, by the Secretarlly of Labor or by either side m a_oonu·oversy or its dul authorized representative. he Board, after summary consideration, may refuse iirrther hearing if the case is not of such character or importance to justify 1t._ (1) In the appointment of committees of its own members to act for the Board m general or local matters, and in the creation of local committees, the employers and the workers shall be equally re£·esented. _ _ (in) The representatives of e public in the Board shall preside alternately at succesive semions of the Board or as agreed upon. _ _ _ (n) The Board in its mediating and conciliatory action, and the umpire ID his consideration of a controversy, shall be governed by the following princrplm: PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES TO GOVERN RELATIONS BETWEEN WORK- ERS AND EMPLOYEES IN WAR INDUSTRIES FOR THE DURATION OF THE WAR. THERE SHOULD BE N0 STRIKES OR LOCKOUTS DURING THE WAR. RIGHT TO ORGANIZE 1. The right of workers to organize in trade unions and  collectively, through chosen representatives, is recognized and affirmed. is right shall not be denied, abridged, or interfered with by the employers in any manner whatsoever. 2. The right of employers to organize in asociations ozgrougs and to bum mllectively, through chosen repraentatives, is_recogniz an  ` dglgt shall not be denied, abridged or interfered with by the workers m any manner w tsoever. 3. Employer should not discharge workers for membership in uade tmions, nor for legitimate trade union activities. 4. he workers, in the exercise of their right to organize, shall not use coercive measures of any kind to induce persons to join them: organizations, nor to induce employers to we or deal therewith. EXLST NG CO ITIONS 1. In establishments where the union shop exists the nme shall continue and the union standards as to wagm, hours of labor and other conditions of employment shall be maintained. 2. In establishments where union and non-union men and women now work together, and the employer meets only with employees or resentatives engaged in_ said establishments, the continuance of such conditionrghall not be deemed a grievance. This declaration, however, is not intended in any manner to deny the right, or discourage the practice of the formation of labor unions, or the joining of the same by the workers in said establishments, as guaranteed in the last paragraph, nor to tgrevent the War Labor Board from urging, or any umpire from granting, under e machinery herein provided, improvement of their situation in the matter gf wages, hours of labor, or other conditions, as shall be found desirable from time time. 3. Established safeguards and regulations for the rotection of the health and safety of workers shall not be relaxed. p WOMEN IN IND USTR Y · If it shall become necessary to employ women on work ordinarily performed by men, they must be allowed equal pay for equal work and must not be allotted tasks disproportionate to their strength. HOfz1_§SbOF L1gA£OhR da e asice' t our yisrecognizedasappl ina.llcasesi1iwhichexrstirl;§’ ' law requires it. In all other cases the question of hours of labor shall be settl with due regard to governmental necessities and the welfare, health and proper comfort of the workers. MAXIMUM PROD UCTION The maximum production of all war industries should be maintained, and methods of work_and operation on the KE of employers or workers which operate to delay or lim1t (production, or which ve a tendency to artificially increase the cost thereof, shoul be discouraged. H01%ILIg1ATI0N 0Ft LAIBOR th la or e o mo il1zmg' e bor suppl with a view to its ra 'd and eiective digtrigution, a permanent list of the numyher of skilled and otherI:·orkus