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 73d C ONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 691. JU NE 21, 1934. 1197 versed Board or subcommittee, except such evidence as may be neces- sary to illustrate the interpretations suggested by the parties. If any Filling vacancy. member of the original Board is unable or unwilling to serve on such reconvened Board or subcommittee thereof, another arbitrator shall be named in the same manner and with the same powers and duties as such original arbitrator. c c ( ioye r-em pioye e e) Within sixty days after the approval of this Act every carrier Em contre is concerning shall file with the Mediation Board a copy of each contract with its rates of pay, etc. employees in effect on the 1st day of April 1934, covering rates of re quired, with Board pay, rules, and working conditions. If no contract with any craft Statement in lieu. or clas s of it s emplo yees h as been entere d into, the c arrier shall file with the Mediation Board a statement of that fact including also a statement of the rates of pay, rules, and working conditions applicable in dealing with such craft or class. When any new contract is New contracts. executed or change is made in an existing contract with any class or craft of its employees covering rates of pay, rules, or working conditions, or in those rates of pay, rules, and working conditions of employees not covered by contract, the carrier shall file the same with the Mediation Board within thirty days after such new contract or change in existing contract has been executed or rates of pay, rules, and working conditions have been made effective. "(f) The Mediation Board shall be the custodian of all papers Board to be c usto- and documents heretofore filed with or transferred to the Board of dl of all papers, etc., filed filed with Board of Mediation bearing upon the settlement, adjustment, or determination Mediation . of disputes between carriers and their employees or upon mediation or arbitration proceedings held under or pursuant to the provisions of any Act of Congress in respect thereto ; and the President is authorized to designate a custodian of the records and property of the Board of Mediation until the transfer and delivery of such records to the Mediation Board and to require the transfer and delivery to the Mediation Board of any and all such papers and documents filed with it . or in its possession ." SEC. 6 . Section 6 of the Railway Labor Act is amended to read Vol . 44,p .582. as follows " SEC . 6 . Carriers and representatives of the employees shall give Notic e of int ended at least thirty days' written notice of an intended change in agree- chang e in rate s of pay, b rules, working condi- ments affecting rates of pay, rules, or working conditions, and the tions . time and place for the beginning of conference between the repre- sentatives of the parties interested in such intended changes shall be agreed upon within ten days after the receipt of said notice, and said time shall be within the thirty days provided in the notice . In required, n of B oard every case where such notice of intended change has been given, or conferences are being held with reference thereto, or the services of the Mediation Board have been requested by either party, or said Board has proffered its services, rates of pay, rules, or working conditions shall not be altered by the carrier until the controversy has been finally acted upon as required by section 5 of this Act, by A nte, the Mediation Board, unless a period of ten days has elapsed after termination of conferences without request for or proffer of the services of the Mediation Board ." SEC . 7. The Railway Labor Act is amended by striking out the Substitutions Labo r Act- Substitutions " Board of Mediation " wherever they appear in sections ignated sections of, 7, 8, 10, and 12 of such Act, and inserting in lieu thereof the words au Vo~ .4z»ed1 582-5x7 " Medi ation Board ." SEC . 8. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of Saving provisions . this Act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Act . nele onsistent laws re- All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed . Approved, June 21, 1934.