The central authorities of the States shall have power to order a further limitation of working days and hours of work.

2. The central authorities of the States or the authorities designated by them may, upon request, allow exemptions which are necessary in the public interest.

3. Manufacturers who contravene the provisions of this Order or the Orders issued by the central authorities of the States, in pursuance of §1, paragraph 2, shall be punished by fines not exceeding 1,500 M. or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.

4. This Order shall come into force on the day of its publication. The Imperial Chancellor shall determine the date when it shall cease to have effect.

(B) FEDERAL STATES.

KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA.

Der Minister für Handel und Gewerbe, der Minister für Landwirtschaft, Domänen und Forsten, der Minister des Innern betr. nicht gewerbsmässig betriebene Arbeitsnachweise. Vom 26. Mai 1915. (Ministerialblatt der Handelsund Gewerbeverwaltung 1915; Nr. 11, S. 122.)

The Minister for Commerce and Industry, the Minister for Agriculture, Domains and Forests, the Minister of the Interior, respecting employment bureaux not carried on for profit. Dated 26th May, 1915.

In accordance with a Resolution of the Federal Council we have issued in pursuance of §15 of the Employment Agents Act of 2nd June, 1910 (R.G.Bl., p. 860*) the appended regulations† respecting the duty of employment bureaux not carried on for profit to notify themselves and make returns to the Imperial Statistical Office.

You will be so good as to publish the regulations in the Amtsblatt and do what is necessary to bring them into force.

The Imperial Statistical Office has been requested by the Imperial Chancellor (Imperial Office of the Interior) to take steps to ensure that it shall be possible for the labour market returns issued by them since the middle of 1914, giving the number of persons applying for work and vacant places, classified according to trades, to appear in an extended form in August of this year.

We request you to come to a decision as soon as possible as regards the exemptions allowed under No. 2, paragraph (2), of the regulations, and to notify the Imperial Statistical Office immediately of every exemption. In order to relieve that office, it appears desirable that use should be made as widely as possible of the provisions contained in No. 2, paragraph (2) (a), and that all employment bureaux not carried on for profit which expect to fill less than 200 places in a year [No. 2, par. 2 (b)], should be freed from the duty of giving notice.

* Text E.B. V., p. 171.

† Similar regulations have also been issued in Bavaria by the Notification of 8th June, 1915; in the Grand Duchy of Hesse by the Notification of 22nd May, 1915; in the Grand Duchy of Anhalt, by Ministerial Order of 21st May, 1915; in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen by the Ministerial Order of 15th May, 1915; in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt by the Ministerial Notification of 2nd June, 1915; in Bremen by the Order of the Senate dated 2nd June, 1915; in Alsace-Lorraine by the Notification of 29th May, 1915. (Reichs-Arbeitsblatt 1915; No. 6, p. 443.)

Appendix.

Regulations respecting the duty of employment bureaux not carried on for profit to notify themselves and make returns to the Imperial Statistical Office, issued in pursuance of §15 of the Employment Agents Act of 2nd June, 1910 (R.G.BI., p. 860).*

1. Employment bureaux, not carried on for profit, shall present to the Imperial Statistical Office, Department of Labour Statistics, in Berlin, by 1st July, 1915, a notice containing the following particulars :—

Designation of the employment bureau, list of persons or bodies supporting it, place of business, name of the manager, telephone number and hours of business. Any alterations in the particulars, as well as the opening of a new employment bureau not carried on for profit, shall be notified similarly within three days.

2. Employment bureaux not carried on for profit, except those for commercial, technical and office employees, shall on two sample days in the week (if possible, Saturday and Wednesday), inform the Imperial Statistical Office, Department of Labour Statistics, of the number of the applicants for work and vacant places, which, up to the time of notification could not be satisfied, and which it is not expected to satisfy before the appearance of the Labour Market Statistics, stating exactly the branch of trade (special trades). The office shall place the forms for the purpose at the disposal of the bureaux without charge. The notification forms (postcards) shall be sent in time for them to reach the Imperial Statistical Office by the first post every Thursday and Monday. The notification cards must reach the Imperial Statistical Office for the first time on Monday, 2nd August, 1915.

The Administrative President (in the district of Berlin the police president) may allow exemptions from this duty of notification to employment bureaux which:

(a) are bound to inform an official employment bureaux (communal or supported by the commune) or any other collecting centre regularly of applications not satisfied and places not filled, in so far as the said official bureaux are bound in accordance with the provisions of paragraph I to forward the information received to the Imperial Statistical Office, or

(b) expect to fill less than 200 places in the year.

The Administrative President (Police President) shall notify the Imperial Statistical Office of every exemption immediately.

3. Every employment bureau not carried on for profit shall appoint a business manager, who shall be responsible for the observance of these regula

tions.

III. Great Britain and Ireland

1. Royal Warrant as to increase of separation allowance. 23rd September, 1914. (Manual†; Suppl. No. 3, p. 276.)

2. Order made by the Secretary of State under $33 of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, permitting use in safety lamps of glasses other than of approved type. 6th November, 1914. (Manual; Suppl. No. 3, p. 470.)

*See footnote † on page 233..

† Manual of Emergency Legislation (edited by Alexander Pulling); Supplement No. 3 to April 30th, 1915. London, May, 1915; price 2s. 6d.

3. Royal Warrant as to allotments for soldiers' children-remission or limitation. 9th November, 1914. (Manual; Suppl. No. 3, p. 284.)

4. Royal Warrant as to increase of separation allowance, extension of separation allowance and pensions, and abolition of allotment for soldiers' children. 25th February, 1915. (Manual; Suppl. No. 3, p. 284.)

From 1st March, 1915, the weekly rates of separation allowance to the wives and families of soldiers amounted to :

For each additional child, 2s.; separation allowance for motherless children, 3s.; the allotment of 5s. per week for motherless children has been repealed.

5. An Act to provide for the grant of pensions and other allowances to certain persons in respect of disablement due to causes arising out of the operations of the present War whilst they are employed afloat in connection with the telegraph and postal service and to their dependants, and for purposes connected therewith. (Ch. 24.) 16th March, 1915. (Manual; Suppl. No. 3, p. 227.)

[The King may by Order in Council frame a scheme as to pensions and other allowances for telegraph and post office employees disabled in connection with the laying and repairing of submarine cables. Persons receiving pensions or allowances not entitled to compensation.]

6. An Act to enable contributions to be made for the purpose of Part II. of the National Insurance Act, 1911, by workmen employed abroad in insured trades on work connected with or arising out of the present War. (Ch. 27.) 16th March, 1915. (Manual; Suppl. No. 3, p. 231.)

7. An Act to amend Part I. of the National Insurance Act, 1911. (Ch. 29.) 16th March, 1915. (Manual; Suppl. No. 3, p. 232.)

[Reduction of benefits in the case of persons entitled to pensions in respect of total disablement ; extension of §11 of Principal Act to certain pensions; amendment of §46 of Principal Act.]

An Act to authorise the grant of certain pensions and other allowances in respect of members of the Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police who are Reservists or join the Naval or Military Forces, and for other purposes incidental thereto. (Ch. 32.) 16th March, 1915. (Manual; Suppl. No. 3, p. 236.)

9.

An Act to amend the Defence of the Realm Consolidation Act. (Ch. 37.) 16th March, 1915. (Manual; Suppl. No. 3, p. 243.)

[Extension of the powers of the Admiralty or Army Council for expediting production of war material; these authorities have the power: (c) to require any work in any factory or workshop to be done in accordance with the directions of the Admiralty or Army Council given with the object of making the factory or workshop, or the plant or the labour therein, as useful as possible for the production of war material; (d) to regulate or restrict the carrying on of work in any factory or workshop, or remove the plant therefrom, with a view to increasing the production of war material in other factories or workshops; (e) to take possession of any unoccupied premises for the purpose of housing workmen employed in the production, storage or transport of war material.]

10. Order in Council amending the Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Regulations, 1914. 23rd March, 1915. (Manual ; Suppl. No. 3, p. 330.) [Adds new powers to the Admiralty or Army Council as follows:-(1) To take possession of unoccupied premises for the purpose of housing workmen employed on war material; (2) to require the occupier of factories producing war material to furnish such particulars as to output as may be directed; (3) to take possession of such factories; (4) to regulate or restrict the carrying on of work in any factory or workshop or remove the plant therefrom, with a view to increasing the production of war material in other factories or workshops.

11. Order in Council further amending the Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Regulations, 1914. 29th April, 1915. (Manual; Suppl No. 3, p. 339.)

[Prohibits the occupier of factories for producing war material to take steps with a view to inducing any person employed in other factory and workshop, being a person engaged on work for any Government Department or otherwise serving war purposes, to leave his employment; or any person resident in the United Kingdom at a distance of more than 10 miles from the occupier's factory or workshop, to accept employment therein, otherwise than by notifying vacancies to a Board of Trade Labour Exchange.]

12. An Act to make provision for furthering the efficient manufacture, transport, and supply of Munitions for the present War, and for purposes incidental thereto. (Ch. 54.) 2nd July, 1915.

PART I.

1. (1) If any difference exists or is apprehended between any employer and persons employed, or between any two or more classes of persons employed, and the difference is one to which this Part of this Act applies, that difference, if not determined by the parties directly concerned or their representatives or under existing agreements, may be reported to the Board of Trade, by or on behalf of either party to the difference, and the decision of the Board of Trade as to whether a difference has been so reported to them or not, and as to the time at which a difference has been so reported, shall be conclusive for all purposes.

(2) The Board of Trade shall consider any difference so reported and take any steps which seem to them expedient to promote a settlement of the difference, and, in any case in which they think fit, may refer the matter for settlement either in accordance with the provisions of the First Schedule to this Act, or if in their opinion suitable means for settlement already exist in pursuance of any agreement between employers and persons employed, for settlement in accordance with those means.

(3) Where a matter is referred under the last foregoing Sub-section for settlement otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of the First Schedule to this Act, and the settlement is in the opinion of the Board of Trade unduly delayed, the Board may annul the reference and substitute therefor a reference in accordance with the provisions of the said Schedule.

(4) The award on any such settlement shall be binding both on employers and employed and may be retrospective; and if any employer, or person employed, thereafter acts in contravention of, or fails to comply with, the award, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

2. (1) An employer shall not declare, cause or take part in a lock-out, and a person employed shall not take part in a strike, in connection with any difference to which this Part of this Act applies, unless the difference has been reported to the Board of Trade, and twenty-one days have elapsed since the date of the report, and the difference has not during that time been referred by the Board of Trade for settlement in accordance with this Act.

(2) If any person acts in contravention of this Section, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

3. The differences to which this Part of this Act applies are differences as to rates of wages, hours of work, or otherwise as to terms or conditions of or affecting employment on the manufacture or repair of arms, ammunition, ships, vehicles, aircraft, or any other articles required for use in war, or of the metals, machines, or tools required for that manufacture or repair (in this Act referred to as munitions work); and also any differences as to rates of wages, hours of work, or otherwise as to terms or conditions of or affecting employment on any other work of any description, if this Part of the Act is applied to such a difference by His Majesty by Proclamation on the ground that in the opinion of His Majesty the existence or continuance of the difference is directly or indirectly prejudicial to the manufacture, transport or supply of munitions of war.

This Part of this Act may be so applied to such a difference at any time, whether a lock-out or strike is in existence in connection with the difference to which it is applied or not:

Provided that if in the case of any industry the Minister of Munitions is satisfied that effective means exist to secure the settlement without stoppage of any difference arising on work other than on munitions work, no proclamation shall be made under this Section with respect to any such difference.

When this Part of this Act is applied to any difference concerning work other than munitions work the conditions of labour and the remuneration thereof prevailing before the difference arose shall be continued until the said difference is settled in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act.

PART II.

If the Minister of Munitions considers it expedient for the purpose of the successful prosecution of the war that any establishment in which munitions work is carried on should be subject to the special provisions as to limitation of employers' profits and control of persons employed and other