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[CITE: 29USC175]

 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                  CHAPTER 7--LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS
 
  SUBCHAPTER III--CONCILIATION OF LABOR DISPUTES; NATIONAL EMERGENCIES
 
Sec. 175. National Labor-Management Panel; creation and 
        composition; appointment, tenure, and compensation; duties
        
    (a) There is created a National Labor-Management Panel which shall 
be composed of twelve members appointed by the President, six of whom 
shall be selected from among persons outstanding in the field of 
management and six of whom shall be selected from among persons 
outstanding in the field of labor. Each member shall hold office for a 
term of three years, except that any member appointed to fill a vacancy 
occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor 
was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term, and the 
terms of office of the members first taking office shall expire, as 
designated by the President at the time of appointment, four at the end 
of the first year, four at the end of the second year, and four at the 
end of the third year after the date of appointment. Members of the 
panel, when serving on business of the panel, shall be paid compensation 
at the rate of $25 per day, and shall also be entitled to receive an 
allowance for actual and necessary travel and subsistence expenses while 
so serving away from their places of residence.
    (b) It shall be the duty of the panel, at the request of the 
Director, to advise in the avoidance of industrial controversies and the 
manner in which mediation and voluntary adjustment shall be 
administered, particularly with reference to controversies affecting the 
general welfare of the country.

(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title II, Sec. 205, 61 Stat. 154.)
