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428 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 370, 371, 1898. ,¤f{<>;·ib;g;gQu8;Qs¤;*é Sec. 10. That any employer subject to the provisions of this Act and `bonditigns to employ- any olfcer, agent, or receiver of such employer who shall requ1re any “‘°“‘· employee, or any person seeking employment, as a condition of such employment, to enter into an agreement, either written or verbal, not to become or remain a member of any labor corporation, association, or organization; or shall threaten any employee with loss of employment, or sh all unjustly discriminate against any employee because of his membership in such a labor corporation, association, or organization; or who shall require any employee or any person seeking employment, as a condition of such employment, to enter into a contract whereby such employee or applicant for employment shall agree to contribute to any fund for charitable, social, or beneficial purposes; to release such employer from legal liability for any personal injury by reason of any benefit received from such fund beyond the proportion of the benefit

$¤g·;;·;_1;;¤°*l§P{>;jj arising from the employer’s contribution to such fund; or who shall,

ment arm uimimgk. after having discharged an employee, attempt or conspire to prevent such employee from obtaining employment, or who shall, after the quitting of an employee, attempt or conspire to prevent such employee from obtaining employment, is hereby declared to be guilty of a mis- -—r¤¤¤1fy· demeanor, and, upon conviction thereof in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction in the district in which such offense was committed, shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars. Appropriation f·>r Sec. 11. That each member of said board of arbitration shall receive §§{,‘”f""” °f ‘"l"°'°` a compensation of ten dollars per day for the time he is actually employed, and his traveling and other necessary expenses; and a sum of money sufficient to pay the same, together with the traveling and other necessary and proper expenses of any conciliation or arbitration 1>¤»¢.p.mso. had hereunder, not to exceed ten thousand dollars in any one year, to be approved by the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and audited by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, is hereby appropriated for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- nine, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. \R_;p<;;§· ] 501 Sec. 12. That the Act to create boards of arbitration or commission " "` for settling controversies and differences between railroad corporations and other common carriers engaged in interstate or territorial transportation of property or persons and their employees, approved October first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, is hereby repealed. Approved, June 1. 1898. ·l¤¤¤·· 1 1*99* CHAP. 371.-An Act 'l`o suspend certain provisions of law relating to hospital ` ” m""`"` stewards in the Vnited States Army, and for other purposes. . Be i thenacted by the Senate and House of Represenfatires of the [ 'ni ted arrI·>;m_h_WMds States of America in O0n_qm~rs assembled, That all provisions of law s.{’.;,€Q.,,.;,;,, of 0.,;. limiting the number of hospital stewards in service at any one time to

j;{j;,{;1'jj*;fj*i‘*¤”°f'*"' one hundred, and requiring that a person to be appointed a hospital

\Toi.;?9p-.61; steward shall first demonstrate his fitness therefor by actual service Q,‘f§;,“Q;_’g·2§?°‘ of not less than twelve months as acting hospital steward, and that ” limit the amount to be expended for the pay of civi_l employees in the Medical Department of the Army in one year to forty thousand dollars ivqm. _ bc, and the same are hereby. suspended during the existing war: Pro- """" ‘" “""""" “"‘ vided, That the increase of hospital stewards under this Act shall not exceed one hundred. Approved, June 2, 1898.