Conciliation Service.
Section 18
SEC. 18. Conciliation Service.—There shall be appointed, in addition to the existing personnel of the Conciliation Service of the Department of Labor, such number of conciliators, examiners, and other assistants as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section and as may hereafter be provided in this Act or may hereafter be provided by law. It shall be the duty of the Service, in order to prevent or minimize labor disputes, to assist parties to labor disputes in settling such disputes through conciliation and mediation. The Service may proffer its services in any labor dispute in any industry either upon its own motion or upon the request of one or more of the parties to the dispute. If the Service is not able to bring the parties to agreement by conciliation within a reasonable time, it shall seek to induce the parties voluntarily to seek other means of settling the dispute without resort to strike, lockout, other coercion, including submission to the employees in the bargaining unit of the employer's last offer of settlement for approval or rejection in a secret ballot.