each case; conditions and certainty of the payment of wages; the business of savings banks with the working classes, corporations, strikes, suspensions of work, and other labor difficulties, their causes and the r emedies adopted in each case; mutual benefit associations, workers' insurance societies, associations for the collection of statistics and cooperative production, and other labor organizations, and their effects on labor and capital; private employment, complaint, defense, and consultation agencies for laborers; their conditions and effects and other matters relative to the commercial, industrial, social, educational, moral, and sanitary condition of the working classes and the permanent prosperity of the v arious industries of the Islands; and in the case of laborers born in foreign countries, the date of their arrival and the length of their stay in these Islands. [1868-2 ( b ).] [1868-2 ( c ).] [2385-1.] ( c ) To inspect all shops, factories, railways, tramways, vessels, industrial and commercial establishments, and all other places or centers of labor, whether public or private, and to take the proper legal steps to prevent the exposure of the health or liv es of laborers, and to aid and assist by all proper legal means laborers and workers in securing just compensation for their labor, and the indemnity prescribed by law for injuries resulting from accidents when engaged in the performance of their duties. ( d ) To secure the settlement of differences between employer and laborer and between master and servant and to avert strikes and lockouts, acting as arbitrator between the parties interested, summoning them to appear before it, and advising and bringing about, after hearing their respective allegations and evidence, such arrangement as these may, in his judgment, show to be just and fair. Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. ( e ) To organize in such towns in the Philippine Islands as it may deem necessary or advisable one or more free employment agencies. A fee in an amount to be fixed by the Director of Labor, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, may be c ollected by said Director from employers for services performed by an employment agency in securing servants and employees. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 375