(d) To such extent as the department shall have funds available 
for the purpose, to provide maintenance for such injured persons during 
such training in such amounts as may be provided by law. 
Section 2210. Employment and Unemployment.—The Department 
of Labor and Industry shall have the power: 
(a) To endeavor to bring together employers seeking employes and 
applicants for employment; 
(b) To supervise all public and private employment agencies: 
(ec) To report on the extent of unemployment, the remedy therefor, 
and the means for the prevention thereof; 
(d) To establish employment offices or labor exchanges at con- 
venient places throughout the Commonwealth : 
(e) To promote the intelligent distribution of labor and, when neces- 
sary, to assist in securing transportation for employes desiring to 20 
to places where work is available. 
Section 2211. State Workmen’s Insurance Board.—Subjcet to any 
inconsistent provisions in this act contained, the State Workmen’s In- 
surance Board shall continue to exercise the powers and perform the 
luties by law vested in and imposed upon the said board. 
Section 2212. Workmen’s Compensation Board.—Subject to any in- 
sonsistent provisions in this act contained, the Workmen’s Compensa- 
tion Board shall continue to exercise the powers and perform the duties 
by law vested in and imposed upon the said board. 
Section 2213. Workmen’s Compensation Referees.—Subject to any 
:nconsistent provisions in this aet contained, each Workmen's Compen- 
sation Referee shall have the power, and his duty shall be, to hear such 
claims for compensation as shall be assigned to him by the Workmen's 
Compensation Board, and to perform such other duties as shall be re- 
quired of him by the Workmen’s Compensation Board, or imposed 
apon him by law. 
Section 2214. Industrial Board. —The Industrial Board created by 
this act shall have the power, and its duty shall be: 
(a) To meet at least once each month for the purpose of consider- 
ing such matters as are brought before it or the Secretary of Labor 
and Industry shall request: 
(b) To hold hearings with reference to the application by the 
department of the laws affecting labor, upon appeal either of employes 
or employers or of the publie, and. after such hearings. to make recom- 
mendations to the department: 
(e) To approve or disapprove the rules and regulations established 
by the Department of Labor and Industry, and to make suggestions to 
the department for the formulation of such rules and regulations : 
(d) To consider, study, and investigate the conduct of the work of 
the Department of Labor and Industry. For this purpose, the board 
shall have access at any time to all books, papers. documents, and records 
pertaining to or belonging to the department, and may require oral 
or written information from any officer or employe thereof,