I. Comparison of the Italian system with earlier arbitration schemes, 456. — II. Decisions handed down in the judicial type of collective labor dispute, 458.— III. Decisions in the economic type of dispute: rice washers, 461; sailors' wages, 463; rice field workers, 464; rice washers, 465; farm laborers in Rovigo, 467; steamship officers, 468; the silk industry, 469.— IV. Paucity of decisions, 472. — Satisfactory and unsatisfactory aspects of the courts' structure and procedure, 472. Evaluation of their services, 473.