Sec. 154-3. The following administrative departments are created:

The department of industrial relations, which shall be administered by the director of industrial relations, hereby created;


The director of each department shall, subject to the provisions of this chapter, exercise the powers and perform the duties vested by law in such department.

Sec. 154-4. Each director whose office is created by [section 154-3] of the General Code shall be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and shall hold his office during the pleasure of the governor.

Sec. 154-5. In each department there shall be an assistant director, who shall be designated by the director to fill one of the offices within such department, enumerated in [section 154-6] of the General Code, or as the head of one of the divisions created within such department as authorized by [section 154-8] of the General Code. When a vacancy occurs in the office of director of any department, the assistant director thereof shall act as director of the department until such vacancy is filled.

Sec. 154-6. Offices are created within the several departments as follows:


In the Department of Industrial Relations
Chiefs of divisions as follows:
Factory inspection
Labor statistics
Mines