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The Bureau., 1912 - Iowa
 

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Page 227 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...
Page 217 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine...
Page 217 - ... mechanics and apprentices' wages earned, the savings from the same, with age and sex of laborers employed, the number and character of accidents, the sanitary condition of institutions where labor is employed, the restrictions, if any, which are put upon apprentices when indentured, the proportion of married laborers and mechanics who live in rented houses, with the average annual rental and the value of property owned by laborers and mechanics; and he shall include in such report what progress...
Page 217 - State, the number of laborers and mechanics employed, the number of apprentices in each trade, with the nativity of such laborers, mechanics and apprentices...
Page 216 - The duties of said commissioner shall be to collect, assort, systematize and present in biennial reports to the governor statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the State, especially in its relations to the commercial, social, educational and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes, the means of escape from, and the protection of life and health in factories, the employment of children, the number of hours of labor exacted from them and from women, and to the permanent prosperity...
Page 223 - ... officer whose duty it is to enforce the provisions of this act, to be used by him for that purpose, and to be accounted for to the comptroller.
Page 228 - Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of Section 1 of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor...
Page 219 - No report or return made to said bureau in accordance with the provisions of this act, and no schedule, record or document gathered or returned by its officers or employes shall be destroyed within two years of the collection or receipt thereof. At the expiration of two years all records, schedules, or papers accumulating in said bureau during said period that may be considered of no value by the commissioner may be destroyed, provided the authority of the executive council be first obtained for...
Page 231 - ... with a drop or counterbalance stairway from the second story balcony to the ground, or a stationary stairway may be carried down to within five feet from the ground. * * * Each five thousand (5,000) superficial feet of area, or fractional part thereof covered by buildings under classification 6...
Page 217 - ... and any owner or occupant of such factory or mill, workshop, mine, store, business house, public or private work, or any agent or...

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