Labor in Europe. Vol. 3. Labor in America, Asia, Africa, Australasia, and Polynesia |
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Page 879 - ... (1.) By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, or machinery connected with or used in the business of the employer, which arose from or had not been discovered or remedied owing to, the negligence of the employer, or of any person in the service of the employer and intrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, or machinery were in proper condition...
Page 877 - mine " includes every shaft in the course of being sunk, and every level and inclined plane in the course of being driven for commencing or opening any mine, or for searching for or proving minerals, and all the shafts, levels, planes, works, machinery, tramways, and sidings, both below ground and above ground, in and adjacent to a mine, and any such shaft, level, and inclined plane, and belonging to the mine: The term
Page 2 - The commissioner shall collect information upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, the hours of labor and the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual and moral prosperity.
Page 878 - An extraordinary meeting may be held at any time on the written requisition of three members of the board addressed to the...
Page 745 - Trade, shall be actually paid to such Artificer in the current Coin of this Realm, and not otherwise ; and every Payment made to any such Artificer by his Employer, of or in respect of any such Wages, by the delivering to him of Goods, or otherwise than in the current Coin aforesaid, except as hereinafter mentioned, shall be and is hereby declared illegal, null, and void.
Page 866 - inspector" and " sub-inspector" shall be taken to mean respectively an inspector and a sub-inspector of factories ; and the word " agent" shall be taken to mean any person having on behalf of the occupier of any factory the care or direction thereof or of any part thereof, or of any person employed therein ; and the word
Page 878 - An Act to extend and regulate the Liability of Employers to make Compensation for Personal Injuries suffered by Workmen in their service.
Page 868 - Any factory, workshop, or workplace (not already under the operation of any general Act for the regulation of factories or bakehouses), not kept in a cleanly state, or not ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless as far as practicable any gases vapours dust or other impurities generated in the course of the work carried on therein that are a nuisance or injurious to health, or so overcrowded while work is carried on as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of those employed therein...
Page 876 - ... may appear best calculated to prevent dangerous accidents, and to provide for the safety and proper discipline of the persons employed in or about the mine...
Page 876 - The persons employed in a mine may from time to time appoint two of their number to inspect the mine at their own cost, and the persons so appointed shall be allowed, once at least in every month, accompanied, if the owner, agent, or manager of the mine thinks fit, by himself or one or more officers of the mine, to go to every part of the mine, and to inspect the shafts, levels, planes, working places, return air-ways, ventilating apparatus, old workings, and machinery...