Age limit.

Register.

Operating elevator, etc.

Cleaning moving machinery.

etc.

Wash rooms,

Seats for females.

Enforce

ment.

person, firm, corporation or company employing any child under sixteen years of age in any manufacturing establishment, mine, mill or workshop shall post, and keep posted, in a conspicuous place in the office, a printed notice, stating the number of hours of labor per day required of such persons for each day of the week, and the number of hours of labor exacted or permitted to be performed by such persons shall not exceed the number of hours of labor so posted as being required. The time of beginning and ending the day's labor shall be the time stated in such notice.

SEC. 2. No child under fourteen (14) years of age shall be employed at any time in any factory, workshop, mill or mine, unless said child shall have no other means of support. No such child shall be employed in any mercantile establishment, nor in any service of any telegraph, telephone or public messenger company, laundry, printing establishment, except during the vacation of the public schools. No child under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed at any occupation dangerous or injurious to health or morals. And in event of disagreement between the labor inspector and proprietor, the city or county physician shall be called in as referee, and his decision shall be final. It shall be the duty of every person employing children to keep a register in which shall be recorded the name, birthplace, age and place of residence of every person employed by him under the age of sixteen years; and it shall be unlawful for any proprietor, agent, foreman or other person in or connected with a manufacturing establishment, mine, mill or workshop to hire any child under the age of sixteen years to work therein without there is first provided and placed on file in the office an affidavit made by the parent or guardian, stating the age, date and place of birth of said child. If said child has no parent or guardian, the said affidavit shall be made by the child, which affidavit shall be kept on file by the employer, and said register and affidavit shall be produced for inspection on demand by the labor inspector. There shall be posted conspicuously in every office of every factory, mill, workshop or mine, where children under sixteen years of age are employed, a list of their names, with their ages, respectively. The labor inspector shall have the power to demand a certificate of physical fitness from the city or county physician in the case of children whom he deems physically unable to perform the labor at which they may be employed, and shall have the power to prohibit the employment of any child that can not obtain such certificate.

SEC. 3. No person, firm or corporation shall employ or permit any child under the age of sixteen years to have the care, custody, management of, or to operate any elevator, nor shall any person under sixteen years of age be employed at sewing belts or [to] assist in sewing belts.

SEC. 4. ** * * No person under eighteen years of age shall be allowed to clean machinery while in motion.

SEC. 5. Suitable and proper wash rooms and water-closets shall be provided in each manufacturing establishment, and such waterclosets shall be properly screened and ventilated and be kept at all times in a clean condition; and if women and girls are employed in any such establishment, the water-closets shall have separate approaches and be separate and apart from those used by men. All closets shall be kept free [from] obscene writing and marking. A dressing room shall be provided for women and girls when required by the labor inspector in any manufacturing establishment in which women and girls are employed.

SEC. 6. Every person, firm, corporation, association, individual or partnership employing girls or adult women in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile industry, laundry, workshop, renovating works or printing office in this Commonwealth shall provide seats for the use of the girls and women so employed, and shall permit the use of such by them when not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed.

SEC. 8. The grand jury shall have inquisitorial powers to investigate violations of this act, and judges of the circuit courts of the

State shall specially charge the grand jury at the beginning of each term of the court to investigate violations of this act.

SEC. 9. The words "manufacturing establishment," wherever used in this act, shall be construed to mean any mill, factory or workshop where labor is employed.

Definition.

Act

SEC. 10. A copy of this act shall be conspicuously posted and kept posted in each workroom of every manufacturing establish- posted. ment, mill, mine or workshop in this Commonwealth.

SEC. 11. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Penalty. act, or who suffers or permits any child to be employed in violation of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for the first offense and not more than two hundred dollars for the second offense.

SEC. 12. The provisions of this act shall not apply to the handling of fruits and vegetables in season, and the delivery of tobacco at the warehouses, and preparing same for the manufacturer.

LOUISIANA.

REVISED LAWS, 1897

Employment of women in saloons, etc.

(Page 232. Act No. 43, Acts of 1894.)

Application of law.

Employment

SECTION 1. No owner, proprietor, keeper, lessee or agent, manager or conductor of any concert hall or saloon where spirituous prohibited. liquors, wines or malt are sold at retail, shall employ or suffer to be employed any female to distribute or appear among the audience or frequenters of such concert hall or saloon for the purpose of distributing or selling or taking orders to be filled, any such spirituous liquors, wines or malt and any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction shall be imprisoned in the parish jail not less than thirty days nor more than three months and a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense.

Children operating or cleaning machinery.

(Page 516. Act No. 60, Acts of 1892.)

SECTION 1. No child under the age of twelve years shall be per- Operating or mitted to operate or clean any part of the machinery in a factory cleaning movwhile such part is in motion by the aid of steam, water or other ing machinery. mechanical power, or to clean any part of such machinery that is in dangerous proximity to such moving part.

SEC. 2. Whoever, either for himself, or superintendent, foreman, overseer or other agent of another, violates the provisions of the preceding section, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars, or shall be subject to imprisonment for a term not exceeding thirty days, or both at the discretion of the court for each offense.

Certain employments of children forbidden.

(Page 516. Act No. 59, Acts of 1892.)

Penalty.

Acrobatic,

tions.

SECTION 1. Any person who employs or exhibits or gives away for the purpose of employing or exhibiting a child under fifteen etc., years of age, for the purpose of walking on a wire or rope, or riding or performing as a gymnast, contortionist or acrobat in any circus or theatrical exhibition or in any public place whatsoever or who causes, procures or encourages any such child to engage therein, shall be punished by a fine, by any committing magistrate, of not less than ten dollars, nor more than twenty

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five dollars or shall be subject to a term of imprisonment not exceeding thirty days or both at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2. No license shall be granted for a theatrical exhibition or public show in which children under fifteen years age are employed or [as] contortionists, acrobats, or in any feats of gymnast or equestrianism or where in the opinion of the mayor of a city or town authorized to grant licenses, such children are employed in such a manner as to corrupt their morals or impair their physical health.

ACTS OF 1900.

ACT No. 55.-Employment of women.

SECTION 2. Hereafter all persons, firms or corporations doing business at retail in the State of Louisiana where female labor or female clerks are employed, shall be required to give every employee each day, between the hours of ten (10) a. m. and three (3) p. m. not less than thirty (30) minutes for lunch or recreation. SEC. 3. Whoever shall be found guilty of evading or disobeying any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon arrest and conviction therefor shall be fined in a sum of not less than twenty-five ($25) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars, and in default of the payment thereof shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a period not less than five (5) days nor more than six (6) months.

ACTS OF 1904.

ACT No. 178.-Employment of wives and children while men live in idleness.

SECTION 1. The several municipal corporations throughout the State shall adopt ordinances declaring vagrants, and punishing as such, * (all persons able to work who do not work) but who live upon the wages or personal earnings of their wives or of their minor children;

ACTS OF 1906.

Age limit.

Hours of labor.

ACT. No. 34.-Employment of women and children—Inspection of factories, etc.

SECTION 1. No boy under the age of twelve years, and no girl under the age of fourteen years, shall be employed in any factory, mill, warehouse, workshop, or manufacturing establishment where the manufacture of any goods whatever is carried on, or where any goods are prepared for manufacturing.

SEC. 2. No child or person under the age of eighteen years, and no woman, shall be employed in any factory, mill, warehouse, workshop, clothing, dressmaking or millinery establishment, or any place where the manufacture of any kind of goods is carried on, or where any goods are prepared for manufacturing, for a period longer than an average of ten hours in a day, or sixty hours in any week, and at least one hour shall be allowed in the labor period of each day for dinner.

Seats to be SEC. 3. Every person who shall employ any female in any facprovided. tory, mill, warehouse, manufacturing establishment, workshop, or store, shall provide suitable seats, chairs, or benches, for the use of the females so employed, which shall be so placed as to be accessible to said employees, and shall permit the use of such seats, chairs or benches by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed.

Dressing rooms, etc.

SEC. 4. Every factory, mill, manufacturing establishment, workshop, warehouse or store in which five or more persons are employed, and every such institution in which two or more children, young persons, or women, are employed, shall be supplied with proper wash and dressing rooms, and kept in a cleanly state and

free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy, or other nuisance, and shall be provided, within reasonable access, with a sufficient number of proper water-closets, earth closets or privies, for the reasonable use of the persons employed therein, at least one of such closets for each twenty-five persons employed, and wherever two or more persons, and one or more female persons, are employed as aforesaid, a sufficient number of separate and distinct water-closets, earth closets or privies, shall be provided for the use of each sex, and plainly so designated, and no person shall be allowed to use any such closet or privy assigned to persons of the other sex.

SEC. 5. Stairways with substantial hand rails shall be provided in factories, mills, and manufacturing establishments, for the better safety of persons employed in said establishments. Wherever practicable the doors of such establishments shall swing outwardly, or slide, as ordered by the factory inspector, and it shall be neither locked, bolted, or fastened during working hours.

SEC. 6. In incorporated cities and towns the mayor, with the consent of the council, and in parishes the police jury, shall appoint a factory inspector, who may be either male or female, to see that the regulations of this act are observed, and also to prosecute all persons who shall violate the same. Such inspector shall be paid a salary of not more than seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) per annum. Said factory inspectors are hereby empowered to visit and inspect, at all reasonable hours, the factories, mills, manufacturing establishments, workshops and other establishments in this State, where the manufacture of goods is carried on, and all stores employing ten or more persons. It shall also be the duty of the factory inspectors to enforce all the provisions of this act, and to prosecute for all violations of the same before any magistrate, in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State, in the city or town, in which the said inspector is appointed and in which he exercises his powers.

Stairways and doors.

Inspector.

Penalty.

SEC. 7. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of an offense for each violation thereof, and upon conviction for the same, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment in the parish jail (parish prison in New Orleans) not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 9. The word "person wherever used in this act shall be deemed to mean firms and corporations as well as individuals. SEC. 11. This act shall apply only to cities and towns in this Application of State having a population of ten thousand or more persons and law. shall take effect from and after January 1st, 1907. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to apply to domestic or agricultural laborers or industries.

MAINE.

REVISED STATUTES OF 1903.

CHAPTER 40.-Employment of women and children.

"Person"

defined.

Hours of la

SECTION 48. No female minor under eighteen years of age, no male minor under sixteen years of age, and no woman shall be bor. employed in laboring in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment in the State, more than ten hours in any one day, except when it is necessary to make repairs to prevent the interruption of the ordinary running of the machinery, or when a different apportionment of the hours of labor is made for the sole purpose of making a shorter day's work for one day of the week; and in no case shall the hours of labor exceed sixty in a week; and no male person sixteen years and over shall be so employed as above, more than ten hours a day during minority, unless he voluntarily contracts to do so with the consent of his parents, or one of them, if any, or guardian, and in such case he shall receive extra com

ed.

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pensation for his services: Provided, however, That any female of eighteen years of age or over, may lawfully contract for such labor for any number of hours in excess of ten hours a day, not exceeding six hours in any one week or sixty hours in any one year, receiving additional compensation therefor; but during her minority, the consent of her parents, or one of them, or guardian, shall be first obtained.

SEC. 49. Every employer shall post in a conspicuous place in ule to be post- every room where such persons are employed, a notice printed in plain, large type, stating the number of hours' work required of them on each day of the week, the exact time for commencing work in the morning, stopping at noon for dinner, commencing after dinner, and stopping at night; the form of such printed notice shall be furnished by the inspector of factories, workshops, mines and quarries, and shall be approved by the attorney-general. And the employment of any such person for a longer time in any day than that so stated, shall be deemed a violation of the preceding section, unless it appears that such employment is to make up for time lost on some previous day of the same week, in consequence of the stopping of machinery upon which such person was employed or dependent for employment.

Penalty.

Age limit.

Certificate.

SEC. 50. Whoever, either for himself, or as superintendent, overseer or agent of another, employs or has in his employment any person in violation of the provisions of section forty-eight, and every parent or guardian who permits any minor to be so employed, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five, nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. A certificate of the age of a minor made by him and by his parent or guardian at the time of his employment, shall be conclusive evidence of his age in behalf of the hirer, upon any prosecution for a violation of the provisions of section forty-eight. Whoever falsely makes and utters such a certificate with an intention to evade the provisions of this chapter relating to the employment of minors, shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars.

SEC. 52 (as amended by chapter 46, Acts of 1907). No child under fourteen years of age, shall be employed in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment in the State. Whoever, either for himself, or as superintendent, overseer or agent of another, employs or has in his employment any child in violation of the provisions of this section, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five, nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.

SEC. 53 (as amended by chapter 46, Acts of 1907). Any child over fourteen years of age, and under sixteen years of age, applying for employment in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment in this State, or any person applying in his behalf, shall produce and present to the owner, superintendent or overseer of such establishment a certified copy of the town clerk's record of the birth of such child, or a certified copy of his baptismal record showing the date of his birth, or his passport showing said date of birth, and without the production and presentation of said town record, baptismal record or passport, such child shall not receive the employment applied for. The employer shall retain such town record, baptismal record or passport and shall issue to such child a certificate containing the name of the child, the name of his parents, if living, or guardian, if any, with the residence of said child, parent or guardian, and such other facts as may be required by the inspector of factories, workshops, mines and quarries, which certificate shall be furnished in blank by said inspector and shall be approved as to form by the attorney-general. The employer shall furnish to said inspector a copy of each certificate thus issued immediately after the issuance of the original, which copy shall be retained by the inspector upon a file prepared for that purpose. When such child leaves such employment the employer shall return to such child the copy of town record, baptismal record or passport furnished by him as aforesaid and shall immediately notify said inspector that such child has left his employment, and the date of such leaving. The inspector of fac