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SEC. 2475. In the reports of the commissioner no use shall be made of names of individuals, firms or corporations supplying the information called for by sections twenty-four hundred and seventy and twentyfour hundred and seventy-one of this chapter, such information being deemed confidential and not for the purpose of disclosing personal affairs; and any officer or employee of the bureau of labor statistics violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year.

Factories and workshops-Inspection, etc.

SECTION 4999a. Every manufacturing establishment, workshop or hotel in which five or more persons are employed, shall be provided with a sufficient number of water-closets, earth closets or privies for the reasonable use of the persons employed therein, which shall be properly screened and ventilated and kept at all times in a clean condition; and if women or girls are employed in such establishment, the water-closets, earth closets or privies used by them shall have separate approaches and be separate and apart from those used by the men.

SEC. 4999b. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, superintendent or other person having charge of any manufacturing or other establishment where machinery is used, to furnish and supply or cause to be furnished and supplied therein, belt shifters or other safe mechanical contrivances for the purpose of throwing belts on and off pulleys, and, wherever possible, machinery therein shall be provided with loose pulleys; all saws, planers, cogs, gearing, belting, shafting, set-screws and Cleaning ma - machinery of every description therein shall be properly guarded. No persons under sixteen years of age, and no female under eighteen years of age shall be permitted or directed to clean machinery while in moEmployment tion. Children under sixteen years of age shall not be permitted to opof children. erate or assist in operating dangerous machinery of any kind. Blowers for SEC. 4999c. All persons, companies or corporations operating any facpolishing ma-tory or workshop where emery wheels or emery belts of any description, chines, etc. or tumbling barrels used for rumbling or polishing castings, are used, shall provide the same with blowers and pipes of sufficient capacity, placed in such manner as to protect the person or persons using same from the particles of dust produced or caused thereby, and to carry away said particles of dust arising from or thrown off such wheels, belts or tumbling barrels while in operation, directly to the outside of the building, or to some receptacle place[d] so as to receive or confine such particles or dust: Provided, however, That grinding machines upon which water is used at the point of grinding contact, and small emery wheels which are used temporarily for tool grinding, are not included within the provisions of this section, and the shops employing not more than one man at such work may, in the discretion of the commissioner of the bureau of labor of the State, be exempt from the provisions hereof.

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SEC. 4999d. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of the bureau of labor of the State, and the mayor, and chief of police of every city or town, to enforce the provisions of the foregoing sections. Any person, whether acting for himself or for another or for a copartnership, joint stock company or corporation, having charge or management of any manufacturing establishment, workshop or hotel, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of said sections, within ninety days after being notified in writing to do so, by any one of said officers whose duty it may be to enforce the provisions of said sections, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days.

SEC. 4999k. It shall be unlawful for any person to establish or operate any dye works, pantorium or cleaning works, in which gasoline, benzine, naphtha, or other explosive or dangerous fluids are used for the purpose of cleaning or renovating wearing apparel or other fabrics, in any building any part of which is used as a residence or lodging house.

SEC. 49991. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of the foregoing section shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty ($50) nor less than ten ($10) dollars.

Inspection, etc., of steam boilers.

vided.

SECTION 5026. Any person owning or operating steam boilers in this Steam gauges, State shall provide the same with steam gauge, safety valve and water etc. to be progauge, and keep the same in good order. Any person neglecting so to do shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. Penalty.

ACTS OF 1904.

CHAPTER 136.-Fire escapes on factories, etc.

Fire escapes to

SECTION 1. The owners, proprietors and lessees of all buildings, structures or enclosures of three or more stories in height, now constructed be erected. or hereafter to be erected, shall provide for and equip said buildings and structures with such protection against fire and means of escape from such buildings as shall hereafter be set forth in this bill.

SEC. 2. The buildings, structures and enclosures contemplated in On this act shall be classified as follows:

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Fifth. Manufactories, warehouses and buildings of all character[s] of three or more stories in height, not specified in the foregoing sections. SEC. 3. Each twenty-five hundred (2,500) superficial feet of area, or fractional part thereof, covered by buildings or structures specified struction, etc. under classification one, of section 2, of this act, shall be provided with one ladder fire escape of steel or wrought iron construction, attached to the outer wall thereof, and provided with platforms of steel or wrought iron construction of such size and dimensions and such proximity to one or more windows of each story above the first with all doors leading thereto of half glass locked in such manner as to render access to such ladder from each story easy and safe, and with red lights to designate location of escapes said ladder to start about five feet from the ground and extend above the roof, or a drop ladder may be hung at the second story in such a manner that it can be easily lowered in case of necessity: Provided, however, That where such buildings shall be occupied by more than twenty (20) persons, the said building shall as a substitute for one ladder be provided with one stairway of steel or wrought iron construction with above described platforms, accessible from each story 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, [5] section 2 of this act, shall be provided with at least one above described ladder, and platforms at each story, if not more than twenty (20) persons be employed in the same. If more than twenty (20) persons be employed, then there shall be at least two of the above described ladders, and platforms attached, or one such stairway, and platforms of sufficient size at each story, and if more than forty (40) persons be employed in said building, then there shall be at least two, or such number of the above described outside stairways as the chief of fire department, or the mayor of any city or town where no such chief of fire department exists, may from time to time determine.

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SEC. 4. In buildings under all above classification[s] signs indicating Signs. location of fire escapes shall be posted at all entrances to elevators, stairway landings and in all rooms.

SEC. 5. It is hereby made the duty of commissioner of the bureau of Enforcement. labor statistics, the chief of fire department, or the mayor of each city or town where no such chief of fire department exists, or the chairman of the board of supervisors, in case such building is not within the corporate limits of any city or town, to adopt uniform specifications for fire escapes hereinbefore provided, and keep such specifications on file in their respective offices, and to serve or cause to be served a written notice in behalf of the State of Iowa upon the owner or owners, or their agents or lessees, of buildings within this State not provided with fire escapes in accordance with the provisions of this act, commanding such owner, owners, or agents or either of them, to place or cause to be placed upon said buildings, such fire escape or fire escapes

Inspection.

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Inspection of factories, etc.

as are provided in this act within sixty days after service of such notice, pursuant to the specifications established. Any such owner, owners' agents, trustees and lessees or either or any of them so served with notice as aforesaid, who shall not within sixty days after the service of said notice upon him or them, place or cause to be placed such fire escape or fire escapes upon such buildings as required by this act and the terms of said notice, shall be subject to a fine not less than fifty ($50) dollars, and not more than one hundred ($100) dollars, and shall be subject to a further fine of twenty-five ($25) dollars for each additional week of neglect to comply with such notice.

SEC. 6. All fire escapes erected under the provisions of this act shall be subject to inspection and approval or rejection in writing, by the person named in section 4 of this act who has caused such written notice to be served.

KANSAS.

GENERAL STATUTES OF 1901.

Commissioner of labor statistics—Inspection of factories.

SECTION 6647. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to collect, assort, arrange and present in annual reports to the governor, to be by him biennially transmitted to the legislature, statistical details relating to all departments of labor and industrial pursuits in the State; to the subjects of cooperation, strikes, and other labor difficulties; to trade unions and other labor organizations and their effect upon labor and capital; to other matters relating to the commercial, industrial, social, educational, moral and sanitary conditions prevailing within the State; and the exploitation of such other subjects as will tend to promote the permanent prosperity of the respective industries of the State. It shall also be the duty of the commissioner of the bureau to cause to be enforced all laws regulating the employment of children, minors, and women; all laws established for the protection of health, lives and limbs of operators in workshops and factories, on railroads, and other places; and all laws enacted for the protection of the working classes now in force or that may hereafter be enacted. In its annual report the bureau shall also give an account of all proceedings which have been taken in accordance with the provisions of this act, or any of the other laws herein referred to, and in addition thereto such remarks, suggestions and recommendations as the commissioner may deem necessary for the information of the legislature.

SEC. 6649. The commissioner, as State factory inspector, shall have power to enter any factory or mill, workshop, private works or State institutions which have shops or factories, when the same are open or in operation, for the purpose of gathering facts and statistics such as aré contemplated by this act, and to examine into the methods of protection from danger to employees and the sanitary conditions in and around such buildings and places, and to make a record thereof of such inspection. If the commissioner as State factory inspector shall find upon such inspection that the heating, lighting, ventilation or sanitary arrangement of any workshops or factories is such as to be injurious to the health of the persons employed or residing therein, or that the means of egress in case of fire or other disaster are not sufficient, or that the belting, shafting, gearing, elevators, drums, saws, cogs and machinery in such workshops and factories are located or are in a condition so as to be dangerous to employees, and not sufficiently guarded, or that the vats, pans, or any other structures, filled with molten metal or hot liquid, are not surrounded with proper safeguards for preventing accidents or injury to those employed at or near them, he shall notify in writing the owner, proprietor or agent of such workshops or factories to make, within thirty days, the alterations or additions by him deemed necessary for the safety and protection of the employees; and if such alterations or additions are not made within thirty days from the date of such written notice, or within such time as said alterations or additions can be made with proper diligence upon the part of such proprietors, owners, or agents, said proprietors, owners or agents so notified shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,

and upon complaint of the commissioner as State factory inspector before a court of competent jurisdiction, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 6650. The following expressions used in this act shall have the Definitions. following meanings: The expression "person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, company, or association. The expression "children" means minor persons under the age of fourteen years. The expression "minor" means a male person under the age of twentyone years, or a female person under the age of eighteen years. The expression "woman" means female persons of eighteen years of age and upward. The expression "factory" means any premises where steam, water or other mechanical power is used in aid of any manufacturing process there carried on. The expression "workshop" means any premises, room, or place, not being a factory as above defined, wherein any manual labor is exercised by way of trade, or for the purpose of gain in or incidental to any process of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale any article or part of an article, and to which or over which premises, room or place the employer of the person or persons working therein has the right of access or control: Provided, however, That the exercise of such manual labor in a private house, or a private room by the family dwelling therein, or by any of them, or in case a majority of persons therein employed are members of such family, shall not of itself constitute such house or room a workshop within this definition. The aforesaid expressions shall have the meaning above defined for them respectively in all laws of this State relating to the employment of labor, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context.

ACTS OF 1903.

CHAPTER 310.-Inspection of factories, etc.-Fire escapes.

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SECTION 1. Every building now or hereafter used, in whole or in Fire escapes repart, as a public building, three or more stories in height, quired, when. shall, within six months after the passage of this act, be provided with one or more metallic ladders or stair fire escapes attached to the outer walls thereof, and extending from or suitably near the ground to the uppermost story thereof, with platforms of such forms and dimensions, and in such proximity to one or more windows of each story above the first as to render access to such ladders or stairs from each such story easy and safe; the number, location, material and construction of such escapes to be subject to the approval of the fire marshal, chief of the fire department, city or town marshal, or such other authority as may have the control of fire regulations in any city or town where such buildings are located: Provided, however, That all buildings more than two stories in height, used for manufacturing purposes, shall have at least one such fire escape for every thirty persons for which working, * * * accommodations are provided above the second stories of said buildings; * * *

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CHAPTER 356.—Inspection of factories, etc.-Fire escapes-Safety appli

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Factories

SECTION 1. Every person owning or operating any manufacturing Elevator shafts. establishment which may contain any elevator, hoisting shaft or wellhole shall cause the same to be properly and substantially inclosed

or secured, in order to protect the lives or limbs of those employed in

such establishment.

SEC. 2. Proper and substantial hand rails shall be provided in all Stairways. stairways in manufacturing establishments. The stairs shall be properly secured at the sides and ends, and all doors leading into such establishments shall be so constructed as to open outwardly, and shall be neither locked, bolted nor fastened during working hours.

SEC. 3. In all manufacturing establishments three or more stories high, at least one fire escape, and as many more as may be reasonably

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SEC. 7087г. The language used in this act shall be interpreted to have the following meaning: The word "person means any individual, corporation, partnership, company or association. The word "child" means a person under the age of fourteen years. The words "young person" means [mean] a person of the age of fourteen years and under the age of eighteen years. The word "woman" means a female of the age of eighteen years and upwards. The words "manufacturing or mercantile establishment, mine, quarry, laundry, renovating works, bakery or printing office" means [mean] any mill, factory, workshop, store, place of trade, or other establishment where goods, wares or merchandise are manufactured or offered for sale, or any mine or quarry where coal and stone are mined and quarried for the market, and persons are employed for hire.

SEC. 7087s. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, a department of inspection is hereby created, and the governor shall by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint a chief inspector to have charge of said department. Said inspector shall hold and continue in office after the expiration of his term of office until his successor shall have been appointed and qualified. The term of office of the chief inspector shall be for four years. The annual salary of such chief inspector shall be one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800) and actual expenses when absent from home in the discharge of his official duties. Said chief inspector shall, by and with the consent of the governor, appoint a sufficient number of deputies to enforce the provisions of this act, not to exceed five (5) one of which shall be a chief deputy inspector, whose salary shall be one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum and actual expenses when absent from home in the discharge of his official duties. The salaries of such other deputies as may be appointed shall be one thousand dollars ($1,000) each per annum and actual expenses when absent from home in the discharge of their official duties. But said actual expenses for the department of inspection shall in no year exceed the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000), and the duties of the deputy inspectors shall be such as shall be assigned them by the chief inspector. Said chief inspector shall also employ a stenographer at a salary not to exceed six hundred dollars ($600) per annum. salary and actual expenses of said deputy inspectors and stenographer shall be paid monthly as due, on voucher duly attested before some officer authorized to administer oaths, and approved and signed by the chief inspector, and the salary and actual expenses of the chief inspector shall be paid in monthly installments, out of the treasury of the State, upon warrants of the auditor of state, and the total annual appropriations of ten thousand nine hundred dollars ($10,900) for such payments aforesaid, is hereby made out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the auditor of state shall issue no warrant, except upon itemized bills, sworn to, and presented by the chief inspector provided for in this act.

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SEC. 7087u. The chief inspector shall keep a record of all inspections and examinations made by his department, and copies of all notices and orders made by him, and, at the close of his term of office, transfer the books containing the same to his successor. He shall make an annual report of his doings as such inspector to the governor at the close of each fiscal year, and cause the same to be printed, at the expense of the State, not later than the first day of January next ensuing, in such numbers as the governor may approve. Such inspector and deputy inspectors shall have power as notaries public to administer oaths and take affidavits in matters connected with the enforcement of the provisions of this act.

SEC. 7087v. It shall be the duty of the chief inspector to cause this act to be enforced, and to cause all violators of the same to be prosecuted, and for that purpose he is empowered to visit and inspect at all reasonable hours, and as often as shall be practicable and necessary, all manufacturing or other establishments to which this bill relates. It shall be the duty of the chief inspector to examine into all violations of laws made for the benefit or protection of labor and to prosecute all violations thereof. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with, obstruct or hinder said chief inspector or deputy inspect