Report of the Massachusetts Board to Investigate the Subject of the Unemployed ... March 13, 1895, Part 2 |
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able-bodied agencies almshouse amount Associated Charities average Bedford Bedford Street Board Boston Brockton cent character charity organization societies cities and towns citizens City Engineer clothing construction contract contractors cost December December 26 distress distributed Dorchester Heights Economic emergency employed employers employment established expense Fall River farm Fitchburg follows funds furnished give Haverhill Holyoke increase industry investigation labor large number last winter lodging Lowell Lynn machinery manufacture Massachusetts ment mills months municipal non-employment North Attleborough number of applicants Number of families number of persons organizations out-door out-of-work benefit Overseers paid Park ployed police Poor received regular Relief Committee relief societies residents sent societies Springfield street department Superintendent of Sewers Superintendent of Streets Taunton tion total number trade tramps unem unemployed usual vagrancy wages week women wood-yard Worcester work-rooms work-test workers workmen
Popular passages
Page 217 - ... all persons wandering abroad and begging, or who go about from door to door, or place themselves in the streets, highways, passages, or other public places, to beg or receive alms, shall be deemed vagrants.
Page 217 - The persons so appointed shall hold their offices for seven years: Provided, that the terms of office of the seven first appointed shall be so arranged that the term of one shall expire on the thirtieth day of December of each year, and the vacancies so created, as well as all vacancies occurring otherwise, shall be filled by the Governor, with the...
Page 111 - ... months in each year, at the expense of said town, by a teacher or teachers of competent ability and good morals, a sufficient number of schools for the instruction of all the children who may legally attend public school therein, in orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, drawing, the 'history of the United States, and good behavior.
Page lix - ... differentiation of the laborer from the loafer takes place, the unemployed question can never be properly discussed and dealt with. Till the tramp, thief, and ne'er-do-well, however pitiable he may be, is dealt with distinctly from the genuine worker, no permanent benefit will result to any of them. The gentleman who gets up to look for work at mid-day, and prays that he may not find it, is undeserving of pity.
Page lviii - ... such information being deemed confidential and not for the purpose of disclosing personal affairs, and any officer, agent or employe of said bureau violating this provision shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than one year.
Page 111 - After the first day of September in the year eighteen hundred and ninety. five every city of twenty thousand or more inhabitants shall maintain as part of its high school system the teaching of manual training. The course to be pursued in said instruction shall be subject to the approval of the state board of education.
Page 111 - Every city and town shall maintain, for at least thirty-two weeks in each year, a sufficient number of schools for the instruction of all the children who may legally attend a public school therein...
Page 109 - Act, the council may, subject to the provisions of this Act, acquire any suitable land for the purpose of providing small holdings for persons who desire to buy and will themselves cultivate the holdings.
Page 217 - Health, may issue an order authorizing the arrest of the holder or holders of such permit and their return to the hospital and...
Page lvii - If a person who receives employment through the agency of an intelligence office is discharged by his employer within ten days after the time of entering upon such employment, and such discharge is not caused by his inability, incompetence, refusal to perform the work required or other fault, the keeper of such intelligence office shall on demand refund to him...