Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - Labor
 

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Page 781 - That no contract of employment, insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity for inj'ury or death entered into by or on behalf of any employee, nor the acceptance of any such insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity by the person entitled thereto, shall constitute any bar or defense to any action brought to recover damages for personal injuries to or death of such employee...
Page 782 - That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this Act, shall to that extent be void...
Page 781 - ... from obtaining employment, is hereby declared to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction in the district in which such offense was committed, shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars.
Page 782 - ... under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe...
Page 762 - Of the members of the commission first appointed one shall hold office for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, one for the term of four years, and one for the term of five years, from and after his appointment.
Page 782 - That in any action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief benefit or indemnity that may have been paid to the injured employe or the person entitled thereto on account of the injury or death for which said action was brought.
Page 781 - ... petition or application, and to be posted upon all customary bulletin boards along or upon the railway operated by such receiver or receivers. "SEC. 10. That any employer subject to the provisions of this act and any officer, agent, or receiver of such employer who shall require any employee or any person seeking employment as a condition of such employment to enter into an agreement, either written or verbal, not to become or remain a member of any labor corporation, association, or organization;...
Page 783 - That the employee shall whenever and as often as required by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor at least once in six months, submit to medical examination, to be provided and paid for under the direction of the Secretary...
Page 755 - Sec. 3. That no contract of employment, insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity for injury or death entered into by or on behalf of any employee, nor the acceptance of any such insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity by the person entitled thereto...
Page 782 - August first, nineteen hundred and eight, any person employed by the United States as an artisan or laborer in any of its manufacturing establishments, arsenals, or navy-yards, or in the construction of river and harbor or fortification work or in hazardous employment on construction work in the reclamation of arid lands or the management and control of the same, or in hazardous employment under the Isthmian Canal Commission...

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