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1895 as compared advance aggregate amount ANNUAL REPORT average number Bedford boot and shoe Boston Brockton building canvassed cause of distress CLASSIFICATION Collections companies compared with 1890 contract contractor cost of stock decline Decrease demand earnings employés employment Establishments are running establishments reporting factory Fall River females Foreign born full capacity Haverhill hours of labor improvement increase indoor relief January 13 leather Lowell manufacturing married couples Massachusetts ment mills Native born North Carolina North Section number employed number of families number of months number of persons Nursery maids occupations October 31 percentages persons employed Postage 3 cents preceding quarter present provisions Rates of wages relief not indoor running full running on full season selling prices September 30 strikes Taunton tenement house census tion total number trade unions United wages remain unchanged week ending weekly payroll whole number women woollen
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Page 133 - State, or by deed, grant, sale or gift made or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment after the death of the grantor...
Page 14 - ACT constituting eight hours a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the Goverment of the United States.
Page 25 - It is apparent that the mere fact of classification is not sufficient to relieve a statute from the reach of the equality clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that in all cases it must appear not only that a classification has been made, but also that it is one based upon some reasonable ground — some difference which bears a just and proper relation to the attempted classification — and is not a mere arbitrary selection.
Page 26 - ... unfit for human habitation, or dangerous or injurious to health ; or because it prevents proper measures from being carried into effect for remedying any nuisance injurious to health or other sanitary evils in respect of such other buildings ; so unfit for human habitation that the evils in or caused by said building cannot be remedied by repairs or in any other way except by the destruction of said building, or of a portion of the same...
Page 133 - Commonwealth ; and all administrators, executors and trustees, and any such grantee, under a conveyance made during the grantor's life, shall be liable for all such taxes, with lawful interest as hereinafter provided, until the same have been paid as hereinafter directed...
Page 15 - Eight hours shall constitute a day's work on all works or undertakings carried on or aided by the State, county, or municipal governments, and the legislature shall pass laws to provide for the health and safety of employees in factories, smelters, and mines.
Page 26 - Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates, whether or not members of the same family : 6.
Page 23 - When the eight-hour law was passed the Legislature had under consideration the general subject of the length of a day's labor, for those engaged on public works at manual labor, without special reference to the purpose or occasion of their employment. The leading idea clearly was to limit the hours of toil of laborers, workmen, mechanics, and other persons in like employments, to eight hours, without reduction of compensation for the day's services.
Page 22 - No such child shall be employed in any work performed for wages or other compensation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public schools of the...
Page 26 - York is infected with contagious disease, or by reason of want of repair has become dangerous to life, or is unfit for human habitation because of defects in drainage, plumbing, ventilation, or the construction of the same, or because of the existence of a nuisance on the premises, which is likely to cause sickness among...