Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the State of Connecticut

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Page 35 - Labor, who is directed to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital ; the hours of labor ; the earnings of laboring men and women ; and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 17 - Trustees shall have full power to place any boy committed as herein described, during his minority, at such employment, and cause him to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge as may be suitable to his years and capacity...
Page 349 - Provincial organizations, to secure legislation in the interests of the working masses. ["]The establishment of National and International Trade Unions, based upon a strict recognition of the autonomy of each trade, and the promotion and advancement of such bodies.
Page 29 - He shall, on or before the first day of December in each year, make a report to the governor of the condition, as respects safety to life and health, of the factories, buildings, and places visited...
Page 29 - Washington's birthday ; the thirtieth day of May, known as decoration day ; the fourth day of July, called Independence day ; the twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day ; any general election day; and any day appointed or recommended by the Governor of this State, or...
Page 41 - No minor under sixteen years of age, and no woman shall be employed in laboring in any manufacturing establishment more than ten hours in any 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.
Page 37 - Where a registration fee is charged for receiving or filing applications for employment or help, said fee shall in no case exceed the sum of two ($2) dollars for which a receipt shall be given, in which shall be stated the name...
Page 38 - ... or assignation house, or to any house or place of amusement kept for immoral purposes. No such licensed person shall publish or cause to be published any false or fraudulent notice or advertisement, or give any false information, or make any false promise concerning or relating to work or employment to any one who shall register for employment; and no such licensed person shall make any false entries in the register to be kept by him as herein provided.
Page 39 - ... sufficient knowledge concerning the common diseases of the face and skin to avoid the aggravation and spreading thereof...
Page 30 - ... whereby the cab or car will be securely held in the event of accident to the shipper rope or hoisting machinery, or from any similar cause.

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