ACTS OF 1899. CHAPTER 79.-Employment in cigar factories. SECTION 6. No person under eighteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in a cigar shop or a cigar factory at manufacturing cigars for longer than eight hours a day or forty-eight hours a week. SEC. 8. Any person violating any provision of this act shall be punished by fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars and no less than ten dollars for the first offense, and by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and no less than twenty-five dollars for the second and each following offense. CHAPTER 274.-Age limit-Employment during school term-Hours of labor-Night work-Employment on elevators. SECTION 1 (as amended by chapter 349, acts of 1903). No child between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years shall be employed at any time in any factory or workshop, bowling alley, barroom, beer garden, in or about any mine, store, office, hotel, mercantile establishment, laundry, telegraph, telephone, public messenger service or work for wages at any gainful occupation at any place, unless there is first obtained from the commissioner of labor, State factory inspector, any assistant factory inspector, or from the judge of the county court or municipal court or from the judge of a juvenile court where such child resides, a written permit authorizing the employment of such child within such time or times as the said commissioner of labor, State factory inspector, any assistant factory inspector, county judge, municipal judge or judge of a juvenile court may fix. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed at any time in any factory or workshop, bowling alley, barroom, bear [beer] garden, or in or about any mine. No child under fourteen years shall be employed, required or suffered to work for wages at any gainful occupation at any time except that during the vacation of the public school in the town, district or city where any child between the ages of twelve and fourteen years resides, it may be employed in any store, office, hotel, mercantile establishment, laundry, telegraph, telephone or public messenger service in the town, district or city where it resides, and not elsewhere: Provided, That there is first obtained from the commissioner of labor, State factory inspector, any assistant factory inspector, county judge, municipal judge, or from the judge of a juvenile court where such child resides, a written permit authorizing the employment of such child within such time or times as the said commissioner of labor, State factory inspector, any assistant factory inspector, county judge, municipal judge or judge of a juvenile court may fix. The said commissioner of labor, State factory inspector, any assistant factory inspector, county judge, municipal, or judge of a juvenile court shall keep a record, stating the name, date and place of birth, and place of school attended by any such child, and the county judge, municipal judge or such judge of a juvenile court shall report when so requested by the commissioner of labor or State factory inspector, the number of permits issued by him from time to time as herein before provided. When the commissioner of labor, State factory inspector, any assistant factory inspector, county judge, municipal judge, or judge of a juvenile court has reason to doubt the age of any child who applies for such permit, commissioner of labor, State factory inspector, any assistant factory inspector, county judge, municipal judge or judge of a juvenile court shall demand proof of such child's age by the production of a verified baptismal certificate or a duly attested birth certificate, or in case such certificate can not be secured, by the record of age stated in the first school enrollment of such child, and if such proof does not exist or can not be secured then by the production of such other proof as may be satisfactory to said commissioner of labor, State factory inspector, any assistant factory inspector, county judge, municipal judge or judge of a juvenile court, and no permit shall be issued unless proof of such child's age is filed with the said commissioner of labor, State factory inspector, any assistant factory inspector, county judge, municipal judge or judge of a juvenile court. Whenever it appears that a permit has been obtained by a wrong or false statement as to any child's age, the commissioner of labor, State factory inspector, any assistant factory inspector, county judge, municipal judge or judge of a juvenile court of the county where such child resides shall revoke such permit. SEC. 2 (as amended by chapter 349, acts of 1903). It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of any firm or corporation employing minors in any mine, factory or workshop, bowling alley, barroom, beer garden, store, office, hotel, mercantile establishment, laundry, telegraph, telephone or public messenger service within this State to keep a register in the place where such minor is employed and subject at all times to the inspector, or assistant factory inspector, in which register shall be recorded the name, age and date of birth, place of residence, of every child employed, permitted or suffered to work therein, under the age of sixteen years, and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of any firm or corporation to hire or employ, permit or suffer to work in any mine, mercantile establishment, factory or workshop, bowling alley, barroom, beer garden, store, office, hotel, laundry, telegraph, telephone or public messenger service, any child under sixteen years of age unless there is first provided and placed on file in such mine, mercantile establishment, factory or workshop, bowling alley, barroom, beer garden, store, office, hotel, laundry, telegraph, telephone or public messenger [office], a permit granted by either the commissioner of labor, State factory inspector, any assistant factory inspector, county judge, municipal judge, or judge of a juvenile court of the county where such child resides. SEC. 3 (as amended by chapter 349, acts of 1903). No person under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, required, permitted or suffered to work for wages at any gainful occupation longer than ten hours in any one day, nor more than six days in any one week, nor after the hour of nine at night nor before the hour of six in the morning: Provided, That this section shall not apply to boys carrying newspapers between the hours of four and six in the morning. SEC. 4 (as amended by chapter 349, acts of 1903). It shall be the duty of the commissioner of labor, the factory or assistant factory inspector to enforce the provisions of this act, and to prosecute violation of the same before any court of competent jurisdiction in this State. It shall be the duty of said commissioner of labor or the factory or assistant factory inspectors, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to visit and inspect, at all reasonable times, and as often as possible, all places covered by this act. SEC. 5 (as amended by chapter 349, acts of 1903). The commissioner of labor, the factory or assistant factory inspector shall have the power to demand a certificate of physical fitness, from some regularly licensed physician, in the case of children who may seem physically unable to perform the labor at which they may be employed, and no minor shall be employed who can not obtain such a certificate. SEC. 6 (as amended by chapter 349, acts of 1903). No firm, person or corporation shall employ or permit any child under sixteen years of age to have the care, custody, management or operation of any elevator. SEC. 7 (as amended by chapter 349, acts of 1903). The words "manufacturing establishment," "factory" or workshop" as used in this act, shall be construed to mean any place where goods or products are manufactured or repaired, dyed, cleaned or storted [sorted], stored or packed, in whole or in part, for sale or for wages, and not for the personal use of the maker or his or her family or employer. SEC. 8 (as amended by chapter 349, acts of 1903). Any person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of any corporation who, whether for himself or for such firm or corporation or by himself or through agents, servants, or foreman, shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this act or shall hinder or delay the commissioner of labor, the factory or assistant inspectors or any or either of them in the performance of their duty or refuse to admit or shut or lock them out from any place required to be inspected by this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. Any corporation which, by its agents, officers or servants, shall violate or fail to comply with any of the above provisions of this act shall be liable to the above penalties, which may be recovered against such corporations in action for debt or assumpsit brought before any court of competent jurisdiction. SEC. 9 (as amended by chapter 349, acts of 1903). Any parent or guardian, who suffers or permits a child to be employed, or suffered or permitted to work, in violation of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars. SEC. 10 (as amended by chapter 349, acts of 1903). When in any proceeding in any court under this section there is any doubt as to the age of any child, a verified baptismal certificate or a duly attested birth certificate shall be produced and filed with the court. In case such certificates can not be secured, upon proof of such fact, the record of age stated in the first school enrollment of such child shall be admissible as evidence thereof. CHAPTER 330.-Certain employments forbidden. SECTION 3. No license shall be granted for a theatrical exhibition or public show in which children under fifteen years of age are employed as acrobats, contortionists or in any feats of gymnastics or equestrianism, when in the opinion of the board of officers authorized to grant licenses such children are employed in such manner as to corrupt their morals or impair their physical health. SEC. 4. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. ACTS OF 1903. CHAPTER 402.-Female messengers. SECTION 1. No female under eighteen years of age shall be employed as a messenger by any telegraph or telephone company, firm or corporation or by any company, firm, corporation or individual engaged in similar business. SEC. 2. Whoever violates the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months. WYOMING. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE 9.-Employment in mines. SECTION 3. No boy under the age of fourteen years and no woman of any age shall be employed or permitted to be in or about any coal, iron or other dangerous mines for the purpose of employment therein: Provided, however, This provision shall not affect the employment of a boy or female of suitable age in an office or in the performance of clerical work at such mine or colliery. REVISED STATUTES-1899. DIVISION I. TITLE 16.-Certain employments forbidden-Employment in mines. SECTION 2289. It shall be unlawful for any person having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of fourteen years to exhibit, use or employ, or in any manner, or under any pretense, sell, apprentice, give away, let out or otherwise dispose of any such child to any person, in or for the vocation or occupation, service or purpose of singing, playing on musical instruments, dancing, rope or wire walking, begging or peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, rider or acrobat, in any place whatsoever; or as an actor or performer in any concert hall or room where intoxicating liquors are sold or given away, or in any variety theater, or for any illegal, obscene, indecent or immoral purpose, exhibition or practice whatsoever; or for or in any business exhibition or vocation, injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limb of such child, or cause, procure or encourage such child to engage therein. Nothing in this section contained shall apply to or affect the employment or use of any child as a singer or musician in any church, school or academy, or at any respectable entertainment, or the teaching or learning the science or practice of music. It shall be unlawful for any person to take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit or have in custody any child, under the age, and for the purposes prohibited in this section. SEC. 2295. Any person who shall take, receive, hire or employ, either in his or her own behalf, or as the agent, servant or employee of any person, persons, association of persons, copartnership, company, corporation, any boy or male child under the age of fourteen years, or any woman or girl of any age, or shall allow or permit the said persons to be in or about any coal, iron or other dangerous mine, or underground works or dangerous place whatsoever in this State, for the purpose of employment therein or thereabouts, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months: Provided, however, That the provisions of this section shall not affect or apply to the employment of a boy or female of suitable age in an office, or in the performance of clerical work at such mine, colliery or place. ACTS OF 1903. SECTION 8. No person as hoisting engineer. CHAPTER 35.-Mining regulations. * * * under eighteen years of age shall be employed UNITED STATES. ACTS OF 1890-91. CHAPTER 564.-Employment in mines. SECTION 12. No child under twelve years of age shall be employed in the underground workings of any mine. And no father or other person shall misrepresent the age of anybody so employed. Any person guilty of violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not to exceed one hundred dollars. [This section applies to coal mines in the Territories of the United States.] AGREEMENTS BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES. [It is the purpose of this Bureau to publish from time to time important agreements made between large bodies of employers and employees with regard to wages, hours of labor, etc. The Bureau would be pleased to receive copies of such agreements whenever made.] BITUMINOUS COAL MINING. Indianapolis Interstate Agreement for Years Beginning April 1, 1904, and Ending March 31, 1906. It is hereby agreed, that the interstate agreement of the present year shall be continued with the same conditions for two years from April 1, 1904, until March 31, 1906, with the following exceptions, to wit: FIRST. That the price for mining be reduced five cents (5 cents) per ton on inch and a quarter (14 inch) screened lump coal, pick mining, in western Pennsylvania thin vein, the Hocking, the basing district of Ohio, and in both block and bituminous districts of Indiana; three cents (3 cents) per ton on mine-run coal, pick mining, in the bituminous district of Indiana, and at Danville, the basing point of Illinois. SECOND. That the price for machine mining be reduced four cents (4 cents) per ton on screened lump coal in western Pennsylvania thin vein, and the Hocking, the basing district of Ohio; five cents (5 cents) per ton on screened lump coal in the block and bituminous districts of Indiana, and three cents (3 cents) per ton on mine-run coal in the bituminous district of Indiana, and at Danville, the basing point of Illinois. THIRD. That the inside day wage scale shall be as follows, with the conditions of the Columbus day wage scale agreement of 1898, to wit: Track layers Track layers' helpers Trappers.... Bottom cages. Drivers Trip riders.. Water haulers and machine haulers. Timbermen, where such are employed. Pipe men, for compressed air plants.. $2.42 2.23 1.06 2.42 2.42 2.42 2.42 2.42 2.36 2.23 2.23 Company men in long-wall mines of third-vein district of northern Illinois FOURTH. That yardage and dead work be reduced in the same proportion. FIFTH. That internal differences in any of the States or districts, both as to prices and conditions, shall be referred to the States or districts affected for adjustment. Further, in pursuance of the authority vested in us, we hereby call a joint convention of the coal operators and miners of western Penn |