Annual report of the Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1906

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Wright & Potter, 1907

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Página 155 - ... no laborer, workman or mechanic in the employ of the contractor, subcontractor or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the .work contemplated by the contract shall be permitted or required to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day except in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by fire, flood or danger to life or property.
Página 167 - That eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics now employed, or who may hereafter be employed, by or on behalf of the Government of the United States ; and that all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Página 167 - ... to require or permit any such laborer or mechanic to work more than eight hours in any calendar day, except in case of extraordinary emergency.
Página 154 - SECTION 1. Section thirty-five of chapter eighty-seven of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by striking out the words " to the judge at the hearing ", in the second line, and by striking out the word " is ", in the eighth line, and inserting in place thereof the word : — are, — so as to read as follows : — Section 35.
Página 154 - Sts., § 3738, which provides that "eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics who may be employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States.
Página 167 - By the ist section of that act it was provided that "eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, mechanics, or other persons now employed, or who may hereafter be employed by or on behalf of the...
Página 167 - We regard the statute chiefly as in the nature of a direction from a principal to his agent that eight hours is deemed to be a proper length of time for a day's labor, and that his contract shall be based upon that theory. It is a matter between the principal and his agent, in which a third 386 party has no interest...
Página 155 - Any person or contractor or subcontractor, or any agent or person acting on behalf of any contractor or sub-contractor, or any agent or official of the Commonwealth or of any county, city or town who violates any provision of this act shall be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offence.
Página 155 - ... of the Commonwealth, or of any county therein, or of any city or town which has accepted the provisions of section twenty of chapter one hundred and six of the Revised Laws...
Página 166 - ... within the meaning of this section. Engineers shall be considered mechanics within the meaning of this act. But in cases where a Saturday half-holiday is given the hours of labor upon the other working days of the week may be increased sufficiently to make a total of forty-eight hours for the week's work.

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