The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-07-10
Laws in Relation to Child Labor
MAINE.

education Of young persons and children in
the state of Maine is as follows:
No child can be employed or suffered To
work in cotton or wooden manufactOry
without having attended a public school,
or private one taught by person quail
fed to be public teacher, if under the age
of twelve years, four months if over
twelve and under fifteen years of age, three
mouths, Of the twelve next preceding such
employment each year. A certificate under
oath Of such teacher filed with the clerk or
agent before employment is to constitute
the proof of such schooling
Any owner, agent on superintendent Of
such mandatory for each violation OF the
provisions Of the Law forfeits City dollafs
to be recovered by Indictment, one-half 10
| the prosecutor and the other TO thakown
where the offence was committed, TO be ad-
ded 70 the school money. Superintendfng
school committees may inquire into such
violations, and report them to . county at
torney, who, on reception thereof, is to
prosecute therefor.
No person under the age of sixteen years
il to be employed by any corporation more
than ten hours Of a day. Any person vio-
lating this provision forfeits one hundred
dollars, one half to the town where the Of
fence is committed and the other to the
use Of the person employed, to be recov-
cred by Indictment.
NEW HAMPsBIRE.
The following is the law in relation to
the employment and education of children
in the state Of New Hampshire
No child under fifteen years Of age, shall
be employed in any manufactory establish
ment unless he shall have received SIX
mouths schooling in the same year.
RHODE ISLAND.
The following is the law in relation to
the employment and education of young
persons and children in the state OF Rhode
Island
No minor under the age Of twelve years
shall be employed in or about any manu-
featuring establishment, in any manufac,
turing process. No minor under the age
Of fifteen years shall be employed in any
manufacturing establishment iii this state
unless such minor shall have attended
school for term Of at least three months
In year next preceding the time when
such minor shall be so employed and no
such minor shall be SO employed for more
than nine months in any calendar year
No minor who has attended the age Of
twelve years, and is under the age of fif-
teen years, shall be employed IN any man
ufacturing establishment more than eleven
hours in any day nor before five o'clock in
the morning. nor after half-past seven
o clock in the evening
Every owner. employer OF agent of a
manufacturing establishment who shall
knowingly and wilfully employ any minor,
and every parent Or guardian who shall
permit or consent to the employment Of
his or her minor child OF ward contrary to
the provisions Of this Law, shall be liable to
a penalty Of twenty dollars for each offence,
to be recovered BY complaint and warrant,
one-half thereof TO the use Of the com
plainant and the other half thereof to the
district school Of the district in which such
manufacturing establishment shall be stu
ated, or, if in the city Of Providence, to
the use Of the public schools Of said city
Labor performed in any manufacturing es-
tablishment and all mechanical labor dur
ing the period of ten hours In any one day
shall be considered legal days work, un
less otherwise agreed by the parties to con
tract for the same.
The laws in relation to the employment
and education of young people and children
i'll the following named countries are as
follows
PRUSSIA.
The Prussian laws do not allow children
under twelve years OK age to work in fac
tories then SIX hours a day until they have
completed their fourteenth year, and ten
hours a day after that, till they have com
pleted their sixteenth year.
FRANCE.
Children from eight to twelve years of
age may be employed eight out Of the
twenty-four hours. There il no system of
supervision. The law only applies to man
ufactories ond establishments in which ma
chinery by mechanical power is used in it's
workshops, where more than twenty per
sons are employed.
SWITZERLAND.
Children, as a rule, are obliged to attend
school from the age of SIX or seven up to
fifteen OF sixteen. After they have at
tended certain age the hours Of study are
gradually reduced In order that they may
begin to assist their families and earn a
| livelihood. Minute precautions are,
nevertheless, adopted by the Legislatures
to insure their not being overworked by
their emplUy ers, who are bound to afford
them every facility to attend school at tbs
regular hours, and likewise to grant them
the necessary time to prepare their lesscais,
The enactments on this head are far more
stringent in sOme caLtons than "a others
| in several children cannot be employed IN
factories until they are thirteen htteen and
even sixteen years of age, wheel the longest
term Of studies prescribed " any one can
ton has been completed.
In the canton N Z--1ch the authorities
carry theiruolIcit1d Tor these closes even
40 the extapt of compelling employers to
ILL., .rrrar. Ses and young workmen to
attand H Industrial school during work
mo ho.-S, without subjecting them to any
CO.. sPondlng reduction in the amount Of
~Sir wages for lcss Of time.
/ No means, however expensive, that ex-
Perlenee and ingenuity can devise for tho.
Intellectual and theoretical development of
the people are left untried.
BELGIUM M-NORwAY-swEDEN.
In these countries education is compul-
sOry under laws of various scope but there
are no special enactments relative To en-
Ployment and co-edgcation Of operative
children.
The Patrons Of Husbandry.
Indiana heads the list with 2.O27
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