The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-06-14
CHAPTER cLxvIII.

A General Act relating to factories and workshops
and the employment, safety health and work
hours of operatives.
/ Be it enacted by the Senate and General As
sembly of the State of New Jersey, That any per-
son or corporation engaged in manufacturing
which requires from persons in his or its employ,
under penalty of forfeiture of part of the wages
earned by them notice of intention to leave
such employ, shall be liable to the payment of a
like forfeiture if he or it discharges without SINH
lar notice person IN such a employ. unless IN
shop or factory.
3 And be it enacted, That all accidents in work
shops factories or mines which result in death,
shall be reported at once by the occupier to the
inspector of workshops at Trenton and the city
or district physician where one is employed as
SUCH And 6e eHaete Tbat the betting shaft
ing. gearing and drums in all factories and work
shops when so placed as to be dangerous to per
sons employed therein while engaged in their
ordinary duties, shall be securely guarded when
practicable possible]; if otherwise then notice
of its danger shall be conspicuously posted in the
{. And be it enacted, That no minor, under
eighteen years of age, or woman, shall required
to clean any part of the mill gearing or ma
chinery in any factory or workshop while the
traversing part of any machine while 1t is in mo-
tan by the action of steam, water or any mechani-
5. And be it enacted That the openings of all
hoistways hatchways, elevators and well-holes
upon every floor of factory or mercantile or pub
lie building shall be protected by good and sutfi-
Gent trapdoors or selfclosing matches aud safety
catches or strong guard rails at least three feet
high, and all due diligence shall be used to keep
such trap doors closed at all times except when in
actual use by the occupant OF the building having
the use and control of the same
6. And be it enacted, That no explosive or in
fammable compound shall be used In any fac
tory in such place or manner as to obstruct or
render hazardous the egress OF operatives in case
of fire.
f,;x- hall ha in,
featuring, mercantile or mechanical establish
ment more than ten hours day or sixty hours q
week
be provided in all factories and workshops where
girls or women are employed, where unclean work
of any kind has to be performed, for such girls
and women to wash and dress, and that stairs in
use by female employees in all factories and work
shops be properly screened.
9. And be it enacted, That separate water-clos-
cts be provided for the use of employees of either
sex in all manufacturing, mercantile and mechan-
ical establishments where persons OF both sexes
are employed
or workshops appear SO ver-crowded that in the
opinon of the inspector of factories there is dan
ger to health the inspector shall have power,
after being supported in their opinion by some
reputable resident physician, to prohibit such
ii And be- it enacted, That the inspectors of
factories shall have power to order fan or other
mechanical means of proper construction, If
practicable. for the purpose of preventing the in
halation of dust in establishments where any
process is carried on by which dust is generated
and inhaled by the workers to an injurious ex-
tent.
mines be ventilated so as 10 render harmless all
impurities as near as may be. ~
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