Workmen's advocate., 1890-12-13
LABOR IN NEW JERSEY.
Violations of the Child Labor Act. Neg lect of Sanitary and Safety Provisions.
 Municipal eIilictious.

The annual Report of State Factory Inspector Fell of New Jersey for the year ending October 3l, Is about complete. It will show that there are in New Jer sey between 1000 and 5000 factories, shops and rooms ill which men, women and children are employed. About 200 children under age were ordered out of factories during the year and sent to school. Over 300 lit boys and girls were taken out of Newark factories; and sanitary, elevator, tire-escape, machi. nery, guards and other improvements, which cost manufacturers from $500 to $l ,000 each, were ordered.
 In Hudson County, which includes Jersey and Hoboken, a large number of small children were found at work in factories. In the Standard Oil Compa- ny's establishment forty lads were em- ployed in the cooperage at S5 cents a week to carry hoops and barrel slaves, Two boys were in jured in large thread mill, and information was refused to the deputy inspector. He then stopped that spinners, not the Company, em- | ployed the lads in violation of the Child Labor act.
 In Paterson and Passaic, the deputy 8 | orders for safety elevators, tire-escapes, separate closets and better methods of ventilation were attended to by manu- lecturers. In one of the Trenton pot. teries, little boys were employed by pot ters who had contracts to do certain lines of work, but the names were not carried on the pay-rolls of the firms. These boys were sent to school and the potters warned against repeating the otfense.
 Safety checks have been put on old and new elevators, and guards built about the hatchways and machinery. This was done to prevent the dresses of girls and the jackets of boys from being caught in the cogwheels. Many acci- dents are caused by neglect of these precautions. But the percentage of accidents has been reduced. Out of 306 orders to make elevators secure, 290 were obeyed. Separate closets have been | built in many factories
 | The Truancy act has not been gener ally enforced throughout the State, and, | in fact, many municipalities have paid no attention to the act. Newark, Orange, | Hoboken, Paterson and several towns in | South Jersey have enforced the law more strictly and compelled the children to go to school.
 In Jersey City, however, owing large ly to lack of school facilities, hundreds of boys and girls cannot be kept out of factories or streets. The legislature will be asked to amend the act so as to make the penalties severe for violations.
 MT. Fell will make number of sug- gestions in his report. He will ask that the law relating to theaters and all anu sement halls be amended so as to require all plans of buildings to be submitted to and approved by the Labor Bureau be- fore these places can be opened to the public l-c will also suggest that the saluo rule be enforced as to all buildings to be used as hotels, boarding houses, shops, dance halls, or for any other purpose of business or pleasure for the public. The Massachusetts Bureau has twenty-on deputies and costs $60, 900 a year; the New Jersey Bureau costs only $1O,000.
 The six districts into which Chief Fell has divided New Jersey, with deputy inspector in charge of each, are as fol- lows; First District, E. R. White; Se- cond, John Darcy; third, Francis Sayre; Fourth, J. $. Weinthal, Hudson County Fifth, Thomas Cogan; Sixth, Patrick Cailan, Essez County, which includes Newark.
 The Rev. Brigadier General Elliott F.