Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-18
IT'S AN OMNIBUSB BILL
ThatFactOry Supervision Law
Grows Very Searching.
IT HAS SOME GOOD POINTS.
Some, However, Will Likely be Con-
sidered InquisitOrial.
INSPECTOR MARTIN READY TO ACT


be construed in two ways. Those who be
lieve that nations moral gauge is shown
in the condition of its highways, and in the
safeguards it throws around human, not tc
mention brute, life and comfort, will lear
toward praise of the act, while those who be.
lieve people should generally be allowed to
regulate their own affairs, and who hold that
the best government is the least, can scarce
be expected to assent to the full scope OF the
enactment.
The act is one to regulate the en-
ployment and provide for the safety oi
women and children in mercantile industries
and manufacturing establishments, provides
for the appointment of inspectors to enforce,
etc. 1t provides that no minor shall be en-
ployed at labor in any Of the industries
named for more than 60 hours a week, unless
for the purpose of making necessary repairs.
Section prohibits the employment of any
child under II years in factories, manufact-
ories or mercantile establishments, and per-
sons employing children must keep regis
try of name, birthplace, age and residence of
all he employs under the age of 16 years, and
an affidavit made by parent or guardian, or
the child, if there be no parent or guardian,
stating age date and place of birth, said afi-
davit to be kept on file by the employer and
on tap for inspection when demanded by the
Inspector or any of his deputies.
Firms employing women or children in
the industries named must keep posted in
conspicuous place in every room a printed
notice stating hours per dsy each day of the
week required of such persons and where
children under 16 years of age are employed,
list of names with their age, but persons
employing less than ten of either women or
children do not come under the act.
The Factory Inspectors term of office is
three years at a salary of 81. 500, with 81, 500
for necessary expenses and the power to ap-
point six deputies, on salaries of 81, 900 each
with necessary expenses, three male and
three female, to be known as Deputy Factory
Inspectors, their powers of inspection and
correction being the same as the Factory In
spector, though they are subject to his super
vision and direction.
WILL SUIT INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Section makes it the duty of owner,
agent or lessee where hoisting-shafts OF we'll
holes are used, to cause them to be made Sc
cure, to the satisfaction oi the Inspector, by
means of traps or automatic doors, as to
close and form a substantial surface when
closed and to open and close by the action of
the elevator either ascending or descending.
Section provides that in cases where
dangerous machinery is in use automatic
shifJers or other mechanical contrivances
shall be provided for throwing belts on or
off pulleys; gearing and betting to be pro-
vided with proper safeguards, and no minor
7E { m ala
chinerv while in motion.
Owners or superintendents are required to
report to the Factory Inspector, in writing,
fatal accidents or serious INJURIES within 4S
hours, stating as fully as possible the cause
of injury.
Iu manufacturing establishments en-
ployes must be allowed As minutes Tor the
MONDAY meal, but the Factory Inspector
or any of his deputies have power in special
cases to permit shorter meal time at noon,
the permit to be conspicuously posted in the
main entrance of the establishment, said
permit to be revokable at any time the In
spector may deem necessary, and only to be
given where good cause can be shown
If the Inspector find that the heating
lighting, ventilation or sanitary arrange
ment of any shop or factory, is such as to
be injurious to the health of employees, or
means Of egress in case OF fire or other dis
aSter, is not sufficient, or in accordance
with all requirements of law, or that belting,
shaftiug, gearing, elevators, drums and
machinery are located so as to be dangerous
to employees, or not sufficiently guarded, or
that watts, pans or structures filed with
molten metal or hot liquid, are not sur
rounded with proper safeguards, be shall
notify the proprietor to make alterations, or
additions necessary, and If they are not
made within 60 days of date OF notice, or
within such time as they may be made with
proper diligence, proprietors or agents shall
be deemed guilty of violation of the pro-
visions of the act.
IT COSTS $500 TO KICK.
The violation of any of the provisions of
the act, or permission of any child or fe-
males to be employed, in violation of its |
provisions, is TO be deemed a misdemeauor.
to be punished by fine of not more than |
$500. The Inspector is required to post a |
printed copy of the act in each workroom of |
every factory, manufacturing or mercantile |
house where persons are employed who are |
affected by its provisions.
The Factory Inspector, Mr.. W. II. Mar |
tin, has had his blanks prepared for the |
purpose of carrying the act into effect. He |
stated two weeks ago that it was his inten- |
tion to have the department in working or |
der by the middle of this month, and that
1t was the intention to enforce the law as
closely as could be done, and from the ex.
tent to which blanks have been urepared il |
would seem that Inspector Martin means |
business. The matter is of especial interest |
in this county.
Form A-No. / is the certificate of parent |
or guardian, who must swear to the age of |
the minor under 16 years. in years, days and |
months, where he or she was born, etc The /
certificate may be sworn TO before Notary |
Public or Justice of the Peace, and must be |
placed on file in the Office of the msnufact- |
urer.
Form is the record book in which must
be kept the name, place of birth, date of /
birth, parent or guardians name, parents
address, date of certificate and when en-
ployment ceased, register and affidavit to be |
produced on demand of the Inspector or any
of his deputies.
Form must give the hours of labor in
the establishment, time of commencing and
stopping work in the fore and afternoon and
total number of hours worked each day in
the week.
Form is notice which must be placed
in a conspicuous place, and certifes to the
number of children under 16 years of age
employed in each room, with affidavit
stating his or her age. date and place of
birth, date of employment and names and
when employment ceased.
Form 3 gives directions for the furnish
ing of report of the condition of elevators
and hoistways, commencing with date of
examination, location and material of build
Jig, occupation, number of occupants in
each story up to the seventh, Legislators
seeming not to have caught on to the latest
ideas with regard to loftiness
HANDY FOR ACCIDENT POLICY FOLK.
Form is the accident report giving the
name OF the injured person, his residence,
kind Of establishment and location, time re-
port of accident was received, name of firm
conducting the establishment, its loca-
tion, city, county, street; extent
OF injury and where injured person
was sent, doctor attending, whether accident
occurred on betting, gearing, pu1Iy or ma
chine of any kind and name of machine,
whether properly guarded or not, whether
party injured was regularly employed on
such machine, whether, in opinion of