The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-05-20


N1OTICE TO EMPLOYERS OF FE-
IN MALE LABOR.--An act for the
better protection of female or other EN-
ployes.
BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State
of Delaware in General Assembly met:
Section /. That 1t shall be the duty Of
every person or corporation employing fe-
male labor to the number of ten or up
wards in New Castle county to provide
within three months after the passage or
this act, a room or rooms, plainly and APP
propriatcly furnished, for such employees
to dress, wash and lunch in, separate and
apart from the male employees of such
person or corporation, allowing in said
separate room or rooms, at least nine
square feet of floor space for each en-
ploye, and further to provide washing
sinks for such female employees, separate
and apart from such male employees, al
lowing one such washing sink to each tf-
teen of such female employees by such
person or corporation; and further to
provide water-ClosetS for such female
employees, separate from those used by
such male employees, provided that moth
ing in this section shall apply to canning
establishments doing business in the
rural districts of said county.
Section 2 1t shall be the duty Of every
store keeper in New Castle county to pro-
vide seats for his or her clerks and en-
ployes so that when unemployed such
clerks and employees may be seated.
Section g. 1t shall be the duty of every
person or corporation employing female
labor to provide such places for such fe-
male employees to work in during cold
weather as shall be reasonably and COM
fortably warm.
employer of female labor, or any over
seer superintendent foreman or boss of
any such employer of female labor, to use
toward female employees any abusive, IN
decent or profane language, or to In any
manner abuse, misuse, unnecessarily eX-
pose to hardship, or maltreat any such
female employe.
Section 5. Any person violating any
provision of section four of this act, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not
less than ten and not exceeding one hun
dred dollars for each offense. Any person
or corporation violating any provision of
the first, second and third sections of this
act shall be deemed guilty of a INSIDE
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be fined the sum of ten dollars and shall
he subject to the further penalty of ten
dollars for each day thereafter during
which such corporation or person shall
refuse or neglect to provide the furnished
rooms, seats, appliances or furnish the
heat therein mentioned.
Section 6. Prosecutions for violation of
the provisions of this act may be insti-
tutCd upon the complaint of any person
before any justice of the peace in New
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plOyCr shall be located, or in a hundred
adjacent thereto. Any such justice of the
peace shall have jurisdiction to hear, try
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ten notice mat uhless such ehpioytl
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act, and 1t shall further be the duty OF
| such inspector IN case OF me neglect OF
failure or sucn employer VINO mas received
| such notice TO conform 10 inc PROVISIONS
| Of this act; ana 10 cease al VIOLATIONS
| thereof Wllhln ten uays from the sa'
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| prosecution OF such rccalcltraht employer
! or employers, uhuer the provisions o.
| this act, ny swearing OUT peIoTe any JUS
| tee of the peace in New castle county
resident in the hundred where said EN-
ployer may have his or her or Its place
| of business, or IN an adjacent huhure'
the necessary warrant or complaint am
| thoreupon TO assist and enforce the prose
| cutiOn of the person or corporation 81
complained of to the full extent OF he
| power, and it shall further be the dut,
| Of such inspector in case any prosecution
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begun or instituted by any other perso'
| than such inspector, 70 AID lurther an
to assist such independent prosecution o
such employer to che best OF her power
and whenever such independent prosecu
ton of any such employer shall be begu
by any person other than said inspector
it shall he the duty Of the justice of tn
peace before whom such complaint sha
he made, to straightway notify by du
course OF mail. the inspector appointe
under this act, informing such inspecto
Of the name of the complainant and dc