The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-18

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Coopers-Fair.
Cooper, Machine Workers-Dull.
Clerks-Dull.
Flour Mill Laborers-Fair.
rayowners-Absent.
Packers and Nailers-Dull.
Laundryworkers- Absent.
TailorsFair.
Typographcal-Fair.
St. Railway Employes-Dull.
Plumbers
Pioneer Federal Labor Workers
Dull.
Longshoremen No. 37-Dull.
Steamftters-Good.
Stageworkers- Absent.
Several communications were read
and filed.
Bill No. 20 A, now before the iegis-
lature was endorsed by the Assembly.
Bill No. 1O1 A was laid on the table.
The home labor committee reported
favorably on the establishment of a
free employment bureau and it was
endorsed by the Assembly as read.
The legislative committee reported
favorably on the employment agency
bill to be presented at tbs session of
the legislature. The Assembly amend
ed the bill as follows:
BILL NO. A.
An Act to Regulate Employment and
Intelligence Offices or Bureaus.
The people of the State of Wiscon-
sin represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. No person shall engage
in the business of keeping an employ
ment or intelligent bureau or office
or agency for the purpose of hiring
men to work for others and receive a
compensation for such hiring without
first having obtained a license so to
do as hereinafter provided; any person
or persons who shall establish or keep
any office or place within said state
for the purpose of obtaining place or
employment for laborers of any kind
whatever or for procuring or giving
information concerning such places or
employment to such laborers, or for
procuring or giving information con-
corning such laborers to employers,
shall he deemed a keeper of an employ
ment or intelligence bureau, office or
agency; and any person who shall
engage in such business without such
license shall be guilty of a INSIDE
meanor and shall upon application
thereof be punished by fine not ex-
ceeding 500 or imprisonment in the
County Jail not exceeding 80 days or
both.
Section 2. Any person who desires
to engage in any such business may
apply to the Common Council if such
business be carried on in a city, or to
the Village Council if in a village, or
to the County Board of the County
in which such business is to be carried
on if in the county, for such license,
and pay into the treasury of such
city, village or county the sum of 5000,
and upon executing and, delivering to
such Common Council, Village Coun-
Gil or County, Board a bond in the
penal sum of $4,000 with sufficient
sureties or in lieu thereof a surety
bond of $4,000 to be approved by such
Common Council, Village Council or
County Board, he shall be entitled to
such license. Each license shall desig-
nate the house in which the person
licensed shall keep his office, giving
street and number to the same, and
the number of such license, and shall
continue to be in force until the first
day of May next ensuing the date
thereof, and no longer; provided al
ways that the foregoing license fee
shall be the same for any length OF
time whether issued for year on the
first day of May, or any fractional
part thereof; and no license issued
hereunder shall be transferred to any
other person or persons whatever or
inure to the benefit of any other per-
son other than the license.
Section 3. The bonds shall run to
the State of Wisconsin, and shall be
conditional for the payment of any
damage that any person secured OF
engaged to labor for others by the
obligor may sustain by reason of any
unauthorized act, fraud or misrepre'
sentation on the part of such agent fol
such hiring. The bond shall be filed
with the city clerk if approved by the
Common Council, with the Village Re
corder x approved by the Village
Counsel, and with the County Clark s