New-York tribune., 1899-07-22
NO EVIDENCE SUBMITTED.
STATE FACTORY INSPECTOR NOT IN foS
SESSION OF PROOF OF VIOLATION
OF THE TEN HOUR LAW.

No o,,,denca of violation Of the Ten Hour law
was sent by the labor men yesterday 10 the olloe
Of John Williams. the State Factory Inspector az
No Madison-ave. Mr. Williams. who was in Al
bany Yesterday replied to the sur cast on him by
General Master Workman Parsons as folio"s'
"The statement published and credited to GEN
eral Master, Workman Parsons of the knights OF
Labor to the effect that complaints entered agaihs'
the street railroad companies for violation Oh sec
ton of the Labor law would receive no attention
from my department. was entirely uncaIeu lor'
The COMPLAINT against the Metropolitan Street Rail
wav Company was received at the New-York office
at D. m Thursday, July 20. This being the case
Mr. Parsons was interviewed before the commune
cation was received by Assistant Factory Inspector
z. J. OBrien.
'If the complaint was entered with my depart
ment In good faith, Mr.. Parsons should nave sus-
pended Judgment until we had failed to perform
our duty We have not failed TO take up single
complaint filed with us, and shall take up and care
fully investigate the complaint against the Metro
politan Street Railway Company, despite Mr. Par
sonss unknd asperson.
One of Mr. Williams assistants in this city said :
"The matter of looking out for the Observance
of the Ten Hour law does not come under the
supervision the Governor. The power TO bring
the matter to the courts is with Inspector VII
Jams. AS soon as we nave enough lahslDe H eEl-
dence of failure TO observe the law we can take
1t TO the courts, and the District Attorney prose-
cutes the cases for
10 go ahead and hunt the up would be
/ practically wild goose chaSc, as we Wouiu not
know where to begin We waiting for further
complaints, and ready to act at any time.
SECTIONS 3 and OF the Labor law, which per
tain entirely to the Ten Hour law, say that ten
consecutive hours labor including half hour
for luncheon, shall constitute a days labor, and
that no employe shall be permitted to work longer
in a day OF twenty-four hours The law further
says that no road operating thirty miles OF track
shall permit employe, who has performed his
ten hours labor TO return 10 duty until he has
taken at least eight hours rest"
Mayor Van Wyck yesterday received from John
c. Donnelly a copy OF resolutions adopted by the
Central Federated Union asking him TO see that
the Ten Hour law enforced. The Mayor wrote
the following letter TO each Of the District Attor-
neys of the four counties included within the city:
Dear Sir: | inclose herewith a copy Of com
munlcation received this day by me from John G.
Donnelly secretary of the Building Trades Section
of the Central Federated Union in relation 10 the
enforcement of the Ten Hour law.
LAS this law is enforceable through the criminal
courts ! bring this matter to your attention. with
the request that you communicate with Mr. Don
nelly, and IL the evidence he presents is sufficient
to warrant criminal prosecution, that you bring
the same to the attention of the Grand Jury.
magistrate having jurisdiction.
ROBERT A. VAN WICK, Mayor"