The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-07

~ legislature regulating en-
4 N rloyment in Pennsylvania
and providing for the
health. security and general welfare
of those employed in industrial estah-
lishments is ieservedly attracting the
favorable attention Of students of
labor problems and should be as we'll
known a home as IL promis,S to ha-
come abroad. In its entirety the act
is too Ions 70 quote hut some of its
principal provisions are as follows:
Neither male nor female minors. nor
adult women, shall work more than
twelve hours IN ore day in manufac-
turing establishments. workshops
laundries or printing offices, nor long
or than sixty hours in one va 4. No
child under thirteen years shall he
employed in factories or other like es-
Establishments. Children between thir-
teen and sixteen years of aga may he
SO employed If parrnis or guardians
make an AFFIDAVIT giving the age, date
and place of birth of such child. All
persons or firms or corporations en-
rlnying men, women and children in
factories and industrial establishments
must post. and keep posted in A con-
spicuous place in every room in the
place where such labor is employed
a printed notice, stating the number
of hours of work required oe the en-
rloyes each day. Where children
under sixteen years are employed a
list Of their names and ages must also
De posted.
establishments in which mechanical
ana manufacturing industries are car
ried on employing girls or adult wo-
men, shall provide seats for their use.
and shall permit their use when they
are not necessarily enga sed in he ac-
tive duties Of their employment In
such establishments where hcisting
shafts or we'll holes 3re used. tht So
must Re we'll and Substantially on
closed. to Protect the iIfN ami limbs
of the employees. These elevators shall
he protected by automatic gates. All
gearing and betting must be supplied
with proper safegua rds. owners Of
factories must report all accidents in
factory Inspector Minors under six
teen years are prohibited from cican-
ing machinery while i is in motion.
Suitable washing and dressing
rooms and toilet rooms must he pro-
vided for both SEXES. and those used
by one sex shall not he near those
used by the other Not less than for
ty-fve minutes shall lie allowed for
the MONDAY meal in any manufs ctur-
Ing establishment in this state. al
though the factory inspector may per-
NIT this in special cases. Inspectors.
upon tinGing the heating. lighting and
VentiIating arrangements Of factories
u hn unsatisfactory and injurious TO
the health of the employees, shai. no.
tity employers to make the needed
changes
Factory inspectors and their depu-
les are charged with the duty and
lothed with the power Of insppcting
hotels, school building, colleges, acad-
'mies, manufacturing and mercantile
establishments, printing offices. hospi-
tails, places Of amusement and. in
short every place where ahor is en-
ployed or men conGregate, and see
that these are provided with fire.
escapes, appliances for the extinguish-
nnent of fire, and compel those owners
who have not provided them to put
them in place. Owners of boilers used
for generating steam To be applied IA
machinery must furnish regular re-
ports concerning the same. Inspectors
have a,full right TO enter on premises
to insnect the same in their line of
duty. . .....
Copies of this act shall he furnished
10 each. workman r. every factory BY
the inspector ana these copies shall
be kept. posted in each room. Factory
owners and employers shall furnish
all required information to the inspec.
tors Persons violating the provision.
of this Slaw, or who suffer any child
or female 10 be employed contrary tc
its provisions, shall upon conviction
be punished by fine of not more thar
five hundred dollars.
This act, II should be borne in mind
was passed by a legislature which
Democratic and kicking Republican
critics have pronounced unfriendly t,
the trur interests of labor.