Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1905-05-25
TEXT OF THE BILL PREPARED BY
THE PENNSYLVANIA CHILD
LABOR COMMITTEE.
Careful Study Of Its Clauses viii Show
What Advantages Will Come to the
Children Of the State Through. Its
Passage and Strict Enforcement.

Children Of the State Through Its
Passage and Strict Enforcement.
The bill now approved by the Penn
,ylvania Child Labor Committee con-
tains the following provisions:
No child under fourteen years of age
shall be employed for wages or salary
In any establishment.
No female under the age of sixteen
years shall be employed in any estab-
lishment in the manufacture of cigars
or tobacco.
No minor under sixteen years and
no female shall be employed in any
establishment for longer period than
sixty hours In any one week nor for a
longer period than eleven hours in any
one day. No minor under sixteen shall
be employed in any establishment be-
tween the hours of six p. M. and seven
A. NJ Provided, that where the mate
rial in process of manufacture requires
the application of manual labor for an
extended period after six p. NJ to pre-
vent waste or destruction of said mate
rial, male minors over fourteen years
of age and who have not been employed
the hours Of seven A. M. and six P. NJ,
may be employed for not more than
ten consecutive hours in any one day
after six P. NJ; and Provided, further,
that in establishments where night
work is hereby permitted to prevent
waste or destruction and where the ma
ture of the employment requires two
or more working shifts in the twenty
four hours, males over fourteen years
of age may be employed partly by day
and partly by night, Provided said em-
ployment does not exceed nine consec-
utive hours; and Provided, further,
that retail mercantile establishments
shall be exempt from the provisions Of
this section on Saturday of each week
and during period Of twenty days.
beginning with the fifth day of Decem-
ber and ending with the twenty-fourth
day of the same month, provided that
during the said twenty days preceding
the twenty-fourth day of December,
the working hours shall not exceed ten
huors per day or sixty hours per week.
No minor under sixteen years of age
shall be permitted to clean or oil ma
ehinery while in motion or to operate
or otherwise have care or custody of
any elevator or lift.
It shall be unlawful for the owner
superintendent, lessee or other person
in charge of any establishment where
persons are employed for wages or sal
ary. to employ any child between the
ages of fourteen and sixteen years, un-
less there is first provided and placed
ON file in the Office of the establish
nent where said child Is employed,
certificate in the form provided by the
Chief Factory Inspector, which certiti-
cate shall be uniform throughout the
state. 1t shall be the duty of the fac
tory inspector OF any of his Office force,
the deputy factory inspectors or of the
city OF borough common school super
intendents, within their various juris-
d1ctions, or of the principal teacher of
the common schools, in localities not
under the jurisdiction Of any city or
borough superintendent or of their re-
spective duly authorized deputies, to
issue the employment certificate here
matter prescribed. No principal teach
or shall be authorized to issue said en-
ployment certificate within any district
over which superintendent has iuris-