New-York tribune., 1906-10-01
NEW LABOR LAWS TO-DAY.
Illegal to Employ Children Under
Sirteen at Night.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.


Albany. Sept. 30-It IS no longer lawful to
! employ children under sixteen years of age in
any factory in this state before a. m. after
1 p. m. Such provision is made in amend
ment to the Labor law which will go into effect
| tomorrow. By the same amendment the en-
poyment of children under the age of sixteen
years is prohibited after 4 p. m. in New York
City in connection with any mercantile estab-
lishment business office. telegraph Office, res
taurant. hotel apartment house or in the distri-
button or transmission OF merchandise mes
sages.
Provision is made in another amendment to
the Labor law which will take effect tomorrow
for thorough inspection of bakeries and con-
fectioneries. The amendment reads as follows:
Bakeries and confectionery establishments are
factories within the meaning of this act and are
subject to the provisions of Article VI thereof
They shall be kept at all times in a clean and
sanitary condition. If inspection the Com
missioner of Labor find any bakery or confec-
tionery to be so unclean, i'll drained, or Ill Ventl-
lated TO be unsanitary he may after not less
than forty-eight hours notice in writing, TO be
served by aff1xing the notice the inside OF the
main entrance door of said bakery, order the
person found IN charge thereof Immediately 10
cease operating 1t until 1t be properly cleaned.
drained or ventilated If such bakery or con-
feCtionery be thereupon continued in operation
or be thereafter operated before 1t be properly
cleaned, drained ventilated, the Commissioner
of Labor may, after first making and ming In
the public records of his office a written order
stating the reasons therefor, at once and With
out further notice fasten UP and seal the oven
or other cooking apparatus OF said bakery or
confectionery, and affiX to all materials, recep-
tacles tools and instruments found therein,
labels or conspicuous signs bearing the word
''unclean." No one but the Commissioner of
Labor shall remove any such seal, label or sign
and he may refuse to remove 1t untn sucn
bakery confectionery be properly cleaned
drained ventilated.
After to-day the State Commissioner Of Labor
may seize and hold any articles made contrary
to the provisions of the labor law until such
articles are disnfected cleaned at the own
ers' expense Unless the owners of the articles
shall provide for the disnfecttng and cleaning
within one month after seizure such articles may
be destroyed
New sections are added to-day to the labor
law affecting mines and Quarries in this state
No new mine or quarry may be opened TO
depth of twenty-five feet until the operator re-
ports to the Commissioner Of Labor, giving the
of the owner and the location of the
property The Commissioner must be informed
also when any mine quarry is abandoned.
No child under sixteen years old and no woman
shall be permitted TO work in any mine or quarry
in the state.
Another amendment to the labor law affects
the issuing of licenses permitting the manufact-
of clothing and other articles in tenement
houses.
The Merritt act extending the term and in
creasing the salaries Of the members Of the
State Court of Claims will also go into effect
six years. and the terms of the present judges
are extended TO ten years. The salary is in
CEedSeU from SO,OOU 10 SSOU d year. ana IN
cludes all expenses and disbursements.
Two other new laws go into effect to-day. One
esta blishes a state board of managers of re-
formatories, to consist of seven members ap-
pointed by the Governor, for a term of seven
years The managers Of the Elrnira Reforrna-
tory are continued in Office members of the
new board, which shall have Jurisdiction
the reformatores at EImira and Napanoch The
board may appoint a superintendent of reform
atories, and provision is made for an assistant
superintendent for each institution.
The other law requires that the reforrnatory
managers shall visit each institution at least
once month and make report to the Gov
ernor. the State Commission Of Prisons and the
Fiscal Supervisor.
At the close of October important changes in
the Corporation Tax law will go into effect The
amendments We're suggested TO make the law
conform 10 recent decisions of the courts in re-
lation to the appraisal of the tax and other
changes grew out Of suggestions made during
the investigation made last winter by the At
torney General when charges were preferred
against the Corporation Tax Bureau II is said
that under the amended law 1t will be possible
Tor any one TO compute the tax on foreign cor
poratons New blanks will be issued by the
state Controller, making the questions in rela-
ton TO assets and liabilities more explicit