The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-02-25
SENATOR WESTON'S BILL
Enlargins and Defining Commissioner
Watson's Department. An I'm
portant Measure Affecting the Mill
Interests.

II
sioner Watson's department.
1t is in brief as follows:
THAT in addition to the duties al
ready prescribed for the department
of agriculture, commerce and immi-
grafton the following shall be pro-
! vided for:
Il. The commissioner shall collect,
| assort Systematically and present in
report to the governor on or before
the 10th day of January of each year,
| who shall transmit to the general as
! sembly statistical details relating to
| all departments of labor in this State.
such as the hours of labor. cost of
| living, amount of labor required. esti-
mated number of persons depending
on daily labor for their support
These statistics are classified as
follows:
Il. In agriculture.
"2. In manufacturing and mechan-
| ical industries.
80. In transportation.
90. In clerical and all other skill
ed and unskilled labor not above
| enumerated.
80. The amount of capital invest
| ed in lands, buildings. machinery,
material and means of production and
! distribution generally.
"6. The number. age, sex and con-
dltion of persons employed; the
| nature of their employment the num-
! ber of hours of labor per day and
the wages received in each of the
industries and employments enumerat-
ed.
81. The sanitary conditions of
factroies. foundries. machine shops.
mercantile establishments and all
other places where five or more peo-
pie are employed as laborers.
80. The number. condition and ma
| ture of employment of the inmates of
| the state prison, county jails and re-
formatory institutions and to what
extent their employment comes in
| competition with the laor of artizans
and laOorerS outside of these institu-
| tionS.
"9. All such other information in
| relation to labor as may seem ad-
vlsable to further the object sought
to be obtained by this act
The bill provides for ali annual
submitting of a schedule to the man
ager or owner of every manufacturing
| establishment in the State. cmbody-
| ing INQUIRIES as follows:
81. Name of person, partnership
or corporation.
go. Kind of goods manufactured
or business done
"3. Number of partners or stock
holders
81. Capital invested.
-. Average number of persons
employed, distinguishing as TO sex,
adults and children.
SO. Total wages, not including sal
aries of managers, paid during the
I year, distinguishing as to sex, adllts
and children"
The following exactions upon the
commissioner are placed in the bill:
1.-The owner, operator or manager
of every establishment which is en-
| gagged in manufacturing shall answer
the inquiries thereon for the IL
months. November l to October 81
preceding, and return said schedule
to the commissioner on or before the
9th of December following receipt of
said schedule.
"It shall be the duty of all State
and county officials, every employer
of labor, and every person engaged in
any industrial pursuit, to give to the
commissioner, or his agents, all neces-
sary information to enable him to per-
form the duties herein required of
him.
Every person or corporation who
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commissioner, his agents or inspec-
tors. in the free and full performance
of his duties, shall be guilty of
misdemeanOr, and. upon conviction
of the same, shall be fined not less
than $40 nor more than $50, or be
imprisoned not less than 10 nor more
than 80 days.
"The commissioner shall have pow
er to send for persons or papers
whenever in his opinion it is neces-
sary, and he may examine witness
under oath, being duly qualified to
administer the same in the perform
ance of his duty, and the testimony
so taken must be filed and preserved
In the Office of the commissioner. He
and his agents and inspectors shall
have free access to all places where
five or more people are employed as
laborers.
"No use shall be made in the re-
ports of the commissioner of the
names of individuals, firms or corpor-
ations supplying the information call
ed for by this act, such information
being deemed confidential and not for
the purpose of disclosing any per-
son s affairs: and any agent inspector