Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-23

business. The term employer does not
.in2lAdes-uthe, superintendent, agents.
manager, or other persons employed to
manage an establishment or business;
and 1t does not include the foreman OF
room, the boss of gang or the coal
miner who hires his helper. All such
should be returned as employees, for,
while any one of these may employ
persons, none of them does so in tran
sactiag his own business. Thus no in
dividual working for corporation,
either as an officer or otherwise
should be returned as an employer.
A person employing domestic SER
wants in his own home. but not EN-
ploying any helpers in his business, is
not to be considered as an employer
But, on the other hand, person who
is the proprietor of a hotel or board
ing house and employs servants in run
ming that hotel or boarding house,
should be returned as an employer be-
cause he employs these servants in his
business
An employee is defined as any person
who works for wages or salary and
is subject to the control and direction
of an employer The deciding test is
whether the person receives a wage or
salary and is subject to anOther's di-
rections. If so, he is an employee,
whether he be president of large COR
poration or only day laborer; whether
he be paid in money or in kind: and
whether he be employed by his own or
parent or by another. The term en-
ployec does not include lawyers, doc
tors, and others who render profession
al services for fees, and who, in their
work, are not subject to the control
and direction of those whom they
serve. 1t does include actors, profess
sors, and others who are engaged to
render professional services for wages
or salaries. A domestic servant should
always be returned as an employee, ev-
en- though, previously explained, the
person employing domestic servant is
not always returned as an employer.
OTHER SCHEDULE QUESTIONS.
Persons who have a gainful occupa-
ton and are neither employers nor en-
ployees are considered to be working
on their own account. They are the
independent workers. They neither pay
nor receive salaries or regular wages.
Examples Of this class are farmers and
do not employ helpers; professional
men who work for fees and employ no
helpers; newsboys: and. generally
speaking. hucksters, peddlers. boot
blacks, etc.
1t is stated in the instructions that
the purpose of the schedule inquiries
as to unemployed is to ascertain the
measure of enforced unemployed--that
is. the extent to which men want work
and can not find it.
The schedule question, "home rented
or owned is defined as meaning whe-
Their a family owns the home in which
it is living or rents it. If a dwelling is
occupied by more than one family it is
the home of each of them, and the
question should be answered with ref
erence to each family.
A home is to be classed as owned if
it is owned wholly or in part by the
head of the family living in the home
or by the wife of the head, or by
son, or a daughter. or other relative
living in the same house with the head
of the family. 1t is not necessary that
full payment for the property should
have been made or that the family
should be the sole owner.
Every home not owned, either Who'll
ly or in part, by the family living in
il or by some member of that family
should be classed as rented, whether
rent is actually paid or not. All owned
| homes which are not fully paid for, or
upon which there is an incumbrance in
| tine form either of mortgage or of a
| lien upon which Judgment has been
had in a court, are to be reported as
mortgaged.
The inquiry as to whether the per-
son enumerated is survivor of the
Union or Confederate Army or Navy is
to be asked as to all males over 50
years of age who were born in the
United States and all foreign-born
males who immigrated to this country
before 1865.
The inquiry as to blindness applies
only when a person is either Totally or
partially blind in both eyes, so as to
be unable to read even with the help
of glasses. Only persons who are both
deaf and dumb are to be reported I'M
der the question whether deaf ana
dumb" The question concerning school
attendance any time since September
/, 1909, relates only to persons OF school |
age, between and 81 years old. In
case any person outside that age limlt
actually attended school. the fact IS 10
he noted on the schedule.