Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-08-04

No e. 81 f Pr hMs M a 70 1911
AN ACT to amend sections 1729m and
1729n of the statutes, relating to
hours of labor on public buildings.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section /. Sections 1729m and
1729n of the statutes are amended to
read: Section 1729m. /. Each and
every contract hereafter made for the
repairing of any public building or
works, to which the state or any Off
Ger or agent thereof is party, which
may involve the employment of labor
contain a stipulation that no laborer,
workman or mechanic in the employ
of the contractor. subcontractor, agent
or other person, doing or contracting
to do all or a part of the work con-
templated by the contract. shall be
permitted to work more than eight
hours in any one calendar day except
in cases of extraordinary emergencies.
2. The phrase "extraordinary emer.
gencies," as used in this section, shall
mean and include only such as grow
out of the necessity of protecting
property or human life when endang-
cred by reason of an attack by the
public enemy or endangered from fire,
| flood or storm
3. This section shall apply only to
such work as is actually performed on
the premises on which such buildings
or works are being erected, construct
| ed, remodeled or repaired.
| Section 1729n. 1. Any officer any
member of any board or commission
i or any person acting under or for such
, officer agent, board, commission or
| member thereof, or any contractor,
subcontractor, corporation, copartner-
| snip, firm or person, or any agent
| thereof, who violates any of the pro-
visions of this act. shall be deemed
guilty OF mlSdemeanOr and upon con-
| Viction thereof shall be punished by a
| fine not exceeding two hundred dol
lars, or by imprisonment for not more
than six months, or by both such fine
and Imprisonment.
2. Amy person, who as an officer or
a member of a board or commission, or
as agent of such officer, board or COM
mission, who executes a contract ViO-
lating any of the provisions of this
act, shall be deemed to be the party
who has violated the. provisions of
this act, and shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanOr, and upon conviction
thereof shall be subject to the pun
ishment herein provided for.
3. Any contractor, subcontractOr,
corporation, copartnership, firm or
person, or any agent thereof, who
provisions of this act shall allow or
permit any Iaborer, workman or me-
chanic in his, it's or their employ or in
the employment of any contractor, sub
contractor, agent or other person I'M
der his, it's or their control or direction,
to work more than eight hours in any
one calendar day, except in cases of
extraordinary emergencies, shall be
deemed to have violated the provis-
ions of this act and shall be subject
to the punishment herein provided for.
4. Whenever it shall be ascertained
that any Iaborer workman, mechanic
or other person worked more than
eight hours in any calendar day in viO-
lation Of subsections and 2, of sec
ton 1729m, the proof of such fact shall
be prima facie proof that such labor
er, workman, mechanic or other per-
son was so required or permitted to
work.
Section 2. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's pas
sage and publication.
Approved May 10, 1911. Copy Law.