Douglas Island news., 1913-03-12
The Eight-Hour Bill

| OU HTludy, MdrCu (, OeudOoi A'ooo", of Iditarod, introduced Senate Bill No. l, which reads as follows:
 "An Act to declare employment ID all underground mines, underground workings, open cut workings, open pit workings, in, on, or about, or in con nection with, the operation of dredges, smelters, reduction works, stamp mills, concentrating mills, chlorinating pro. cesses and cyanide processes, to be in- I furious to health and dangerous to life and limb: and to regulate and limit the hours of employment iu said occupa' tions:
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska:
 Sec. 1. Employment in all under ground mines, underground workings, !. open cut workings, open pit workings, in, on or about, and in connection with, the operation of dredges, smelters, re, duction works, stamp mills, concen- trating mills, chlorinating processes and cyanide process, is hereby declared to be injurious to health and dangerous to life and limb.
 Sec. 2. That the period of employ ment for all persons who are employed, occupied or engaged in work or labor of any kind or nature, in underground workings, open cut workings, open pit workings, in search for, or in the ex traction of, minerals, whether base or precious, or who are engaged in such underground mines, underground workings, for other purposes, or who are employed, engaged or occupied, in other underground workings of any 4 kind or nature, open cut workings or open pit workings, for the purpose of tunneling, making excavations or to ac complish any other purpose or design, or who are employed, engaged, or who work in, on, or about, and in connec- tion with, the operation of dredges, smelters, reduction works, stamp mills, concentrating mills, chlorinating pro- cesses or cyanide processes, shall not exceed eight (8J hours within any twen- ty-four (24) hours, and the said eight hours shall include the time employed, occupied or consumed in descending to and ascending from the point or place of work in any underground mine, or underground workings, or the time oc cupied or consumed in leaving the sur face of any tunnel, open cut or open pit workings, point or place of work there in, and in returning thereto from said point or place of work, and that it is the purpose or intent of this act that the period of time between leaving the surface of underground workings, open cut workings, open pit workings and tunnels, for the point or place of work and in returning thereto from said point or place of work, shall not exceed eight (S) hours within any twenty four hours, provided that in case of emer- gency, where life and property is in imminent danger, the period of work or labor may be prolonged during the continuance of such emergency.
 Sec. 3. That any person or persons, body corporate, general manager, su- perintendent or employer, who shall violate any provision of this act, and any person who, as foreman, manager, superintendent, director or officer of a corporation, or as employer or superior officer of any person, shall command, persuade or allow any person to violate any provision of this act, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and upon con- yiction therof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not less than one month nor more than one year or by both such fine and imprisonment, and each days violation shall constitute separate offense."
 Referred to committee on capital and labor.
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