Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22
Published June 4. 1918.
No. $50, Al

No $50, Al Published June 4. 1918.
CHAPTER 3S1, LAWS OF 1913.
AN ACT-To repeal sections 1928 and
172S-1 of the statutes. and to create
sections 172S--1. 1923, 1928 and
1928 of the statutes, relating to hours
of labor for women, and providing PEN
alties.
The people of the State of Wisconsin
represented in Senate and Assembly.
! do enact as follows:
| Section /. Sections 1928 and 1881 Of
| the statutes are repealed.
Section g. There are added to the stat
utes four new sections to read: Section
l728-1. The following terms as used in
! sections 172S-1 to 1728-4, inclusive, shall
! be construed as follows:
CD The term "place of employment
| shall mean and include any mandatory,
mechanical or mercantile establishment,
| laundry, restaurant, confectionery store,
or telegraph Or telephone office Or ex-
change, or any express or transportation
establishment
| (2) The term employment" shall
mean and include any trade, occupation or
| process of manufacture, or any method
| of carrying on such trade or occupation
| in which any female may be engaged, or
| for any place of employment. as herein
! defined.
CD The term s'empIoyer' shall mean
| and include every person, firm, corpora
| ton, agent, manager, representative, or
other person having control or custody Of
] any employment or place Of employment,
| as herein defined
der" special order" SAFE safety"
and welfare shall be construed as de-
| fined in section 2394-41 of the statutes.
| Section 1728-2 No female shall be en-
ployed or be permitted to work in any
| place Of employment or at any employ
| ment for such period or periods of time
| during any day, night Or week, as shall be
| dangerous or prejudicial to the life, health,
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| be the duty Of the industrial commission
| and it shall have power, jurisdiction and
authority to investigate. ascertain. de-
| termine and fix such reasonable classic
| cation, and to issue general or special Or
| ders fixing a period or periods Of time. or
! hours of beginning and ending work dur
| ing any day, night or week, which shall
| be necessary to protect the life, health,
safety or welfare of any female, or to
carry out the purposes of sections 1873
/ to 1728-4, inclusive, Of the statutes.
Such investigations, classifcations and or
ders, and any action, proceeding, or suit
| order of said commission, or to enjOin the
| enforcement thereof, shall be made pur-
suant to the proceeding in sections 1854
| al to 2394-70 inclusive, of the statutes.
which are hereby made a part hereof, SO
far as not inconsistent with the pro-
visions of sections 172S-1, 172S-2, 1923
8, and 172S-4 of the statutes, and every
order of the said commission shall have
the same fOrce anu eject dS Tie OfuSTS
issued pursuant to said sections 2394-41
/ to 2394-70, inclusive, Of the statutes, and
| the penalties therein shall apply to and be
imposed for any violation of sections
172S-1, 1888, 172S-3 and 1928 Of the
| statutes Until such time as the indus
| trial commission shall SO investigate, as
| certain, determine and fix, and shall issue
! general or special orders thereon, the per-
| iods Of time specified in the attached
| schedule shall be deemed to be dangerous
! or preiudicial to the life, health, safety or
welfare of females.
SCHEDULE.
| AT day work, more than ten hours in
| any one day, or more than fifty five hours
| in any one week.
AT night work, more than eight hours in
any one night, more than forty eight
! hours in any one week.
Day work Is work done between six
o'clock a. M, and eight o'clock p. m, OF
the same day; provided that employ
ment not more than one night in the week
| after eight o'clock p. m. shall not be con-
sidered night work.
Night work is work done between eight
o'clock p. m. and six o'clock a. m. of the
| following day
Less than one hour during each day or
night for dinner or other meals.
Section 1888 Every employer shall
post in a conspicuous place in each of the
several departments in or for which wo-
! men are employed a list on printed
form furnished by the industrial com
|
quired Of each woman during each day
of the week. the hours Of commencing and
stopping work, and the period allowed
for dinner or other meals. Such list need
(, not be posted where time records are kept
for inspection by the said commission for
| period of at least six months prior to
such inspection or where any other sub
stitute equally effective for the enforce
ment of sections 1728-1 to 1728-4, inclu-
sive, is approved by the commission.
| Section 1924. The employment of any
female in any such employment or place
of employment, as defined in section
172S-1 at any time other than those of
the posted hours of labor, as hereinbe-
fore provided for. shall be prima facie
evidence of violation of this act. Every
day for each female employed, and every
week for each female employed, during
which any employer shall fail to observe
| or to comply with any order of the COM
mission, or to perform any duty enjoined
/ by sections 1728-1 to 172S-4, inclusive,
| Of the statutes, shall constitute a separ-
! ate and distinct offense.
Section g. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's pas
sage and publication.
| Approved June e 1913. Copy Law.