Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-18
T. N. Harvey Mgr. Of H.
H. Harvey, Mig. Co
Charged with Violation Of the
Weekly Payments Act
Labor com'r Connolly the Complain.
ant---hearing Continued to Mar. rs

fred NJ. Harvey, manager of the Fl.
III. Harvey Manufacturing Co, was
before the municipal court Tuesday
morning to answer to warrant sworn
out against him by Labor Commits
sioner John +. Connolly and charging
him with the violation of Chapter SO
of the Public Laws of 1911 as amend
ed by Chapter rs of the Public Laws
of 1918, which requires the weekly
payment of wages to employees. The
respondent was represented by Frank
G. Harrington and at request of the
counsel the hearing in the case was
continued to Wednesday, March rs, at
10 o'clock in the forenoon.
Not a small amount of interest CEN
tiers in the case inasmuch as 1t is the
first action of it's kind to be brought
before a Maine court. 1t is under
stood that similar cases have oc-
Cured before, but the difficulties have
been satisfactorily adjusted without
recourse to court. The chapter under
which the above action is brought
reads as follows:
Every manufacturing, mining or
auarrying, mercantile, street railway,
telegraph or telephone corporation,
every incorporated express company
or water company, and every contrac-
tor, person or partnership engaged IN
any manufacturing business, in any OF
the building trades, in quarries OF
mines, upon public works or In the
construction or repair of street rail-
ways roads, bridges or sewers or OF
gas, water or electric light works,
pipes or lines, and every steam rail-
road company or. corporation, shall
pay weekly each employe engaged in
his or it's business the wages earned
by him to within eight days of the
date of said payment, bvt any en-
ploye leaving his or her employment
shall be paid in full on the following
regular pay day, provided. that when
an employee is discharged he shall be
paid the wages due him on demand !;
and the State, it's officers, boards and
commissions shall so pay every me-
chanic, workman and laborer Who is
employed by it or them, and every
county and city shall so pay every
employe who is engaged in its ousl-
ness the wages or salary earned by
him. unless such mechanic, workman
laborer or employee requests IN writlng
to be paid in a different manner; ana
every town shall SO pay each empioye
in its business if so required by him.
but an employe who is absent from
his regular place of labor at a time
fixed for payment shall be paid there
after on demand: The provisions OF
this section shall not apply to an en-
ploye engaged in cutting and hauling
logs and lumber, nor the driving OF
same until it reaches its place on
destination for sale of manufacture;
nor to an employe of cooperative
CORPORATION OF association if he is a
stakeholder therein unless ne re-
quests such corporation to pay him
weekly. No corporation, contractor,
person or partnership shall by spe-
eial contract with an employe or by
any other means exempt himself or It
self from the provisions of this act
Whoever violates the provisions of this
act shall be punished by a fine of not
less than ten nor more than fifty dol
lars"