Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-12-17

III ulallnG OF tprOH1DItlHS SHipfoJHu01e Vi
III children.
"a Thfrty-nine states and the Dis
trict of Columbia have enacted laws
fixing the hours of labor for children
%. Three states and the United
States have enacted laws excluding the
importation of Chinese, and one state
las enacted law prohibiting products
of Chinese labor to be bought by state
officials. I
"a. Twenty-four. states have en-,
acted automatic compensation laws
for injured workmen.
25. Thirty-three states. and the
United States have enacted laws es-
tablishing the eight-hour Workday for
emplt yes of such states. Also on*pub-
tic works.
26. Ten states have enacted laws
prohibiting foremen from accepting
fees for furnishing employment.
II. Seventeen states have enacted
laws establishing free public employ
iment offices. =
38. Twenty-Five states have enacted
laws regulating private employment
offices.
n a29. Sixteen states have enacted
laws requiring examination of BARRIERS;
six states for examination of horse
! shoers; thirteen states for examina-
ton of miners mine foremen, etc;
nineteen states for the examination of
plumbers, and sixteen states and the
United States for the examination Of
steam engineers.
i 80. Forty-eigbt states and the Dis
ltrict of Columbia have enacted laws
preventing or regulating the exemp
ton of wages from. execution, etc.
81. Twenty-four states have enact
ed laws requiring guards for danger
GUS machinery
80. Nine states have enacted laws
making a party guilty of committing
a misdemeanOr who uses the card of
a labor union and does not belong to
lone.
33. Ten states have enacted mini
mum wage laws for women and min
ors.
a. Ten states have enacted laws
requiring official medical report on oc-
cupational diseases.
IS. Eighteen states and the United
States have enacted laws for the pro-
lection of employees as members Of
labor organizations.
SO. Thirty-nine states have enacted
laws for the protection of employees as
voters and allowance of time for vot-
ing.
| 81 Ten states have enacted pre-
vaifing rate of wages laws for employ
es on public works.
| 50. Thirty eight states and the
District of Columbia have enacted laws
providing for seats for female en-
ployes.
80. Two states have enacted laws
requiring union labor to be employed
on public works.
40. Forty states and the United
States have enacted lien laws, where,
in cases of insolvency, the wages Of
the men employed are tie preferred
claims.
Al. Twenty-Five states have enacted
laws protecting the. freedom of en-
nloyes in their purchases anti-com-
any store laws.
"A. Twelve states have enacted laws
declaring that agreements between en-
ployers and laborers, or between en-
ployers and employees, are not conspir-
|acies. ~ .
4S. Fifteen states and the United
States have enacted laws making it il
legal for an employer to demand an
employe to waive his right to sue for
damages arising out of personal injur-
les during employment
"A. Four states and the District of
Columbia have enacted laws establish
ing the eight-hour Workday for women. |
45. Thirty-three states and the Dis |
tr1ct Of Columbia have enacted laws |
making it compulsory to install fire es-
capes on factories, places of entertain
ment and other public buildings. /
IS. Fourteen states have enacted
laws regulating the hours Of labor in
mines and shelters.
A.. One state has enacted law es-
tabiishing an American museum of
safety.
48. Thirty three states and the
United States have enacted laws regu-.
lating the hours of labor for railroad
employees engaged in interstate com.
merce; telegraphers a maximum of Il
nine hours per day in some states and H
eight hours per day in others. A Mkt II
mum OF sixteen hours in any one day II
for railroad employees engaged in op-
GRAFTON Of trains
~. Seventeen states have enacted III
laws authorizing state inspection and
regulation of bakeries; three states
have inspection and regulation of bar
Der shops; forty-one states provide for
me official inspection of safety and II
sanitary inspection of safety and sani-
airy conditions Of factories and work
'nops, places of amusement and other
public buildings; five states and the II
United States authorize official inspee.
Ion OF locomotive boilers land thirteen II
'tates and the United States authorize
ne omcial inspection of steam boilers.
90. Thirty ~three states and the
United states have enacted laws pro-
'ldlng for official inspectors for COAL
ND metalliferous mines,
OIL. Thirty states have enacted laws
the payment of wages in. II
cr1pt or token money. III
~. Nineteen states have enacted
avs for the protection of workmen
mployed on construction of buildings. III
'oS Thirty states and the District of III
Columbia have enacted laws for the Il
rotection of health and safety of en-
loyes on street RAILWAYS II