The Forrest City times., 1914-06-19
AGAINST ACT No.

AGAINST ACT No. l.
 ,. !, enacted by the People of the State
 of Arkansas:
 aaot,on 1. No child under the age Of .onrteen shall be employed or permitted to work in any remunerative occupation W W. tbj, State, except that during school In.otion In children under fourteen years ,saS he employed by their parents or 1nsrdians in occupations owned or con trolled by thern.
 us.c 2 No child under sixteen years .bsll be employed or permitted to work sn any occupation dangerous to the life and limb. or injurious to the health and ..ora,s of such child; or in any saloon. s..ort or bar where oxcating liquors af any kind are sold or dispensed; nor sbsu any child under the age of sixteen be employed upon the stage Of any thsater or concert hall or in connection g,th any theatrical performance or other .,hibition or show, nor shall any such shild be employed who has not passed Sour yearly grades in the pubic schools AT equivalent thereof.
 sec 8 No child under sixteen shall he employed or permitted to work at any of the following occupations: CD T?5 sewing or lacing machine belts in any workshop or factory; t5) oiling, udoing or cleaning machinery or assist tnq therein: (4) operating or assisting nhines: (a) Circular or band saws; CD wood shapers; Co wood jointers: (d) nIaners: Gel sandpaper or wood polish ing machinery; t) wood turning or boring machinery; (g) picker machines or machines used in picking wool (h) carding machines; d) job or cylinder nrinting presses operated by power Other than foot power; CD boring or drill presses; (k) stamping machines used in metal or in paper or leather manufacturing: 0) metal or paper cut tInr machines; (m) corner staying ma chimes in paper box factories; (n) steam boilers; (o) dough brakes or cracker machinerv of any description; (p) wire or iron strengthening or drawing ma ahinery; Cd rolling mill machinery; (r) washing. grinding or mixing machinery; ss) laundering machinery (5) or in nroxlnity to any hazardous or unguard Id belts machinery or gearing; (6l or upon any railroad, whether steam cleo tric or hydraulic.
 The State Board of Health may. from lime to time, after a hearing duly had determine what other occupations are sufficiently dangerous to the life or limb or injurious to the health or morals of children under sixteen years to justify their exclusion therefrom and no child under sixteen years of age shall be em- ployed or permitted to work in any oc- srpation thus determined to be danger GUS or injurious; and provided that there SAall be right of appeal to the State or Son
 Sec A. No child under the age of six teen snail De employed, permitted or syffered to work in any capacity; CD in, about or in connection with any pro- sesses in which dangerous or poisonous scids or gases or other chemicals are used; (2) nor in soldering; (3) nor in occupations causing dust in injurious quantities; D nor in scaffolding; (5) nor in heavy work Tn the building trades; (6) nor in any tunnel or eScava ton; CD nor in any mine, coal breaker, coke oven. or quarry; (s) nor In a bowl ing alley or pool or billiard room nor in any other occupation dangerous to the life and limb, or injurious to the health and morals of such child.
 Se'. , No child under the age of six teen years shall be employed, permitted r suffered to work for more than six days in any week, nor more than forty sight hours in any day; or before the hours of six in the morning or after seven in the evening.
 Sec. 6 No boy or girl under the age 6 eighteen years shall be employed. permitted or suffered to work in any oc- supation for more than six days in any week, nor more than fifty-four hours in any week. nor more than ten hours in any one day, nor before the hours of six In the morning or after the hour of ten In the evening.
 Sec. I. No person firm or corpora ton shall employ or permit any child under sixteen years to work In or in connection with any establishment or occupation, unless the person. firm or corporation employing such child pro sures and keeps on file and accessible 70 the proper official. an employment certificate as hereinafter provided The employment certificate shall be issued only by the Superintendent or Principal of the Public Schools. or some person authorized by him in writing in the aty, town or township where such child resides or by the Commissioner of La Dor and Statistics or by some person duly authorized by him
 Sec x, The person authorized to issue An employment certificate shall not is cue such certificate until he has received, examined, approved and filed the docu- mentary evidence that the child fs of the age and educational standard repre- sented; nor until he has personally examined the child who shall sign the certificate in the presence of the oficeI Issuing the same. Each certificate shall show the date of its issuance. the name, Sex, date and place of birth and the place of residence of the child, and shall contain a statement of the proof of age accepted and shall certify that the child named in such certificate has appeared before the officer issuing the same
 Sec 9. No member of the School Board or other person shall have authority 10 issue employment certificate to any child then in or about to enter such persons own employment or the em- ployment of a firm or corporation of which he is a member, officer CT em- pieyee
 
 law it shall become the duty of the state Superintendent of Public tnstruc- ton to provide suitable blanks to be Furnished to the Superintendent of ssehools of each district within the state, on which may be recorded con- elusive evidence as to the age and edu- cstonal standing of every child apply Ing for an employment certificate.
 Sec II. The Commissioner of La DOT and Statistics, inspectors of fac tories or mines. probation officers, agents or the Humane Society, truant officers, and other authorized inspectors, may within their respective districts or juris- dlction, visit and inspect at any time any place where children are employed. and shall ascertain whether any minors are employed therein contrary to the provisions of this act; and they shall report to the school authorities any cases of children under sixteen years of age discharged for illegal employment; and truant officers shall also report the same to the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics.
 It shall be the duty of the Commits sioner of Labor and Statistics, factory Inspectors, mine inspectors agents of the Humane Society, probation officers, ruant officers, and other authorized in spectors, charged with the enforcement or this act, to make complaints against any person violating any of the pro- visions of this act and to prosecute the same in a court of competent lurisdic uon And the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics may revoke any employ ment CprfjfiCate iSSuad in viola tiOn of