Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-02

with the proposed bill regulating child
labor in the territory. This measure
vas drawn up as a result OF conference
es OF the Mems League committee
the Child Welfare committee and 9th
trs and after consideration OF the var
ious bills already offered in the house
and OF the Palmer-Owen bill, which
was before the last Congress, and is
expected to be passed by the next
Congress. 1t is as follows:
| SECTION /. THE LABOR OF
CHILDREN UNDER FOURTEEN
YEARS OF AGE RESTRICTED.
No child under IA years of age shall
be employed. permitted or suffered to
work in. about or in connection with
any mill, canning or other factory,
| quarry, workshop, office, store, mer-
camille. manufacturing or mechanical
establishment, shop. hotel. restaurant,
boarding house, garage, laundry, place
of amusement, brick or lumber yard.
or in the construction or repair of
buildings, in the distribution, trans
mission or sale OF merchandise or in
the transmission of messages.
SECTION 2. FORBIDDING EN-.
PLOYMENT OF CHILDREN UNDER
FIFTEEN. YEARS OF AGE DURING
SCHooL HOURS.
| It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation to employ, permit
or suffer to work any child under 10
years Of age in any business or SER
vice whatever during any of the hours
when the public schools of the district
in which the child resides are in SEES
sion.
SECTION 8. EMPLOYMENT OF
CHILDREN UNDER SIXTEEN IN
DANGEROUS OR UNHEALTHY
TRADES, ETC, FORBIDDEN.
The Board of Health may, after a
hearing duly had, determine whether
or not any particular trade, process Of
manufacture or occupation is ,suffi-
ciently dangerous to the lives or limbs
or injurious to the health or morals
Iof children under 16 years of age to
justify their exclusion therefron. No
child under 16 years OF age shall be
Iiemployed, permitted or suffered to
work in any occupation thus determ-
ined to be dangerous or Injurious to
such children. There shall be right
lof appeal to the Circuit Court from
any such determination. ~ :
1 SECTION 4. HOURS OF LABOR.
| No child under the age Of 16 years
shall be employed, permitted or suffer;
ed to work in, about or In connection
with any establishment or occupation
named in Section for more than six
days in any one week, nor more than
4S hours in any week, nor more than
eight hours in any one day; or before
/ the hour of seven O'clock in the morn:
ing or after the hour of six o'clock in
the evening. ,1 . -.
SECTION S.. PRESIDENT OF THE
BOARD OF HEALTH TO HELP EN-!
FORCE ACT ,..,.a. ...,.4, -,,. ~
For the purpose of securing proper
enforcement Of this act, the President
of the Board of Health or any person
duly authorized by him shall have au-
thority to enter and inspect at any
time during business hours any and
all premises connected with any es-
Establishment or occupation named in
Section Of this Act. T. -,
SECTION s. RECORDS AND EN-
PLOYMENT CERTIFICATES HELD
BY EMPLOYER.
Every person, firm or corporation
employing or permitting child or
children under Is years of age to work
in or about or in connection with any
establishment or occupation named in
Section l shall keep a record of the
name, age and place of residence of
each such child and shall have on
file an employment certificate show
ing the age of each such child and
showing that such child is exempt
from compulsory school attendance
under the provisions of Section 286
of the Revised Laws of 1915, or that
at the time of such employment he is
regularly attending public or approx
ed private school, or If the schools
are not then in session, did so attend
for the school term Immediately pre-
ceding such employment; sucn record
and certificate file shall .1e open at
all times to the inspection of the Pres
ident of the Board Of Health and of
the inspectors duly appointed by him,
to the officers Of the juvenile courts
and to the officers and authorized APP
pointees of the Department o. Public
Instruction.
| SECTION I. ISSUANCE OF EN-.
PLoYMENT CERTIFICATES
An employment certificate shall be
issued only by the Superintendent o,
Public Instruction, or by a person au-
thorized in writing by him to act in
this regard, upon the application in
person of the parent or guardian or
custodian of the child desiring employ
ment; said parent or guardian or Gus.
, todian shall produce as evidence of
the age of the child duly attested
transcript of the birth certificate filed
with the Registrar of the Board Of
Health, or a written statement from
the Registrar that no birth certificate
OF such child is on file in the records
of the Board of Health. In case of
! the presentation Oh such statement
from the Registrar, the parent, guard.