The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-23

ry their ,own risks on approval of the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation which will administer the law. Do- mestics and agricultural la.borers are exempted.
 The Indiana, law provides no state insurance, but permits the employer to seek it where he chooses, or not at all, if he give proof of his financial ability to pay the compensation. This is fixed at 55 per cent. of the average wage not to exceed 500 weeks and in case of death, burial expenses to the defendants not to exceed $100 and 55 per cent. of the weekly wage for 300 weeks. Domestic servants and agri- cultural laborers are exempt and those engaged in interstate commerce. The law is elective with both eln- p1oyer and employe and Is admins tered by a state industrial comn1is- sion. if; ;Ss ZEE sssS89
 Fifty per cent. weekly wage not to exceed 500 weeks is the basis of the Oklahoma law. Iowa and Alabama are the states which prohibited child labor. Maine adopted a law under which women and boys under sixteen employed in mills, factories and laundries are not permitted to work nAore than 54 hours a week. Pennsylvania enacted a statute limiting the hours of labor of children between IA and 16 years to 51 hours a week. A feature of the
 
 ed must go to vocational school at least eight hours a week which must be computed in the 51 hours, thus making the actual working hours 43. gers under 21 years can be employed by a telegraph, telephone or messen- ger company after o'clock ait night, and that no child under 12 can sell newspapers. A statute along similar lines, fixing at 10 years the minimum
 
 engaged in street trades, was adopted by California. In North Carolina, bills designed to enable officials bet ter to enforce the present child labor laws failed to pass. Massachusetts enacted bill pro- hibiting the employment ow women and children overtime for the purpose of making up for lost time on legal holiday and another requiring in- dustria1 establishments to furnish fresh and pure drinking water for employees and acconnm citations for those who are injured or become i'll A first aid measure, somewhat sir11t- lar to the 1atterA passed in the Wash ington legislature, was vetoed by Gov 1 ernor Lister. Labor unions protested it was drawn in the interest of em- p1oyers alone.
 Alaska adopted an eight hour law for place miners and fpensioned her aged and inoigent prospectors. A bill requiring employers of all kinds [ to grant their employees one days rest in seven was killed in the senate of Wisconsin, but one making such pro- vision for railway employees was passed by the assembly and was al this writing awaiting action in the senate.
 1 ] Other legislation affecting labor was the abolition of the contract prison labor system of Iowa: the en- l actment in California of a bill for the employment of convicts for the build | ing of roads in mountain districts; 8 similar bill in Idaho and a law ir that state compelling county commis- ] sioners to provide emergency work for the unemployed: the establish ment of free labor bureaus in New Jersey, and a law in Utah requiring all mercantile esta ab1ishments, except those handling food and drugs, te close at p. m-, except the week be- l fore Christmas.