Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-04-25
OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1908,
1910 AND 1919 RELATING TO THE
HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT OF
WOMEN AND CHILDREN

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HYMNS OF EMPLOYMENT OF
1t is hereby. enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. Section io44 of the Public
Statutes as amended by section of No. !
A. OF the acts of 1908, by section S of
NO. oo OF the acts of 1910 and by Sec
ton 10 of No. IS of the acts OF 1912
Secs. 57I2 and 57f3 of the General
Laws, as proposed) Is hereby amended so
las to read as follows:
Sec: fo44. (Secs. 57i2 and szf3 G. L..)
A child shall not be employed in any of
the occupations or industries enumerated
III this section unless such child deposits
with the employer certificate from the
commissioner Of industries to the effect
that he is eligible to employment in ac-
cordance with the provisions of this
chapter. A child Under sixteen years Of
age, who has not completed the clcmen-
,tary school course or the rural school
course and the first two years OF the
junior high school course or, if edit
GATED IN private or parochial school,
IS found on examination not to have re-
ceived an equivalent education, shall not
be employed at work connected with rail-
reading or manufacturing or be EN-
ployed in hotel, billiard or pool room
or bowling alley, or in delivering mes
sages, except during vacation and before
and after school. Such a child shall not
be employed more than eight hours in
any day, or more than six days in any
week or earlier than six o'clock in the
morning, or after seven o'clock at night
in any of the occupations or industries
herein enumerated. The superintendent
of schools within and for the school dis
trict where said child resides shall, when
so ordered by the commissioner of edu-
cation, examine said child for the pur-
pose OF determining his eligibility to EN-
ployment in accordance with the pro-
visions OF this section and shall, upon the
completion of such examination, make a
written report thereof to the commits
sioner Of education, who shall forthwith
transmit copy thereof to the commits
sioner of industries.
Sec. 2. Section 1o46 of the Public
Statutes as amended by section I of No.
70 Of the acts of 1910 and by section IL
of No. Is Of the acts of 1919 (Sec. s714
of the General Laws, as proposcd) is
hereby amended SO as to read as fol-
lows:
Sec. 1o46. (Sec. s7I4 GID A child
under fourteen years of age shall not
be employed, permitted or suffered to
work in or about any mill, canncry, work
shop. factory or manufacturing establish
ment.
Sec. 8. Section of No. 70 of the
acts OF 1910 (Sec. 57r5 of the General
Laws, as proposed) is hereby amended
so as to read as follows
Sec. 2. (Sec. Sis G. L. A child
under the age OF sixteen years shall not
be employed, permitted or suffered to
or in any of the following positions:
sewing machine belts in any work shop
or factory, or assisting therein in any
capacity whatever; adjusting any belt to
any machinery; oilng, wiping or clean
ing machinery or assisting therein; op-
Grating circular or band saws, wood shap-
ers, wood jointers, planners, sandpaper
or wood polishing machinery, picker ma
chimes, machines used in picking wool,
machines used in picking cotton, ma
chimes used in picking hair, machines
used in picking any upholstering material,
paper-lacing machines, leathcr-burnish-
ing machines, furnishing machines in any
tannery or leather mandatory, job or
cylinder printing presses operated by
power other than foot power, emery or
polishing wheels used for polishing
metal, woodturning or boring machinery,
stamping machines used in sheet-metal
and tinware manufacturing, stamping
machines in washer and nut factories,
corrugating rolls, such as are used in
roofing and dashboard factories, steam
boilers, steam machinery, or other steam
generating apparatus, dough brakes, or
cracker machinery of any description,
wood or iron Strengthening machinery,
rolling mill machinery, punchers or
shears, washing, grinding or mixing
mills, calendar rolls in rubber manufac-
turing, or laundering machinery; prepar-
ing any composition in which dangerous
or poisonous acids are used; manufacture
OF paints, colors or white lead; cigar
factory, or other factory where tobacco
is manufactured or prepared, or mine
or quarry.
Sec. a. Section l of No. IS of the
acts OF 1919 (Sec. SLY of the General
Laws, as proposedl is hereby amended
SO as to read as follows:
Sec. l. (Sec. SLY G. L. A child
over sixteen and under eighteen years of
age and woman shall not be employed
IN laboring in mine or quarry, manu-
featuring or mechanical establishment
A"SiS uioss SS1i dAiu OIC-HdII IOuTS III any
one day or more than fifty-six hours in
any one week.
Sec. S. Section of No. s. of the
acts OF 1919 (Sec. s7I8 of the General
Laws, as proposed) is hereby amended
so as to read as follows:
Sec. e. (Sec. S7I8 G. L. An EN-
ployer shall post in conspicuous place
in every room in which persons men,
toned in the preceding section are en-
ployed, a printed notice stating the num-
Der of hours work required Of them on
each day of the week, the hours of COM
mencing and stopping work, and the
hours when the time allowed for meals
begins and ends. The printed forms Of
such notices shall be provided by the
commissioner of industries. An employer
who employs such persons at any time
other than as stated in such notice shall
DO guilty Of violation of a provision
of the preceding section, unless it appears
that such employment was to make up
time lost on previous day of the same
week, III consequence of the stopping Of
machinery upon which such woman or
child was employed or dependent for
employment; but stopping Of machinery
tor less than thirty consecutive minutes
shall not justify employment at a time
not stated in such notice.
Sec g. Section 3 of No. s. of the
acts OF 1919 (Sec. 57Io of the General
Laws, as proposedD is hereby amended
SO as to read as follows:
Sec & (Sec s7Io G. ~ woman