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 MANUAL OF THE LABOR LAWS 
 
 ENFORCED BY 
 
 STATE BOARD OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES 
 
 1 BEACON STREET 
 BOSTON, MASS. 
 
 JUNE, 1915 
 
 BOSTON 
 
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 32 DERNE STREET 
 1915 
 
Approved by 
 
 The State Board op Publication. 
 
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 STATE BOARD OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES. 
 
 ALFRED W. DONOVAIST, Chairman, 
 
 EDWIN MULREADY, 
 Commissioner of Labor, 
 
 CORNELIUS J. CARMODY, 
 Deputy Commissioner (Labor), 
 
 THOMAS F. HARRINGTON, M.D., 
 Deputy Commissioner (Medical), 
 
 1 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 406 Globe Building, Fall River, Mass. 
 
 520 Bay State Building, Lawrence, Mass. 
 New Kimball Building, North Adams, Mass. 
 21 Besse Place, Springfield, Mass. 
 
 405 Slater Building, Worcester, Mass. 
 
 JOHN F. TOBIN. 
 
 Mrs. DAVIS R. DEWEY. 
 
 JAMES A. DONOVAN. 
 
 Dr. ALFRED H. QUESSY. 
 
 Main Office. 
 
 Branch Offices. 
 
PKEFACE. 
 
 This manual is published for the convenience of persons con- 
 nected with or interested in the work of the State Board of Labor 
 and Industries. 
 
 In order to state concisely the laws enforced by this Board, it 
 has been thought best to publish the latest enactments concerning 
 the different features of the work, merely giving reference to the 
 laws which have been amended by such enactments. It is in- 
 tended to be a complete statement of the labor laws as affecting 
 this department, including the laws enacted by the General Court 
 for the year 1915. The headlines and the sectional headings 
 printed in bold type are not a part of the law, but are used to 
 facilitate easy reference. 
 
 It should be understood that this manual deals only with those 
 laws which directly or indirectly come within the jurisdiction of 
 the State Board of Labor and Industries. 
 
 June, 1915. 
 
 EDWIN MULREADY, 
 Commissioner of Labor. 
 
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 STATE BOARD OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES. 
 
 Acts of 1912, Chapter 726. 
 
 Appointment. — Section 1. There is hereby established a 
 state board of labor and industries to be composed of five persons 
 who shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and con- 
 sent of the council. The terms of office of the members of the 
 board shall be five years, except that when first appointed one of 
 the members shall be appointed for four years, one for three 
 years, one for two years, and one for one year, the member at 
 that time appointed for five years to be chairman. Thereafter 
 a member shall be appointed each year, for a term of five years. 
 One member of the board shall be an employer of labor, one a 
 wage-earner, one a physician or a sanitary engineer, and at least 
 one a woman. The governor, with the advice and consent of the 
 council, shall have power to fill by appointment for the unex- 
 pired term any vacancy that may occur in the board. 
 
 Commissioner of Labor. — Section 2. There shall be a com- 
 missioner of labor, who shall be appointed by the board. He shall 
 serve for such term as the board may determine, and may be re- 
 moved at any time by the board by vote of a majority of its 
 members. Upon such removal a statement of reasons therefor 
 shall be filed by the board with the governor. The commissioner 
 of labor shall devote all his time to the affairs of the board, under 
 its direction. 
 
 Salaries, Expenses, OiBces. — Section 3. The salary of 
 the chairman of the board shall be fifteen hundred dollars a year, 
 and the salaries of each of the other members of the board shall 
 be one thousand dollars a year. The salary of the commissioner 
 of labor shall be determined by the board, and shall not be less 
 
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 than five thousand nor more than seventy-five hundred dollars a 
 year. The board may incur other necesSary expenses for carrying 
 out the provisions of this act, nnt exceeding the annual appro- 
 priation therefor. It shall be provided with offices in the state 
 house or in some other suitable building in the city of Boston, and 
 elsewhere in the commonwealth if approved by the governor and 
 council. 
 
 Investigation. — Section 4. The board may investigate the 
 conditions existing in any line of industry carried on by inhab- 
 itants of the commonwealth, and such investigations may be ex- 
 tended outside of the commonwealth to procure information for 
 the promotion of industrial development or the improvement of 
 industrial conditions. The board shall receive all complaints con- 
 cerning conditions existing in any industry carried on by inhab- 
 itants of the commonwealth, or concerning alleged violations of 
 any laws enforced under its direction, and shall thereupon make 
 or direct all needful and appropriate investigations and prosecu- 
 tions. It may employ experts or other necessary assistants to aid 
 in the performance of any duty imposed upon it by law. It may 
 make rules not inconsistent with existing law for carrying out the 
 provisions of this act. 
 
 Enforcement of Laws. — Section 5. All powers and duties 
 with reference to the enforcement of laws relating to labor and 
 the employment thereof, the inspection and licensing of buildings 
 or parts of buildings used for industrial purposes, the inspection 
 and licensing of the workers therein and of all other industrial 
 employees within the commonwealth, the enforcement of laws re- 
 lating to the employment of women and minors, and the institu- 
 tion of proceedings in prosecution of violations of any of the said 
 laws, now conferred or imposed by law upon the state board of 
 health or state inspectors of health, or upon the chief of the 
 district police, the inspectors of factories and public buildings of 
 the district police, or the inspection department of the district 
 police, or the deputy chief of the inspection department of the 
 district police, with the exception of such duties and powers as 
 are now imposed by law upon the chief inspector of boilers or the 
 boiler inspectors of the district police, and with the further ex- 
 ception of such powers and duties as relate to the inspection of 
 
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 buildings under erection, alteration or repair, are hereby trans- 
 ferred to the state board of labor and industries. Said board 
 may delegate to such commissioner, deputy commissioners or in- 
 spectors as are under its direction such of the above powers as 
 it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. 
 
 Buildings used for industrial purposes under the meaning of 
 this act shall include factories, workshops, bakeries, mechanical 
 establishments, laundries, foundries, tenement-house workrooms, 
 all other buildings or parts of buildings in which manufacturing 
 is carried on, and mercantile establishments as defined in section 
 seventeen of chapter five hundred and fourteen of the acts of the 
 year nineteen hundred and nine. 
 
 Section 6 . Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent 
 the state inspectors of health from entering buildings used for 
 industrial purposes when required by their duty to protect the 
 health of the community, especially as prescribed by section three 
 of chapter five hundred and thirty-seven of the acts of the year 
 nineteen hundred and seven, except that the duty therein pre- 
 scribed of informing themselves concerning the health of minors 
 in factories is hereby transferred to the state board of labor and 
 industries. The said board shall promptly report to the state 
 board of health all cases of disease in industrial establishments 
 which may affect the health of the community. 
 
 Deputy Commissioners. — Section 7. The board may ap- 
 point not more than two deputy commissioners of labor who shall 
 be under the direction of and responsible to, the co mm issioner. 
 One of the said deputies shall be especially qualified to supervise 
 the enforcement of laws under the jurisdiction of the board which 
 relate to the health of persons employed in buildings used for 
 industrial purposes and shall be charged with that duty. Further 
 division of powers and duties between the deputy commissioners 
 may be made by the board, which shall also fix their salaries and 
 terms of office with the approval of the governor and council. 
 The board shall have power to remove a deputy commissioner 
 from office at any time by vote of a majority of its members. 
 
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 Acts of 1912, Chapter 726, Section 8, as amended by Acts of 1913, Chapter 813, Section 
 8, and by Acts of 1915, Chapter 74 (General). 
 
 Inspectors and Clerical Assistants. — The board shall have 
 power to appoint and remove industrial health inspectors, in- 
 dustrial inspectors, assistant industrial inspectors, and necessary 
 clerical assistants, subject to the laws of the commonwealth re- 
 lating to the appointment and removal of employees in the 
 classified civil service. The total number of industrial health 
 inspectors, industrial inspectors and assistant industrial inspectors 
 shall not exceed twenty-four, of whom at least four shall be 
 women. The state civil service commissioners shall prepare rules, 
 subject to the approval of the governor and council, for including 
 in the classified service all industrial health inspectors, industrial 
 inspectors, assistant industrial inspectors, and clerical assistants. 
 These rules shall provide that candidates for appointments shall 
 pass an examination of a comprehensive and practical character 
 based upon the particular requirements of the kind of work to be 
 done : provided^ that persons employed at the time when this act 
 takes effect as inspectors of factories and public buildings in the 
 inspection department of the district police and not retained in 
 said department, as provided in section twelve of this act, shall be 
 transferred without such special examination, and without regard 
 to age, to serve as industrial inspectors. Such transfer shall not 
 affect any rights of retirement with pension that shall have ac- 
 crued at the date when it is made, or would thereafter accrue to 
 an inspector so transferred, but all such rights shall be retained 
 by any inspector as if he had remained a district police officer. 
 Industrial health inspectors shall be persons admitted to practice 
 medicine in this commonwealth, or persons especially qualified by 
 technical education in matters relating to health and sanitation. 
 
 Inspectors and assistant inspectors shall be not over forty-five 
 years of age on the date of their first appointment, but this age 
 limit shall not apply to any reappointment, or to the first appoint- 
 ment of any person who filed his application for examination by 
 the civil servdce commission for such position prior to the first 
 day of January, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and who was not 
 then over forty-five years of age. 
 
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 Industrial health inspectors, industrial inspectors and assistant 
 industrial inspectors shall devote their entire time to the affairs 
 of the board. 
 
 Each inspector shall, before entering upon his duties, be sworn 
 to the faithful performance thereof. 
 
 The salaries of the industrial health inspectors, industrial in- 
 spectors and assistant industrial inspectors shall be determined 
 by the board with the approval of the governor and council and 
 shall be graded and of sufficient amount to secure competent men 
 and women for the service; provided^ however, that the salaries 
 of the industrial inspectors shall be not less than fifteen hundred 
 dollars a year, and provided, further, that the amount expended 
 by the board in any year for such salaries shall not exceed the 
 annual appropriation therefor. All salaries provided for under 
 this act shall be paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth. 
 
 Inspection Districts. — Section 9. The commissioner of 
 labor may divide the commonwealth into inspection districts, and 
 may assign the number of industrial health inspectors, industrial 
 inspectors and assistant industrial inspectors thereto which he 
 deems necessary, all with the consent of the board. Any order 
 made by a deputy commissioner or inspector may be amended, 
 suspended or revoked by the commissioner of labor or by the 
 board, and any order made by the commissioner may be amended, 
 suspended or revoked by the board. 
 
 Gratuities. — Section 10. Any inspector under the state 
 board of labor and industries who directly or indirectly receives a 
 reward, gift or gratuity on account of his official services, shall 
 be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or 
 by imprisonment for not more than three months; and shall also 
 be discharged from office. 
 
 Inspectors to possess Certain Police Powers. — Section 
 11. For the enforcement of any law within the jurisdiction of 
 the state board of labor and industries, industrial health in- 
 spectors, industrial inspectors and assistant industrial inspectors 
 shall possess the police powers granted by existing law to members 
 of the inspection department of the district police. 
 
 Transfer of Inspectors. — Section 12. The office of inspector 
 of factories and public buildings in the inspection department 
 
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 of the district police is hereby abolished. The inspectors of fac- 
 tories and public buildings who are, at the time of the passage 
 of this act, serving as building inspectors, so-called, shall remain 
 members of the district police force with the title of inspectors of 
 buildings. The total number of such inspectors shall be eighteen, 
 and, upon the taking effect of this act, the governor shall desig- 
 nate from among the inspectors of factories and public buildings 
 who are at the time of its passage serving as factory inspectors, 
 so-called, a sufficient number of such inspectors to remain mem- 
 bers of the district police and to serve as inspectors of buildings 
 to complete this number. The remaining inspectors of factories 
 and public buildings shall, upon the taking effect of this act, be 
 transferred to service under the state board of labor and indus- 
 tries as provided in section eight of this act. Inspectors of build- 
 ings shall have the powers and be charged with the duties of the 
 present inspectors of factories and public buildings of the district 
 police, except as otherwise provided in this act. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 424. 
 
 The inspectors of factories and public buildings of the district 
 police who were transferred to the state board of labor and in- 
 dustries, established by chapter seven hundred and twenty-six of 
 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve, shall, upon 
 their request in writing to the governor, be transferred to the 
 building department of the district police to fill any vacancies in 
 that department which may occur after the first day of June in 
 the year nineteen hundred and thirteen. 
 
 Section 13. [Repealed by Acts of 1913, chapter 746.] 
 
 Acts of 1912, Chapter 726, Section 14, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 533. 
 
 Annual Report. — Section 14. The board shall annually, on 
 or before the first Wednesday in January, submit to the general 
 court a report containing a statement of the character and re- 
 sults of the work performed by it or under its direction during 
 the preceding year and of the expenditures for the year, together 
 with an estimate of the sum required for the ensuing year and 
 recommendations for such additional legislation as the board shall 
 
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 deem necessary. Thirty-five hundred copies of the report shall 
 be printed, of which number twenty-five hundred copies shall be 
 delivered to the said board for distribution. Five hundred copies 
 of those delivered to the board for distribution shall be bound 
 in cloth. 
 
 Repeal of Inconsistent Acts. — Section 15. All acts and 
 parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed; but noth- 
 ing in this act shall be construed as affecting the duties of the 
 bureau of statistics as defined by chapter three hundred and 
 seventy-one of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine. 
 
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 JOINT. BOARD OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES AND 
 INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT BOARD. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 813. 
 
 Powers and Duties. — Section 1. The state board of labor 
 and industries and the industrial accident board, sitting jointly, 
 shall investigate from time to time employments and places of 
 employment within the commonwealth, and determine what suit- 
 able safety devices or other reasonable means or requirements for 
 the prevention of accidents shall be adopted or followed in any or 
 all such employments or places of employment; and also shall de- 
 termine what suitable devices or other reasonable means or require- 
 ments for the prevention of industrial or occupational diseases 
 shall be adopted or followed in any or all such employments or 
 places of employment; and shall make reasonable rules, regula- 
 tions and orders for the prevention of accidents and the preven- 
 tion of industrial or occupational diseases in such employment or 
 places of employment. Such rules, regulations and orders may 
 apply to both employer and employee. 
 
 Hearings. — Section 2. Before the adoption of any rule or 
 regulation by the said joint board a hearing shall be given, and 
 not less than ten days before the hearing a notice thereof shall be 
 published in at least three newspapers, of which one shall be pub- 
 lished in the city of Boston. Such rules or regulations shall upon 
 adoption be published in like manner, and shall take effect thirty 
 days after such publication, or at such later time as the board may 
 fix. Before the adoption of any order a hearing shall be given 
 thereon, of which a notice of not less than ten days shall be given 
 to the individuals, firms, corporations or associations affected 
 thereby. 
 
 Committees. — Section 3. The joint board may appoint com- 
 mittees, on which employers and employees shall be represented, 
 to investigate and recommend rules and regulations. 
 
 Joint Work. — Section 4. The joint board shall make such 
 general arrangements between the two boards as will prevent 
 duplication of effort but the inspection and investigation carried 
 on by the state board of labor and industries shall be a regular 
 
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 and systematic inspection and investigation of all places of em- 
 ployment and the conditions of safety and health pertaining 
 thereto, and the inspection and investigation carried on by the 
 industrial accident board shall be that relating to causes of in- 
 juries for which compensation may be claimed. 
 
 Section 5. Any member or employee of either board may enter 
 any place of employment for any purpose under this act at any 
 time when the place of employment is being used for business 
 purposes. 
 
 Industrial Disease. — Section 6 . The joint board may re- 
 quire every physician treating a patient whom he believes to be 
 sutfering from any ailment or disease contracted as a result of the 
 nature, circumstances or conditions of the patient^s employment 
 to report such information relating thereto as it may require, 
 within such time as it may fix, to the state board of labor and 
 industries, and may issue a list of such diseases which shall be 
 regularly reported upon by physicians and may add to or change 
 such list at any time. Copies of all such reports and all statistics 
 and data compiled therefrom shall be kept by the state board of 
 labor and industries, and shall be furnished on request to the in- 
 dustrial accident board and the state board of health. 
 
 Chairman. — Section 7. All hearings by the joint board shall 
 be open to the public. The chairman of the state board of labor 
 and industries and the chairman of the industrial accident board 
 shall act alternately as chairman of the joint board, and the said 
 board may designate one of the employees of either board to act 
 as secretary. 
 
 Section 8 . Section eight of chapter seven hundred and twenty- 
 six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve ^ is hereby 
 amended by adding at the end of the first paragraph thereof the 
 words : — or persons especially qualified by technical education in 
 matters relating to health and sanitation. 
 
 Inspectors. — Section 9. The industrial accident board may 
 appoint and remove not more than six inspectors, subject to the 
 laws relating to the appointment and removal of employees in the 
 classified civil service. They shall be required to pass examina- 
 
 See page 10. 
 
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 tions of a comprehensive and practical character based upon the 
 particular requirements of the kinds of work to be done, shall be 
 graded in such manner as the board may deem expedient, and 
 shall receive such salaries as the board, with the approval of the 
 governor and council, may fix. 
 
 Joint Board Rulings shall prevail. — Section 10. If any 
 
 rule or regulation made under authority of section eighteen of 
 Part IV of chapter seven hundred and fifty-one of the acts of the 
 year nineteen hundred and eleven conflicts with or differs from a 
 rule or regulation of the joint board, the rule or regulation of the 
 joint board shall prevail. 
 
 Annual Estimate of Expenses. — Section 11. There may 
 be expended annually by the joint board in carrying out the pro- 
 visions of this act such sums as the general court may appropriate. 
 The joint board shall annually submit to the auditor of the com- 
 monwealth such statements of estimates to cover its expenses as 
 are required by section three of chapter seven hundred and nine- 
 teen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve. 
 
 Definitions.^ — Section 12. The following terms and phrases, 
 as used in this act, shall have the following meanings : — 
 
 (a) The term employment shall mean and include any trade, 
 occupation or branch of industry, any particular method or process 
 used therein, and the service of any particular employer; but shall 
 not include private domestic service or service as a farm laborer. 
 
 (b) The phrase place of employment shall mean and include 
 every place whether indoors or out or underground and the prem- 
 ises appurtenant thereto, into, in or upon which any employee goes 
 or remains either temporarily or regularly in the course of his 
 employment. 
 
 (c) The terms ^^safe^^ and safety as used in this act, shall 
 be held to relate to such freedom from danger to the life, safety 
 and health of employees as the nature of the employment will 
 reasonably permit. 
 
 (d) The terms industrial disease and occupational disease ” 
 shall mean and include any ailment or disease caused by the na- 
 ture, circumstances or conditions of the employment. 
 
 {Also see General, page 96.) 
 
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 Penalty for Violation. — Section 13. Whoever violates any 
 reasonable rule, regulation, order or requirement made by the 
 joint board under authority hereof, shall be punished by a fine 
 of not more than one hundred dollars for each offence. 
 
 Repeal of Inconsistent Acts. — Section 14. All acts and 
 parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed; but this 
 provision shall not be construed to take away any of the existing 
 powers of the industrial accident board, the board of railroad 
 commissioners, the state board of health, the board of boiler rules, 
 the boiler inspection department of the district police, or the 
 building inspection department of the district police, or any power 
 given to the state board of labor and industries by chapter seven 
 hundred and twenty-six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred 
 and twelve. 
 
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 MINORS. 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 Revised Laws, Chapter 44, Section 1, amended by Acts of 1905, Chapter 320, by Acts of 
 1906, Chapter 383, by Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 1, and by Acts of 1915, 
 Chapter 81 (General). 
 
 Compulsory School Attendance for Children of Certain 
 Ages. — Section 1. Every child between seven and fourteen 
 years of age, every child under sixteen years of age who does not 
 possess such ability to read, write and spell in the English lan- 
 guage as is required for the completion of the fourth grade of 
 the public schools of the city or town in which he resides, and 
 every child under sixteen years of age who has not received an 
 employment certificate as provided in this act and is not engaged 
 in some regular employment or business for at least six hours 
 per day or has not the written permission of the superintendent 
 of schools of the city or town in which he resides to engage in 
 profitable employment at home, shall attend a public day school 
 in said city or town or some other day school approved by the 
 school committee, during the entire time the public schools are in 
 session, subject to such exceptions as are provided for in sections 
 four, five and six of this chapter and in section three of chapter 
 forty-two of the Revised Laws, as amended by chapter four hun- 
 dred and thirty-three of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 
 two, and by chapter five hundred and thirty-seven of the acts of 
 the year nineteen hundred and eleven; but such attendance shall 
 not be required of a child whose physical or mental condition is 
 such as to render attendance inexpedient or impracticable, or who 
 is being otherwise instructed in a manner approved in advance by 
 the superintendent of schools or the school committee. The super- 
 intendent of schools, or teachers in so far as authorized by said 
 superintendent or by the school committee, may excuse cases of 
 necessarj^ absence for other causes not exceeding seven day ses- 
 sions or fourteen half-day sessions in any period of six months. 
 For the purposes of this section, school committees shall approve 
 a private school only when the instruction in all the studies re- 
 quired by law is in the English language, and when they are sat- 
 
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 isfied that such instruction equals in thoroughness and efficiency, 
 and in the progress made therein, the instruction in the public 
 schools in the same city or town; but they shall not refuse to 
 approve a private school on account of the religious teaching 
 therein. 
 
 Section 2. Every person having under his control a child as 
 described in section one shall cause him to attend school as therein 
 required, and, if he fails for seven day sessions or fourteen half- 
 day sessions within any period of six months while such control 
 obtains, to cause such child so to attend school, he shall, upon 
 complaint by an attendance officer and conviction thereof, be 
 punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars, and no phys- 
 ical or mental condition which is capable of correction, or which 
 renders the child a fit subject for special instruction at public 
 charge in institutions other than public day schools, shall avail 
 as defence under the provisions of this or the preceding section, 
 unless it shall be made to appear that the defendant has em- 
 ploj^ed all reasonable measures for the correction of the condition 
 and the suitable instruction of the child. 
 
 Whoever induces or attempts to induce a child to absent him- 
 self unlawfully from school, or employs or harbors a child while 
 school is in session, shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
 ten nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 Acts of 1915, Chapter 94 (General). 
 
 Transfer Cards for Public School Pupils. — When any 
 child required bj^ section one of chapter forty-four of the Re- 
 vised Laws, as amended by section one of chapter seven hundred 
 and seventy-nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 
 thirteen, to attend school is being educated in any public or pri- 
 vate school or in any institution in any city or town, and leaves 
 such school or institution because of change of residence to an- 
 other city or town in the commonwealth, the superintendent of 
 schools, if the child attends a public school, and the person in 
 charge, if the child attends a private school or is being educated 
 in any institution, shall furnish to such child a transfer card 
 giving the name of the child, his age, his grade in school, and in 
 every case possible, the street and number of his new residence. 
 
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 and shall send without delay a similar transfer card to the super- 
 intendent of schools of the city or town in which the child is to 
 reside. 
 
 Revised Laws, Chapter 42, Section 11, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 590. 
 
 Public Evening Schools. — Any town may, and every city or 
 town in which there are issued during the year from September 
 first to August thirty-first certificates authorizing the employment 
 of twenty or more persons w^ho do not possess the educational 
 qualifications enumerated in section one of chapter forty-four of 
 the Revised Laws, as amended, shall maintain during the follow- 
 ing school year an evening school or schools for the instruction of 
 persons over fourteen years of age in orthography, reading, writ- 
 ing, the English language and grammar, geography, arithmetic, 
 industrial drawing, both free hand and mechanical, the history of 
 the United States, physiology and hygiene and good behavior. 
 Such other subjects may be taught in such schools as the school 
 committee considers expedient. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 805. 
 
 Continuation Schools. — Section 1. When the school com- 
 mittee of any city or town shall have established continuation 
 schools or courses of instruction for the education of minors be- 
 tween fourteen and sixteen years of age who are regularly em- 
 ployed in such city or town not less than six hours per day, such 
 school committee may, with the consent of the board of education, 
 require the attendance in such continuation schools or on such 
 courses of instruction of every such minor thereafter receiving an 
 employment certificate and who is not otherwise receiving instruc- 
 tion approved by the school committee as equivalent to that pro- 
 vided in schools established under the provisions of this act. The 
 required attendance prov^ed for in this act shall be at the rate of 
 not less than four hours per week and shall be between the hours 
 of eight o’clock in the morning and six o’clock in the afternoon 
 of any working day or days. The time spent by a child in a 
 continuation school or class shall be reckoned as a part of the time 
 or number of hours that minors are permitted by law to work. 
 
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 Section 2. Continuation schools or courses of instruction as 
 provided in section one of this act, shall, so long as they are 
 approved by the board of education as to organization, control, 
 location, equipment, courses of study, qualifications of teachers, 
 methods of instruction, conditions of admission, employment of 
 pupils and expenditure of the money, constitute approved con- 
 tinuation schools or courses of instruction. Cities and towns 
 maintaining such approved continuation schools or courses of in- 
 struction shall receive reimbursement from the commonwealth, as 
 provided in section three of this act. 
 
 Section 3. The commonwealth, in order to aid in the mainte- 
 nance of approved continuation schools or courses, shall as pro- 
 vided in this act pay annually from the treasury to cities and 
 towns maintaining such schools or courses an amount equal to one 
 half of the sum to be known as the net maintenance sum. Such 
 net maintenance sum shall consist of the total sum raised by local 
 taxation and expended for the maintenance of such a school, less 
 the amount, for the same period, of tuition claims paid or unpaid 
 and receipts from the work of pupils or the sale of products. 
 
 Section 4. When the school committee of any city or town 
 shall have established a continuation school or courses of instruc- 
 tion as provided in section one of this act, the said school com- 
 mittee may require the attendance, as provided in section one of 
 this act, in such continuation school or on such courses of instruc- 
 tion of all minors between fourteen and sixteen years of age 
 residing in said city or town who are regularly employed in an- 
 other city or town : provided, that the city or town in which such 
 minors are employed does not maintain and require attendance at 
 a continuation school or courses of instruction as defined in section 
 one of this act. 
 
 Section 5. Any minor between fourteen and sixteen years of 
 age who is regularly employed in a city or town other than that 
 in which the said minor resides may attend a continuation school 
 or courses of instruction, as provided in section one of this act, 
 in the city or town in which such minor resides. Any minor at- 
 tending a continuation school or courses of instruction, as herein- 
 before described, in the city or town of his residence in preference 
 to attending such school or courses of instruction in the city or 
 
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 town of his employment, shall file or cause to be filed regularly, 
 at least once a month,* with the superintendent, or his representa- 
 tive duly authorized in writing, of the city or town in which such 
 minor is employed, a report of attendance certified by the superin- 
 tendent, or his representative duly authorized in writing, of the 
 city or town in which such minor is attending school: provided, 
 however, that the filing of such certified report of attendance with 
 the superintendent of a city or town in which attendance at con- 
 tinuation schools or courses of instruction as defined in section 
 one of this act is not compulsory shall not be required. 
 
 Section 6. The employer of any minor between fourteen and 
 sixteen years of age who is compelled by the provisions and regu- 
 lations either of the school committee in the city or town in 
 which such minor resides or of the school committee in the city 
 or town in which such minor is employed to attend a continuation 
 school or courses of instruction as defined in section one of this 
 act, shall cease forthwith to employ such minor when notified in 
 writing by the superintendent or his representative duly author- 
 ized in writing, having jurisdiction over such minor^s school at- 
 tendance, that such minor is not attending school in accordance 
 with the compulsory attendance regulations as defined in section 
 one of this act. Any employer who fails to comply with the pro- 
 visions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
 ten nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence. 
 
 Section 7. The superintendent of schools having jurisdiction, 
 or a person authorized by him in writing, may revoke the age and 
 schooling or employment certificate of any minor who is required 
 by the provisions of this act to attend a continuation school or 
 courses, if such minor fails to attend such school or courses as 
 provided by this act. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 467. 
 
 School Attendance and Employment of Illiterate Minors. 
 
 — Section 1. Every illiterate minor between sixteen and twenty- 
 one years of age shall attend some public evening school in the 
 city or town in which he resides for the whole time during which 
 the public evening schools are in session : provided, that such city 
 or town maintains a public evening school. Attendance at a 
 
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 public day school, or at a private school approved for the pur- 
 pose by the school committee, shall exempt such minor from at- 
 tending a public evening school. This act shall not affect any 
 existing laws regarding the compulsory school attendance of 
 illiterate minors or their employment, but shall be in addition 
 to such laws. 
 
 Section 2. An illiterate minor who wilfully violates any pro- 
 vision of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than five 
 dollars. 
 
 Section 3. Every person having under his control an illiterate 
 minor between sixteen and twenty-one years of age shall cause him 
 to attend a public evening school as hereby required; and if such 
 person fails for six sessions within a period of one month to 
 cause the minor so to attend school, unless the minoEs physical 
 or mental condition is such as to render his attendance at school 
 harmful or impracticable, such person shall, upon complaint by 
 a truant officer and conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of 
 not more than twenty dollars. 
 
 Section 4. Whoever induces or attempts to induce such minor 
 to absent himself unlawfully from school, or employs such a 
 minor except as is provided by law, or harbors such a minor who, 
 while school is in session, is absent unlawfully therefrom, shall be 
 punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 59, amended by Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 
 17, and by Acts of 1914, Chapter 580. 
 
 School Records. — The school record required by section six- 
 teen ^ of this act shall be filled out and signed by the principal or 
 teacher in charge of the school which the child last attended and 
 shall be furnished only to a child who, after due examination and 
 investigation, is found to be entitled thereto. Said school record 
 shall state the grade last completed by such child and the studies 
 pursued in completion thereof. It shall state the number of weeks 
 during which such child has attended school during the twelve 
 months next preceding the time of application for said school 
 record. It shall also give the name, date of birth, and the resi- 
 dence of the child as shown on the records of the school and the 
 name of the parent, guardian or custodian. In case it is found to 
 
 1 See Appendix. 
 
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 be impossible to obtain said school record from the principal or 
 teacher in charge of the school which such child last attended, the 
 requirement of a school record may be waived. 
 
 No such school record shall be issued or accepted and no em- 
 ployment certificate shall be granted unless the child possesses the 
 educational qualifications enumerated in section one of chapter 
 forty-four of the Revised Laws as amended by section one^ of 
 this act. 
 
 No such school record shall be issued or accepted unless the 
 child has regularly attended the public schools or other lawfully 
 approved schools for not less than one hundred and thirty days 
 after becoming thirteen years of age : provided^ however j that the 
 school record may be accepted in the case of a person who has 
 been an attendant at a public day school or other lawfully ap- 
 proved school for a period of not less than seven years, if in the 
 opinion of said superintendent such person is mentally incapable 
 of acquiring the educational qualifications herein prescribed; and 
 provided, further, that the superintendent of schools shall have 
 authority to suspend this requirement in any case when, in his 
 opinion, the interests of the child will best be served by such 
 suspension. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 23. 
 
 Educational Certificates. — No child who is over sixteen and 
 under twenty-one years of age shall be employed in a factoiy, 
 workshop, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment 
 unless his employer procures and keeps on file an educational 
 certificate showing the age of the child and his ability or inability 
 to read and write as hereinafter provided. Such certificates shall 
 be issued by the person authorized by this act to issue employment 
 certificates. 
 
 The person authorized to issue such educational certificates shall, 
 so far as is practicable, require the proof of age stated in section 
 fifty-eight.^ He shall examine the child and certify whether or 
 not he possesses the educational qualifications enumerated in sec- 
 tion one of chapter forty-four of the Revised Laws, as amended. 
 Every such certificate shall be signed in the presence of the per- 
 son issuing the same by the child in whose name it is issued. 
 
 1 See Appendix. 
 
 2 Acts of 1909, chapter 514, section 58. 
 
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 Every employer of such children shall keep their educational 
 certificates accessible to any officer authorized to enforce the pro- 
 visions of this act and shall return said certificates to the office 
 from which they were issued within two days after the date of the 
 termination of the employment of said children. If the educa- 
 tional certificate of any child who is over sixteen and under 
 twenty-one years of age fails to show that said child possesses the 
 educational qualifications enumerated in section one of chapter 
 forty-four of the Revised Laws, as amended, then no person shall 
 employ such child while a public evening school is maintained in 
 the city or town in which the child resides, unless such child is a 
 regular attendant at such evening school or at a day school, and 
 presents to his employer each week a school record of such at- 
 tendance. When such record shows unexcused absences, such at- 
 tendance shall be deemed to be irregnilar and insufficient. The 
 person authorized to issue educational certificates, or teachers act- 
 ing under his authority, may, however, excuse justifiable absence. 
 Whoever employs a child in violation of the provisions of this 
 section shall forfeit not more than one hundred dollars for each 
 offence, to the use of the evening schools of such city or town. A 
 parent, guardian or custodian who permits a child to be employed 
 in violation of the provisions of this section shall forfeit not more 
 than twenty dollars, to the use of the evening schools of such 
 city or town. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 24. 
 
 Industrial Schools excepted. — Nothing in this act shall be 
 construed to prevent children of any age from receiving manual 
 training or industrial education in, or in connection with, any 
 school in this commonwealth: provided^ that the same has been 
 duly approved by the local school committee or by the board of 
 education. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 25. 
 
 Repeal of Inconsistent Acts. — Chapter three hundred and 
 eighty-nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six and 
 chapter three hundred and ten of the acts of the year nineteen 
 hundred and eleven and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent 
 with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 
 
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 EMPLOYMENT CERTIFICATES. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 16. i 
 
 Issuance. — An employment certificate shall be issued only by 
 the superintendent of schools or by a person authorized by him 
 in writing, or, where there is no superintendent of schools, by a 
 person authorized in writing by the school committee, of the city 
 or town where the child to whom it is issued resides during his 
 employment, or in case the child resides outside the common- 
 wealth, of the city or town in which the child is to be employed: 
 provided, that no member of a school committee or other person 
 authorized as aforesaid shall have authority to issue such cer- 
 tificate for any child then in, or about to enter, such personas 
 own employment or the employment of a firm or corporation of 
 which he is a member, officer or employee. 
 
 The person issuing employment certificates shall in each case, 
 before issuing a certificate, receive, examine, approve and file the 
 following papers, duly executed : — 
 
 (1) A pledge or promise signed by the employer or by an 
 authorized manager or superintendent, setting forth the charac- 
 ter of the employment, the number of hours per day during 
 which the child is to be regularly employed and the name and 
 address of the employer, in which pledge or promise the em- 
 ployer agrees to employ the child in accordance with the provi- 
 sions of this act, and to return the employment certificate as 
 provided in section fifty-seven. 
 
 (2) The school record of such child, properly filled out and 
 signed as hereinafter provided. 
 
 (3) A certificate signed by a school or family physician, or 
 by a physician appointed by the school committee, stating that 
 the child has been thoroughly examined by said physician and, 
 in his opinion, is in sufficiently sound health and physically able 
 to perform the work which the child intends to do. 
 
 (4) Evidence of age showing that the child is fourteen years 
 of age, which shall consist of one of the following proofs of age: 
 
 {a) A birth certificate, or a duly attested transcript thereof, 
 
 1 See Appendix. 
 
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 made by a registrar of vital statistics or other officer charged 
 with the duty of recording births. 
 
 (&) A baptismal certificate, or a duly attested transcript 
 thereof, showing the age and date of baptism of the child. 
 
 (c) In case none of the aforesaid proofs of age is obtainable, 
 and only in such case, the person issuing employment certificates 
 may accept in lieu thereof a passport or a duly attested immigra- 
 tion record, or transcript thereof, showing the age of the child, 
 or other official or religious record of the child^s age: provided, 
 that it shall appear to the satisfaction of said person that the 
 same is good and sufficient evidence of the child^s age. 
 
 {d) In case none of the aforesaid proofs of age is obtainable, 
 and only in such case, the person issuing employment certificates 
 may accept in lieu thereof a record of age as given on the reg- 
 ister of the school which the child first attended in the common- 
 wealth: provided j that such record was kept for at least two 
 years during the time when such child attended school. 
 
 {e) In case none of the aforesaid proofs of age is obtainable, 
 and only in such case, the person issuing employment certificates 
 may receive the signed statement of the school physician, or of 
 the physician appointed by the school committee, stating that, 
 after examination, it is the opinion of such physician that the 
 child is at least fourteen years of age. Such physician^s statement 
 shall be accompanied by a statement signed by the child^s parent, 
 guardian or custodian, or in case such child has no parent, guard- 
 ian or custodian, the signed statement of the next adult friend. 
 Such signed statement shall contain the name, date and place of 
 birth and residence of the child, and shall certify that the parent, 
 guardian, custodian or next friend signing the statement is un- 
 able to produce any of the proofs of age specified in this section. 
 Such statement shall be signed in the presence of the person 
 issuing employment certificates by the parent, guardian, cus- 
 todian, or next friend. The person issuing employment certifi- 
 cates may, before issuing a certificate, require the parent, 
 guardian, custodian, or next adult friend of the child to appear 
 and approve in writing the issuance of said certificate. 
 
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 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 18. 
 
 Contents. — The employment certificate required by this act 
 shall state the name, sex, date and place of birth and the place 
 of residence of the child and describe the color of the hair and 
 eyes and any distinguishing facial marks of the child. It shall 
 certify that the child named in such certificate has personally 
 appeared before the person issuing the certificate and has been 
 examined and found to possess the educational qualifications 
 enumerated in section one of chapter forty-four of the Revised 
 Laws, as amended by section one of this act, and that all the 
 papers required by section fifty-eight have been duly examined, 
 approved and filed and that all the conditions and requirements 
 for issuing an employment certificate have been fulfilled. It shall 
 state the gi’ade last completed by said child. Every such certifi- 
 cate shall be signed in the presence of the person issuing the 
 same by the child in whose name it is issued. It shall state the 
 name of the employer for whom, and the nature of the employ- 
 ment in which, the certificate authorizes the child to be employed. 
 It shall bear a number, show the date of its issue and shall be 
 signed by the person issuing it. No fee shall be exacted for an 
 employment certificate or for any of the papers required by 
 this act. Duplicate employment certificates shall not be issued 
 until it shall appear to the satisfaction of the person authorized 
 to issue certificates that the original certificate has been lost. A 
 record ^ving all the facts contained on every employment cer- 
 tificate issued shall be filed in the office issuing the same, together 
 with the papers required by section fifty-eight as amended. A 
 record shall also be kept of the names and addresses of all chil- 
 dren to whom certificates have been refused, together with the 
 names of the schools which said children should attend and the 
 reasons for refusal. All the aforesaid records and papers shall 
 be preserved until such children, if living, shall have become six- 
 teen years of age. Such records and statistics concerning the 
 issuance of employment certificates as may be prescribed by the 
 board of education shall be kept and shall be open to the inspec- 
 tion of said board, its officers or agents. The blank certificates 
 and other papers required in connection with the issuing of em- 
 
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 ployment certificates and educational certificates under this act 
 shall be designed by and furnished to the local school committees 
 by the state board of labor and industries after conference with 
 the board of education, and the approval of the forms thereof 
 by the attorney-general. Said certificates and papers may bear 
 such further and explanatory matter as may be needed to facili- 
 tate the enforcement of this act or to comply with future legis- 
 lative requirements. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 15. 
 
 Employment Certificates. — No child between fourteen and 
 sixteen years of age shall be employed or be permitted to work 
 in, about or in connection with any factory, workshop, manu- 
 facturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment unless the per- 
 son, firm or corporation employing such child procures and keeps 
 on file accessible to the attendance officers of the city or town, 
 to agents of the board of education, and to the state board of 
 labor and industries or its authorized agents or inspectors, the 
 employment certificate as hereinafter provided issued to such 
 child, and keeps a complete list of the names and ages of all such 
 children employed therein conspicuously posted near the prin- 
 cipal entrance of the building in which such children are em- 
 ployed: provided^ however , that children who are over fourteen 
 but under sixteen years of age shall be permitted to work in 
 mercantile establishments on Saturdays between the hours of 
 seven in the morning and six in the evening, without such cer- 
 tificate. On termination of the employment of a child whose 
 employment certificate is on file, said certificate shall be returned 
 by the employer within two days after said termination to the 
 office of the superintendent of schools from which it was issued. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 22. 
 
 Inspection of Employment Certificates. — Inspectors ap- 
 pointed by the state board of labor and industries, agents of the 
 board of education and attendance officers may require that the 
 employment or educational certificates and lists of children who 
 are employed in factories, workshops, manufacturing, mechanical 
 or mercantile establishments shall be produced for their inspec- 
 
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 tion. A failure to produce to any person authorized by this 
 section who requests the same an employment or educational cer- 
 tificate or list required by law shall be prima facie evidence of 
 the illegal employment of any person whose certificate is not 
 produced or whose name is not so listed. A corporation or other 
 employer, or any agent or officer thereof, who retains an employ- 
 ment or educational certificate in violation of the provisions of 
 this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more 
 than one hundred dollars. 
 
 Acts of 1914, Chapter 316. 
 
 Charging of Fees for Certificates prohibited. — It shall be 
 unlawful for any city or town clerk or other official to charge 
 any fee for a certificate relating to the age or place of birth of 
 any minor or to any other fact sought to be established in rela- 
 tion to school attendance, but such certificates shall be issued, 
 upon request, by any city or town clerk. 
 
 EMPLOYMENT. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 56, amended by Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 14, 
 and by Acts of 1913, Chapter 831. 
 
 Minors under Fourteen. — Section 1. No minor under four- 
 teen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in or 
 about or in connection with any factory, workshop, manufactur- 
 ing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, barber shop, boot- 
 black stand or establishment, public stable, garage, brick or 
 lumber yard, telephone exchange, telegraph or messenger office 
 or in the construction or repair of buildings, or in any contract 
 or wage-earning industry carried on in tenement or other houses. 
 No minor under fourteen years of age shall be employed at work 
 performed for wage or other compensation, to whomsoever pay- 
 able, during the hours when the public schools are in session or 
 shall be employed at work before half-past six o^clock in the 
 morning or after six oVdock in the evening. 
 
 Minors under Sixteen. — Section 2. No minor under six- 
 teen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in op- 
 erating or assisting in operating any of the following machines: 
 (1) circular or band saws, (2) wood shapers, (3) wood jointers. 
 
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 (4) planers, (5) picker machines or machines used in picking 
 wool, cotton, hair or any other material, (6) paperlace machines, 
 (7) leather burnishing machines, (8) job or cylinder printing 
 presses operated by power other than foot power, (9) stamp- 
 ing machines used in sheet metal and tinware or in paper or 
 leather manufacturing or in washer and nut factories, (10) 
 metal or paper cutting machines, (11) corner staying machines 
 in paper box factories, (12) corrugating rolls such as are used 
 in corrugated paper or in rooting, or washboard factories, (13) 
 steam boilers, (14) dough brakes or cracker machinery of any 
 description, (15) wire or iron straightening or drawing ma- 
 chinery, (16) rolling mill machinery, (17) power punches or 
 shears, (18) washing or grinding or mixing machinery, (19) 
 calender rolls in paper and rubber manufacturing or other 
 heavy rolls driven by power, (20) laundering machinery, (21) 
 upon or in connection with any dangerous electrical machinery or 
 appliances. 
 
 Section 3. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be em- 
 ployed or permitted to work in any capacity in adjusting, or 
 assisting in adjusting any hazardous belt to any machinery, or 
 in oiling or cleaning hazardous machinery, or in proximity to any 
 hazardous or unguarded belts, machinery or gearing while such 
 machinery or gearing is in motion; nor on scaffolding; nor in 
 heavy work in the building trades; nor in stripping, assorting, 
 manufacturing or packing tobacco; nor in any tunnel; nor in 
 a public bowling alley; nor in a pool or billiard room. 
 
 Section 4. The state board of labor and industries may from 
 time to time, after a hearing or hearings duly held, determine 
 whether or not any particular trade, process of manufacture or 
 occupation in which the employment of minors under the age of 
 sixteen years is not already forbidden by law, or any particular 
 method of carrying on such trade, process of manufacture or 
 occupation, is sufficiently dangerous or is sufficiently injurious 
 to the health or morals of minors under sixteen years of age to 
 justify their exclusion therefrom. No minor under stxteen years 
 of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any trade, 
 process or occupation thus determined to be dangerous or in- 
 jurious to such minors. 
 
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 Minors under Eighteen. — Sectio^st 5. No minor under 
 eighteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work: 
 (1) in or about blast furnaces; (2) in the operation or manage- 
 ment of hoisting machines; (3) in oiling or cleaning hazardous 
 machinery in motion; (4) in the operation or use of any polish- 
 ing or buffing wheel; (5) at switch tending; (6) at gate tending; 
 (7) at track repairing; (8) as a brakeman, fireman, engineer, 
 motorman or conductor upon a railroad or railway; (9) as a 
 fireman or engineer upon any boat or vessel; (10) in operating 
 motor vehicles of any description; (11) in or about establish- 
 ments wherein gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite or other 
 high or dangerous explosive is manufactured or compounded; 
 (12) in the manufacture of white or yellow phosphorus or phos- 
 phonis matches; (13) in any distillery, brewery, or any other 
 establishment where malt or alcoholic liquors are manufactured, 
 packed, wrapped or bottled; (14) in that part of any hotel, 
 theatre, concert hall, place of amusement or other establishment 
 where intoxicating liquors are sold. The provisions of this sec- 
 tion shall not prohibit the employment of minors in drug stores. 
 
 SECTioisr 6 . The state board of labor and industries may from 
 time to time, after a hearing or hearings duly held, determine 
 whether or not any particular trade, process of manufacture or 
 occupation, in which the employment of minors under the age of 
 eighteen years is not already forbidden by law, or any particular 
 method of carrying on such trade, process of manufacture or occu- 
 pation, is sufficiently dangerous or is sufficiently injurious to the 
 health or morals of minors under eighteen years of age to justify 
 their exclusion therefrom. No minor under eighteen years of age 
 shall be employed or peiToitted to work in any trade, process or 
 occupation thus determined to be dangerous or injurious to such 
 minors. 
 
 Persons under Twenty-one. — Section 7. No person under 
 twenty-one years of age shall be employed or permitted to work 
 in, about or in connection with any saloon or bar room where 
 alcoholic liquors are sold. No such person in any employment 
 shall knowingly be taken, sent or caused or permitted to be sent, 
 to any disorderly house or house of prostitution or assignation or 
 other immoral place of resort or amusement. 
 
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 Section 8 . No minor under sixteen years of age shall be em- 
 ployed or permitted to work in, about or in connection with any 
 establishment or occupation named in section one for more than 
 six days in any one week, nor more than forty-eight hours in any 
 one week, nor more than eight hours in any one day, nor before 
 the hour of half-past six o’clock in the morning, nor after the hour 
 of six o’clock in the evening of any day. 
 
 Section 9. No boy under the age of eighteen years and no 
 girl under the age of twenty-one years shall be employed or per- 
 mitted to work in, about or in connection with any establishment 
 or occupation named in section one for more than six days in any 
 one week, nor more than fifty-four hours in any one week, nor 
 more than ten hours in any one day, nor before the hour of five 
 o’clock in the morning, nor after the hour of ten o’clock in the 
 evening, nor in the manufacture of textile goods after the hour of 
 six o’clock in the evening. 
 
 Section 10. Except for the delivery of messages directly con- 
 nected with the business of conducting or publishing a newspaper, 
 to a newspaper office or directly between newspaper offices, no 
 person under the age of twenty-one years shall be employed or 
 permitted to work as messenger for a telegraph, telephone or 
 messenger company in the distribution, transmission or delivery 
 of goods or messages before five o’clock in the morning or after 
 ten o’clock in the evening of any day. 
 
 Acts of 1906, Chapter 463, Part III, Section 89. 
 
 Sales by Children upon Street Cars. — If a street railway 
 company, its agent or servant, allows a child under the age of 
 ten years to enter upon or into any of its cars for the purpose 
 of selling newspapers or other articles therein or offering them 
 for sale, it shall forfeit fifty dollars for each offence, which shall 
 be recovered by any person by an action brought within three 
 months after the offence has been committed. 
 
 Revised Laws, Chapter 65, Section 18. 
 
 Minors under Fifteen Years peddling without License. 
 
 — A parent or other person who employs a minor under the age 
 of fifteen years in peddling without a license if one is required 
 
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 or who, having the care or custody of such minor, permits him 
 to engage in such employment shall be punished by a fine of not 
 more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more 
 than six months. 
 
 Revised Laws, Chapter 212, Section 52. 
 
 Employing Children to beg. — A parent or other person who 
 employs a minor under the age of fifteen years in begging or who, 
 having the care or custody of such minor, permits him to engage 
 in such employment shall be punished by a fine of not more than 
 two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six 
 months. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 831. 
 
 Street Trades. — Section- 11. No boy under twelve years of 
 age and no girl under eighteen years of age shall, in any city 
 having a population of over fifty thousand inhabitants, sell, expose 
 or offer for sale any newspapers, magazines, periodicals, or any 
 other articles of merchandise of any description, or exercise the 
 trade of bootblack or scavenger, or any other trade, in any street 
 or public place. 
 
 Section 12. No boy under sixteen years of age shall, in any 
 city having a population of over fifty thousand inhabitants, engage 
 in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in the preceding 
 section, unless he complies with all of the provisions of this act 
 and with all of the legal requirements concerning school attend- 
 ance, and unless a badge as hereinafter provided shall have been 
 issued to him by the officer authorized to issue employment certifi- 
 cates in the city or town where such boy resides. 
 
 Section 13. Such badge shall not be issued until the officer 
 issuing the same shall have received, examined, approved and filed 
 evidence that such boy is twelve years of age or upwards, which 
 shall consist of the proof of age required for the issuing of an 
 employment certificate. Such officer may refuse to issue such 
 badge to any boy who, in his opinion after due investigation,* is 
 found to be physically or mentally incompetent or unable to do 
 such work in addition to the regular school attendance required 
 by law. 
 
 Section 14. The badge herein required shall be worn, conspicu- 
 ously exposed at all times, by such boy while so working. No boy 
 
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 to whom the said badge has been issued shall transfer the same to 
 any other boy. He shall exhibit the same upon demand at any 
 time to any officer charged with the duty of enforcing the pro- 
 visions of this act which relate to street trades. The school com- 
 mittee of any city may make further regulations and requirements 
 for the issuance of the badge required by this act. 
 
 Section 15. Ho boy under sixteen years of age shall engage 
 in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in section eleven in 
 any street or public place after nine o^clock in the evening or be- 
 fore five o^clock in the morning of any day, nor, unless provided 
 with an employment certificate, during the hours when the public 
 schools in the* city where such boy resides, or the schools which 
 such boy attends, are in session. 
 
 Time Notice for Minors. — Section 16. Except as provided 
 in section seventeen, every person employing any minor in any 
 establishment mentioned in this act shall post and keep posted in 
 a conspicuous place in the room where such minor is employed or 
 permitted to work a printed notice stating the number of hours 
 such minor is required or permitted to work on each day of the 
 week, with the total for the week, the hours of commencing and 
 stopping work and the hours when the time allowed for meals 
 begins and ends for each day of the week. 
 
 The employment of any minor at any time other than as stated 
 in said printed notice shall be deemed a violation of the provisions 
 of this section. The terms of such notice for any week or part 
 thereof shall not be changed after the beginning of labor on the 
 first day of the week, without the written consent of the commis- 
 sioner of labor. 
 
 Section 17. Every employer who employs any minor subject 
 to the provisions of this act and who is engaged in furnishing 
 public service shall post in a conspicuous place in every room in 
 which such persons are employed a printed notice stating sep- 
 arately the hours of employment for each shift or tour of duty 
 and the time allowed for meals. 
 
 A list by name of minor employees, stating in which shift each 
 is employed, shall be kept on file at each place of employment for 
 inspection by employees and officers charged with the enforcement 
 of the law. 
 
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 The provisions of this act, so far as they relate to hours of em- 
 ployment of minors of eighteen years or over, shall not apply to 
 such employers in cases of extraordinary emergency or extra- 
 ordinary public requirement, but in such cases no employment 
 contrary to the provisions of this act shall be considered as legal- 
 ized until a written report of the day and hour of its occurrence 
 and its duration is sent to the commissioner of labor. 
 
 Section 18. The state board of labor and industries, after ap- 
 proval by the attorney-general, shall furnish the printed forms of 
 the laws and notices required by this act, upon application, to all 
 persons required to post the same. 
 
 Enforcement. — The inspectors of the state board of labor and 
 industries shall visit and inspect the places of employment men- 
 tioned in this act and shall ascertain whether any minors are em- 
 ployed therein contrary to the provisions of this act, and shall 
 prosecute violations thereof. They shall report to the school au- 
 thorities any cases of children under sixteen years of age dis- 
 charged for illegal employment. Any person shall have the right 
 to prosecute violations of this act. 
 
 Section 19. The provisions of this act ^ relating to minors en- 
 gaged in the occupations mentioned in section eleven shall be en- 
 forced by the truant officers and school attendance officers, who 
 are hereby vested with full police power for the purpose, and by 
 police officers. The school committee of each city may appoint 
 or designate one or more special truant or attendance officers to 
 have supervision over minors engaged in such occupations and 
 over the enforcement of the said provisions. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779. 
 
 Powers and Duties of Attendance Officers and Industrial 
 Inspectors. — Section 20. Attendance officers may visit ftae fac- 
 tories, workshops, manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile 
 establishments, theatres, and places of public exhibition in their 
 several cities and towns and ascertain whether any children are 
 employed therein contrary to the provisions of this act and shall 
 report in writing any cases of such illegal employment to the 
 
 1 Acts of 1913, chapter 831. 
 
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 superintendent of schools or the school committee and to the 
 state board of labor and industries or its authorized officers or 
 agents. Inspectors appointed by the state board of labor and 
 industries shall visit all factories, workshops, manufacturing, 
 mechanical and mercantile establishments within their respective 
 districts, and ascertain whether any children are employed therein 
 contrary to the provisions of this act, and shall enter complaint 
 against whomever is found to have \dolated any of said provi- 
 sions. An inspector who knowingly or wilfully violates any 
 provision of this section may be punished by a fine of not more 
 than one hundred dollars. 
 
 Section 21. An attendance officer shall apprehend and take 
 to school, without a warrant, any child under the age of twenty- 
 one years who is employed in any factory, workshop, manufac- 
 turing, mechanical or mercantile establishment in violation of 
 the provisions of this act, or who is employed in any theatre or 
 place of public exhibition contrary to the provisions of this act, 
 and such attendance officer shall forthwith report to the police, 
 district or municipal court or trial justice within whose judicial 
 district the illegal employment occurs, the evidence in his posses- 
 sion relating to the illegal employment of any child so appre- 
 hended, and shall make complaint against whomever the court or 
 trial justice may direct. An attendance officer who knowingly 
 and wilfully violates any provision of this section may be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for each 
 offence. 
 
 Hours of Labor, Time Notices, etc. {See Women and 
 Minors, page 44.) 
 
 Night Employment in Manufacturing. {See Women and 
 Minors, page 47.) 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 831. 
 
 Penalties. — Section 20. Any person who, whether by him- 
 self or for others, or through agents, servants or foremen em- 
 ploys, induces or permits any minor to work contrary to any of 
 the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
 meanor, and shall, for a first offence, be punished by a fine of 
 not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or by im- 
 
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 prisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine 
 and imprisonment; and for a second or subsequent offence, by 
 a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred 
 dollars or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by 
 both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 The employment of any minor in violation of any provision of 
 this act after the person employing such minor has been notified 
 thereof in writing by any authorized inspector, school attendance 
 officer or truant officer, shall constitute a separate offence for 
 every day during which the employment continues. 
 
 Section 21. Any person who hinders or delays any author- 
 ized inspector, school attendance officer, or truant officer in the 
 performance of his duties, or who refuses to admit to or locks 
 out any such inspector or officer from any place which such 
 inspector or officer is authorized to inspect, or who refuses to give 
 to such inspector or officer such information as may be required 
 for the proper enforcement of this act, shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less 
 than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or 
 by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both such 
 fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Section 22. Any person who furnishes or sells to any minor 
 any article of any description with the knowledge that the minor 
 intends to sell such articles in violation of any provision of this 
 act, or after having received written notice to this effect from 
 any officer charged with the enforcement of any provision of 
 this act, or any person who knowingly procures or encourages 
 any minor to violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine 
 of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, 
 or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both 
 such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Section 23. Any parent, guardian or custodian having a 
 minor under his control, who compels or permits such minor to 
 work in violation of any provision of this act, or who knowingly 
 certifies to any materially false statement for the purpose of 
 obtaining the illegal employment of such minor, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall for the first 
 offence be punished by a fine of not less than two dollars nor 
 
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 more than ten dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than 
 five days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and for a 
 second or subsequent offence he shall be punished by a fine of 
 not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, or 
 by imprisonment for not more than ten days, or by both such 
 fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Section 24. Any inspector, school attendance officer, truant 
 officer, superintendent of schools or other person authorized to 
 issue the badges required by this act, or any other person charged 
 with the enforcement of any of the provisions of this act, who 
 knowingly violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions 
 of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon 
 conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dol- 
 lars nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for 
 not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Section 25. Any minor who shall engage in any of the trades 
 or occupations mentioned in section eleven in violation of any 
 provision of this act shall, for the first offence, be warned by 
 the officers whose duty it is to enforce the provisions of this 
 act relating to street trades, and the parent, guardian or cus- 
 todian shall be notified. In case of a second violation, such 
 minor may be arrested and dealt with as a delinquent child, or, 
 if over seventeen years of age, shall be punished by a fine not 
 exceeding fifteen dollars upon the recommendation of the prin- 
 cipal or chief executive officer of the school which such minor 
 is attending, or upon the complaint of any school attendance 
 officer, truant officer, police officer or probation officer, the badge 
 of any minor who violates any provision of this act, or who 
 becomes delinquent or fails to comply with all legal requirements 
 concerning school attendance, may be revoked by the officer issu- 
 ing the same for a period of three months and the badge taken 
 from such minor. The refusal of any minor to surrender such 
 badge, or the working at any of the occupations mentioned in 
 section eleven by any minor after notice of the revocation of 
 such badge, shall be deemed a violation of this act. 
 
 Section 26. Police, district and municipal courts and trial 
 justices and the Boston juvenile court as to minors under seven- 
 teen years of age shall have jurisdiction of offences arising under 
 
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 this act. A summons or warrant issued by any such court or 
 justice may be served at the direction of the court or magistrate 
 by an inspector of the state board of labor and industries or 
 by a truant officer or school attendance officer, or by any officer 
 qualified to serve criminal process. 
 
 {See also Women and Minors, page 46.) 
 
 Section 27. Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply 
 to the juvenile reformatories, other than the Massachusetts re- 
 formatory, or to pi“event minors of any age from receiving 
 manual training or industrial education in or in connection with 
 any school in this commonwealth which has duly been approved 
 by the school committee or by the board of education. 
 
 Repeal of Previous Inconsistent Acts. — Section 28. All 
 acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this 
 act are hereby repealed. 
 
 Educational Certificates. {See Education, page 24.) 
 Employment Certificates. {See Employment Certificates, 
 page 29.) 
 
 Employment of Illiterate Minors. {See Education, page 22.) 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 61, amended by Acts of 1910, Chapter 249, by Acts o 
 1913, Chapter 779, Section 19, and by Acts of 1915, Chapter 70 (General) . 
 
 Penalty for Illegal Employment and for altering Cer- 
 tificates. — Whoever employs a person under the age of sixteen 
 years, and whoever procures or, having under his control a per- 
 son under sixteen years of age, permits such person to be em- 
 ployed in violation of the provisions of sections fifty-six or 
 fifty-seven of this act, shall for each offence be punished by a 
 fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or by 
 imprisonment for not more than thirty days; and whoever con- 
 tinues to employ a person under sixteen years of age in violation 
 of the provisions of either of said sections, after being notified 
 thereof by a school attendance officer or by an inspector appointed 
 by the state board of labor and industries, shall for every day 
 thereafter while such employment continues be punished by a fine 
 of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, or by 
 imprisonment for not more than sixty days; and whoever forges, 
 or procures to be forged, or assists in forging a certificate of 
 
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 birth or other evidence of the age of such person, and whoever 
 presents or assists in presenting a forged certificate or evidence 
 of birth to the superintendent of schools or to a person author- 
 ized by law to issue certificates, for the purpose of fraudulently 
 obtaining the employment certificate required by this act, shall be 
 punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than five hun- 
 dred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, 
 or by both such fine and imprisonment. Whoever, being author- 
 ized to sign an employment certificate, knowingly certifies to any 
 materially false statement therein shall be punished by a fine of 
 not less than ten nor more than two hundred dollars. Whoever, 
 without authority, alters an employment certificate after the same 
 is issued shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 76. 
 
 Public Exhibition of Children. — No person shall employ, 
 exhibit or sell, apprentice or give away, a child under fifteen 
 years of age for the purpose of employing or exhibiting him 
 in dancing on the stage, playing on musical instruments, singing, 
 walking on a wire or rope, or riding or performing as a gym- 
 nast, contortionist or acrobat in a circus, theatrical exhibition 
 or in any public place, or cause, procure or encourage such child 
 to engage therein; but the provisions of this section shall not 
 prevent the education of children in vocal and instrumental music 
 or dancing or their employment as musicians in a church, chapel, 
 school or school exhibition, or prevent their taking part in any 
 festival, concert or musical exhibition upon the special written 
 permission of the mayor and aldermen of a city or of the select- 
 men of a town. Whoever violates the provisions of this section 
 shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars 
 or by imprisonment for not more than six months. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 73. 
 
 Children forbidden to clean Machinery in Motion. — 
 
 Whoever, either for himself or as superintendent, overseer or 
 agent permits a child under fourteen years of age to clean any 
 
part of the machinery in a factory, if it is in motion by the aid 
 of steam, water or other mechanical power, or if it is in danger- 
 ous proximity to such moving part, shall be punished by a fine 
 of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each 
 ofience. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 77. 
 
 A license shall not be granted for a theatrical exhibition or 
 public show in which children under fifteen years of age are 
 employed as acrobats or contortionists or in any feats of gym- 
 nastics or equestrianism, or in which such children who belong 
 to the public schools are employed or allowed to take part as 
 performers on the stage in any capacity, or if, in the opinion 
 of the board authorized to grant licenses, such children are em- 
 ployed in such a manner as to corrupt their morals or impair 
 their health; but the provisions of this section shall not prevent 
 the granting of special permission authorized by the preceding 
 section. 
 
 Seats for Children. {See Women and Minors, page 49.) 
 Meal Hours for Young Persons. {See Women and Minors, 
 page 49.) 
 
 Duties of Inspectors regarding Health of Minors. {See 
 Health, Inspection, page 60.) 
 
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 WOMEN AND MINORS. 
 
 APPRENTICESHIP. 
 
 Revised Laws, Chapter 155. 
 
 Male and Female Minors as Apprentices or Servants. — 
 
 Section 1. A child under the age of fourteen years may be 
 bound as an apprentice or servant until that age; and a minor 
 above said age may be bound as an apprentice or servant, a fe- 
 male to the age of eighteen j^ears or to the time of her marriage 
 within that age, and a male to the age of twenty-one years. 
 
 Section 2. A child under the age of fourteen years may be 
 bound by the father, or, in case of his death or incompetency, 
 by the mother or legal guardian. If illegitimate, he or she may 
 be bound by the mother during the lifetime of the putative father 
 as well as after his decease. If such children have no parent 
 competent to act and no guardian, they may, with the approval 
 of the selectmen of the town in which they reside, bind them- 
 selves. The power of a mother to bind her children shall cease 
 upon her subsequent marriage and shall not be exercised by her- 
 self or by her husband during the continuance of such marriage. 
 
 Section 3. A minor above the age of fourteen years may be 
 bound in the same manner, but, if bound by his parent or guard- 
 ian, the indenture shall recite his consent and shall be signed by 
 him. 
 
 Certain Minors may be bound by Overseers of Poor. — 
 
 Section 4. A minor child who is, or either of whose parents is, 
 chargeable to a town as having a lawful settlement therein or 
 supported there at the expense of the commonwealth may, whether 
 under or above the age of fourteen years, be so bound by the 
 overseers of the poor, a female to the age of eighteen years or 
 to the time of her marriage within that age, and a male to the 
 age of twenty-one years; and provision shall be made in the con- 
 tract for teaching such minor reading, writing and arithmetic, 
 and for such other instruction, benefit and allowance, either 
 within or at the end of the term, as the overseers may require. 
 
 Indenture to be made. — Section 5. A minor shall not be 
 bound as an apprentice or servant except by an indenture of 
 
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 two parts sealed and delivered by both parties; and if a minor 
 is bound with the approval of the selectmen, they shall certify 
 such approval in writing upon each part of the indenture. 
 
 Section 6 . One part of the indenture shall be kept for the use 
 of the minor by the parent or guardian who executes it, and, if 
 made with the approval of the selectmen or by the overseers of 
 the poor, shall be deposited with the town clerk for the use of 
 the minor. 
 
 Discharge of Apprentice by Death of Master or Mistress. 
 
 — Section 18. No indenture of apprenticeship or of ’service 
 made in pursuance of this chapter shall bind the minor after the 
 death of his master, but the apprenticeship or service shall be 
 thereby discharged, and the minor may be bound out anew. 
 
 Section 19. The foregoing provisions of this chapter shall 
 apply as well to mistresses as to masters. 
 
 EMPLOYMENT. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 48, amended by Acts of 1911, Chapter 484; Acts 
 of 1912, Chapter 477; Acts of 1913, Chapter 758; Acts of 1915, Chapter 57 (General). 
 
 Hours of Labor, Time Notices, etc. — No child under eighteen 
 years of age and no woman shall be employed in laboring in any 
 factory or workshop, or in any manufacturing, mercantile, me- 
 chanical establishment, telegraph office or telephone exchange, or 
 by any express or transportation company, more than ten hours 
 in any one day; and in no case shall the hours of labor exceed 
 fifty-four in a week except that in manufacturing establishments 
 where the employment is by seasons, the number of such hours in 
 any week may exceed fifty-four, but not fifty-eight, provided that 
 the total number of such hours in any year shall not exceed an 
 average of fifty-four hours a week for the whole year, excluding 
 Sundays and holidays; and if any child or woman shall be em- 
 ployed in more than one such place the total number of hours of 
 such employment shall not exceed fifty-four hours in any one 
 week. Every employer, except those employers hereinafter des- 
 ignated, shall post in a conspicuous place in every room in which 
 such persons are employed a printed notice stating the number of 
 hours’ work required of them on each day of the week, the hours 
 of beginning and stopping work, and the hours when the time 
 
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 allowed for meals begins and ends or, in the case of mercantile es- 
 tablishments and of establishments exempted from the provisions 
 of sections sixty-seven and sixty-eight, the time, if any, allowed 
 for meals. The printed forms of such notices shall be provided 
 by the state board of labor and industries, after approval by the 
 attorney-general. The employment of any such person at any 
 time other than as stated in said printed notice shall be deemed 
 a violation of the provisions of this section unless it appears that 
 such employment was to make up time lost on a previous day of 
 the same week in consequence of the stopping of machinery upon 
 which such person was employed or dependent for employment; 
 but no stopping of machinery for less than thirty consecutive 
 minutes shall justify such overtime employment, nor shall such 
 overtime employment be authorized until a written report of the 
 day and hour of its occurrence and its duration is sent to the 
 state board of labor and industries, nor shall such overtime em- 
 ployment be authorized because of the stopping of machinery for 
 the celebration of any holiday. Every employer engaged in fur- 
 nishing public service or in any other kind of business in respect 
 to which the state board of labor and industries shall find that 
 public necessity or convenience requires the employment of chil- 
 dren under the age of eighteen or women by shifts during different 
 periods or parts of the day, shall post in a conspicuous place in 
 every room in which such persons are employed a printed notice 
 stating separately the hours of employment for each shift or tour 
 of duty and the amount of time allowed for meals. Printed forms 
 of such notices shall be provided by the state board of labor and 
 industries, after approval by the attorney-general. A list by name 
 of the employees, stating in which shift each is employed, shall 
 be kept on file at each place of employment for inspection by 
 employees and by officers charged with the enforcement of the 
 law. In cases of extraordinary emergency as defined by section 
 one of chapter four hundred and ninety-four of the acts of the 
 year nineteen hundred and eleven or extraordinary public require- 
 ment, the provisions of this act shall not apply to employers 
 engaged in public service or in other kinds of business in which 
 shifts may be required as hereinbefore stated; but in such cases 
 no employment in excess of the hours authorized under the pro- 
 
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 visions of this act shall be considered as legalized until a written 
 report of the day and hour of its occurrence and its duration is 
 sent to the state board of labor and industries. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 365. 
 
 Certain Places exempt from Posting Time Notices. — In 
 
 towns of less than forty-five hundred inhabitants, the employer 
 of women or minors in a hotel or upon premises used for the 
 temporary purpose of publicly providing and serving meals shall 
 be exempt from posting the notices required by the provisions of 
 section forty-seven of chapter five hundred and fourteen of the 
 acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine. (See Acts of 1913, 
 chapter 758, page 44.) 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 49. 
 
 Penalties, Form of Complaint, etc. — A parent or guardian 
 who permits a minor under his control to be employed in viola- 
 tion of either of the two preceding sections, and any person who, 
 either for himself or as superintendent, overseer or agent for 
 another, employs any person in violation of the provisions of 
 either of said sections, or fails to post the notice required by 
 either of the preceding sections, or makes a false report of the 
 stopping of machinery under the provisions of the preceding sec- 
 tion, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more 
 than one hundred dollars. A certificate of the age of a minor 
 made and sworn to by him and by his parent or guardian at the 
 time of his employment in a mercantile, manufacturing or mechan- 
 ical establishment shall be prima facie evidence of his age in any 
 prosecution under the provisions of this section. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 50. 
 
 The form of complaint heretofore used may be used in prosecu- 
 tions under the provisions of section forty-eight of this act, and 
 if substantially followed shall be deemed sufficient, fully and 
 plainly, substantially and formally, to describe the offences therein 
 set forth but the provisions of this section shall not be construed 
 to prohibit the use of any other suitable form. 
 
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 Acts of 1911, Chapter 313, Section 1, amended by Acts of 1912, Chapter 452. 
 
 Employment of Women and Children in Workshops con- 
 nected with Mercantile Establishments. — The provisions of 
 section forty-seven of chapter five hundred and fourteen of the 
 acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, relative to the em- 
 ployment of children and women in mercantile establishments, 
 shall also apply to children and women employed in a workshop 
 for the altering or repairing of garments: provided, that the 
 workshop is connected with a mercantile establishment where the 
 said garments are sold at retail, and is owned and operated by 
 the proprietor of such mercantile establishment; and provided, 
 also, that such children and women shall not be employed more 
 than fifty-six hours in any one week. The provisions of section 
 forty-eight of the said chapter shall not apply to children and 
 women employed as aforesaid. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 51. 
 
 Night Employment in Manufacturing. — No person, and 
 no agent or officer of a person or corporation, shall employ a 
 woman or minor in any capacity for the purpose of manufactur- 
 ing between ten o’clock at night and six o’clock in the morning. 
 No person, and no agent or officer of a person or corporation 
 engaged in the manufacture of textile goods, shall employ a woman 
 or a minor before six o’clock in the morning or after six o’clock 
 in the evening. Whoever violates the provisions of this section 
 shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than 
 fifty dollars for each offence. 
 
 Acts of 1912, Chapter 653. 
 
 Employment of Women in Core-rooms. — Section' 1. The 
 state board of labor and industries shall investigate core-rooms 
 where women are employed and shall make rules regulating the 
 employment of women therein. The rules shall relate to the struc- 
 ture and location of the rooms, the emission of gases and fumes 
 from ovens, and the size and weight which the women shall be 
 allowed to lift or work on. A copy of the rules shall be posted 
 in every core-room w^here women are employed. 
 
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 Section 2. The inspectors of the state board of labor and in- 
 dustries shall, under the direction of the state board of labor and 
 industries, enforce any rules made in accordance with the pro- 
 visions of this act. 
 
 Section 3. Whoever violates any rule established under the 
 provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
 twenty-five dollars or more than five hundred dollars. 
 
 Acts of 1911, Chapter 229. 
 
 Employment of Pregnant Women. — Section 1. No woman 
 shall knowingly be employed in laboring in a mercantile, manu- 
 facturing or mechanical establishment within two weeks before or 
 four weeks after childbirth. 
 
 Section 2. The foregoing section shall be included in the no- 
 tice with regard to the employment of women now required to be 
 posted in mercantile, manufacturing and mechanical establish- 
 ments, and the provisions thereof shall be enforced by the state 
 board of labor and industries. 
 
 Section 3. Violations of section one of this act shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 426, Section 1, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 241, and Acts 
 of 1915, Chapter 27 (General). 
 
 Moving by Women of Boxes and Other Receptacles in 
 Mills and Workshops. — Boxes, baskets and other receptacles 
 which with their contents weigh seventy-five pounds or over and 
 which are to be moved by female employees in any manufacturing 
 or mechanical establishment, shall be provided with pulleys or 
 casters connected with such boxes or other receptacles so that they 
 can be moved easily from place to place in such establishments. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 426, Section 2. 
 
 Whoever violates the provisions of this act shall be punished by 
 a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for every day during which there 
 shall be a failure to equip or provide such boxes, baskets or other 
 receptacles with some one of the appliances specified in section 
 one of this act. 
 
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 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 72, amended by Acts of 1912, Chapter 96. 
 
 Seats for Women and Children. — Whoever employs women 
 or children in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile estab- 
 lishment shall provide for their use and permit them to use suit- 
 able seats whenever they are not necessarily engaged in the active 
 duties of their employment, and shall also provide for their use 
 and permit them to use suitable seats while they are at work, ex- 
 cept in such cases and at such times as the work cannot properly 
 be performed in a sitting position. Whoever violates the provi- 
 sions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
 ten nor more than thirty dollars for each offence. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514. 
 
 Meal Hours for Women and Young Persons. — Section 67. 
 Women and young persons, five or more in number, who are em- 
 ployed in the same factory shall be allowed their meal times at 
 the same hour, except that any such persons who begin work in 
 such factory at a later hour in the morning than other such per- 
 sons employed therein may be allowed their meal times at a dif- 
 ferent hour; but no such persons shall be employed during the 
 regular meal hour in tending the machines or doing the work of 
 any other women or young persons in addition to their own. 
 
 Section 68. No woman or young person shall be employed for 
 more than six hours at one time in a factory or workshop in 
 which five or more such persons are employed without an inter- 
 val of at least half an hour for a meal; but such person may be 
 so employed for not more than six and one-half hours at one 
 time if such employment ends not later than one o^clock in the 
 afternoon and if he or she is then dismissed from the factory 
 or workshop for the remainder of the day; or for not more than 
 seven and one-half hours at one time if he or she is allowed 
 sufficient opportunity for eating a lunch during the continuance 
 of such employment and if such employment ends not later than 
 two o^clock in the afternoon, and he or she is then dismissed from 
 the factory or workshop for the remainder of the day. 
 
 Section 69. The provisions of the two preceding sections shall 
 not apply to iron works, glass works, paper mills, letter press 
 
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 establishments, print works, bleaching works or dyeing works; 
 and the state board of labor and industries, if it is proved to 
 its satisfaction that in any other class of factories or work- 
 shops it is necessary, by reason of the continuous nature of the 
 processes or of special circumstances affecting such class, to ex- 
 empt it from the provisions of the two preceding sections and 
 that such exemption can be made without injury to the health 
 of the women or young persons affected thereby, may, with the 
 approval of the governor, issue a certificate granting such ex- 
 emption, public notice whereof shall, without expense to the 
 commonwealth, be given in the manner directed by said board. 
 
 Section 70. If a minor or a woman shall, without the orders, 
 consent or knowledge of the employer or of the superintendent, 
 overseer or other agent of the employer, labor in a manufactur- 
 ing or mechanical establishment, factory or workshop during a 
 part of any time allowed for meals in such establishment, factory 
 or workshop, according to the notice required by section forty- 
 eight, and if a copy of such notice was posted in a conspicuous 
 place in the room where such labor was performed with a rule 
 of the establishment, factory or workshop forbidding such minor 
 or woman to labor during such time, then neither the employer 
 nor a superintendent, overseer or other agent of the employer 
 shall be held responsible for such labor. 
 
 Section 71. Whoever either for himself or as superintendent, 
 overseer or agent violates the provisions of the four preceding 
 sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor 
 more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 Duties of Inspectors regarding Health of Minors. {See 
 Health, Inspection, page 60.) 
 
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 LABOR. 
 
 HOURS. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Sections 37, 38, 40, 41, amended by Acts of 1911, 
 Chapter 494. 
 
 Hours for Public Employees. — Section 1. The service of 
 all laborers, workmen and mechanics, now or hereafter employed 
 by the commonwealth or by any county therein or by any city or 
 town which has accepted the provisions of section twenty of 
 chapter one hundred and six of the Revised Laws, or of section 
 forty-two of chapter five hundred and fourteen of the acts of 
 the year nineteen hundred and nine, or by any contractor or sub- 
 contractor for or upon any public works of the commonwealth 
 or of any county therein or of any such city or town, is hereby 
 restricted to eight hours in any one calendar day, and it shall be 
 unlawful for any officer of the commonwealth or of any county 
 therein, or of any such city or town, or for any such contractor 
 or sub-contractor or other person whose duty it shall be to em- 
 ploy, direct or control the service of such laborers, workmen or 
 mechanics to require or permit any such laborer, workman or 
 mechanic to work more than eight hours in any one calendar 
 day, except in cases of extraordinary emergency. Danger to 
 property, life, public safety or public health only shall be con- 
 sidered cases of extraordinary emergency within the meaning of 
 this section. In cases where a Saturday half holiday is given the 
 hours of labor upon the other working days of the week may be 
 increased sufficiently to make a total of forty-eight hours for the 
 week^s work. Threat of loss of employment or to obstruct or 
 prevent the obtaining of employment or to refrain from employ- 
 ing in the future, shall each be considered to be requiring 
 within the meaning of this section. Engineers shall be regarded 
 as mechanics within the meaning of this act. 
 
 Section 2. Every contract, excluding contracts for the pur- 
 chase of material or supplies, to which the commonwealth or any 
 county therein or any city or town which has accepted the pro- 
 visions of section twenty of chapter one hundred and six of the 
 Revised Laws, is a party which may involve the employment of 
 laborers, workmen or mechanics shall contain a stipulation that 
 
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 no laborer, workman or mechanic working within this common- 
 wealth, in the employ of the contractor, sub-contractor or other 
 person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work 
 contemplated by the contract shall be requested or required to 
 work more than eight hours in any one calendar day, and every 
 such contract which does not contain this stipulation shall be null 
 and void. 
 
 SECTioisr 3. Any agent or official of the commonwealth or of 
 any county therein or of any city or town or any contractor or 
 sub-contractor or any agent or person acting on behalf of any 
 contractor or sub-contractor who violates any provision of this 
 act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars 
 or by imprisonment for six months or both such fine and im- 
 prisonment for each offence. 
 
 SECTioisr 4. This act shall ngt apply to the preparation, print- 
 ing, shipment and delivery of ballots to be used at a caucus, 
 primary, state, city or town election, nor during the sessions of 
 the general court to persons employed in legislative printing or 
 binding; nor shall it apply at any time to persons employed in 
 any state, county or municipal institution, on a farm, or in the 
 care of the grounds, in the stable, in the domestic or kitchen and 
 dining room service or in store rooms or offices. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 43. 
 
 In a city or town, which has not accepted the provisions of 
 sections thirty-seven or forty-two, [of chapter 514 of the Acts 
 of 1909] nine hours shall constitute a day’s work for all laborers, 
 workmen and mechanics who are employed by or on behalf of 
 such city or town. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 53. 
 
 Hours for Officers, Instructors and Employees of State 
 Penal Institutions. — The hours of labor for officers, instruct- 
 ors, and employees of the state penal institutions shall not ex- 
 ceed sixty in each week; and every officer, instructor or employee 
 whose duties require his presence at the institution seven days 
 a week shall be given at least two days’ vacation in each month, 
 which shall be in addition to the regular annual vacation and 
 without loss of pay. Nothing in this section shall prevent the 
 
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 warden or superintendent, respectively, from requiring the serv- 
 ices of all his officers, instructors and employees to assist in 
 recapturing an escaped prisoner, or in any case of extraordinary 
 emergency involving danger to property, to life, to public safety 
 or to public health. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 54. 
 
 There may be employed at the state prison, the Massachusetts 
 reformatory, and the reformatory prison for women, such officers 
 in addition to the number allowed by law on the first day of 
 December in the year nineteen hundred and eight as the prison 
 commissioners shall consider necessary to carry out the purpose 
 of the preceding section. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 55. 
 
 Hours for Employees of County Jails and Houses of Cor- 
 rection. — The hours of labor for employees of county jails and 
 houses of correction shall not exceed sixty in each week and every 
 employee of a county jail or house of correction whose duties 
 require his presence at such house of correction or county jail 
 seven days a week shall be given at least two days of vacation in 
 each month, which shall be in addition to any annual vacation 
 now or hereafter allowed to said employees, and shall be without 
 loss of pay. A county officer who violates the provisions of this 
 section by requiring an employee to work more than sixty hours 
 in a week shall he punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five 
 nor more than fifty dollars for each offence. 
 
 Acts of5l912. Chapter 533, Section 2, amended by Acts of 1913, Chapter 833, Section 1, 
 and by Acts of 1915, Chapter 277 (General). 
 
 Hours for Employees of Street Railways. — A day^s work 
 for all conductors, guards, drivers, motormen, brakemen, dispatch- 
 ers and gatemen who are employed by or on behalf of a street 
 railway or elevated railway company shall not exceed nine hours, 
 and shall be so arranged by the employer that it shall be per- 
 formed within eleven consecutive hours. No officer or agent of 
 any such company shall require from said employees more than 
 nine hours^ work for a day^s labor. Threat of loss of employment 
 or threat to obstruct or prevent the obtaining of employment by 
 the employees, or threat to refrain from employing any employee 
 
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 in the future shall be considered coercion and requiring within 
 the meaning of this section. But nothing herein shall prevent an 
 employee of the character mentioned in this act, if he so desires, 
 from working more hours than those prescribed in the act for extra 
 compensation. 
 
 Acts of 1912, Chapter 533, Section 3, amended by Acts of 1913, Chapter 833, Section 2. 
 
 A company which violates any provision of this act shall forfeit 
 for each offence not less than one hundred dollars nor more than 
 five hundred dollars. 
 
 Acts of 1912, Chapter 533, Section 4, amended by Acts of 1913, Chapter 833, Section 3. 
 
 This act shall not affect any written contract existing at the 
 date of its passage. 
 
 Acts of 1914, Chapter 746. 
 
 Hours for Certain Employees in and about Railroad 
 Stations. — Section 1. Employees in and about steam railroad 
 stations in this commonwealth designated as baggagemen, laborers, 
 crossing-tenders and the like, shall not be employed for more than 
 nine working hours in ten hours’ time; the additional hour to be 
 allowed as a lay-off. 
 
 Section 2. Any employer, agent, officer or other person who 
 violates any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine not 
 exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence. 
 
 Acts of 1914, Chapter 623. 
 
 Hours for Certain Employees of Counties. — The hours of 
 labor of officers, watchmen and matrons employed by counties in 
 the prisons and reformatory institutions of the commonwealth 
 shall not exceed eight a day, with the exceptions and subject to 
 the provisions contained in section one of chapter four hundred 
 and ninety-four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 
 eleven, so far as the said exceptions and provisions are applicable. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 44. 
 
 Hours for Members of Fire Departments. — Any city may 
 by ordinance and any town may by by-law establish the hours 
 of labor of the members of its fire department. 
 
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 Hours for Women and Children under Eighteen. {See 
 Women and Minors, page 44.) 
 
 HALF HOLIDAYS. 
 
 Acts of 1912, Chapter 528, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 455. 
 
 Half Holiday for Certain State Employees. — Laborers 
 and mechanics in the permanent service of the metropolitan water 
 and sewerage board or the metropolitan park commission, except 
 those employed in the pumping stations of the metropolitan water 
 and sewerage board and at the bath-houses under the control of 
 the metropolitan park commission, shall be given a half holiday 
 each week during the months of April, May, June, July, August 
 and September, without loss of pay, and, if practicable, the half 
 holiday shall be on Saturday. If, however, the public service so 
 requires, the metropolitan park commission and the metropolitan 
 water and sewerage board may at any time during the year give 
 to the laborers and mechanics in their permanent service, in lieu 
 of the said half holidays, days off duty without loss of pay equiv- 
 alent in time to the half holidays which would otherwise be given 
 under this act. 
 
 Acts of 1914, Chapter 688. 
 
 Half Holiday for Laborers, Workmen and Mechanics 
 employed by Commonwealth. — Section 1. All laborers, 
 workmen and mechanics employed by the commonwealth in any 
 capacity, or by any officer, board or commission on behalf of the 
 commonwealth who are permanent employees or who have been 
 certified by the civil service commission and whose services can 
 be dispensed with, shall be given a half-holiday on every Saturday 
 in the year, without loss of pay. 
 
 Section 2. So far as is possible, all work by laborers, work- 
 men and mechanics employed by the commonwealth or by any 
 officer, board or commission on behalf of the commonwealth, shall 
 be on the day-work basis. 
 
 Section 3. This act shall be submitted for acceptance to the 
 voters of the commonwealth at the state election in the present 
 year in answer to the question, to be printed on the official ballot 
 for use at said election, Shall an act passed by the general court 
 
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 in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen to make Saturday a 
 half-holiday, without loss of pay, for laborers, workmen and 
 mechanics employed by or on behalf of the common- 
 wealth and otherwise to regulate their employment, 
 be accepted?’^ 
 
 If a majority of the voters voting thereon vote in the affirma- 
 tive, this act shall take effect; otherwise, it shall be void/ 
 
 YES. 
 
 
 NO. 
 
 
 Acts of 1915, Chapter 288 (General). 
 
 The provisions of chapter six hundred and eighty-eight of the 
 acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen and of the amend- 
 ments thereof, relative to making Saturday a half -holiday for 
 laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by or on behalf of 
 the commonwealth and otherwise regulating their employment, 
 shall apply to the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 
 
 LEGAL HOLIDAYS. 
 
 Acts of 1911, Chapter 151. 
 
 Labor on Legal Holidays. — Section 1. No employee shall 
 be required to work in any mill or factory on any legal holiday, 
 except to perform such work as is both absolutely necessary and 
 can lawfully be performed on the Lord’s day. 
 
 Section 2. Whoever violates the provisions of this act shall 
 be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 359. 
 
 Time Lost by Reason of Legal Holiday. — Section 1. It 
 shall be unlawful to require or to request any person employed in a 
 manufacturing or mechanical establishment to work more hours 
 in any one day than is now limited by law, in order to make up 
 time lost by reason of a legal holiday. 
 
 Section 2. Whoever violates the provisions of this act shall 
 be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each 
 offence. 
 
 1 Accepted Nov. 3, 1914. 
 
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 Revised Laws, Chapter 8, Seotion 5, clause 9, amended by Acts of 1911, Chapter 136. 
 
 The words legal holiday shall include the twenty-second 
 day of February, the nineteenth day of April, the thirtieth day 
 of May, the fourth day of July, the first Monday of September, 
 the twelfth day of October, Thanksgiving day and Christmas 
 day, or the day following when any of the four days first men- 
 tioned, the twelfth day of October or Christmas day occurs on 
 Sunday; and the public offices shall be closed on all of said days. 
 
 ONE DAY’S REST IN SEVEN. 
 
 Revised Laws, Chapter 98, Section 16. 
 
 Lord^s Day ” defined. — The Lord^s Day shall include the 
 time from midnight to midnight. 
 
 Acts of 1907, Chapter 577, amended by Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 52. 
 
 Sunday Labor. — Except in cases of emergency or except at 
 the request of the employee, it shall not be lawful for any joer- 
 son, partnership, association or corporation to require an em- 
 ployee engaged in any commercial occupation, or in the work of 
 any industrial process, or in the work of transportation or com- 
 munication, to do on the Lord^s day the usual work of his occu- 
 pation, unless such employee is allowed during the six days next 
 ensuing twenty-four consecutive hours without labor. But the 
 provisions of this section shall not be construed as authorizing 
 any work on the Lord^s day not now authorized by law; nor as 
 applying to farm or personal service, to druggists, to watchmen, 
 to superintendents or managers, to janitors, or to persons en- 
 gaged in the transportation, sale or delivery of milk, food or 
 newspapers. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall 
 be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for each 
 offence. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 619. 
 
 One Day’s Rest in Seven. — Section 1. Every employer of 
 labor, whether a person, partnership or corporation, engaged in 
 carrying on any manufacturing or mercantile establishment in 
 this commonwealth as hereinafter defined, shall allow every per- 
 
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 son, except those specified in section two, employed in such 
 manufacturing or mercantile establishment at least twenty-four 
 consecutive hours of rest in every seven consecutive days. No 
 employer shall operate any such manufacturing or mercantile 
 establishment on Sunday, unless he shall have complied with the 
 provisions of section three; but this act shall not authorize any 
 work on Sunday not now authorized by law. 
 
 SECTioisr 2. This act shall not apply to (a) janitors; (b) 
 watchmen; (c) employees whose duties include no work on Sun- 
 day other than (1) setting sponges in bakeries; (2) caring for 
 live animals; (3) maintaining fires; (4) caring for machinery; 
 (5) employees engaged in the preparation, printing, publication, 
 sale or delivery of newspapers; (6) any labor called for by an 
 emergency that could not reasonably have been anticipated. 
 
 SECTioisr 3. Before operating on Sunday, every employer shall 
 post in a conspicuous place on the premises a schedule contain- 
 ing a list of his employees who are required or allowed to work 
 on Sunday and designating the day of rest for each, and shall 
 file a copy of such schedule with the state board of labor and 
 industries. The employer shall promptly file with the said board 
 a copy of every change in such schedule. No employee shall be 
 required or allowed to work on the day of rest so designated for 
 him. 
 
 Section 4. Every employer to whose employees the provisions 
 of this act apply shall keep a time book showing the names and 
 addresses of all employees and the hours worked by each of them 
 in each day, and such time book shall be open to inspection by 
 the state board of labor and industries. 
 
 Section 5. In this act manufacturing establishments ’’ and 
 mercantile establishments shall have the meaning defined in 
 section seventeen of chapter five hundred and fourteen of the 
 acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, except that neither 
 of said terms shall be held to include establishments used for the 
 manufacture or distribution of gas, electricity, milk or water, 
 hotels, restaurants, dmg stores, livery stables or garages. 
 
 Section 6. An employer who violates any provision of this 
 act shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for each offence. 
 
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 Section 7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith 
 are hereby repealed, but this act shall not be construed as repeal- 
 ing chapter four hundred and twenty of the acts of the year 
 nineteen hundred and nine, or any part thereof. 
 
 Acts of 1914, Chapter 723. 
 
 Days of Rest for Certain Railroad Employees. — Sec- 
 tion 1. Every person employed as signalman, towerman, lever- 
 man, agent, train dispatcher, telegrapher or telephone operator 
 in a railroad signal tower or railroad station, and every other 
 person employed by a railroad in the operating of trains by the 
 use of the telegraph, telephone or signal and interlocking switch- 
 ing machines shall be allowed two days of twenty-four hours 
 each in every calendar month for rest with regular compensation ; 
 except in a case of extraordinary emergency caused by accident, 
 fire, fiood, or danger to life or property, in which case the said 
 period of rest shall be allowed after the emergency is past. 
 
 Section 2. Any violation of the provisions of this act shall be 
 punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars for each 
 offence. 
 
 VACATIONS. 
 
 Acts of 1914, Chapter 217. 
 
 Vacations of Laborers employed by Cities and Towns. — 
 
 Section 1. All persons classified as laborers, or doing the work 
 of laborers, and regularly employed by cities or towns for more 
 than one year, shall be granted a vacation of not less than two 
 weeks during each year of their employment, without loss of pay. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall be submitted to the voters of each 
 of the cities and towns of the commonwealth at the next annual 
 state election for their acceptance or rejection, and shall take 
 effect in any city or town upon its acceptance by a majority of 
 the voters voting thereon in the affirmative. 
 
 Acts of 1915, Chapter 60. 
 
 Any city in which a majority of the voters at the last state elec- 
 tion voted to accept the provisions of chapter two hundred and 
 seventeen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen 
 may by vote of the city council, approved by the mayor, or by 
 
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 vote of the commission in any city under a commission form of 
 government, require the heads of the executive departments to 
 grant a vacation of two weeks without loss of pay to any person 
 regularly employed by such city who is classified as a common 
 laborer, skilled laborer, mechanic or craftsman in the labor serv- 
 ice, as classified by the civil service commission, under regulations 
 established by said commission for cities to which the labor rules 
 adopted by the civil service commission are or may become 
 applicable. If such vacations are authorized, they shall be granted 
 by the heads of the executive departments, and shall begin at 
 such times as in the opinion of the heads of the executive de- 
 partments will cause the least interference with the performance 
 of the regular work of the city. 
 
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 HEALTH. 
 
 INSPECTION. 
 
 Acts of 1907, Chapter 537, Section 3. 
 
 Duties of Inspectors regarding Health of Minors. — Every 
 inspector of the state board of labor and industries . . . shall in- 
 form himself . . . concerning the health of all minors employed 
 in factories within his district, and, whenever he may deem it ad- 
 visable or necessary, he shall call the ill-health or physical unfitness 
 of any minor to the attention of his or her parents or employers 
 and of the state board of labor and industries. 
 
 Acts of 1907, Chapter 537, Section 5. 
 
 The inspectors of the state board of labor and industries 
 shall, under the direction of the said board . . . enforce the pro- 
 visions of section forty-one of chapter one hundred and four of 
 the Revised Laws [Acts of 1909, chapter 514, section 94] so far 
 as said section provides that factories shall be well ventilated and 
 kept clean. . . . 
 
 LIGHTING, VENTILATION AND CLEANLINESS. 
 
 Acts of 1914, Chapter 328, Section 2. 
 
 Rules and Regulations. — Every factory, workshop, manu- 
 facturing, mechanical and mercantile establishment shall be well 
 lighted, well ventilated and kept clean and free from unsanitary 
 conditions, according to such reasonable rules and regulations as 
 may be adopted with reference thereto by the state board of 
 labor and industries. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 83. 
 
 Ventilation. — Section 83. A factory in which five or more 
 persons and a workshop in which five or more women or young 
 persons are employed shall, while work is carried on therein, be 
 so ventilated that the air shall not become so impure as to be 
 injurious to the health of the persons employed therein and so 
 that all gases, vapors, dust or other impurities injurious to health, 
 which are generated in the course of the manufacturing process 
 
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 or handicraft carried on therein shall, so far as practicable, be 
 rendered harmless. 
 
 Section 84. If, in a workshop, or factory which is within the 
 provisions of the preceding section, any process is carried on by 
 which dust is caused which may be inhaled to an injurious extent 
 by the persons employed therein, and it appears to an inspector 
 of the state board of labor and industries that such inhalation 
 would be substantially diminished without unreasonable expense 
 by the use of a fan or by other mechanical means, such fan or 
 other mechanical means, if he so directs, shall be provided, main- 
 tained and used. 
 
 Section 85. A criminal prosecution shall not be instituted 
 for any violation of the provisions of the two preceding sections 
 unless such employer neglects, for four weeks after the receipt 
 of a notice in writing, to make such changes in his factory or 
 workshop as shall be ordered by an inspector of the state board 
 of labor and industries. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 766. 
 
 Lighting. — Section 1. Upon the request of any member of 
 the inspection department of the district police, or upon the re- 
 quest of any five employees in a factory or workshop, it shall be 
 the duty of the state board of labor and industries established by 
 chapter seven hundred and twenty-six of the acts of the year 
 nineteen hundred and twelve to investigate and ascertain whether 
 or not such factory or 'workshop is adequately lighted. If said 
 board shall be of the opinion, after such investigation, that the 
 factory or workshop is not properly lighted, it shall notify the 
 owner or the person in charge thereof and shall specify what 
 changes should be made in order to light properly the factory or 
 workshop, and the owner or lessee of such factory or workshop 
 shall make the changes so specified as soon as it can be done by 
 the exercise of reasonable diligence. 
 
 Section 2. Any o'vvner or lessee of a factory or workshop who 
 fails to comply with any order of the state board of labor and 
 industries made under the provisions of section one of this act, 
 provided that such failure is not the result of causes beyond the 
 control of the owner or lessee, shall be punished by a fine not 
 exceeding five hundred dollars. 
 
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 Acts of 1911, Chapter 603. 
 
 Issuance of Printed Matter on Protection of Eyes. — 
 
 Section 1. The inspectors of the state board of labor and in- 
 dustries, or such other officers as the said board may from 
 time to time appoint, shall, when obtaining information concern- 
 ing the proper lighting of factories, workshops and other indus- 
 trial establishments, make such investigation concerning the eye 
 and vision in their relation to diseases of occupation, including 
 injuries to the eyes of the employees, and to the pathological ef- 
 fects which are produced or promoted by the circumstances under 
 which the various occupations are carried on, as, in the opinion 
 of said board is practicable, and the board shall from time to time 
 issue such printed matter containing suggestions to employers and 
 employees for the protection of the eyes of the employees as it 
 may deem advisable. 
 
 Section 2. If it appears to an inspector ... or other officer 
 appointed by said board, that in any factory, workshop or other 
 industrial establishment, from the nature of the work or of the 
 machinery used in connection therewith, or of other circum- 
 stances, there is danger of injury to the eyes of employees en- 
 gaged in such work, and that the danger of injury may be 
 decreased or prevented by any mechanical device or other prac- 
 ticable means, he shall, if said board so directs, order in writing 
 that such device or other means shall be provided therein; and 
 it shall be the duty of the proprietors and managers of the fac- 
 tory, workshop or other industrial establishment to comply with 
 the order. 
 
 Section 3. Any person, firm or corporation violating any 
 provision of this act shall be subject to a fine of not less than 
 five nor more than two hundred dollars for every week during 
 which such violation continues: provided^ however, that a crim- 
 inal prosecution for any violation hereof shall not be begun 
 unless such person, firm or corporation shall, for a period of four 
 weeks after the receipt of an order in writing from an inspector 
 of the board of labor and industries or other officer, as provided 
 in the preceding section, neglect to comply therewith. 
 
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 Acts of 1913, Chapter 472. 
 
 Cleaning of Presses by Publishers and Printers. — All 
 
 publishers and printers shall use a sanitary cloth or other sani- 
 tary material in cleaning their presses. 
 
 Revised Laws, Chapter 75, Section 23. 
 
 Sanitation of Bakeries. — All buildings which are occupied 
 as biscuit, bread or cake bakeries shall be properly drained and 
 plumbed. They shall be provided with a proper wash room and 
 water-closets, having ventilation apart from the bake room or 
 rooms where food products are manufactured; and no water- 
 closet, earth closet, privy or ash pit shall be within or communi- 
 cate directly with the bake room of any bakery. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 78, amended by Acts of 1915, Chapter 117 (General). 
 
 Drinking Water. — All industrial establishments within this 
 commonwealth shall provide fresh and pure drinking water to 
 which their employees shall have access during working hours. 
 Any person, firm, association or corporation owning, in whole 
 or in part, managing, controlling or superintending any industrial 
 establishment in which the provisions of this section are violated 
 shall, upon complaint of an inspector of the state board of labor 
 and industries, of the board of health of the city or town, or of 
 the selectmen of the town in which the establishment is located 
 be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars for each offence. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 104, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 557, and 
 by Acts of 1915, Chapter 216 (General). 
 
 Medical Chest and Room for Injured or Sick Employees. 
 
 — Every person, firm or corporation operating a factory or shop 
 in which machinery is used for any manufacturing or other pur- 
 pose except for elevators, or for heating or hoisting apparatus, 
 shall at all times keep and maintain, free of expense to the em- 
 ployees, such medical or surgical chest, or both, as shall be re- 
 quired by the state board of labor and industries, and containing 
 plasters, bandages, absorbent cotton, gauze, and all other neces- 
 sary medicines, instruments and other appliances for the treat- 
 ment of persons injured or taken ill upon the premises. Every 
 
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 such person, firm or corporation, employing one hundred or more 
 persons, shall, if so required by the state board of labor and 
 industries, provide accommodations, satisfactory to said board, 
 for the treatment of persons injured or taken ill upon the prem- 
 ises. Every person, firm or corporation carrying on a business 
 in a mercantile establishment in which twenty or more women 
 or minors are employed, shall in the manner aforesaid provide 
 such medical and surgical chest as the state board of labor and 
 industries may require. A person, firm or corporation violating 
 any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not 
 less than five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for 
 every week during which such violation continues. 
 
 TOILET FACILITIES. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 79, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 328, Section 1, 
 and by Acts of 1914, Chapter 726. 
 
 Toilets to be provided. — In every factory, workshop, manu- 
 facturing, mechanical, mercantile or other establishment, there 
 shall be provided suitable, adequate and convenient water-closets 
 and washing facilities, separate for each sex and plainly so desig- 
 nated, of such number, in such location and so constructed, 
 lighted, ventilated, arranged and maintained as may be deter- 
 mined by such reasonable rules and regulations as the state board 
 of labor and industries may adopt with reference thereto. No 
 person shall be allowed to use a closet or privy which is pro- 
 vided for the use of persons of the opposite sex. If any such 
 establishment is so located that a connection with a sewer system 
 is, in the opinion of the said board, impossible or impracticable, 
 it shall provide such suitable toilet and washing facilities as may 
 be required by the said board. 
 
 Acts of 1914, Chapter 164. 
 
 Defacing of Toilet Appliances. — Whoever wilfully destroys, 
 defaces, injures or defiles any toilet appliances provided in any 
 place of employment shall be punished by a fine of not more 
 than fifty dollars. 
 
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 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 80, amended by Acts of 1910, Chapter 259, Section 1. 
 
 Making of Changes. — The owner, lessee or occupant of any 
 premises which are used as described in the preceding section 
 shall make the changes necessary to conform thereto. If such 
 changes are made upon the order of an inspector of the board 
 of labor and industries, by the occupant or lessee of the prem- 
 ises, he may, within thirty days after the completion thereof 
 bring an action against any other person who has an interest 
 in such premises, and may recover such proportion of the expense 
 of making such changes as the court adjudges should justly and 
 equitably be borne by the defendant. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 81. 
 
 Notice of Neglect or Fault to be sent to Board of Health 
 by Inspectors. — If it appears to an inspector of the board of 
 labor and industries that any act, neglect or fault in relation 
 to any drain, water closet, earth closet, privy, ashpit, water 
 supply, nuisance or other matter in a factoiy or workshop in- 
 cluded under the provisions of section seventy-nine, is punishable 
 or remediable under the provisions of chapter seventy-five of 
 the Revised Laws or any other law relative to the preservation 
 of the public health, but not under the provisions of this chapter, 
 he shall give notice in writing thereof to the board of health of 
 the city or town in which such factory or workshop is situated, 
 and such board of health shall thereupon inquire into the sub- 
 ject of the notice and enforce the laws relative thereto. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 82, amended by Acts of 1910, Chapter 259, Section 2. 
 
 Penalty. — A criminal prosecution shall not be instituted 
 against a person for a violation of the provisions of sections 
 seventy-nine and eighty until four weeks after notice in writing 
 by an inspector of the board of labor and industries, of the 
 changes necessary’- to be made to comply with the provisions of 
 said sections has been sent by mail or delivered to such person, 
 nor if such changes shall have been made in accordance with 
 such notice. A notice shall be sufficient under the provisions of 
 this section if given to one member of a firm, or to the clerk. 
 
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 cashier, secretary, agent or any other officer who has charge of 
 the business of a corporation, or to its attorney; and in case of 
 a foreign corporation, to the officer who has the charge of such 
 factory or workshop; and such officer shall be personally liable 
 for the amount of any fine if a judgment against the corporation 
 is returned unsatisfied. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Se3tion 102. 
 
 Room in which Men may change their Clothes. — The 
 
 proprietor of every foundry engaged in the casting of iron, brass, 
 steel or other metal, and employing ten or more men, shall estab- 
 lish and maintain, except in cities or towns in which it would be 
 impracticable by reason of the absence of public or private sewer- 
 age or of any running water system, a toilet room of suitable size 
 and condition for the men to change their clothes therein, and 
 provided with wash bowls, sinks or other suitable set appliances 
 connected with running hot and cold water, and also a water 
 closet connected with running water and separated from the said 
 toilet room. The said water closet and toilet room shall be con- 
 nected directly with the foundry building, properly heated, ven- 
 tilated and protected, so far as may be reasonably practicable, 
 from the dust of the foundry. Whoever fails to comply with the 
 provisions of this section, after being requested so to do by an 
 inspector of the state board of labor and industries, shall be 
 punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for each oifence. 
 
 EXPECTORATION. 
 
 Acts of 1906, Chapter 165, Section 1, amended by Acts of 1907, Chapter 410, Section 1, 
 and by Acts of 1908, Chapter 150, Section 1. 
 
 Expectoration. — No person shall expectorate or spit . . . 
 except in receptacles provided for the purpose ... in or upon 
 any part of . . . any mill or factory. . . . 
 
 Acts of 1906, Chapter 165, Section 2, amended by Acts of 1907, Chapter 410, Section 2. 
 
 Penalty. — Whoever violates any provision of this act shall 
 be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars. Any 
 person detected in the act of violating any provision of this act 
 
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 may be arrested by any officer authorized to serve criminal proc- 
 ess in the place where the offence is committed and kept in 
 custody until he can be taken before a court which has jurisdic- 
 tion of such offence; and if his name is unknown to the officer 
 who makes the arrest, he may be arrested without a warrant. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 103. 
 
 Receptacles. — Suitable receptacles for expectoration shall be 
 provided in all factories and workshops by the proprietors 
 thereof, the same to be of such form and construction and of 
 such number as shall be satisfactory to the board of health of 
 the city or town in which the factory or workshop is situated. 
 
 SUCTION SHUTTLES. 
 
 Acts of 1911, Chapter 281. 
 
 Suction Shuttles. — Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any 
 proprietor of a factory or any officer or agent or other person 
 to require or permit the use of suction shuttles, or any form of 
 shuttle in the use of which any part of the shuttle or any thread 
 is put in the mouth or touched by the lips of the operator. It 
 shall be the duty of the state board of labor and industries to 
 enforce the provisions of this act. 
 
 Section 2. Violations of this act shall be punished by a fine 
 of not less than fifty dollars for each offence. 
 
 DUST. 
 
 Ventilation. {See Ventilation, page 61.) 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514. 
 
 Protection from Dust. — Section 86. Any person, firm or 
 corporation operating a factory or workshop in which emery 
 wheels or belts or buffing wheels or belts injurious to the health 
 of employees are used shall provide such wheels and belts with a 
 hood or hopper connected with suction pipes, and with fans or 
 blowers, in accordance with the provisions hereinafter contained, 
 Avhich apparatus shall be so placed and operated as to protect 
 any person using such wheel or belt from the particles or dust 
 
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 produced by its operation, and to convey the particles or dust 
 either outside of the building or to some receptacle so placed as 
 to receive and confine such particles or dust. 
 
 Section 87. Every such wheel shall be fitted with a sheet iron 
 or cast iron hood or hopper of such form and so placed that the 
 particles or dust produced by the operation of the wheel or of 
 any belt connected therewith shall fall or will be thrown into such 
 hood or hopper by centrifugal force; and the fans or blowers 
 shall be of such size and shall be run at such speed as will pro- 
 duce a volume and velocity of air in the suction and discharge 
 pipes sufficient effectually to convey all particles or dust from 
 the hood or hopper through the suction pipes and so outside of 
 the building or to a receptacle as aforesaid. The suction pipes 
 and connections shall be suitable and efficacious, and such as shall 
 be approved by ^ inspector of the state board of labor and 
 industries. 
 
 Section 88. The two preceding sections shall not apply to 
 grinding machines upon which water is used at the point of grind- 
 ing contact, nor to solid emery wheels used in saw mills or in 
 planing mills or in other wood working establishments, nor to 
 any emery wheel six inches or less in diameter used in establish- 
 ments where the principal business is not emery wheel grinding. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 89, amended by Acts of 1915, Chapter 116 (General). 
 
 Penalty. — Inspectors of the state board of labor and indus- 
 tries, upon receipt of notice in writing, signed by any person 
 having knowledge of the facts, that any factory or workshop as 
 aforesaid is not provided with the apparatus prescribed in sec- 
 tions eighty-six and eighty-seven of this act shall visit and inspect 
 such factory or workshop, and for that purpose they are author- 
 ized to enter any such factory or workshop during working hours ; 
 and if they ascertain, in the foregoing or in any other manner, 
 that the owner, proprietor or manager thereof has failed to com- 
 ply with the provisions of said sections, they shall make complaint 
 to a court or judge having jurisdiction, and cause such owner, 
 proprietor or manager to be prosecuted. 
 
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 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 90, amended by Acts cf 1915, Chapter 69 (General). 
 
 Whoever fails to comply with any provision of sections eighty- 
 three to eighty-nine, inclusive, shall, for the first ofience be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one 
 hundred dollars, and, for a second offence he shall be punished 
 by the fine aforesaid or by imprisonment in jail for not more than 
 sixty days or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 HUMIDITY. 
 
 Acts of 1908, Chapter 325. 
 
 Humidity in Factories and Workshops. — Section 1. The 
 water used for humidifying purposes by any person, firm or cor- 
 poration operating a factory or workshop, shall be of such a de- 
 gTee of purity as not to give rise to any impure or foul odors, 
 and shall be so used as not to be injurious to the health of per- 
 sons employed in such factories or workshops. 
 
 Section 2. Any person, firm or corporation violating any pro- 
 vision of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by 
 a fine of not less than ten nor more than one thousand dollars. 
 
 Section 3. The inspectors of the state board of labor and 
 industries shall, under the direction of said board, enforce the 
 provisions of this act. 
 
 Acts of 1919, Chapter 543. 
 
 Humidity in Textile Factories. — Section 1. In every 
 weaving and spinning department in a textile factory wherein 
 water is introduced for humidifying purposes there shall be pro- 
 vided, maintained and kept in correct working order, for the 
 purpose of recording and regulating the humidity of the at- 
 mosphere and the temperature, at least one set of standardized 
 wet and dry. bulb thermometers, and, if required by an inspector 
 of the state board of labor and industries two sets of such ther- 
 mometers, and the following regulations shall be observed in the 
 use of the thermometers: (a) The thermometers shall be placed 
 as directed or sanctioned by an inspector of the state board of 
 labor and industries, and shall be plainly visible to the workers, 
 (b) The occupier or manager or person for the time being in 
 
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 charge of the weaving or spinning department in question shall 
 read the thermometers thrice in the day, namely, between seven 
 and eight o^clock in the forenoon, between ten and eleven o^clock 
 in the forenoon and between three and four o’clock, except in 
 rooms which are lighted by gas, and then between four and five 
 o’clock, in the afternoon of every day on which any persons are 
 employed in any weaving or spinning department, and he shall 
 record the readings of each thermometer in such department at 
 each of the said times upon a form provided for the purpose, 
 which, together with the regulations relating thereto, shall be fur- 
 nished by the state board of labor and industries. The records 
 of the readings shall not be destroyed until they have first been 
 seen by an inspector of the state board of labor and industries 
 in whose district the factory is situated, and then not without 
 his knowledge and consent. 
 
 Section 2. Section one shall not apply to textile factories 
 already equipped with, or which become equipped with, such a 
 number and type of standardized self-registering hygrometers or 
 psychrometers, or hygrometric system, as meet the approval of 
 the state board of labor and industries, provided that the man- 
 ner of using the same is approved by an inspector of the state 
 board of labor and industries in whose district the factory is 
 situated, and provided that the records of the readings from the 
 said hygrometers, or hygrometric system installed, are not de- 
 stroyed without the knowledge and consent of said inspector. 
 
 Section 3. Section one shall not apply to textile factories the 
 occupier or manager or person in charge of which makes use 
 of the sling hygrometer with the express purpose of quickly and 
 accurately determining the actual moisture and temperature of 
 a weaving or spinning department as frequently and in such a 
 manner as is approved by an inspector of the state board of 
 labor and industries in whose district the factory is situated, 
 and provided that the records of the readings from the use of 
 the said hygrometer are not destroyed without the knowledge 
 and permission of said inspector. 
 
 Section 4. No owner, occupier or manager or person for the 
 time being in charge of a textile factory shall permit the relative 
 
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 humidity in a weaving or spinning department in the textile 
 factory under his control to exceed the following limits : 
 
 I. 
 
 II. 
 
 III. 
 
 I. 
 
 II. 
 
 III. 
 
 Dry Bulb 
 Ther- 
 mometer 
 Readings. 
 Degrees 
 Fahr. 
 
 Wet Bulb 
 Ther- 
 mometer 
 Readings. 
 Degrees 
 Fahr. 
 
 Percentage 
 
 of 
 
 Humidity. 
 
 Dry Bulb 
 Ther- 
 mometer 
 Readings. 
 Degrees 
 Fahr. 
 
 Wet Bulb 
 Ther- 
 mometer 
 Readings. 
 Degrees 
 Fahr. 
 
 Percentage 
 
 of 
 
 Humidity. 
 
 60 
 
 58 
 
 88 
 
 78 
 
 73.5 
 
 77 
 
 61 
 
 59 
 
 88 
 
 79 
 
 74.5 
 
 77.5 
 
 62 
 
 60 
 
 88 
 
 80 
 
 75.5 
 
 77.5 
 
 63 
 
 61 
 
 88 
 
 81 
 
 76 
 
 76 
 
 64 
 
 62 
 
 88 
 
 82 
 
 76.5 
 
 74 
 
 65 
 
 63 
 
 88 
 
 83 
 
 77.5 
 
 74 
 
 66 
 
 64 
 
 88 
 
 84 
 
 78 
 
 72 
 
 67 
 
 65 
 
 88 
 
 85 
 
 79 
 
 72 
 
 68 
 
 66 
 
 88 
 
 86 
 
 80 
 
 72 
 
 69 
 
 67 
 
 88 
 
 87 
 
 80.5 
 
 71 
 
 70 
 
 68 
 
 88 
 
 88 
 
 81.5 
 
 71 
 
 71 
 
 68.5 
 
 85.5 
 
 89 
 
 82.5 
 
 71 
 
 72 
 
 69 
 
 84 
 
 90 
 
 83 
 
 69 
 
 73 
 
 70 
 
 84 
 
 91 
 
 83.5 
 
 68 
 
 74 
 
 70.5 
 
 81.5 
 
 92 
 
 84.5 
 
 68 
 
 75 
 
 71.5 
 
 81.5 
 
 93 
 
 85.5 
 
 68 
 
 76 
 
 72 
 
 79 
 
 94 
 
 86 
 
 66 
 
 77 
 
 73 
 
 79 
 
 95 
 
 87 
 
 66 
 
 Section 5. Water used for humidifying purposes *in a textile 
 factory shall be taken either from a public supply of drinking 
 water, or from some other source of pure water, or from a supply 
 of water which, although in the opinion of the state board of 
 labor and industries not suitable for drinking purposes is suffi- 
 ciently free from impurities as not to be dangerous to the health 
 of employees when used for humidifying purposes; and all ducts 
 for the introduction or distribution of humidified air shall be 
 kept clean. 
 
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 Section 6. This act shall be enforced by the inspectors of 
 the state board of labor and industries under the supervision of 
 said board. Whoever fails to comply with the provisions con- 
 tained herein after being requested so to do by an inspector of 
 the state board of labor and industries shall be fined not more 
 than fifty dollars for each offence. 
 
 Section 7. To provide for the expenses necessary in carrying 
 out the provisions of this act, in connection with and in addition 
 to the duties provided for by chapter five hundred and thirty- 
 seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and seven, there 
 may be expended out of the treasury of the commonwealth an- 
 nually a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars in addition to 
 the five thousand dollars provided for by section seven of said 
 chapter five hundred and thirty-seven. 
 
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 DANGEROUS MACHINERY. 
 
 GUARDING, COMMUNICATION, ETC. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 94, amended by Acts of 1912, Chapter 318, Acts 
 of 1913, Chapter 836, Section 13, and by Acts of 1914, Chapter 328. 
 
 Guarding of Machinery. — Section 2. The belting, shaft- 
 ing, gearing, drums and all machinery having movable parts in 
 all factories, mechanical establishments, workshops and mercantile 
 establishments if so placed as, in the t pinion of the state board 
 of labor and industries, to be dangerous to employees therein 
 while engaged in their ordinary duties, shall be, so far as is prac- 
 ticable, securely guarded. No machinery except steam engines in 
 a factory, mechanical establishment, workshop or mercantile es- 
 tablishment shall be cleaned while running if objection in writing 
 is made by one of the inspectors of said board. 
 
 Section 3. Nothing in this act shall be construed as applying 
 to the belting, shafting, gearing, drums or machinery used in the 
 operation of elevators, nor in any way as affecting the powers of 
 the board of elevator regulations given by chapter eight hundred 
 and six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514. 
 
 Communication with Engineer’s Room. — Section 91. In 
 every manufacturing establishment in which the machinery is pro- 
 pelled by steam, communication shall be provided between each 
 room in which such machinery is placed and the room in which 
 the engineer is stationed by means of speaking tubes, electric bells 
 or appliances to control the motive power, or such other means as 
 shall be satisfactory to the inspectors of the state board of labor 
 and industries, if in the opinion of the inspectors such commu- 
 nication is necessary. Whoever, being the occupant or controlling 
 the use of any such manufacturing establishment, violates the 
 provisions of this section shall forfeit to the commonwealth not 
 less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 Section 92. No prosecution for a violation of the provisions 
 of the preceding section shall be commenced until four weeks 
 after notice in writing by an inspector has been sent by mail to 
 
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 such person, firm or corporation of any changes necessary to be 
 made to comply with the provisions of said section, nor if such 
 changes shall have been made in accordance with such notice. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 101. 
 
 Protection from Flying Shuttles. — Any person, firm or cor- 
 portion owning, managing or operating factories in this common- 
 wealth in which looms are employed shall equip the looms with 
 such guards or other devices as will prevent injury to employees 
 from shuttles falling or being thrown from the looms. Such 
 guards or devices shall be made of such material and placed in 
 such manner as shall be approved by the state board of labor and 
 industries, who are hereby directed to enforce the provisions of 
 this section. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall 
 be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for 
 every week during which such violation continues. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 95. 
 
 Traversing Machinery in Cotton Factories. — The owner 
 of a cotton factory which shall have been erected subsequently to 
 the twenty-eighth day of May in the year eighteen hundred and 
 ninety-six, in which there is any traversing carriage of a self- 
 acting mule installed, or of any cotton factory erected previously 
 to such date in which hereafter such traversing carriage is in- 
 stalled, who permits such carriage to travel within twelve inches 
 of any pillar, column, pier or fixed structure, shall be punished by 
 a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each 
 offence. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 96, amended^by Acts of 1913, Chapter 806, Section 13. 
 
 Hatchways and Other Openings to be protected. — The 
 
 openings of hoistways, hatchways and well holes upon every floor 
 of a factory or mercantile or public building shall be protected by 
 sufficient trap doors or self-closing hatches and safety catches, or 
 such other safeguards as the inspectors of the state board of 
 labor and industries direct; and due diligence shall be used to 
 keep such trap doors closed at all times, except when in actual 
 
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 use by the occupant of the building who has the use and control 
 of the same. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 100. 
 
 Explosives and Inflammables. — Explosive or inflammable 
 compounds shall not be used in any factory in such place or 
 manner as to obstruct or render hazardous the egTess of operatives 
 in case of Are. 
 
 Children forbidden to clean Machinery in Motion. {See 
 Minors, Miscellaneous, page 41.) 
 
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 HOME WORK. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514. 
 
 Tenement House Clothing. — Section 106. A room or 
 apartment in a tenement or dwelling house shall not be used for 
 the purpose of making, altering, repairing or finishing therein 
 coats, vests, trousers or wearing apparel of any description, ex- 
 cept by the members of the family dwelling therein ; and a family 
 which desires to make, alter, repair or finish coats, vests, trousers 
 or wearing apparel of any description in a room or apartment 
 in a tenement or dwelling house shall first procure a license there- 
 for from the state board of labor and industries. A license 
 may be applied for by, and issued to, any member of a family 
 which desires to do such work. No person, partnership or cor- 
 poration shall hire, employ or contract with a member of a 
 family which does not hold a license therefor to make, alter, re- 
 pair or finish garments or articles of wearing apparel as afore- 
 said, in any room or apartment in a tenement or dwelling house 
 as aforesaid. Every room or apartment in which garments or 
 articles of wearing apparel are made, altered, repaired or finished 
 shall be kept in a cleanly condition and shall be subject to the 
 inspection and examination of the inspectors of the state board 
 of labor and industries for the purpose of ascertaining whether 
 said room or apartment or said garments or articles of wearing 
 apparel or any parts thereof are clean and free from vermin and 
 from infectious or contagious matter. A room or apartment in 
 a tenement or dwelling house which is not used for living or 
 sleeping purposes, and which is not connected with a room or 
 apartment used for living or sleeping purposes and which has a 
 separate and distinct entrance from the outside shall not be sub- 
 ject to the provisions of this section, nor shall the provisions of 
 this section prevent the employment of a tailor or 'seamstress by 
 any person or family for the making of wearing apparel for 
 the use of such person or family. Every person, firm or corpo- 
 ration hiring, employing or contracting with a member of a 
 family holding a license under this section for the making, alter- 
 ing, repairing or finishing of garments or wearing apparel to be 
 
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 done outside the premises of such person, firm or corporation, 
 shall keep a register of the names and addresses plainly written 
 in English of the persons so hired, employed or contracted with, 
 and shall forward a copy of such register once a month to the 
 state board of labor and industries. 
 
 Section 107. If an inspector finds evidence of infectious or 
 contagious disease or of vermin present in a workshop or in a 
 room or apartment in a tenement or dwelling house in which gar- 
 ments or articles of wearing apparel are made, altered or re- 
 paired, or in goods manufactured or in process of manufacture 
 therein, he shall report the same to the state board of labor and 
 industries, who shall then notify the local board of health to 
 examine said workshop, room or apartment and the materials 
 used therein; and if the board of health finds that said workshop 
 or tenement or dwelling house is in an unhealthy condition, and 
 that the clothing and materials used therein are unfit for use, it 
 shall issue such orders as the public safety may require. 
 
 Section 108. Whoever sells or exposes for sale coats, vests, 
 trousers or wearing apparel of any description which have been 
 made in a tenement or dwelling house in which the family dwell- 
 ing therein has not procured a license, as required by section 
 one hundred and six, shall have affixed to each of said garments 
 a tag or label not less than two inches in length and one inch 
 in width, upon which shall be legibly printed or written the words 
 tenement-made and the name of the state and the city or 
 town in which the garment was made. 
 
 Section 109. No person shall sell or expose for sale any of 
 said garments without a tag or label as aforesaid affixed thereto, 
 nor wilfully remove, alter or destroy such tag or label upon any 
 of said garments when exposed for sale, nor sell or expose for 
 sale any of said garments with a false or fradulent label affixed 
 thereto. 
 
 Section 110. If it is reported to said inspector or to the 
 state board of labor and industries that ready-made coats, vests, 
 trousers, overcoats or other garments are being shipped to this 
 commonwealth, having been manufactured under unhealthy con- 
 ditions, said inspector shall examine said goods and the condition 
 of their manufacture, and if they are found to contain vermin 
 
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 or to have been made in improper places or under unhealthy 
 conditions, he shall so report to the state board of labor and 
 industries, which shall thereupon make such orders as the public 
 safety may require. 
 
 Section 111. Whoever violates any of the provisions of the 
 five preceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not less 
 than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. 
 
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 GENERAL. 
 
 WAGES, FINES, ETC. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 21, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 474. 
 
 Prevailing Rate of Wages. — Section 1. In the employ- 
 ment of mechanics and laborers in the construction of public 
 works by the commonwealth, or by a county, city or town, or by 
 persons contracting therewith, preference shall be given to citi- 
 zens of the commonwealth, and, if they cannot be obtained in 
 sufficient numbers, then to citizens of the United States; and 
 every contract for such works shall contain a provision to this 
 effect. The wages for a day^s work paid to mechanics employed 
 in such construction of public works shall be not less than the 
 • customary and prevailing rate of wages for a day’s work in the 
 same trade or occupation in the locality, city or town where such 
 public works are constructed. Any contractor who knowingly 
 and wilfully violates the provisions of this section shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for each 
 offence. 
 
 Section 2. The board of labor and industries shall enforce the 
 provisions of this act, and in case of any dispute that may arise 
 upon public works as to the customary and prevailing rate of 
 wages the board of labor and industries shall investigate the 
 wages paid in the trade or occupation in the locality, city or 
 town where such public works are under construction and decide 
 what rate of wages shall be paid upon such works. 
 
 Preference of Citizens. {See page 92.) 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 112, amended by Acts of 1910, Chapter 350; Acts of 
 
 1911, Chapter 208; Acts of 1914, Chapter 247; and by Acts of 1915, Chapter 75 
 
 (General). 
 
 Weekly Payment of Wages. — Every person, firm or cor- 
 poration engaged in carrying on a factoiy, workshop, manufac- 
 turing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, mine, quarry, 
 railroad or street railway, or a telephone, telegraph, express or 
 water company, or in the erection, alteration, repair or removal 
 of any building or structure, or the construction or repair of any 
 railroad, street railway, road, bridge, sewer, gas, water or electric 
 
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 light works, pipes or lines, shall pay weekly each employee en- 
 gaged in his or its business the wages earned by him to within 
 six days of the date of said payment, but any employee leaving 
 his or her employment, shall be paid in full on the following 
 regular pay day ; and any employee discharged from such employ- 
 ment shall be paid in full on the day of his discharge, or in the 
 city of Boston as soon as the provisions of law requiring pay 
 rolls, bills and accounts to be certified shall have been complied 
 with; and the commonwealth, its officers, boards and commissions 
 shall so pay every mechanic, workman and laborer who is em- 
 ployed by it or them, and every person employed by it or them 
 in any penal or charitable institution, and every county and city 
 shall so pay every employee who is engaged in its business the 
 wages or salary earned by him, unless such mechanic, workman, 
 laborer or employee requests in writing to be paid in a different 
 manner; and every town shall so pay each employee in its busi- 
 ness if so required by him; but an employee who is absent from 
 his regular place of labor at a time fixed for payment shall be 
 paid thereafter on demand. The provisions of this section shall 
 not apply to an employee of a co-operative corporation or asso- 
 ciation if he is a stockholder therein unless he requests such 
 corporation to pay him weekly. The public ser\dce commission, 
 after a hearing, may exempt an3^ railroad corporation from pay- 
 ing weekly any of its employees if it appears to the board that 
 such employees prefer less frequent payments, and that their 
 interests and the interests of the public will not suffer thereby. 
 No corporation, contractor, person or partnership shall by a 
 special contract with an employee or by any other means exempt 
 himself or itself from the provisions of this and the following 
 section. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be 
 punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 113. 
 
 The state board of labor and industries may make a com- 
 plaint against any person for a violation of the provisions of the 
 preceding section. Complaints for such violation shall be made 
 within thirty days after the date thereof, and, on the trial, no 
 defence for failure to pay as required, other than the attachment 
 
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 of such wages by the trustee process or a valid assignment thereof 
 or a valid set-oft against the same, or the absence of the employee 
 from his regular place of labor at the time of payment, or an 
 actual tender to such employee at the time of payment of the 
 wages so earned by him, shall be valid. The defendant shall not 
 set up as a defence a payment of wages after the bringing of the 
 complaint. An assignment of future wages which are payable 
 weekly under the provisions of this act shall not be valid if made 
 to the person from whom such wages are to become due or to any 
 person on his behalf or if made or procured to be made to another 
 person for the purpose of relieving the employer from the obliga- 
 tion to pay weekly. The word person in this section shall 
 include the corporations, contractors, persons and partnerships 
 described in the preceding section. 
 
 Acts of 1911, Chapter 249, Section 1. 
 
 Pay Day. — Manufacturing corporations and contractors, 
 persons or partnerships engaged in any manufacturing business 
 wherein one hundred employees or more are employed shall, on 
 the day chosen as pay day, pay such of their employees as are 
 on that day working in the manufacturing establishment, before 
 the close of the regular working hours. 
 
 Acts of 1911, Chapter 249, Section 2. 
 
 Whoever violates the provisions of this act shall be punished 
 by a fine of not more than fifty dollars. 
 
 Acts of 1915, Chapter 214 (General). 
 
 A justice or clerk of a police, municipal or district court, or a 
 trial justice may, upon the application of any employee issue a 
 summons to an employer to appear and show cause why a war- 
 rant should not issue against him for a violation of section one 
 hundred and twelve of chapter five hundred and fourteen of the 
 acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine. Upon the return of 
 such summons and after a hearing the justice may issue a war- 
 rant upon the complaint of any such employee. 
 
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 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 119. 
 
 Deductions for Stopping of Machinery. — Deductions shall 
 not be made from the wages of women and minors who are paid 
 by the day or hour, and are employed in manufacturing or me- 
 chanical establishments, for time during which the machinery is 
 stopped, if said women and minors are refused the privilege of 
 leaving the mill while the damage to said machinery is being re- 
 paired; and if such employees are detained in their work rooms 
 during the time of the breaking down of machinery, they shall 
 not be compelled to make up time lost by such break-down unless 
 they are compensated therefor at their regular rates of wages. 
 Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be punished 
 by a fine of not more than twenty dollars for each offence. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 120. 
 
 Discharge without Notice. — A person who being engaged in 
 manufacturing requires from his employees, under penalty of for- 
 feiture of a part of the wages earned by them, a notice of inten- 
 tion to leave such employ shall be liable to a like forfeiture, if, 
 without similar notice, he discharges an employee. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 114. 
 
 Specifications for Weavers. — The system used by manufac- 
 turers of grading the work of a weaver shall not affect or lessen 
 the wages of the weaver, except for imperfections in his own 
 work; and in no case shall the wages of those engaged in weaving 
 be affected by fines or otherwise unless the imperfections com- 
 plained of are first exhibited and pointed out to the person whose 
 wages are to be affected; and a fine shall not be imposed upon any 
 person for imperfect weaving unless the provisions of this section 
 are first complied with and the amount of the fines are agreed 
 upon by both parties. Whoever violates the provisions of this 
 section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred 
 dollars for the first offence, and by a fine of not more than three 
 hundred dollars for each subsequent offence. 
 
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 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 115. 
 
 The occupier or manager of every cotton factory shall supply 
 to each person who is engaged as a weaver in said factory and 
 is paid by the piece, cut or yard, a printed or written ticket 
 with each warp which shall contain the following specifications 
 as to the work to be done and wages paid : — the number of cuts, 
 the number of yards per cut or piece, the price per yard, cut 
 or piece, the number of picks per inch and the number of reeds 
 to the inch. Said occupier or manager shall also supply to each 
 person who is engaged as a frame tender a specification of the 
 number of roving and price per hank or hanks; and to each 
 person engaged as a warper or web drawer a specification of 
 the number of threads in the warp and the rate of compensa- 
 tion; and to each operative who is paid by the pound a specifi- 
 cation of the price to be paid per pound or pounds; said 
 specification to be furnished in each case on a printed or written 
 ticket within three days after the time when said operative begins 
 work. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 116, amended by Acts of 1911, Chapter 263. 
 
 The occupier or manager of every textile factory shall post 
 in every room where any employees work by the job, in legible 
 writing or printing, and in sufficient numbers to be easily access- 
 ible to such employees, specifications of the character of each 
 kind of work to be done by them, and the rate of compensation. 
 Such specifications in the case of weaving rooms shall state the 
 intended and maximum length of a cut or piece, the count per 
 inch of reed, and the number of picks per inch, width of loom, 
 width of cloth woven in the loom, and the price per cut or piece, 
 or per pound; or, if payment is made per pick or per yard, the 
 price per pick or per yard; and each warp shall bear a desig- 
 nating ticket .or mark of identification. In roving or spinning 
 rooms, the number of roving or yarn and the price per hank 
 for each size of machine shall be stated; and each machine shall 
 bear a ticket stating the number of the roving or yarn made 
 upon it. The maximum length of a cut or piece shall not exceed 
 three per cent of its intended length; but if it appears that a 
 
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 variation in excess of the amount hereinbefore set forth has been 
 caused in whole or in part by any weaver in the employ of any 
 person charged with the violation of this act, this shall be deemed 
 a sufficient defence to a prosecution. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 117. 
 
 The members of the inspection department of the state board 
 of labor and industries shall enforce the provisions of the two 
 preceding sections. They may go into any room, mill or factory 
 to ascertain the facts relative to any work done therein or coming 
 from any other room, mill or factory, and to take the measure- 
 ments of such work. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 118. 
 
 Penalty. — The occupier or manager of a cotton factory who 
 fails to comply with the provisions of section one hundred and 
 fifteen or the occupier or manager of a textile factory who fails 
 to comply with the provisions of section one hundred and sixteen 
 or any person who interferes with the inspectors of the state 
 board of labor and industries in the performance of their duties 
 under the provisions of the preceding section shall be punished 
 by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars 
 for the first offence, and by a fine of not less than fifty nor more 
 than one hundred dollars for each subsequent offence. 
 
 Acts of 1911, Chapter 584. 
 
 Fines for Imperfect Weaving. — No employer shall impose 
 a fine upon an employee engaged at weaving for imperfections 
 that may arise during the process of weaving. 
 
 Any employer who violates the provisions of this act shall be 
 punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for the first 
 offence, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for any subse- 
 quent offence. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 24. 
 
 Employer may not impose Bond in Certain Cases. — A 
 
 corporation which is engaged in carrying passengers or in trans- 
 porting freight for hire shall not require or receive from a person 
 
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 who is employed or about to be employed by it a bond or other 
 security, either with or without surety, to indemnify such corpo- 
 ration against loss or damage to other persons or to property 
 resulting from the act or neglect of such person, except a bond 
 to account for money or other property of such corporation. A 
 corporation or a person in its behalf who violates the provisions 
 of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty 
 dollars for the first ofi'ence and of not more than one hundred 
 dollars for each subsequent offence. 
 
 TRADE UNIONS. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 31. 
 
 Registration of Union Insignia. — The insignia, ribbons, 
 badges, rosettes, buttons and emblems of any society, association 
 or labor union may be registered in the office of the secretary of 
 the commonwealth in the manner and subject to the provisions, so 
 far as they are applicable, set forth in section seven of chapter 
 ‘seventy-two of the Revised Laws in regard to labels; and the 
 secretary is hereby authorized to make regulations and prescribe 
 forms for such registration. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 30. 
 
 Exempt from Insurance Laws. — Trade unions and other 
 associations of wage workers whose principal objects are to deal 
 with the relation between employers and employees relative to 
 wages, hours of labor and other conditions of employment shall 
 not be subject to the provisions of chapters one hundred and nine- 
 teen and one hundred and twenty of the Revised Laws and chapter 
 five hundred and seventy-six of the acts of the year nineteen hun- 
 dred and seven or of such other provisions of law as relate to 
 insurance companies or associations. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 19. 
 
 Coercion as to joining Union. — No person shall, himself or 
 by his agent, coerce or compel a person into a written or oral 
 agreement not to join or become a member of a labor organiza- 
 tion as a condition of his securing employment or continuing in 
 the employment of such person. 
 
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 INFLUENCING, PROCURING AND ADVERTISING FOR 
 EMPLOYEES. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 28, amended by Acts of 1912, Chapter 495. 
 
 Corrupt Influencing of Employees. — Whoever corruptly 
 gives, offers or promises to an agent, employee or servant, any 
 gift or gratuity whatever, with intent to influence his action in 
 relation to the business of his principal, employer or master; or 
 an agent, employee or servant who corruptly requests or accepts 
 a gift or gratuity or a promise to make a gift or to do an act 
 beneficial to himself, under an agTeement or with an understand- 
 ing that he shall act in any particular manner in relation to the 
 business of his principal, employer or master; or an agent, em- 
 ployee or servant, who, being authorized to procure materials, sup- 
 plies or other articles either by purchase or contract for his 
 principal, employer or master, or to employ service or labor for 
 his principal, employer, or master, receives directly or indirectly, 
 for himself or for another, a commission, discount or bonus from 
 the person who makes such sale or contract, or furnishes such 
 materials, supplies or other articles, or from a person who renders 
 such service or labor; and any person who gives or offers such an 
 agent, employee or servant such commission, discount or bonus, 
 shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more 
 than five hundred dollars, or by such fine and by imprisonment 
 for not more than one year; except that if the person who com- 
 mits the said offence acts as agent or officer of any person, part- 
 nership or corporation to employ persons as clerks, laborers or 
 otherwise, the offence shall be felony punishable by a fine of not 
 less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, 
 or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three 
 years. The district attorneys in their respective districts shall 
 prosecute all violations of this section. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 29. 
 
 No person shall be excused from attending, testifying or pro- 
 ducing books, papers, contracts, agreements and documents before 
 any court or in obedience to the subpoena of any court having 
 jurisdiction of the offence described in the preceding section on 
 
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 the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, docu- 
 mentary or otherwise required of him may tend to criminate him 
 or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall 
 be liable to any suit or prosecution, civil or criminal, for or on 
 account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he 
 may testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before 
 said court or in obedience to its subpoena or in any such case or 
 proceeding. 
 
 Acts of 1910, Chapter 445, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 347. 
 
 Procuring Employees during Strike. — Section 1. If an 
 employer, during the continuance of a strike among his employees, 
 or during the continuance of a lockout or other labor trouble 
 among his employees, publicly advertises in newspapers, or by 
 posters or otherwise, for employees, or by himself or his agents 
 solicits persons to work for him to fill the places of strikers, he 
 shall plainly and explicitly mention in such advertisements or oral 
 or written solicitations that a strike, lockout or other labor dis- 
 turbance exists among his employees. 
 
 Section 2. No employer, during the continuance of a strike, 
 lockout or other labor trouble among his employees, shall directly 
 or indirectly procure or attempt to procure persons to fill the 
 places of employees involved in such strike, lockout or other labor 
 trouble, if such persons are or have been solicited by means of ad- 
 vertisements or oral or written statements in which it has not been 
 plainly and explicitly mentioned that a strike, lockout or other 
 labor trouble exists in the establishment where such persons are 
 to be employed. This provision shall apply whether such adver- 
 tisements or oral or written solicitations were made within or 
 without the commonwealth. 
 
 Section 3. No person, firm, association or corporation, during 
 the continuance of a strike, lockout or other labor trouble among 
 the employees of another person, firm, association or corporation, 
 shall procure, or attempt to procure, or assist in any way in pro- 
 curing, or attempting to procure persons to work for such other 
 person, firm, association, or corporation, to fill the places of em- 
 ployees involved in such strike, lockout or other labor trouble, if 
 such persons are or have been solicited by advertisements or oral 
 
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 or written statements, whether made within or without the com- 
 monwealth, in which it has not been plainly and explicitly men- 
 tioned that a strike, lockout or other labor trouble exists in the 
 establishment where such persons are to be employed. 
 
 Acts of 1910, Chapter 445, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 347, and by Acts of 1915, 
 Chapter 108 (General). 
 
 Section 4. Any person, firm, association or corporation vio- 
 lating any provision of this act shall, upon complaint of and after 
 investigation by the state board of conciliation and arbitration, be 
 punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each 
 offence. 
 
 Acts of 1910, Chapter 445, amended by Acts of 1912, Chapter 545, and by Acts of 1914, 
 
 Chapter 347. 
 
 Section 5. The provisions of this act shall cease to be op- 
 erative when the state board of conciliation and arbitration shall 
 determine that the business of the employer, in respect to which 
 the strike or other labor trouble occurred, is being carried on in 
 the normal and usual manner and to the normal and usual ex- 
 tent. Said board shall determine this question as soon as may 
 be, upon the application of the employer. 
 
 Section 6. Chapter four hundred and forty-five of the acts 
 of the year nineteen hundred and ten and chapter five hundred 
 and forty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 
 twelve are hereby repealed as to all offences committed after this 
 act takes effect. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 27. 
 
 Fraudulent Advertising for Help. — Whoever knowingly 
 causes to be printed or published a false or fraudulent notice 
 or advertisement for help or for obtaining work or employment 
 shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars 
 or by imprisonment for not more than three months or by both 
 such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 25. 
 
 Solicitation by Public Officials. — No railroad, street rail- 
 way, electric light, gas, telegraph, telephone, water or steamboat 
 company shall appoint, promote, reinstate, suspend or discharge 
 
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 any person employed or seeking employment by any such com- 
 pany at the request of the governor, lieutenant-governor, or any 
 member or member elect of the council or of the general court, 
 or candidate therefor, justice of the supreme judicial court, 
 justice of the superior court, judge of probate, justice of a 
 police, district or municipal court, district attorney, member or 
 member elect of a board of county commissioners, or candidate 
 for county commissioner, member or member elect of a board of 
 aldermen, or selectmen, or city council, or any executive, adminis- 
 trative or judicial officer, clerk or employee of any branch of 
 the government of the commonwealth or of any county, city or 
 town; nor shall any such public officer or body, or any member 
 or member elect thereof or candidate therefor, directly or in- 
 directly advocate, oppose, or otherwise interfere in, or make any 
 request, recommendation, endorsement, requirement or certificate 
 relative to, and the same, if made, shall not be required as a 
 condition precedent to, or be in any way regarded or permitted 
 to infiuence or control, the appointment, promotion, reinstate- 
 ment or retention of any person employed or seeking employ- 
 ment by any such corporation, and no such person shall solicit, 
 obtain, exhibit, or otherwise make use of any such official re- 
 quest, recommendation, certificate or endorsement in connection 
 with any existing or desired employment by a public service 
 corporation. Any person or corporation violating the provisions 
 of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty 
 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offience. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 26. 
 
 The offices of probation officer, notary public and justice of 
 the peace, prison officer, agent of the prison commissioners and 
 agent of the state board of charity shall not be considered public 
 offices within the meaning of the preceding section. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 18. 
 
 Intimidation of Employees. — No person shall, by intimida- 
 tion or force, prevent or seek to prevent a person from entering 
 into or continuing in the employment of any person or corpora- 
 tion. 
 
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 Acts of 1912, Chapter 358. 
 
 Interference with Employment because of Service in 
 Militia. — Any person who wilfully either deprives a member 
 of the militia or naval reserve of his employment, or denies him 
 employment, or prevents his being employed by another, or ob- 
 structs or annoys him or his employer in respect of his trade, 
 business, or employment, because of such member’s connection 
 with the militia or naval reserve or because of his necessary ab- 
 sence from business in performance of his duty as such member, 
 and whoever dissuades any person from enlisting in the militia 
 or naval reserve by threat of injury to him in respect of his em- 
 ployment, trade or business or of other injury, in case he shall 
 so enlist, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con- 
 viction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five 
 hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding six 
 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 GENERAL DUTIES OP INSPECTORS. 
 
 Revised Laws, Chapter 108, Section 8, amended by Acts of 1907, Chapter 413. 
 
 Powers and Duties. — The inspectors of the state board of 
 labor and industries shall, except as otherwise provided in chap- 
 ters one hundred and four [and] one hundred and five . . . en- 
 force the provisions thereof and all other provisions of law 
 relative to the employment of women and minors in manufac- 
 turing, mechanical and mercantile establishments, the employment 
 of children, young persons or women in factories or workshops, 
 the lighting and ventilation of factories or workshops, the keep- 
 ing of them clean, and the securing of proper sanitary provisions 
 therein, and the making of clothing in unsanitary conditions. 
 For such purposes, said inspectors may enter all buildings and 
 parts thereof which are subject to the provisions of said chap- 
 ters and examine the methods of protection from accident, the 
 means of escape from fire, the sanitary provisions, the lighting 
 and the means of ventilation, and may make investigations as 
 to the employment of children, young persons and women. 
 
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 PREFERENCE OF CITIZENS. 
 
 Acts of 1914, Chapter 600. 
 
 SECTioisr 1. In all work of any branch of the service of the 
 commonwealth, or of any city or town therein, citizens of the 
 commonwealth shall be given preference. 
 
 Section* 2. The civil service commission shall not place upon 
 its lists any person not a citizen of the United States. 
 
 Section 3. If an appointing officer, because of the non-exist- 
 ence of a list of eligible appointees, appoints under provisional 
 authority from the civil service commission a person not a citizen 
 of the United States, he shall discharge the person so appointed 
 and appoint from the eligible list whenever the civil service com- 
 mission establishes a list of the proper class. 
 
 Section 4. Whenever the attention of the civil service commis- 
 sion shall be called by complaint on the part of any citizen of the 
 commonwealth to the employment of a non-citizen when there is 
 a list of eligibles existing, the commission shall take steps to 
 enforce the dismissal of such non-citizen and the appointment in 
 his place from the suitable eligible list. 
 
 Section 5. Whenever it shall appear that any appointing of- 
 ficer has had due notice of unlawful employment of a non-citizen 
 and that the said appointing officer has continued such employ- 
 ment for ten days after such notice, he shall be subject to a fine 
 of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for each 
 offence. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 45. 
 
 Time allowed for Voting. — No person entitled to vote at an 
 election shall, upon the day of any such election, be employed in 
 any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, ex- 
 cept such as may lawfully conduct its business on Sunday, during 
 the period of two hom’S after the opening of the polls in the vot- 
 ing precinct or town in which he is entitled to vote, if he shall 
 make application for leave of absence during such period. An 
 owner, superintendent or overseer in any manufacturing, me- 
 chanical or mercantile establishment, except such as may lawfully 
 conduct its business on Sunday, who employs or permits to be 
 
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 employed therein any person entitled to vote at a state election, 
 during the period of two hours after the opening of the polls in 
 the voting precinct or town in which such person is entitled to 
 vote, if he shall make application for leave of absence during 
 such period, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 33. 
 
 Use of Bells and Whistles by Manufacturers. — Manufac- 
 turers and others who employ workmen may, for the purpose of 
 giving notice to them, ring bells and use whistles and gongs of 
 such size and weight and in such manner and at such hours as the 
 board of aldermen of cities and the selectmen of towns may des- 
 ignate in writing. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 20. 
 
 Lodgings of Public Employees. — Every employee in public 
 work shall lodge, board and trade where and with whom he elects, 
 and no person or his agents or employees under contract with the 
 commonwealth, a municipal corporation or a county, or with a 
 board, commission or officer acting therefor, for the doing of 
 public work shall, directly or indirectly, require, as a condition of 
 employment therein, that the employee shall lodge, board or trade 
 at a particular place or with a particular person. The provisions 
 of this section shall be made a part of the contract for such em- 
 ployment, and whoever violates the provisions thereof shall be 
 punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for each 
 olfence. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 93, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 566. 
 
 Locked Doors prohibited. — No outside or inside doors of 
 any building in which operatives are employed shall be so locked, 
 bolted or otherwise fastened during the hours of labor as to pre- 
 vent free egress. Any person having charge of any such building 
 or of any room thereof, any exit door of which shall be found to 
 be so locked, bolted or otherwise fastened during the hours of 
 labor as to prevent free egress, shall be punished by a fine of not 
 less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars 
 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such 
 fine and imprisonment. 
 
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 Acts of 1913, Chapter 655, Section 20. 
 
 Case of Only One Egress. — . . . Women or children shall 
 not be employed, in a factory, workshop, mercantile or other 
 establishment, in a room above the second story from which there 
 is only one egress. . . . 
 
 Acts of 1914, Chapter 263. 
 
 Posting Information in Industrial Establishments. — The 
 
 state board of labor and industries may require employers to post 
 in conspicuous positions in any place of employment such placards, 
 posters or signs as the said board may issue for the information 
 of employees. 
 
 Acts of 1914, Chapter 778. 
 
 Limiting the Issue of Injunctions. — Section 1. It shall 
 not be unlawful for persons employed or seeking employment to 
 enter into any arrangements, agreements or combinations with 
 the view of lessening the hours of labor or of increasing their 
 wages or bettering their condition; and no restraining order or 
 injunction shall be granted by any court of the commonwealth 
 or by any judge thereof in any case between an employer and 
 employees, or between employers and employees, or between per- 
 sons employed and persons seeking employment, or involving or 
 growing out of a dispute concerning terms or conditions of em- 
 ployment, or any act or acts done in pursuance thereof, unless 
 such order or injunction be necessary to prevent irreparable in- 
 jury to property or to a property right of the party making the 
 application, for which there is no adequate remedy at law; and 
 such property or property right shall be particularly described 
 in the application, which shall be sworn to by the applicant or 
 by his agent or attorney. 
 
 Section 2. In construing this act, the right to enter into the 
 relation of employer and employee, to change that relation, and 
 to assume and create a new relation for employer and employee, 
 and to perform and carry on business in such relation with any 
 person in any place, or to do work and labor as an employee, 
 shall be held and construed to be a personal and not a property 
 right. In all cases involving the violation of the contract of em- 
 
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 ployment either by the employee or employer where no irrepara- 
 ble damage is about to be committed upon the property or 
 property right of either, no injunction shall be granted but the 
 parties shall be left to their remedy at law. 
 
 Section 3. No persons who are employed or seeking employ- 
 ment or other labor shall be indicted, prosecuted or tried in any 
 court of the commonwealth for entering into any arrangement, 
 agreement, or combination between themselves as such employees 
 or laborers, made with a view of lessening the number of hours 
 of labor or increasing their wages or bettering their condition, or 
 for any act done in pursuance thereof, unless such act is in itself 
 unlawful. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 36. 
 
 General Penalty. — Whoever violates a provision of [chapter 
 514 of the acts of 1909] for which no specific penalty is provided 
 shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. 
 
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 DEFINITIONS. 
 
 Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 17, amended by Acts of 1911, Chapter 241, and 
 by Acts of 1912, Chapter 191. 
 
 The following words and phrases as used in all laws relative 
 to the employment of labor shall, unless a different meaning is 
 plainly required by the context, have the following meanings : — 
 
 Bleaching . works ’’ shall mean any premises in which the 
 process of bleaching yarn or cloth of any material is carried on. 
 
 Child ” or Minor ” shall mean a person under eighteen 
 3^ears of age, except that in regard to the compulsory attendance 
 of illiterate minors at day or evening schools, the word minor ” 
 shall mean a person under the age of twenty-one years. 
 
 Dyeing works ” shall mean any premises in which the process 
 of dyeing yarn or cloth of any material is carried on. 
 
 Factory ” shall mean any premises where steam, water or 
 other mechanical power is used in aid of any manufacturing 
 process there carried on. 
 
 Glass works ’’ shall mean any premises in which the manu- 
 facture of glass is carried on. 
 
 Iron works ” shall mean a mill, forge or other premises in 
 or upon which any process is carried on for converting iron into 
 malleable iron, steel or tin plate, or for otherwise making or con- 
 verting steel. 
 
 Letter press establishments shall mean any premises -in 
 which the process of letter press lorinting is carried on. 
 
 Manufacturing establishments ” shall mean any premises, 
 room or place used for the purpose of making, altering, repair- 
 ing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale any article or 
 part of an article. 
 
 Mechanical establishments shall mean any premises, other 
 than a factory as above defined, in which machinery is employed 
 in connection with any work or process carried on therein. 
 
 Mercantile establishments shall mean any premises used for 
 the purposes of trade in the purchase or sale of any goods or 
 merchandise, and any premises used for the purposes of a res- 
 taurant or for publicly providing and serving meals. 
 
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 Paper mills shall mean any premises in which the manu- 
 facture of paper is carried on. 
 
 Person shall mean an individual, corporation, ]3artnership, 
 company or association. 
 
 Print works shall mean any premises in which is carried 
 on the process of printing figures, patterns or designs upon cot- 
 ton, linen, woolen, worsted or silken yarn or cloth, or upon any 
 woven or felted fabric which is not paper. 
 
 Woman shall mean a woman eighteen years of age or over. 
 
 Workshop shall mean any premises, room or place, which 
 is not a factory as above defined, wherein manual labor is exer- 
 cised by way of trade or for purposes of gain in or incidental 
 to a process of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing 
 or adapting for sale any article or part of an article, and to 
 which or over which premises, room or place the employer of 
 the persons working therein has the right of access or control; 
 but the exercise of such manual labor in a private house or 
 private room by the family dwelling therein or by any of them 
 or if a majority of the persons therein employed are members 
 of such family, shall not of itself constitute such house or room 
 a workshop within this definition. 
 
 Young person ” shall mean a person of the age of fourteen 
 years and under the age of eighteen years. 
 
 (See also Joint Board, page 16.) 
 
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APPENDIX. 
 
AN ACT RELATIVE TO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND 
 TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 1, amended by Acts of 1915, Chapter 81 (General). 
 
 School Attendance. — Section 1. Every child between seven 
 and fourteen years of age, every child under sixteen years of age 
 who does not possess such ability to read, write and spell in the 
 English language as is required for the completion of the fourth 
 grade of the public schools of the city or town in which he re- 
 sides, and every child under sixteen years of age who has not 
 received an employment certificate as provided in this act and 
 is not engaged in some regular employment or business for at 
 least six hours per day or has not the written permission of the 
 superintendent of schools of the city or town in which he resides 
 to engage in profitable employment at home, shall attend a public 
 day school in said city or town or some other day school approved 
 by the school committee, during the entire time the public schools 
 are in session, subject to such exceptions as are provided for in 
 sections four, five and six of this chapter and in section three of 
 chapter forty-two of the Revised Laws, as amended by chapter 
 four hundred and thirty-three of the acts of the year nineteen 
 hundred and two, and by chapter five hundred and thirty-seven 
 of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven; but such 
 attendance shall not be required of a child Avhose physical or 
 mental condition is such as to render attendance inexpedient or 
 impracticable, or who is being otherwise instructed in a manner 
 approved in advance by the superintendent of schools or the 
 school committee. The superintendent of schools, or teachers in 
 so far as authorized by said superintendent or by the school com- 
 mittee, may excuse cases of necessary absence for other causes 
 not exceeding seven day sessions or fourteen half-day sessions in 
 any period of six months. For the purposes of this section, 
 school committees shall approve a private school only when the 
 instruction in all the studies required by law is in the English 
 
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 language, and when they are satisfied that such instruction equals 
 in thoroughness and efficiency, and in the progress made therein, 
 the instruction in the public schools in the same city or town; 
 but they shall not refuse to approve a private school on account 
 of the religious teaching therein. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 2, amended by Acts of 1915, Chapter 81 (General). 
 
 Obligations of Parents and Guardians. — Section 2. 
 Every person having under his control a child as described in 
 section one shall cause him to attend school as therein required, 
 and, if he fails for seven day sessions or fourteen half-day ses- 
 sions within any period of six months while such control obtains, 
 to cause such child so to attend school, he shall, upon complaint 
 by an attendance officer and conviction thereof, be punished by 
 a fine of not more than tw^enty dollars, and no physical or mental 
 condition which is capable of correction, or which renders the 
 child a fit subject for special instruction at public charge in in- 
 stitutions other than public day schools, shall avail as defence 
 under the provisions of this or the preceding section, unless it 
 shall be made to appear that the defendant has' employed all 
 reasonable measures for the correction of the condition and the 
 suitable instruction of the child. 
 
 Whoever induces or attempts to induce a child to absent him- 
 self unlawfully from school, or employs or harbors a child while 
 school is in session, shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
 ten nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779. 
 
 Right of Child to Education. — Section 3. Every child shall 
 have a right to attend the public schools of the city or town 
 where he actually resides, subject to the provisions of section four 
 of this chapter, and to such reasonable regulations as to numbers 
 and qualifications of pupils to be admitted to the respective 
 schools and as to other school matters as the school committee 
 shall from time to time prescribe. No child shall be excluded 
 from a public school of any city or town on account of race, 
 color or religion. 
 
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 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 4, amended by Acts of 1915, Chapter 78 (General). 
 
 Duty of School Committee — Tuition. — It shall be the 
 duty of the school committee of each city or town to provide 
 for the attendance of all children of school age resident therein 
 and to enforce the same under the provisions of section one of 
 this chapter. But if a child who is required by the provisions 
 of said section one to attend school resides temporarily in a city 
 or town other than that of the legal residence of his parent or 
 guardian for the especial purpose of attending school there in 
 preference to the place of such legal residence, the said city or 
 town may, for the tuition of such child during the period of 
 such attendance, recover from the parent or guardian, whether 
 he resides within or without the commonwealth, a sum equal to 
 the average expense per pupil of such school for that period, 
 unless under the provisions of section three of chapter forty-two 
 of the Ke vised Laws, as amended by chapter four hundred and 
 thirty-three of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and two, 
 and by chapter five hundred and thirty-seven of the acts of the 
 year nineteen hundred and eleven, or of section five of chapter 
 forty-four of the Re^used Laws, such tuition is recoverable from 
 the citj^ or town in which the parent or guardian resides. 
 
 A child who is not required by the provisions of section one 
 of this chapter to attend school may, in the discretion of, the 
 school committee, be required as a condition of admission to a 
 school in a city or town other than that in which his parent or 
 guardian has a legal residence, to pay as tuition a sum equal to 
 the average expense per pupil in the school wdiich such child 
 seeks to enter, the same to be paid annually, semi-annually or at 
 other periods in advance as the school committee may determine. 
 
 For the tuition in the public schools in any city or town of 
 any child between the ages of five and fifteen years who shall 
 be placed elsewhere than in his own home by the state board of 
 charity, or by the trustees of the Massachusetts training schools, 
 or kept under the control of either of said boards in such city 
 or town, the commonwealth shall pay to said city or town, and 
 for such tuition of any such child so placed by the trustees for 
 children of the city of Boston, or so kept under the control of 
 
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 said trustees, the city of Boston from its appropriation for school 
 purposes, shall pay to said city or town seventy-five cents for each 
 week of five days, or major part thereof, of attendance of every 
 such child in the public schools. 
 
 For the transportation to and from a public school of any child 
 whose tuition is payable by the commonwealth or by the city of 
 Boston under the provisions of this section, the commonwealth 
 or the city of Boston, as the case may be, shall pay to the city 
 or town furnishing such transportation, for each week of five 
 days or major part thereof, an amount equal to the average 
 amount for each child paid by said city or town per week for the 
 transportation of children to and from school over the route by 
 which such child is conveyed. Settlements of the accounts of 
 the several cities and towns with the commonwealth and with 
 the city of Boston shall be made annually on the first day of 
 April, and the amounts found due shall be paid within three 
 months thereafter. The money received by said cities and towns 
 under the provisions of this section shall be applied to the sup- 
 port of schools. For the tuition in the public schools in any 
 town of less than ten thousand inhabitants of any child between 
 the ages of five and fifteen years not theretofore resident in such 
 town, who is an inmate of an institution containing more than 
 six inmates, such town may recover from said institution the 
 additional school expense incurred, as may be determined jointly 
 by the school committee of said town and the trustees or managers 
 of said institution, or, in case of disagreement between said school 
 committee and said trustees or managers, as may be decreed by 
 the probate court; but no demand shall be made upon said trus- 
 tees or managers without a vote of the town instructing the school 
 committee to that effect. 
 
 County Training Schools. — Section 5. The county com- 
 missioners of each county, except the counties of Barnstable, 
 Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, Dukes County and Nantucket, 
 shall maintain either separately or jointly with the commissioners 
 of other counties as hereinafter provided, in a suitable place, not 
 at or near a penal institution, a school for the instruction and 
 training of children committed thereto as habitual truants, ab- 
 sentees or school offenders. The county commissioners of two or 
 
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 more counties may, at the expense of said counties, establish and 
 maintain a union school which shall be organized and controlled 
 by the chairmen of the county commissioners of said counties. 
 The chairmen of the respective boards of county commissioners 
 of the counties of Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth, having the 
 management of the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth union training 
 school, shall each be paid the sum of one hundred dollars annually 
 by said counties, respectively. The county commissioners of the 
 counties of Barnstable, Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, Dukes 
 County and Nantucket shall assign a training school established 
 by law as the place for the instruction and training of children 
 committed within their respective counties as habitual truants, 
 absentees or school offenders, and shall pay for their support in 
 said school such reasonable sum as the county commissioners 
 having control of said school may determine. For the purposes 
 of this chapter the parental school of the city of Boston shall be 
 deemed the county training school of the county of Suffolk, and 
 commitments from the towns of Revere and Winthrop and the 
 city of Chelsea shall be to the training school for the county of 
 Middlesex. 
 
 The city or town from which an habitual truant, absentee or 
 school offender is committed to a county training school shall pay 
 to the county within which it is situated one dollar a week toward 
 his support, and reports of the condition and progress of its 
 pupils in said school shall be sent each month to the superintend- 
 ent of schools of such city or town; but the towns of Revere and 
 Winthrop and the city of Chelsea shall pay to the county of 
 Middlesex, for the support of each child committed to the training 
 school of said county, two dollars and fifty cents a week, and such 
 additional sums for each child as will cover the actual cost of 
 maintenance. 
 
 Habitual Truants. — Section 6 . A child between seven and 
 sixteen years of age who wilfully and habitually absents himself 
 from school contrary to the provisions of section one of chapter 
 forty-four of the Revised Laws, as amended, shall be deemed to 
 be an habitual truant, and, unless placed on probation as provided 
 in section seven of this chapter, may, upon complaint by an at- 
 
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 tendance officer and conviction thereof, be committed to a county 
 training school. 
 
 Habitual Absentees. — Section 7. A child between seven 
 and sixteen years of age who may be found wandering about in 
 the streets' or public places of any city or town, having no lawful 
 occupation, habitually not attending school and growing up in 
 idleness and ignorance, shall be deemed to be an habitual absentee, 
 and, unless placed on probation as provided in section seven of 
 said chapter forty-six may, upon complaint by an attendance 
 officer or any other person, and conviction thereof, be committed 
 to a county training school. 
 
 Habitual School Offenders. — Section 8. A child under six- 
 teen years of age who persistently violates the reasonable regula- 
 tions of the school which he attends, or otherwise persistently 
 misbehaves therein, so as to render himself a fit subject for ex- 
 clusion therefrom, shall be deemed to be an habitual school of- 
 fender, and, unless placed on probation as provided in section 
 seven of said chapter forty-six may, upon complaint by an at- 
 tendance officer and conviction thereof, be committed to a county 
 training school. 
 
 Cost of Commitment. — Section 9. The court or magistrate 
 by whom a child has been committed to a county training school 
 may make an order relative to the payment by his parents to the 
 county of the cost of his support while in said school, and may 
 from time to time revise and alter such order or make a new order 
 as the circumstances of the parents may justify. 
 
 Parole from Training Schools. — Section 10. County com- 
 missioners, if they think it will be for the best interest of any child 
 who has been committed to a county training school under their 
 control, after notice and an opportunity to be heard has been given 
 to the superintendent of schools, or, if there is no superintendent, 
 to the school committee of the city or toAvn from Avhich such child 
 was committed to said school, may permit him to be at liberty 
 upon such conditions as said commissioners may deem best; or, 
 with the approval of the court which imposed the sentence, they 
 may discharge him from said school; and upon such parole or 
 discharge they shall make an entry upon their records of the name 
 of such child, the date of parole or discharge and the reason there- 
 
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 for; and a copy of such record shall be transmitted to the court 
 or magistrate by whom such child was committed and to the school 
 committee of the city or town from which he was committed. 
 
 If such child, in the opinion of said commissioners, violates the 
 conditions of his parole at any time previous to the expiration of 
 the term for which he w'as committed to said school, such parole 
 may be revoked. If a superintendent of schools or a school com- 
 mittee furnishes evidence satisfactory to said commissioners of the 
 violation by a child of the conditions of his parole, said commis- 
 sioners shall revoke such parole, and may thereupon issue an 
 order directed to the attendance or police officers of any city or 
 town to arrest such child wherever found and return him to said 
 school. Such officer shall arrest such child and return him to said 
 school, where he shall be held, subject to the provisions of this 
 chapter, for the residue of the term of the original sentence. 
 
 The expense of such arrest and return, so far as approved by 
 the commissioners, shall be paid by the county or counties main- 
 taining' said school. A child who has been committed to a county 
 training* school, whether he be confined at the county training 
 school or be on parole as provided in this section, shall be dis- 
 charged from the custody and care of such school upon his be- 
 coming sixteen years of age. Releases from the parental school 
 of the city of Boston shall be governed by the provisions of chap- 
 ter five hundred and fourteen of the acts of the year eighteen hun- 
 dred and ninety-six, and shall be made by the trustees for children 
 who shall have and exercise the powers given by said chapter to 
 the institutions commissioner of said city. 
 
 Commitment of Gross Offenders. — Section 11. An inmate 
 of a county training school or of the parental school of the city 
 of Boston who persistently violates the reasonable regnlations 
 thereof, or is guilty of indecent or immoral conduct, or otherwise 
 grossly misbehaves, so as to render himself an unfit subject for 
 retention therein, may, upon complaint by the officer in control 
 of said school and conviction thereof, if under fifteen years of 
 age, be committed to the Lyman school for boys; if over fifteen 
 years of age, to the industrial school at Shirley. If a girl who is 
 committed to the custody of the state board of charity under 
 sections three, four or five of this chapter, proves unmanageable 
 
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 in a private family, she may be committed, by the state board of 
 charity, to the state industrial school for girls. 
 
 Powers and Duties of Attendance Officers. — Section 12. 
 Attendance officers shall inquire into all cases arising under the 
 provisions of sections one, two, three, four and six of chapter 
 forty-four and sections three, four, five and eight of this chapter, 
 or of sections sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three or sixty-six of 
 chapter five hundred and fourteen of the acts of the year nineteen 
 hundred and nine, and may make complaints and serve legal 
 processes issued under the provisions of this chapter. They shall 
 have oversight of children placed on probation under the provi- 
 sions of section seven; of children suffering want to whom the 
 provisions of chapter three hundred and fifty-six of the acts of 
 the year nineteen hundred and four apply; of minors licensed by 
 the school committee under the provisions of chapter four hun- 
 dred and nineteen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 
 ten, and subsequent amendments thereof; and of children admitted 
 to or attending shows or entertainments contrary to the provisions 
 of chapter five hundred and thirty-two of the acts of the year 
 nineteen hundred and ten. An attendance officer may apprehend 
 and take to school without a warrant any truant or absentee found 
 wandering about in the streets or public places. 
 
 Section 13. The officers hitherto known as truant officers shall 
 hereafter be known as attendance officers, and all laws now or 
 hereafter in force relative to truant officers shall apply to attend- 
 ance officers. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 14, amended by Acts of 1913, Chapter 831, Section 1, 
 
 Employment of Minors under Fourteen. — No minor under 
 fourteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work 
 in or about or in connection with any factory, workshop, manu- 
 facturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, barber shop, 
 bootblack stand or establishment, public stable, garage, brick or 
 lumber yard, telephone exchange, telegraph or messenger office 
 or in the construction or repair of buildings, or in any contract 
 or wage-earning industry carried on in tenement or other houses. 
 No minor under fourteen years of age shall be employed at work 
 performed for wage or other compensation, to whomsoever pay- 
 
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 able, during the hours when the public schools are in session or 
 shall be employed at work before half-past six o^clock in the 
 morning or after six o’clock in the evening. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 14, amended by Acts of 1913, Chapter 831, Section 2 
 
 Employment of Minors under Sixteen. — No minor under 
 sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in 
 operating or assisting in operating any of the following machines : 
 (1) circular or band saws, (2) wood shapers, (3) wood jointers, 
 (4) planers, (5) picker machines or machines used in picking 
 wool, cotton, hair or any other material, (6) paperlace machines, 
 (7) leather burnishing machines, (8) job or cylinder printing 
 presses operated by power other than foot power, (9) stamping 
 machines used in sheet metal and tinware or in paper or leather 
 manufacturing or in washer and nut factories, (10) metal or 
 paper cutting machines, (11) corner staying machines in paper 
 box factories, (12) corrugating rolls such as are used In corru- 
 gated paper or in roofing, or washboard factories, (13) steam 
 boilers, (14) dough brakes or cracker machinery of any descrip- 
 tion, (15) wire or iron straightening or drawing machinery, (16) 
 rolling mill machinery, (17) power punches or shears, (18) wash- 
 ing or grinding or mixing machinery, (19) calendar rolls in paper 
 and rubber manufacturing or other heavy rolls driven by power, 
 (20) laundering machinery, (21) upon or in connection with any 
 dangerous electrical machinery or appliances. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 14, amended by Acts of 1913, Chapter 831, Section 3. 
 
 No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed or per- 
 mitted to work in any capacity in adjusting, or assisting in ad- 
 justing any hazardous belt to any machinery, or in oiling or 
 cleaning hazardous machinery, or in proximity to any hazardous 
 or unguarded belts, machinery or gearing while such machinery 
 or gearing is in motion; nor on scaffolding: nor in heavy work 
 in the building trades; nor in stripping, assorting, manufactur- 
 ing or packing tobacco; nor in any tunnel; nor in a public bowl- 
 ing alley; nor in a pool or billiard room. 
 
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 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 14, amended by Acts of 1913, Chapter 831, Section 4. 
 
 The state board of labor and industries may from time to time, 
 after a hearing or hearings duly held, determine whether or not 
 any particular trade, process of manufacture or occupation in 
 Avhich the employment of minors under the age of sixteen years 
 is not already forbidden by law, or any particular method of 
 carrying on such trade, process of manufacture or occupation, 
 is sufficiently dangerous or is sufficiently injurious to the health 
 or morals of minors under sixteen years of age to justify their 
 exclusion therefrom. No minor under sixteen years of age shall 
 be employed or permitted to work in any trade, process or occu- 
 pation thus determined to be dangerous or injurious to such 
 minors. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779. 
 
 Employment Certificates. — Section 15. No child between 
 fourteen and sixteen years of age shall be employed or be per- 
 mitted to work in, about or in connection with any factory, work- 
 shop, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment 
 unless the person, firm or corporation employing such child pro- 
 cures and keeps on file accessible to the attendance officers of the 
 city or town, to agents of the board of education, and to the state 
 board of labor and industries or its authorized agents or in- 
 spectors, the employm.ent certificate as hereinafter provided issued 
 to such child, and keeps a complete list of the names and ages of 
 all such children employed therein conspicuously posted near the 
 principal entrance of the building in which such children are 
 employed: provided^ however ^ that children who are over four- 
 teen but under sixteen years of age shall be permitted to work in 
 mercantile establishments on Saturdays between the hours of 
 seven in the morning and six in the evening, without such cer- 
 tificate. On termination of the employment of a child whose em- 
 ployment certificate is on file, said certificate shall be returned by 
 the employer within two days after said termination to the office 
 of the superintendent of schools from which it was issued. 
 
 Issuance of Employment Certificates. — Section 16. An 
 employment certificate shall be issued only by the superintendent 
 of schools or by a person authorized by him in writing, or, wffiere 
 
Ill 
 
 there is no superintendent of schools, by a person authorized in 
 writing by the school committee, of the city or town where the 
 child to Avhom it is issued resides during his employment, or in 
 case the child resides outside the commonwealth, of the city or 
 town in which the child is to be employed : provided^ that no mem- 
 ber of a school committee or other person authorized as aforesaid 
 shall have authority to issue such certificate for any child then 
 in, or about to enter, such personas own employment or the em- 
 ployment of a firm or corporation of which he is a member, 
 officer or employee. 
 
 The person issuing employment certificates shall in each case, 
 before issuing a certificate, receive, examine, approve and file the 
 following papers, duly executed : — 
 
 (1) A pledge or promise signed by the employer or by an au- 
 thorized manager or superintendent, setting forth the character 
 of the employment, the number of hours per day during which 
 the child is to be regularly employed and the name and address 
 of the employer, in which pledge or promise the employer agrees 
 to employ the child in accordance with the provisions of this act, 
 and to return the employment certificate as provided in section 
 fifty-seven. 
 
 (2) The school record of such child, properly filled out and 
 signed as hereinafter provided. 
 
 (3) A certificate signed by a school or family physician, or by 
 a physician appointed by the school committee, stating that the 
 child has been thoroughly examined by said physician and, in 
 his opinion, is in sufficiently sound health and physically able to 
 perform the work which the child intends to do. 
 
 (4) Evidence of age showing that the child is fourteen years 
 of age, which shall consist of one of the following proofs of age: 
 
 (a) A birth certificate, or a duly attested transcript thereof, 
 made by a registrar of vital statistics or other officer charged 
 with the duty of recording births. 
 
 (b) A baptismal certificate, or a duly attested transcript 
 thereof, showing the age and date of baptism of the child. 
 
 (c) In case none of the aforesaid proofs of age is obtainable, 
 and only in such case, the person issuing employ m.ent certificates 
 may accept in lieu thereof a passport or a duly attested immigra- 
 
112 
 
 tion record, or transcript thereof, showing the age of the child, 
 or other official or religious record of the child^s age: provided j 
 that it shall appear to the satisfaction of said person that the 
 same is good and sufficient evidence of the child^s age. 
 
 {d) In case none of the aforesaid proofs of age is obtainable, 
 and only in such case, the person issuing employment certificates 
 may accept in lieu thereof a record of age as given on the register 
 of the school which the child first attended in the commonwealth: 
 provided, that such record was kept for at least tvvo years during 
 the time when such child attended school. 
 
 (e) In case none of the aforesaid proofs of age is obtainable, 
 and only in such case, the person issuing employment certificates 
 may receive the signed statement of the school physician, or of 
 the physician appointed by the school committee, stating that, 
 after examination, it is the opinion of such physician that the 
 child is at least fourteen years of age. Such physician^s state- 
 ment shall be accompanied by a statement signed by the child^s 
 parent, guardian or custodian, or in case such child has no parent, 
 guardian or custodian, the signed statement of the next adult 
 friend. Such signed statement shall contain the name, date and 
 place of birth and residence of the child, and shall certify that 
 the parent, guardian, custodian or next friend signing the state- 
 ment is unable to produce any of the proofs of age specified in 
 this section. Such statement shall be signed in the presence of 
 the person issuing employment certificates by the parent, guard- 
 ian, custodian, or next friend. The person issuing employment 
 certificates may, before issuing a certificate, require the parent, 
 guardian, custodian, or next adult friend of the child to appear 
 and approve in writing the issuance of said certificate. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 17, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 580. 
 
 School Records. — Section 17. The school record required 
 by section sixteen of this act shall be filled out and signed by the 
 principal or teacher in charge of the school which the child last 
 attended and shall be furnished only to a child who, after due 
 examination and investigation, is found to be entitled thereto. 
 Said school record shall state the grade last completed by such 
 child and the studies pursued in completion thereof. It shall 
 
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 state the number of weeks during which such child has attended 
 school during the twelve months next preceding the time of appli- 
 cation for said school record. It shall also give the name, date 
 of birth, and the residence of the child as shown on the records 
 of the school and the name of the parent, guardian or custodian. 
 In case it is found to be impossible to obtain said school record 
 from the principal or teacher in charge of the school which such 
 child last attended, the requirement of a school record may be 
 waived. 
 
 No such school record shall be issued or accepted and no em- 
 ployment certificate shall be granted unless the child possesses 
 the educational qualifications enumerated in section one of chap- 
 ter forty-four of the Revised Laws as amended by section one 
 of this act. 
 
 No such school record shall be issued or accepted unless the 
 child has regularly attended the public schools or other lawfully 
 approved schools for not less than one hundred and thirty days 
 after becoming thirteen years of age : provided^ however, that the 
 school record may be accepted in the case of a person who has 
 been an attendant at a public day school or other lawfully ap- 
 proved school for a period of not less than seven years, if in 
 the opinion of said superintendent such person is mentally in- 
 capable of acquiring the educational qualifications herein pre- 
 scribed; and provided, further, that the superintendent of schools 
 shall have authority to suspend this requirement in any case 
 when, in his opinion, the interests of the child will best be served 
 by such suspension. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779. 
 
 Contents of Employment Certificates. — Section 18 . The 
 employment certificate required by this act shall state the name, 
 sex, date and place of birth and the place of residence of the 
 child and describe the color of the hair and eyes and any dis- 
 tinguishing facial marks of the child. It shall certify that the 
 child named in such certificate has personally appeared before 
 the person issuing the certificate and has been examined and 
 found to possess the educational qualifications enumerated in 
 section one of chapter forty-four of the Revised Laws, as amended 
 
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 by section one of this act, and that all the papers required by 
 section fifty-eight have been duly examined, approved and filed 
 and that all the conditions and requirements for issuing an em- 
 ployment certificate have been fulfilled. It shall state the grade 
 last completed by said child. Every such certificate shall be 
 signed in the presence of the person issuing the same by the child 
 in whose name it is issued. It shall state the name of the em- 
 ployer for whom, and the nature of the employment in which, 
 the certificate authorizes the child to be employed. It shall bear 
 a number, show the date of its issue and shall be signed by the 
 person issuing it. No fee shall be exacted for an employment 
 certificate or for any of the papers required by this act. Dupli- 
 cate employment certificates shall not be issued until it shall 
 appear to the satisfaction of the person authorized to issue cer- 
 tificates that the original certificate has been lost. A record giv- 
 ing all the facts contained on every employment certificate issued 
 shall be filed in the office issuing the same, together with the 
 papers required by section fifty-eight as amended. A record 
 shall also be kept of the names and addresses of all children to 
 whom certificates have been refused, together with the names of 
 the schools which said children should attend and the reasons 
 for refusal. All the aforesaid records and papers shall be pre- 
 served until such children, if living, shall have become sixteen 
 years of age. Such records and statistics concerning the issuance 
 of employment certificates as may be prescribed by the board 
 of education shall be kept and shall be open to the inspection of 
 said board, its officers or agents. The blank certificates and 
 other papers required in connection with the issuing of employ- 
 ment certificates and educational certificates under this act shall 
 be designed by and furnished to the local school committees by 
 the state board of labor and industries after conference with the 
 board of. education, and the approval of the forms thereof by 
 the attorney-general. Said certificates and papers may bear such 
 further and explanatory matter as may be needed to facilitate the 
 enforcement of this act or to comply with future legislative re- 
 quirements. 
 
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 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 19, amended by Acts of 1915, Chapter 70 (General). 
 
 Penalty for Illegal Employment. — Whoever employs a 
 person under the age of sixteen years, and whoever procures or, 
 having under his control a person under sixteen years of age, 
 permits such person to be employed in violation of the provisions 
 of sections fifty-six or fifty-seven of this act, shall for each 
 offence be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor 
 more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than 
 thirty days; and whoever continues to employ a person under 
 sixteen years of age in violation of the provisions of either of 
 said sections, after being notified thereof by a school attendance 
 officer or by an inspector appointed by the state board of labor 
 and industries, shall for every day thereafter while such employ- 
 ment continues be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor 
 more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not 
 more than sixty days; and whoever forges, or procures to be 
 forged, or assists in forging a certificate of birth or other evi- 
 dence of the age of such person, and whoever presents or assists 
 in presenting a forged certificate or evidence of birth to the 
 superintendent of schools or to a person authorized by law to 
 issue certificates, for the purpose of fraudulently obtaining the 
 employment certificate required by this act, shall be punished by 
 a fine of not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars, 
 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such 
 fine and imprisonment. Whoever, being authorized to sign an 
 employment certificate, knowingly certifies to any materially false 
 statement therein shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten 
 nor more than two hundred dollars. Whoever, without authority, 
 alters an employment certificate after the same is issued shall be 
 punished by a fine of ten dollars. 
 
 Acts of 1913, Chapter 779. 
 
 Powers and Duties of Attendance Officers and of Indus- 
 trial Inspectors. — Section 20. Attendance officers may visit 
 the factories, workshops, manufacturing, mechanical and mercan- 
 tile establishments, theatres, and places of public exhibition in 
 their several cities and towns and ascertain whether any children 
 
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 are employed therein contrary to the provisions of this act and 
 shall report in writing any cases of such illegal employment to 
 the superintendent of schools or the school committee and to the 
 state board of labor and industries or its authorized officers or 
 agents. Inspectors appointed by the state board of labor and 
 industries shall visit all factories, workshops, manufacturing, 
 mechanical and mercantile establishments within their respective 
 districts, and ascertain whether any children are employed therein 
 contrary to the provisions of this act, and shall enter complaint 
 against whomever is found to have violated any of said provi- 
 sions. An inspector who knowingly or wilfully violates any 
 provision of this section may be punished by a fine of not more 
 than one hundred dollars. 
 
 Section 21. An attendance officer shall apprehend and take 
 to school, without a warrant, any child under the age of twenty- 
 one years who is em*ployed in any factory, workshop, manufac- 
 turing, mechanical or mercantile establishment in violation of the 
 provisions of this act, or who is employed in any theatre or place 
 of public exhibition contrary to the provisions of this act, and 
 such attendance officer shall forthwith report to the police, dis- 
 trict or municipal court or trial justice within whose judicial 
 district the illegal employment occurs, the evidence in his pos- 
 session relating to the illegal employment of any child so appre- 
 hended, and shall make complaint against whomever the court or 
 trial justice may direct. An attendance officer who knowingly 
 and wilfully violates any provision of this section may be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for each 
 offence. 
 
 Section 22. Inspectors appointed by the state board of labor 
 and industries, agents of the board of education and attendance 
 officers may require that the employment or educational certifi- 
 cates and lists of children who are employed in factories, work- 
 shops, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishments 
 shall be produced for their inspection. A failure to produce to 
 any person authorized by this section who requests the same an 
 employment or educational certificate or list required by law shall 
 be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of any person 
 whose certificate is not produced or wdiose name is not so listed. 
 
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 A corporation or other employer, or any agent or officer thereof, 
 who retains an employment or educational certificate in violation 
 of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not 
 less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 Educational Certificates, — Section 23. No child who is 
 over sixteen and under twenty-one years of age shall be em- 
 ployed in a factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical or mer- 
 cantile establishment unless his employer procures and keeps on 
 file an educational certificate showing the age of the child and his 
 ability or inability to read and write as hereinafter provided. 
 Such certificates shall be issued by the person authorized by this 
 act to issue employment certificates. 
 
 The person authorized to issue such educational certificates shall, 
 so far as is practicable, require the proof of age stated in section 
 fifty-eight. He shall examine the child and certify whether or 
 not he possesses the educational qualifications enumerated in sec- 
 tion one of chapter forty-four of the Revised Laws, as amended. 
 Every such certificate shall be signed in the presence of the person 
 issuing the same by the child in whose name it is issued. 
 
 Every employer of such children shall keep their educational 
 certificates accessible to any officer authorized to enforce the pro- 
 visions of this act and shall return said certificates to the office 
 from which they were issued within two days after the date of 
 the termination of the employment of said children. If the edu- 
 cational certificate of any child who is over sixteen and under 
 twenty-one years of age fails to show that said child possesses 
 the educational qualifications enumerated in section one of chapter 
 forty-four of the Revised Laws, as amended, then no person shall 
 employ such child while a public evening school is maintained in 
 the city or town in which the child resides, unless such child is a 
 regular attendant at such evening school or at a day school, and 
 presents to his employer each week a school record of such at- 
 tendance. When such record shows unexcused absences, such at- 
 tendance shall be deemed to be irregular and insufficient. The 
 person authorized to issue educational certificates, or teachers act- 
 ing under his authority, may, however, excuse justifiable absence. 
 Whoever employs a child in violation of the provisions of this 
 section shall forfeit not more than one hundred dollars for each 
 
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 offence, to the use of the evening schools of such city or town. 
 A parent, guardian or custodian who permits a child to be em- 
 ployed in violation of the provisions of this section shall forfeit 
 not more than twenty dollars, to the use of the evening schools of 
 such city or town. 
 
 Industrial Schools excepted. — Section 24. Nothing in this 
 act shall be construed to prevent children of any age from receiv- 
 ing manual training or industrial education in, or in connection 
 with, any school in this commonwealth: provided^ that the same 
 has been duly approved by the local school committee or by the 
 board of education. 
 
 Repeal. — Section 25. Chapter three hundred and eighty- 
 nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six and chapter 
 three hundred and ten of the acts of the year nineteen hundred 
 and eleven and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the 
 provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 
 
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 TABLE OF STATUTES. 
 
 R. L. 
 
 8, 
 
 § 5, 
 
 clause 9, 
 
 42, 
 
 § 11. 
 
 
 44, 
 
 § 1. 
 
 
 65, 
 
 § 18, 
 
 
 75, 
 
 § 28, 
 
 
 98, 
 
 § 16, 
 
 
 108 
 
 . §8, 
 
 
 155 
 
 , § 1. 
 
 
 212 , 
 
 1905 , 320. 
 
 1906 , 165, 
 383, 
 463, 
 
 1907 , 410, 
 413, 
 537, 
 577, 
 
 1908 , 150, 
 325, 
 
 1909 , 514. 
 
 j2, 
 
 ? 3 , 
 
 ? 4 , 
 
 | 6 , 
 i 18, 
 f 19, 
 i 52, 
 
 i§ 1. 2. 
 
 ! 89, 
 
 1 , 2 , 
 
 (§ 3, 5, 
 
 I 1. 
 
 (§ 1-3. 
 ' 17, 
 
 f 18, 
 
 ' 19, 
 
 ' 20 , 
 
 ' 21 , 
 
 I 24 , 
 25, 
 
 I 26, 
 
 I 27, 
 
 t 28, 
 
 ■ 29, 
 
 I 30, 
 
 I 31, 
 f 33, 
 
 ! 36, 
 f 37, 
 
 ! 38, 
 
 57 
 
 1909 , 514, § 40, 
 
 
 
 
 51 
 
 20 
 
 § 41, 
 
 
 
 
 51 
 
 18 
 
 § 43, 
 
 
 
 
 52 
 
 33 
 
 § 44, 
 
 
 
 
 54 
 
 64 
 
 § 45, 
 
 
 
 
 92 
 
 57 
 
 § 48, 
 
 
 
 
 44 
 
 91 
 
 §49, 
 
 
 
 
 46 
 
 43 
 
 § 50, 
 
 
 
 
 46 
 
 43 
 
 § 51, 
 
 
 
 
 47 
 
 43 
 
 § 52, 
 
 
 
 
 57 
 
 43 
 
 § 53, 
 
 
 
 
 52 
 
 43 
 
 § 54, 
 
 
 
 
 53 
 
 44 
 
 § 55, 
 
 
 
 
 53 
 
 44 
 
 § 56, 
 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 44 
 
 § 59, 
 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 34 
 
 § 61, 
 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 18 
 
 § 67, 
 
 
 
 
 49 
 
 67 
 
 § 68. 
 
 
 
 
 49 
 
 18 
 
 § 69, 
 
 
 
 
 49 
 
 33 
 
 § 70, 
 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 67 
 
 §71, 
 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 91 
 
 § 72, 
 
 
 
 
 49 
 
 61 
 
 § 73, 
 
 
 
 
 41 
 
 57 
 
 § 76, 
 
 
 
 
 41 
 
 67 
 
 § 77, 
 
 
 
 
 42 
 
 70 
 
 § 78, 
 
 
 
 
 64 
 
 96 
 
 § 79, 
 
 
 
 
 65 
 
 90 
 
 § 80, 
 
 
 
 
 66 
 
 86 
 
 § 81, 
 
 
 
 
 66 
 
 93 
 
 §82, 
 
 
 
 
 66 
 
 80 
 
 § 83, 
 
 
 
 
 61 
 
 85 
 
 § 84, 
 
 
 
 
 62 
 
 89 
 
 § 85, 
 
 
 
 
 62 
 
 90 
 
 § 86, 
 
 
 
 
 68 
 
 89 
 
 § 87, 
 
 
 
 
 69 
 
 87 
 
 § 88, 
 
 
 
 
 69 
 
 87 
 
 § 89, 
 
 
 
 
 69 
 
 86 
 
 § 90, 
 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 86 
 
 § 91, 
 
 
 
 
 74 
 
 93 
 
 § 92. 
 
 
 
 
 74 
 
 95 
 
 §93, 
 
 
 
 
 93 
 
 51 
 
 § 94, 
 
 
 
 
 74 
 
 51 
 
 § 95, 
 
 
 
 
 75 
 
120 
 
 
 
 
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 514, § 96, . 
 
 
 
 75 
 
 1912, 
 
 528, 
 
 
 
 . 55 
 
 § 100, . 
 
 
 
 76 
 
 
 533, 
 
 §§2-4, 
 
 
 53-54 
 
 § 101. . 
 
 
 
 75 
 
 
 545, 
 
 
 
 . 89 
 
 § 102, . 
 
 
 
 67 
 
 
 653, 
 
 §§ 1-3, 
 
 
 . 47 
 
 § 103, . 
 
 
 
 68 
 
 
 726, 
 
 §§ 1-15, 
 
 
 7 
 
 § 104, . 
 
 
 
 63 
 
 1913, 
 
 359, 
 
 
 
 . 56 
 
 § 106, . 
 
 
 
 77 
 
 
 365, 
 
 
 
 . 46 
 
 § 107, . 
 
 
 
 78 
 
 
 426, 
 
 § 1, . 
 
 
 . 48 
 
 § 108. . 
 
 
 
 78 
 
 
 426, 
 
 §2, . 
 
 
 . 48 
 
 § 109, . 
 
 
 
 78 
 
 
 467, 
 
 §§ 1-4, 
 
 
 . 22 
 
 § no. . 
 
 
 
 78 
 
 
 472, 
 
 
 
 . 64 
 
 § 111. . 
 
 
 
 79 
 
 
 619, 
 
 §§ 1-7, 
 
 
 . 57 
 
 §112, . 
 
 
 
 80 
 
 
 655, 
 
 § 20, . 
 
 
 . 94 
 
 § 113, . 
 
 
 
 81 
 
 
 758, 
 
 
 
 . 44 
 
 § 114, . 
 
 
 
 83 
 
 
 766, 
 
 §§ 1. 2, 
 
 
 . 62 
 
 § 115. . 
 
 
 
 84 
 
 
 779, 
 
 § 1. . 
 
 
 18 
 
 § 116, . 
 
 
 
 84 
 
 
 
 § 14, . 
 
 
 . 30 
 
 § 117. . 
 
 
 
 85 
 
 
 
 § 15, . 
 
 
 . 29 
 
 § 118. . 
 
 
 
 85 
 
 
 
 § 16, . 
 
 
 . 26 
 
 § 119, . 
 
 
 
 83 
 
 
 
 § 17, . 
 
 
 23 
 
 § 120, . 
 
 
 
 83 
 
 
 
 § 18, . 
 
 
 . 28 
 
 249, 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 § 19, . 
 
 
 . 40 
 
 259, § 1, 
 
 
 
 66 
 
 
 
 § 20, . 
 
 
 . 36 
 
 259, § 2, 
 
 
 
 66 
 
 
 
 § 21, . 
 
 
 . 37 
 
 350, 
 
 
 
 80 
 
 
 
 § 22, . 
 
 
 . 29 
 
 445. 
 
 
 88, 89 
 
 
 
 § 23, . 
 
 
 . 24 
 
 543, §§ 1-7, 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 
 
 §24, . 
 
 
 . 25 
 
 136, . 
 
 
 
 57 
 
 
 
 § 25, . 
 
 
 . 25 
 
 151, . 
 
 
 
 56 
 
 
 
 1-25, Appendix 
 
 101-118 
 
 208, 
 
 
 
 80 
 
 
 805, 
 
 §§ 1-7, 
 
 
 . 20 
 
 229, 
 
 
 
 48 
 
 
 806, 
 
 § 13, . 
 
 
 74-75 
 
 241, . 
 
 
 
 96 
 
 
 813, 
 
 §§ 1-14, 
 
 
 14 
 
 249. §§ 1, 2, 
 
 
 
 82 
 
 
 831, 
 
 § 1, . 
 
 
 . 30 
 
 263, . 
 
 
 
 84 
 
 
 
 § 2, . 
 
 
 . 30 
 
 281, §§ 1, 2, 
 
 
 
 68 
 
 
 
 §3, . 
 
 
 . 31 
 
 313, § 1, . 
 
 
 
 47 
 
 
 
 §4. . 
 
 
 . 31 
 
 484, . 
 
 
 
 44 
 
 
 
 § 5, 
 
 
 . 32 
 
 494, §§ 1-4, 
 
 
 
 51 
 
 
 
 § 6, . 
 
 
 . 32 
 
 584, . 
 
 
 
 85 
 
 
 
 § 7, . 
 
 
 . 32 
 
 603, §§ 1-3, 
 
 
 
 63 
 
 
 
 §8, . 
 
 
 . 33 
 
 96, 
 
 
 
 49 
 
 
 
 §9, . 
 
 
 . 33 
 
 191, . 
 
 
 
 96 
 
 
 
 § 10, . 
 
 
 . 33 
 
 318. . 
 
 
 
 74 
 
 
 
 § 11. . 
 
 
 . 34 
 
 358, . 
 
 
 
 91 
 
 
 
 § 12, . 
 
 
 . 34 
 
 452, . 
 
 
 
 47 
 
 
 
 § 13, . 
 
 
 . 34 
 
 477. . 
 
 
 
 44 
 
 
 
 § 14, . 
 
 
 . 34 
 
 495, . 
 
 
 
 87 
 
 
 
 § 15, . 
 
 
 . 35 
 
121 
 
 PAGE 
 
 1913, 831, § 16. ... 35 
 
 § 17, . . .35 
 
 § 18, . . .36 
 
 § 19, . . .36 
 
 § 20. . . .37 
 
 § 21, . . .38 
 
 § 22, . . .38 
 
 § 23, . . .38 
 
 § 24, . . .39 
 
 § 25, . . .39 
 
 § 26, . . .39 
 
 § 27, . . . 40 
 
 § 28, . . .40 
 
 833, §§ 1-3, . . 53 
 
 1914, 164 65 
 
 217, .... 59 
 
 241 48 
 
 247, .... 80 
 
 263 94 
 
 316 30 
 
 328, § 1, ... 65 
 
 § 2, . . 61, 74 
 
 § 3, . . .74 
 
 347, ... 88, 89 
 
 455, .... 55 
 
 474, §§ 1, 2, . . 80 
 
 533 12 
 
 PAGE 
 
 1914 , 557, . 
 
 
 64 
 
 566, . . . 
 
 
 93 
 
 580, . 
 
 
 23 
 
 590, . 
 
 
 20 
 
 600, §§ 1-5, 
 
 
 92 
 
 623, . 
 
 
 54 
 
 688, §§ 1-3, 
 
 
 55 
 
 723, §§ 1, 2, 
 
 
 59 
 
 726, . 
 
 
 65 
 
 746, §§ 1, 2. 
 
 
 54 
 
 778, §§1-3, . 
 
 
 94 
 
 1915 , 27, General, 
 
 
 48 
 
 57, General, 
 
 
 44 
 
 60, General, 
 
 
 59 
 
 69, General, 
 
 
 70 
 
 70, General, 
 
 
 40 
 
 74, General, 
 
 
 10 
 
 75, General, 
 
 
 80 
 
 81, §§ 1, 2, General, 
 
 
 18 
 
 94, General, 
 
 
 19 
 
 108, General, 
 
 
 89 
 
 116, General, 
 
 
 69 
 
 117, General, 
 
 
 64 
 
 214, General, 
 
 
 82 
 
 216, General, 
 
 
 64 
 
 277, General, 
 
 
 53 
 
 288, General, 
 
 
 56 
 
INDEX. 
 
Il^DEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Preface, 5 
 
 State Board of Labor and Industries: 7 
 
 Appointment, ......... 7 
 
 Commissioner of Labor, ........ 7 
 
 Salaries, Expenses, Offices, ....... 7 
 
 Investigation, ......... 8 
 
 Enforcement of Laws, ........ 8 
 
 Deputy Commissioners, ........ 9 
 
 Inspectors and Clerical Assistants, ...... 10 
 
 Inspection Districts, . . . . . . . .11 
 
 Gratuities, . . . . . . . . . .11 
 
 Inspectors to possess Certain Police Powers, . . . .11 
 
 Transfer of Inspectors, . . . . . . . .11 
 
 Annual Report, ......... 12 
 
 Repeal of Inconsistent Acts, ....... 13 
 
 Joint Board of Labor and Industries and Industrial Accident Board: 
 Powers and Duties, ........ 14 
 
 Hearings, .......... 14 
 
 Committees, .......... 14 
 
 Joint Work, .......... 14 
 
 Industrial Disease, ........ 15 
 
 Chairman, .......... 15 
 
 Inspectors, .......... 15 
 
 Joint Board Rulings shall prevail, ...... 16 
 
 Annual Estimate of Expenses, ...... 16 
 
 Definitions, ......... 16, 94 
 
 Penalty for Violation, ........ 17 
 
 Repeal of Inconsistent Acts, ....... 17 
 
 Minors : 
 
 Education: 
 
 Compulsory School Attendance for Children of Certain Ages, . 18 
 
 Transfer Cards for Public School Pupils, ..... 19 
 
 Public Evening Schools, . . . * . . . . .20 
 
 Continuation Schools, ........ 20 
 
 School Attendance and Employment of Illiterate Minors, . . 22 
 
 School Records, . . . . . . . . .23 
 
 Educational Certificates, ....... 24 
 
 Industrial Schools excepted, . . . . . . .25 
 
 Repeal of Inconsistent Acts, ....... 25 
 
126 
 
 Minors — Con. 
 
 Employment Certificates: page 
 
 Issuance, . . . . . . . .. . .26 
 
 Contents, .......... 28 
 
 Employment Certificates, ....... 29 
 
 Inspection of Employment Certificates, ..... 29 
 
 Charging of Fees for Certificates prohibited, . . . .30 
 
 Employment: 
 
 Minors under Fourteen, ........ 30 
 
 Minors under Sixteen, ........ 30 
 
 Minors under Eighteen, ........ 32 
 
 Persons under Twenty-one, ....... 32 
 
 Sales by Children upon Street Cars, ..... 33 
 
 Minors under Fifteen Years peddling without License, . . 33 
 
 Employing Children to beg, ....... 34 
 
 Street Trades, ......... 34 
 
 Time Notice for Minors, . . . . . . .35 
 
 Enforcement, ......... 36 
 
 Powers and Duties of Attendance Officers and Industrial Inspec- 
 tors, ........... 36 
 
 Hours of Labor, Time Notices, etc., ..... 44 
 
 Night Employment in Manufacturing, ..... 47 
 
 Penalties, .......... 37 
 
 Repeal of Previous Inconsistent Acts, ..... 40 
 
 Educational Certificates, ....... 24 
 
 Employment Certificates, ....... 29 
 
 Employment of Illiterate Minors, ...... 22 
 
 Penalty for Illegal Employment and for altering Certificates, 40 
 
 Public Exhibition of Children, ...... 41 
 
 Miscellaneous : 
 
 Children forbidden to clean Machinery in Motion, . . .41 
 
 Seats for Children, ........ 49 
 
 Meal Hours for Young Persons, ...... 49 
 
 Duties of Inspectors regarding Health of Minors, . . .61 
 
 Women and Minors: 
 
 Apprenticeship : 
 
 Male and Female Minors as Apprentices or Servants, . . 43 
 
 Certain Minors may be bound by Overseers of Poor, . . .43 
 
 Indenture to be made, ........ 43 
 
 Discharge of Apprentice by Death of Master or Mistress, . . 44 
 
 Employment: 
 
 Hours of Labor, Time Notices, etc., ..... 44 
 
 Certain Places exempt from Posting Time Notices, . . .46 
 
 Penalties, Form of Complaint, etc., ...... 46 
 
 Employment of Women and Children in Workshops connected 
 with Mercantile Establishments, ...... 47 
 
 Night Employment in Manufacturing, ..... 47 
 
 Employment of Women in Core-rooms, ..... 47 
 
 Employment of Pregnant Women, ...... 48 
 
127 
 
 Women and Minors — Con. 
 
 Miscellaneous: page 
 
 Moving by Women of Boxes and Other Receptacles, . . .48 
 
 Seats for Women and Children, ...... 49 
 
 Meal Hours for Women and Young Persons, . . . .49 
 
 Duties of Inspectors regarding Health of Minors, . . .61 
 
 Labor : 
 
 Hours: 
 
 Hours for Public Employees, . . . . . . .51 
 
 Hours for Officers, Instructors and Employees of State Penal 
 Institutions, ......... 52 
 
 Hours for Employees of County Jails and Houses of Correction, 53 
 
 Hours for Employees of Street Railways, ..... 53 
 
 Hours for Certain Employees in and about Railroad Stations, . 54 
 
 Hours for Certain Employees of Counties, . . . .54 
 
 Hours for Members of Fire Departments, . . . .54 
 
 Hours for Women and Children under Eighteen, . . .44 
 
 Half Holidays: 
 
 Half Holiday for Certain State Employees, . . . .55 
 
 Half Holiday for Laborers, Workmen and Mechanics employed 
 by the Commonwealth, ....... 55 
 
 Legal Holidays: 
 
 Labor on Legal Holidays, ....... 56 
 
 Time lost by Reason of Legal Holiday, ..... 56 
 
 One Day’s Rest in Seven: 
 
 “Lord’s Day” defined, ........ 57 
 
 Sunday Labor, ......... 57 
 
 One Day’s Rest in Seven, ....... 57 
 
 Days of Rest for Certain Railroad Employees, . . . .59 
 
 Vacations: 
 
 Vacations of Laborers employed by Cities and Towns, . . 59 
 
 Health: 
 
 Inspection: 
 
 Duties of Inspectors regarding Health of Minors, . . .61 
 
 Lighting, Ventilation and Cleanliness: 
 
 Rules and Regulations, . . . . . . . .61 
 
 Ventilation, ^ . 61 
 
 Lighting, .......... 62 
 
 Issuance of Printed Matter on Protection of Eyes, . . .63 
 
 Cleaning of Presses by Publishers and Printers, . . .64 
 
 Sanitation of Bakeries, ........ 64 
 
 Drinking Water, ......... 64 
 
 Medical Chest and Room for Injured or Sick Employees, . . 64 
 
 Toilet Facilities: 
 
 Toilets to be provided, ........ 65 
 
 Defacing of Toilet Appliances, ...... 65 
 
 Making of Changes, ........ 66 
 
 Notice of Neglect or Fault to be sent to the Board of Health by 
 Inspectors, ......... 66 
 
128 
 
 Health — Con. 
 
 Toilet Facilities — Con, 
 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Penalty, . . . . . . , ^ 
 
 
 
 66 
 
 Room in which Men may change their Clothes, 
 
 
 
 67 
 
 Expectoration : 
 
 
 
 
 Expectoration, ....... 
 
 
 
 67 
 
 Penalty, ........ 
 
 
 
 67 
 
 Receptacles, ........ 
 
 
 
 68 
 
 Suction Shuttles: 
 
 
 
 
 Suction Shuttles, ....... 
 
 
 
 68 
 
 Dust: 
 
 
 
 
 Ventilation, ........ 
 
 
 
 61 
 
 Protection from Dust, ...... 
 
 
 
 68 
 
 Penalty, ........ 
 
 
 
 69 
 
 Humidity : 
 
 
 
 
 Humidity in Factories and Workshops, 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 Humidity in Textile Factories, .... 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 Dangerous Machinery: 
 
 
 
 
 Guarding, Communication, etc.: 
 
 
 
 
 Guarding of Machinery, ...... 
 
 
 
 74 
 
 Communication with Engineer’s Room, 
 
 
 
 74 
 
 Protection from Flying Shuttles, .... 
 
 
 
 75 
 
 Traversing Machinery in Cotton Factories, 
 
 
 
 75 
 
 Hatchways and Other Openings to be protected. 
 
 
 
 75 
 
 Explosives and Inflammables, ..... 
 
 
 
 76 
 
 Children Forbidden to clean Machinery in Motion, 
 
 
 
 41 
 
 Homework : 
 
 
 
 
 Tenement House Clothing, ..... 
 
 
 
 77 
 
 General : 
 
 
 
 
 Wages, Fines, etc.: 
 
 
 
 
 Prevailing Rate of Wages, ..... 
 
 
 
 80 
 
 Preference of Citizens, ...... 
 
 
 
 92 
 
 Weekly Payment of Wages, ..... 
 
 
 
 80 
 
 Pay Day, ........ 
 
 
 
 82 
 
 Deductions for Stopping of Machinery, 
 
 
 
 83 
 
 Discharge without Notice, ..... 
 
 
 
 83 
 
 Specifications for Weavers, ..... 
 
 
 
 83 
 
 Penalty, ........ 
 
 
 
 85 
 
 Fines for Imperfect Weaving, ..... 
 
 
 
 85 
 
 Employer may not impose Bond in Certain Cases, 
 
 
 
 85 
 
 Trade Unions: 
 
 
 
 
 Registration of Union Insignia, .... 
 
 
 
 86 
 
 Exempt from Insurance Laws, .... 
 
 
 
 86 
 
 Coercion as to joining Union, ..... 
 
 
 
 86 
 
 Influencing, Procuring and Advertising for Employees: 
 
 
 
 Corrupt Influencing of Employees, .... 
 
 
 
 87 
 
 Procuring of Employees during Strike, 
 
 
 
 8.8 
 
 Fraudulent Advertising for Help, .... 
 
 
 
 89 
 
 Solicitation by Public Officials, .... 
 
 
 
 89 
 
129 
 
 General — Con. 
 
 Influencing, Procuring and Advertising for Employees — Con . page 
 
 Intimidation of Employees, ....... 90 
 
 Interference with Employment because of Service in Militia, . 91 
 
 General Duties of Inspectors: 
 
 Powers and Duties, . . . . . . . .91 
 
 Preference of Citizens, ....... 92 
 
 Miscellaneous : 
 
 Time allowed for Voting, ....... 92 
 
 Use of Bells and Whistles by Manufacturers, . . . .93 
 
 Lodgings of Public Employees, ...... 93 
 
 Locked Doors prohibited, ....... 93 
 
 Case of only One Egress, ....... 94 
 
 Posting Information in Industrial Establishments, . . .94 
 
 Limiting the Issue of Injunctions, ...... 94 
 
 General Penalty, . . . . . * . . . .95 
 
 Definitions, ......... 16, 96 
 
 Appendix : 
 
 An Act relative to School Attendance and to the Employment of 
 Minors, .......... 101 
 
 Table of Statutes, 119