Reports of the Industrial Commission...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900 - Industries |
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... conditions of mine labor , and while some suggestions on this subject are contained in the present report , the subject will be more fully discussed later . Meantime a digest of the existing laws as to labor in mines is submitted in the ...
... conditions of mine labor , and while some suggestions on this subject are contained in the present report , the subject will be more fully discussed later . Meantime a digest of the existing laws as to labor in mines is submitted in the ...
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... conditions than that of factories ; therefore the commission see no need for even recommending to the States any uniform legislation upon this subject . But child labor should be universally protected by educational restric tions ...
... conditions than that of factories ; therefore the commission see no need for even recommending to the States any uniform legislation upon this subject . But child labor should be universally protected by educational restric tions ...
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... conditions . The company - store acts now in existence are frequently evaded by the device of giving a percentage on all purchases to the employer or paying commissions on all collections from his employees . It may be difficult to ...
... conditions . The company - store acts now in existence are frequently evaded by the device of giving a percentage on all purchases to the employer or paying commissions on all collections from his employees . It may be difficult to ...
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... condition of practical slavery . The statutes concerning intimidation ( Chap . I , Art . F ) are extremely interesting , but seem to require no particular comment . They are principally little more than expressions of the common law ...
... condition of practical slavery . The statutes concerning intimidation ( Chap . I , Art . F ) are extremely interesting , but seem to require no particular comment . They are principally little more than expressions of the common law ...
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... conditions throughout the country in the large class of railway and steamboat employments , but the force of example would be so great that even in matters where Congress could not properly interfere , such as the substantive cause of ...
... conditions throughout the country in the large class of railway and steamboat employments , but the force of example would be so great that even in matters where Congress could not properly interfere , such as the substantive cause of ...
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Page 87 - The right of action now existing to recover damages for injuries resulting in death, shall never be abrogated; and the amount recoverable shall not be subject to any statutory limitation.
Page 134 - ... be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, and confined in the county jail not less than twenty days nor more than ninety days.
Page 184 - January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, no person in any such prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory, shall be required or allowed to work, while under sentence thereto, at any trade, industry or occupation, wherein or whereby his work, or the product or profit of his work, shall be farmed out, contracted, given or sold to any person, firm, association or corporation.
Page 247 - ... suitably adapted to the free passage of sound, through which conversation may be held between persons at the bottom and...
Page 33 - ... or when a different apportionment of the hours of labor is made for the sole purpose of making a shorter day's work for one day of the week ; and in no case shall the hours of labor exceed sixty in a week. Every employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room. .where such persons are employed, a printed notice stating the number of hours...
Page 132 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 244 - The owner or agent of every coal mine shall make or cause to be made an accurate map or plan of the workings of such coal mine, on a scale of one hundred feet to the inch.
Page 71 - Statutes, which provides that "every person who shall threaten, or use any means to intimidate any person to compel such person, against his will, to do or abstain from doing any act which such person has a legal right to do, or shall persistently follow such person in a disorderly manner, or injure, or threaten to injure, his property, with intent to intimidate him, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months.
Page 109 - ... and such ways of egress and means of escape shall be kept free from obstruction, in good repair and ready for use. Every room above the second story...
Page 131 - No agreement, except to commit a felony upon the person of another, or to commit arson, or burglary, amounts to a conspiracy, unless some act, beside such agreement, be done to effect the object thereof, by one or more of the parties to such agreement.