APPENDIX A. LAWS RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, IN FORCE JANUARY 1, 1912. ALABAMA. CODE OF 1907. Seats for female employees. Seats SECTION 6857. Any person owning or controlling a store or shop in which any girl or woman is employed as a clerk or saleswoman, who provided. fails to provide such girl or woman with proper accommodations for sitting and resting when not actively engaged in the work of her employment, or who fails to permit her to do so when not so engaged, or who shall not have in such building, or conveniently thereto, separate water-closets for the use of such girls or women, must, on conviction, be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. Hiring out children to support parents in idleness. SECTION 7843. The following-described persons are vagrants: (12) Any person who has no property sufficient for his support and who is able to work and does not work, but hires out his children or allows them to hire out. * * * to be SEC. 7844. Vagrancy is a crime, and any person convicted thereof Penalty. must be fined not more than five hundred dollars, and may also be sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than twelve months. SEC. 7845. In prosecutions for vagrancy the burden of proof shall not rest upon the State to establish the fact that the defendant has no property sufficient for his support, nor means of a fair, honest, and reputable livelihood, but whenever it shall be established by the proof in any prosecution under this chapter that the defendant * * * is able and does not work, but hires out his minor children, or allows them to hire out, then, or in either of such events, a prima facie case of guilt is hereby declared to be established and the burden of proof shall be upon the defendant to show that he has sufficient property from which to obtain a support, or sufficient means of maintaining a fair, honest, and reputable livelihood; if the evidence for the defendant is sufficient when considered together with all of the evidence in the case to raise a reasonable doubt as to his guilt he shall be entitled to an acquittal. * * * * * * but Proof. SEC. 7846. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to persons Exemptions. who are idle because of strikes or lockouts. ACTS OF 1909. Employment of children. (Page 158.) SECTION 1. No child under twelve years of age, shall be employed, Age limit. or permitted to work in, or be in, or about any mill, factory, or manufacturing establishment in this State. SEC. 2. No child between the ages of 12 and 16 years shall be employed, or be permitted to work, or be detained in, or about any mill, factory, or manufacturing establishment in this State, unless such child shall attend school for eight weeks in every year of employment, six weeks of which shall be consecutive. School. tendance. at Hours of labor. Night work. Certificates. Filing. mation. SEC. 3. No child under the age of 14 years shall be employed, or detained in, or be in, or about any mill, factory, or manufacturing establishment within this State for more than sixty hours in any one week. SEC. 4. No child under 16 years of age shall be employed, or detained in, or be in, or about any mill, factory, or manufacturing establishment within this State between the hours of seven o'clock p. m. and six o'clock a. m., standard time. SEC. 5. No child over 16 and under 18 years of age, shall be so employed, or detained between said hours for more than eight hours in any one night. SEC. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, to employ, or detain in, or permit to work in, or be in, or about any mill, factory, or manufacturing establishment any child under 18 years of age, without first requiring said child to present on a blank furnished by the employer, the form of which shall be provided by the inspector, the affidavit of the parent, or guardian, or other person standing in parental relation to such child, stating the date and place of birth of said child. SEC. 7. Such affidavit shall be filed by such employer within ten days after the employment of such child in the office of the judge of probate of said county and shall be numbered and labeled with the name of the child, and a complete index thereof made and preserved as other records in said office. For the services so rendered the judge of probate shall receive from the county treasury ten cents for each such affidavit. A copy of said affidavit shall be forwarded, within ten days after the employment of such child, to the inspector at Montgomery, Alabama." SEC. 8 (as amended by act, page 546, Acts of 1911). Any person, firm or corporation who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or who knowingly permits any child to be employed, or detained in, or be in, or about his, their, or its mills, factory or manufacturing estabRefusing nfor- lishment, contrary to the provisions of this chapter, or who shall fail or refuse to furnish the inspector the necessary information upon all such matters as he is required to report upon, and, all such other information as is necessary with reference to the keeping of records in the office of the said inspector, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. Penalty. Same subject. False statement. Inspection. SEC. 9. Any person, firm, or corporation who violates any of the provisions of this chapter, or who employs any child, or knowingly permits any child to be employed, or to work in, or about, or be detained in, or be in, or about any mill, factory, or manufacturing establishment contrary to law, or who fails, or refuses to obey promptly every lawful order, or direction given by the inspector under this law, must on conviction be fined not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and upon a second conviction for any violation of this law, must be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and if a natural person be sentenced to hard labor for not more than six months. SEC. 10. Any person, who knowingly makes any false affidavit when an affidavit is required under this chapter is guilty of perjury. SEC. 11 (as amended by act, page 546, Acts of 1911). The State pris ya inspector, in person or by his chief clerk or deputy inspectors, is charged with the duty of inspecting all mills, factories, and manufacturing estab lishments wherein women and children work, and he must inspect every such mill, factory or manufacturing establishment at least four times a year, if practicable, without notice of his purpose to do so. He shall thoroughly inspect each manufacturing establishment. and ascertain their sanitary condition, and whether a good supply of fresh drinking water and fresh air and suitable water-closets for the women and girls are provided, separate and apart from those for the use of boys and men, and particularly the ages and conditions of the children employed, at work in, or detained therein and he shall carefully examine all affidavits filed under this law and in connection therewith, the children named therein. and all other matters concerning the operation and condition of the manufacturing establishments in which children work, or are detained, and make written orders requiring correction of defects in, or about the mills, or manufacturing establishment. SEC. 12. The inspector shall make written report to the governor of Reports. every examination of every manufacturing establishment inspected by him, and note every refusal or failure to comply with, or observe the law, in any respect, which reports must be published annually. SEC. 13. It shall be the duty of the inspector to remove from any Duty to mill, factory, [or] manufacturing establishment any child found work- move children. ing, or detained therein contrary to law, and to remove therefrom any child who is afflicted with any infectious, contagious, or communicable disease. The judgment of the inspector as to the removal of any child shall be final and conclusive. SEC. 14. It shall be the duty of the inspector to institute prosecutions Enforcement. against the owners, operators, managers, and superintendents of any such mill, factory, or manufacturing establishment for every violation of law that they may discover, and to furnish to the solicitor of the circuit, or county the names and addresses of all necessary witnesses. SEC. 15. The inspector shall have free access at any time to any mill, Access factory, or manufacturing establishment wherein women and children mills, etc. work, or are detained, and no person shall refuse to allow the inspector to have free access to a manufacturing establishment and every part thereof. SEC. 16. No person shall hinder or obstruct the inspector in inspection Hindering or make any false, or misleading statement to the inspector about the spector, etc. establishment, its operation, or condition, or about any person working, or detained therein. SEC. 17. All persons must have a plainly printed copy of the child- Law to labor law posted up on the office and in every room in which any person posted. works in the mill, factory, or manufacturing establishment. SEC. 18. Any person violating the three preceding sections, must, on Violations. conviction, be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and on subsequent conviction be fined not less than five hundred dollars, and may be sentenced to hard labor for not more than one year. re to in be SEC. 19. Any owner, or manager of a mill, factory, or manufacturing Disobeying orestablishment who disobeys any order of the inspector, [as to] removing ders. a child from the mill, factory, or manufacturing establishment; or who - permits any child who has been removed by the inspector to return to work therein, or to be in, or about the mill, factory, or manufacturing establishment without the written permission of the inspector, must, on conviction, be fined not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars. SEC. 20. The inspector of jails and almshouses is authorized to employ Clerk. a competent clerk, with the approval of the governor, who shall be authorized to perform the same duties as by law the inspector is authorized to perform, and shall have and exercise the same powers under the direction of the inspector as the inspector has by law. The annual salary of the clerk of the inspector shall be eighteen hundred dollars payable monthly out of the State treasury as clerks in the other departments are paid. SEC. 21. This chapter shall apply only to manufacturing establish- Application of ments engaged in manufacturing, or working in cotton, wool, clothing, law. tobacco, printing and binding, glass, or other kind of work that is in jurious to health when carried on indoors. SEC. 22. The inspector and the clerk of the inspector, when traveling Expenses. in the performance of their duties hereunder shall be reimbursed their actual traveling expenses when approved by the governor to be paid on the warrant of the State auditor. ACTS OF 1911. Employment of children-Schools to be provided. Children em SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of any county board of education or the board of education of any town or city in which there is located ployed in manu facturing plants. one or more manufacturing plants employing fifty or more children within the school age, who are required by the child labor law to attend 49450°-S. Doc. 645, 61-2, vol 19- 42 schools. Location of school for any certain length of time during the year, to locate, or cause to be located, a public school for the accommodation of the children within the school age employed by such manufacturing plant, or plants, and to apportion to the said schools so located such proportion of the school funds of said district as may be necessary to run the school or schools as nearly as practicable the same length of time as the other school or schools of the district are run: Provided further, In incorporated cities or towns in which two or more schools are maintained that one or more of said schools may be designated by the proper school authorities as the school for the accommodation of the children within school age employed in such plant or plants. Employment forbidden. Employment hours. Employment of women and children in mines. (Page 500.) SECTION 108. No woman of any age or boy under the age of fourteen shall be employed to work or labor in or about any coal mine in this State. ARIZONA. REVISED STATUTES, 1901. CIVIL CODE. Employment of children-School attendance. SECTION 2231 (as amended by chapter 67, Acts of 1907). No child during school under the age of fourteen years shall be employed by any person, persons, company or corporation during the school hours of any school day of the school term of the public school in the school district where such child resides, unless such child has been excused from attendance on instruction, as provided in this section. Every such employer shall require proof that such child has been excused from such attendance, and shall keep a record of such proof, which shall be open to the inspection of any peace officer or school trustee of the district. Any employer employing any child contrary to the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, to be placed to the credit of the school fund of the district. Every parent, guardian, or other person in the Territory of Arizona, having control of any child between the ages of eight and fourteen years (or of any Age of attend- child of the age of fourteen and under the age of sixteen, who is unable to read and write in the English language), shall be required to send such child to a public school or private school taught by a competent instructor for a period of six schools [sic] months of which twenty school weeks shall be consecutive, in each school year, said child to begin attendance on school within two weeks after the opening of school for the admission of pupils: Provided, That such parent, guardian, or other person having control of such child shall be excused from such duty by the board of trustees of the district whenever it shall be shown to its satisfaction that one of the following reasons exist [sic] therefor: ance. Proviso. Employment forbidden. 1. That such child is taught at home by a competent instructor in the branches taught in the primary and grammar schools of the Territory. 2. That such child has already completed the grammar school course prescribed by the Territorial board of education. 3. That such child is in such physical or mental condition (as declared by a competent physician, if required by the board) to render such attendance inexpedient or impracticable. 4. That circumstances rendering attendance impracticable or dangerous to health, owing to unusual storm, or other sufficient cause, shall work an exemption from the penalties of this act. ACTS OF 1907. CHAPTER 13.-Employment of women and minors in saloons. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any saloon within the Territory of Arizona to permit any woman or minor, either for hire or otherwise, to sing, to recite, to dance, to play on any musical instru |