Prohibited employments. SEC. 7087c. No person or corporation, or officer or agent thereof, shall employ any woman or female young person in any capacity for the purpose of manufacturing, between the hours of 10 o'clock at night and 6 o'clock in the morning. SEC. 7087d. No person, company, corporation or association shall employ or permit any young person to have the care, custody, management of or to operate any elevator. [See also sections 70871, 7087j, 7087г, Appendix B, pages 902-904.] ACTS OF 1905. CHAPTER 50.-Employment of women and children in mines. SECTION 24. No male person under the age of fourteen years or female of any age shall be permitted to enter any mine in this State for the purpose of employment therein, and the parents or guardians of boys shall be required to furnish an affidavit as to the age of said boy or boys when there is any doubt in regard to their age, and in all cases of minors applying for work the operator of any mine shall see that the provisions of this section are not violated. CHAPTER 169.-Employment of children-Hours of labor. SECTION 629. Any person, firm, company, corporation, or association engaged in manufacturing in this State, and permitted by law to employ child labor; or any foreman, clerk, officer, or agent of any such person, firm, corporation or association, who shall employ or keep at work any child under fourteen years of age more than eight hours per day, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. ACTS OF 1911. CHAPTER 209.-Employment of children-General provisions. SECTION 1. No child under the age of fourteen (14) years shall be employed or permitted to work in any gainful occupation other than farm work or domestic service, excepting that any child between the ages of twelve (12) years and fourteen (14) years may be employed or permitted to work in the business of preserving and canning of fruits and vegetables from the first day of June to the first day of October of each year. SEC. 2. No child under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any gainful occupation other than farm work or domestic service, more than forty-eight (48) hours in any one week, or more than eight (8) hours in any one day, unless the employer shall have first procured the written consent of the parent, legal or natural guardian of said child, but in no event shall any such child work at any gainful occupation other than farm work or domestic service more than fifty-four (54) hours in any one week or nine hours in any one day. SEC. 3. No child under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any gainful occupation other than farm work or domestic service, before the hour of seven (7) in the morning, or after the hour of six (6) in the evening. SEC. 4. No child under the age of sixteen (16) years shall be employed or permitted to work in any tobacco warehouse, cigar or other factory where tobacco is manufactured or prepared, hotel, theater, or place of amusement; or in any employment where their health may be injured or morals depraved. And no boy under the age of sixteen (16) years and no girl under the age of eighteen (18) years shall be employed or permitted to work in or about any brewery, distillery, saloon, concert hall, or any other establishment where malt or alcoholic liquors are manufactured, packed, wrapped, or bottled; or in dipping, dyeing, or packing matches, or manufacturing, packing or storing gunpowder, dynamite, nitroglycerin or its compounds, fuses or other explosives. Nor shall girls under the age of eighteen (18) years be employed in any capacity where such employment compels them to remain standing constantly. APPENDIX A.-WOMAN AND CHILD LABOR LAWS-IND. SEC. 5. No child under the age of sixteen (16) years shall be employed or permitted to operate circular or band saws; wood shapers, wood joiners, planers, stamping machines used in sheet metal or tin work manufacturing, stamping machines in washer or nut factories, and all other stamping machines used in stamping metals; steam boilers; steam machinery; or other steam generating apparatus, dough brakes or cracker machinery of any description, wire or iron straightening machinery, rolling mill machinery, punch or shears, grinding or mixing mills, calendar rolls in rubber manufacturing or laundry machinery, corrugating rolls of the kind used in roofing or washboard manufacturing. SEC. 6. Any person who violates any provision of this act or who suffers or permits any child to be employed in violation of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, an [and] on conviction shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5), nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), to which may be added imprisonment for not more than ten (10) days in the county jail, and for a second or subsequent offense he shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days. 705 Same subject. Violations. IOWA. CODE OF 1897 AND SUPPLEMENT OF 1907. SECTION 2448. Employment of females in barrooms. * * Subsection 8. No female shall be employed in the place [where Employment intoxicating liquort are sold]. Employment of children-General provisions. SECTION 2477a. No person under fourteen years of age shall be employed with or without wages or compensation in any mine, manufacturing establishment, factory, mill, shop, laundry, slaughterhouse or packing house, or in any store or mercantile establishment where more than eight persons are employed, or in the operation of any freight or passenger elevator. forbidden. Age limit. Operating ele vators. SEC. 2477b. No person under sixteen years of age shall be employed Dangerous, etc., at any work or occupation by which, by reason of its nature or the operations. place of employment, the health of such person may be injured, or his morals depraved, or at any work in which the handling or use of gunpowder, dynamite or other like explosive is required, and no female under sixteen years of age shall be employed in any capacity where the duties of such employment compel her to remain constantly standing. Hours of labor. SEC. 2477c. No person under sixteen years of age shall be employed Night work. at any of the places or in any of the occupations recited in section 1 [2477a] hereof before the hour of six o'clock in the morning or after the hour of nine o'clock in the evening, and if such person is employed exceeding five hours of each day, a noon intermission of not less than thirty minutes shall be given between the hours of eleven and one o'clock, and such person shall not be employed more than ten hours in any one day, exclusive of the noon intermission, but the provisions of this section shall not apply to persons employed in husking sheds or other places connected with canning factories where vegetables or grain are prepared for canning and in which no machinery is operated. SEC. 2777d (as amended by chapter 145, Acts of 1909). Any officer whose duty it is to enforce the provisions of this act shall have authority to demand of employers, proof of age of any child employed in their establishment; such proof shall be an authenticated birth record, and if there is no such record, then a baptismal record fully attested, that will establish the age of the child, and if there is no such record, a school record that will establish the age of the child, attested by a superintendent, principal, or teacher; where no such proof is obtainable, a parents' affidavit, together with affidavits made by two dis 49450°-S. Doc. 645, 61-2, vol. 1945 Proof of age. Payment to minors. Seats to be provided. LABOR LAWS AND FACTORY CONDITIONS. interested persons, who are in no way related to either the child or his employers, establishing date of birth may be accepted, and if no such proof is furnished, such child shall forthwith be dismissed from his employment. SEC. 2477e. Any parent, guardian or other person, who having under his control any person under sixteen years of age causes or permits said person to work or be employed in violation of the provisions of this act, or any person making, certifying to, or causing to be made or certified to, any statement, certificate or other paper for the purpose of procuring the employment of any person in violation of the provisions of this act, or who makes, files, executes or delivers any such statement, certificate or other paper containing any false statement for the purpose of procuring the employment of any person in violation of this act or for the purpose of concealing the violation of this act in such employment, and every person, firm or corporation, or the agent, manager, superintendent, or officer of any person, firm or corporation, whether for himself or such person, firm or corporation, either by himself or acting through any agent, foreman, superintendent or manager, who knowingly employs any person or permits any person to be employed in violation of the provisions of this act, or who shall refuse to allow any authorized officer or person to inspect any place of business under the provisions of this act, if demand is made therefor at any time during business hours, or who shall willfully obstruct such officer or person while making such inspection, or who shall fail to keep posted the lists containing the names of persons employed under sixteen years of age and other information as required by this act, or who shall knowingly insert any false statement in such list, or who violates any other provision of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon being found guilty thereof, shall be fined not to exceed one hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed thirty days. SEC. 2477f. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics to enforce the provisions of this act, and such commissioner and his deputies, factory inspectors, assistants and other persons authorized by him in writing, State mine inspectors, and county attorneys, mayors, chiefs of police and police officers, acting under their written directions, city and town marshals, sheriffs and their deputies within the territories where they exercise their official functions, and any person having authority therefor in writing from the judge of a court of record within the territory over which such judge has jurisdiction, shall have authority to visit any of the places enumerated in section 1 of this act [2477a], and make an inspection thereof to ascertain if any of the provisions of this act are violated or any person unlawfully employed thereat, and such persons shall not be interfered with or prevented from asking questions of any persons found at the place being inspected by them with reference to the provisions of this act. It shall be the duty of the county attorney to investigate all complaints made to him of the violation of this act, and to attend and prosecute at the trial of all cases for its violation upon any information that may be filed within his county. Earnings of minors. SECTION 3191. Where a contract for the personal services of a minor has been made with him alone, and the services are afterwards performed, payment therefor made to him, in accordance with the terms of the contract, is a full satisfaction therefor, and the parent or guardian cannot recover a second time. Seats for female employees. SECTION 4999. All employers of females in any mercantile or manufacturing business or occupation shall provide and maintain suitable seats when practicable, for the use of such female employees, at or beside the counter or workbench where employed, and permit the use thereof by such employees to such extent as the work engaged in may reasonably admit of. Any neglect or refusal to comply with the provisions of this section by any employer shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars. Employment of women and children. [See sections 4998-al, 4998-a2, Appendix B, pages 914, 915.] KANSAS. GENERAL STATUTES-1909. Seats for female employees. SECTION 4658. The proprietor, manager or person, having charge of any mercatile establishment, store, shop, hotel, restaurant or other place where women or girls are employed as clerks or help therein in this State shall provide chairs, stools or other contrivances for the comfortable use of such female employees, and shall permit the use of the same by such female employees for the preservation of their health and for rest when not actively employed in the discharge of their respective duties. SEC. 4659. Any proprietor, manager or other person violating the preceding section of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. Employment of children in mines. SECTION 4996. No person under twelve years of age shall be allowed to work in any coal mine, nor any minor between the ages of twelve and sixteen years unless he can read and write and furnish a certificate from a school-teacher, which shall be kept on file, showing that he has attended school at least three months during the year; and in all cases of minors applying for work, the agent of such coal mine shall see that the provisions of this section are not violated; and upon conviction of a willful violation of this section of this act, the agent of such coal mine shall be fined in any sum not to execed fifty dollars for each and every offense. Earnings of minors. Seats to be pro vided. Penalty. Employment forbidden. minors valid. SECTION 5063. When a contract for the personal service of a minor Payments has been made with him alone, and those services are afterwards performed, payment made therefor to such minor in accordance with the terms of the contract is a full satisfaction for those services, and the parent or guardian cannot recover therefor. Employment of children-General provisions. Age limit. SECTION 5094. No child under fourteen years of age shall be at any time employed, permitted or suffered to work in, or in connection with, any factory, workshop, not owned or operated by the parent or parents of the said child, theater or packing-house, or operating elevators, or in or about any mine. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ any child under fourteen years of age in any business or service whatever during the hours in which the public school is in session in the district in which said child resides. SEC. 5095. It shall be unlawful for children under sixteen years of age, who are employed in the several vocations mentioned in this act, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages, to be employed before seven o'clock a. m. or after six o'clock p. m., or more than eight hours in any one calendar day, or more than fortyeight hours in any one week. No person under sixteen years of age shall be employed at any occupation nor at any place dangerous or occupations. injurious to life, limb, health or morals. Night work. to Hours of labor. Dangerous, etc. Certificates re SEC. 5096. All persons, firms or corporations employing children in any of the vocations mentioned in this act under sixteen years of quired. age shall be required to first obtain a certificate of the age of such Form. children, based upon the school census records, the same to be secured where possible from the school superintendent, principal or teacher of the school or other person authorized by the school board to have charge of the school census records in the district or city wherein such children reside. Said certificate shall be issued without charge, and shall be substantially in the following form: [city], This certifies that [county], Kan., -[date]. [full name], according to the records of the school census and from all knowledge that I can obtain, was [day], [month], county, state of- born [year], at in and is now years and [tall short-medium], weight medium], complexion [fair or dark], hair [color], and he resides at No. [heavy-light[color], street. Enforcement. Violations. Acrobatic and mendicant pations. eyes (Signature) When said child's name and age does not appear on the school census enumeration of said city or district, then said firm, person or corporation employing such child shall secure an affidavit from the parent or legal guardian of such child, which statement shall contain the facts and data as set forth in the above certificate, and shall be certified on oath before some officer authorized to administer oaths. Such certificate or affidavit shall be sufficient protection to the employer of any child as to the age of such child, except when such employer has actual knowledge of the falsity of such certificate; and all such certificates shall be kept constantly on file in a convenient place, and shall at all times be open to inspection of the proper authorities, as provided in this act. SEC. 5097. It shall be the duty of the State factory inspector, State inspector of mines and their deputies to inspect the certificates hereinabove provided for, to examine children employed in factories, workshops, theaters, elevators, packing-houses and mines, and the vocations mentioned in section 2 of this act [5095] as to their age, and to file complaints in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of this act, and it shall be the duty of the county attorney of the proper county to appear and prosecute all complaints so filed. SEC. 5098. Any person, firm or corporation employing any person or child in violation of any provision of this act, or permitting or conniving at such violation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days. Employment of children-Certain employments forbidden. SECTION 5136. * * * Any person having in his custody or control occu- a child under the age of fourteen years, who shall in any way dispose of it with a view to its being employed as an acrobat, or a gymnast, or a contortionist, or a circus rider, or a ropewalker, or in any exhibition of like dangerous character, or as a beggar or mendicant, or pauper, or street singer, or street musician; or any person who shall take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit, or have in custody any child of the age last named for any of the purposes last enumerated, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and when convicted thereof shall be subject to punishment by a fine of not more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both. School attendance required. Employment of children-School attendance. SECTION 7736. Every parent, guardian or other person in the State of Kansas having control or charge of any child or children between the ages of eight and fifteen years, inclusive, shall be required to send |