Information confidential. Reports to be preserved. Salaries. strikes during year ending December thirty-first?____ Number so, its value?_ SEC. 2475. In the reports of the commissioner no use shall be made of names of individuals, firms or corporations supplying the information called for by sections twenty-four hundred and seventy and twenty-four hundred and seventy-one of this chapter, such information being deemed confidential and not for the purpose of disclosing personal affairs; and any officer or employee of the bureau of labor statistics violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year. SEC. 2476. No report or return made to said bureau in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and no schedule, record or document gathered or returned by its officers or employees, shall be destroyed within two years of the collection or receipt thereof. At the expiration of two years all records, schedules or papers accumulating in said bureau during said period that may be considered of no value by the commissioner may be destroyed, provided the authority of the executive council be first obtained for such destruction. SEC. 2477 (as amended by chapter 144, Acts of 1909). The commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum and shall be allowed a deputy at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum payable monthly; he shall also be allowed one factory inspector at a salary of one hundred dollars per month, and if, in the opinion of the executive council, it is deemed necessary, one additional factory inspector may be employed at a salary of one hundred dollars per month, one office clerk at a salary of sixty-five dollars per month. Appointment The appointment by the commissioner of such factory inspector of inspector. shall be subject to the approval of the executive council. Said commissioner shall be allowed necessary postage, stationery and office expenses; the said salaries and expenses shall be paid as the salaries and expenses of other State officers are provided for. The commissioner or any officer or employee of the bureau of labor statistics shall be allowed, in addition to his salary, his actual and necessary traveling expenses while in the performance of his duties, said expenses to be audited by the executive council and paid out of the general fund of the State upon a voucher verified by the commissioner or his deputy; but the total of the expense for the officers and employees of said bureau, other than the salaries of the commissioner, his deputy, the factory inspector and clerk, shall not exceed two thousand dollars per annum. Toilet rooms. Factories and workshops-Inspection, etc. SECTION 4999-a1 (as amended by chapter 171, Acts of 1911). Every manufacturing establishment. workshop or hotel in which five or more persons are employed, shall be provided with a sufficient number of water-closets, earth closets or privies for the reasonable use of the persons employed therein, which shall be properly screened and ventilated and kept at all times in a clean condition; and free from all obscene writing or marking; and such water-closets or privies shall be supplied in the proportion of at least one, (1), to every twenty, (20), employees; and if women or girls are employed in such establishment, the waterclosets, earth closets or privies used by them shall have separate approaches and be separate and apart from those used by the men. In factories, mercantile establishments, mills and workshops, adequate washing facilities shall be provided for all employees; and when the labor performed by the employees is of such character as to require or make necessary a change of clothing, wholly or in part, by the employees, there shall be provided a dressing-room, or rooms, lockers for keeping clothing and suitable washing facilities separate for each sex, and no person, or persons, shall be allowed to use the facilities assigned to the opposite sex; a sufficient supply of water suitable for drinking purposes shall be Drinking water. provided. tion. appli ma mo Employment of children. Defective appli ances. Assumption of risks. SEC. 4999-a2. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, superin- Safety terdent or other person having charge of any manufacturing or ances. other establishment where machinery is used, to furnish and supply or cause to be furnished and supplied therein, belt shifters or other safe mechanical contrivances for the purpose of throwing belts on and off pulleys, and, wherever possible, machinery therein shall be provided with loose pulleys; all saws, planers, cogs, gearing, belting, shafting, set screws and machinery of every Cleaning description therein shall be properly guarded. No person under chinery in sixteen years of age, and no female under eighteen years of age shall be permitted or directed to clean machinery while in motion. Children under sixteen years of age shall not be permitted to operate or assist in operating dangerous machinery of any kind. SEC. 4999-a3 (as amended by chapter 219, Acts of 1909). In all cases where the property, works, machinery, or appliances of an employer are defective or out of repair, and where it is the duty of the employer from the character of the place, work, machinery or appliances to furnish reasonably safe machinery, appliances or place to work, the employee shall not be deemed to have assumed the risk, by continuing in the prosecution of the work, growing out of any defect as aforesaid, of which the employee may have had knowledge when the employer had knowledge of such defect, except when in the usual and ordinary course of his employment it is the duty of such employee to make the repairs, or remedy the defects. Nor shall the employee under such conditions be deemed to have waived the negligence, if any, unless the danger be imminent and to such extent that a reasonably prudent person would not have continued in the prosecution of the work; but this statute shall not be construed so as to include such risks as are incident to the employment. And no contract which restricts liability hereunder shall be legal or binding. SEC. 4999-a4. All persons, companies or corporations operating any factory or workshop where emery wheels or emery belts of polishing and description, or tumbling barrels used for rumbling or polish- chines, etc. ing castings, are used, shall provide the same with blowers and pipes of sufficient capacity, placed in such manner as to protect the person or persons using same from the particles of dust produced or caused thereby, and to carry away said particles of dust arising from or thrown off such wheels, belts or tumbling barrels while in operation, directly to the outside of the building, or to some receptacle place[d] so as to receive or confine such particles or dust: Provided, however, That grinding machines upon which water is used at the point of grinding contact, and small emery wheels which are used temporarily for tool grinding, are not included within the provisions of this section, and the shops employ. ing not more than one man at such work may, in the discretion of the commissioner of the bureau of labor of the State, be exempt from the provisions hereof. SEC. 4999-a5 (as amended by chapter 172, Acts of 1911). It shall be the duty of the commissioner of the bureau of labor of the State, and the mayor, and chief of police of every city or town, to enforce the provisions of the foregoing sections. Any person, whether acting for himself or for another or for a copartnership, joint stock company or corporation, having charge or management of any manufacturing establishment, workshop or hotel, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of said sections, within thirty days after being notified in writing to do so, by any one of said officers whose duty it may be to enforce the provisions of said sections, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. Waiver. Contracts. Blowers Enforcement. Removing guards. Penalty. Fire escapes required. On what buildings. Whenever any person, in any manufacturing or other establishment wherein machinery is used and wherein or whereon guards or safety appliances have been provided, shall remove such guards or safety appliances from any machine or other equipment or shall so adjust such guards or safety appliances as to destroy their purpose of preventing bodily injuries, excepting whenever it becomes necessary to remove some or all of the guards, including springs or pressure bars that may properly come under this act, to enable the employee operating said machine to perform certain special work that can not be performed with guard, it shall be the duty of said employee or employer to immediately replace them after said work has been completed. Any person, who may neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five, ($5.00), dollars, or more than one hundred, ($100.00) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty, (30), days. SEC. 4999-a6. The owners, proprietors and lesses of all buildings, structures or enclosures of three or more stories in height, now constructed or hereafter to be erected, shall provide for and equip said buildings and structures with such protection against fire and means of escape from such buildings as shall hereafter be set forth in this bill. SEC. 4999-a7. The buildings, structures and inclosures contemplated in this act shall be classified as follows: First. Hotels, office buildings or lodging rooms of three or more stories in height. Fifth. Manufactories, warehouses and buildings of all character of three or more stories in height, not specified in the foregoing sections. SEC. 4999-a8. Each twenty-five hundred (2500) superficial feet of area, or fractional part thereof, covered by buildings or structures specified under classification one, of section 2, of this act [4999-a6], shall be provided with one ladder fire escape of steel or wrought-iron construction, attached to the outer wall thereof, and provided with platforms of steel or wrought iron construction of such size and dimensions and such proximity to one or more windows of each story above the first with all doors leading thereto of half glass locked in such manner as to render access to such ladder from each story easy and safe, and with red lights to designate location of escapes[,] said ladder to start about five feet from the ground and extend above the roof, or a drop ladder may be hung at the second story in such a manner that it can be easily lowered in case of necessity: Provided, however, That where such buildings shall be occupied by more than twenty (20) persons, the said building shall as a substitute for one ladder be provided with one stairway of steel or wrought iron construction with above-described platforms, accessible from each story with a drop or counterbalance stairway from the second-story balcony to the ground, or a stationary stairway may be carried down to within five feet from the ground. Each five thousand (5,000) superficial feet of area, or fractional part thereof covered by buildings under classification 6, [5] section 2 of this act, shall be provided with at least one above-described ladder, and platforms at each story, if not more than twenty (20) persons be employed in the same. If more than twenty (20) persons be employed, then there shall be at least two of the above-described ladders. and platforms attached, or one such stairway, and platforms of sufficient size at each story, and if more than forty (40) persons be employed in said building, then there shall be at least two, or such number of the above-described outside stairways as the chief of fire department, or the mayor of any city or town where no such chief of fire department exists, may from time to time determine. * ** SEC. 4999-a9. In buildings under all above classification[s] Signs. signs indicating location of fire escapes shall be posted at all entrances to elevators, stairway landings and in all rooms. SEC. 4999-a19 (as amended by chapter 173, Acts of 1911). It is hereby made the duty of commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, the chief of fire department, or the mayor of each city or town where no such chief of fire department exists, or the chairman of the board of supervisors, in case such building is not within the corporate limits of any city or town, to adopt uniform specifications for fire escapes hereinbefore provided, and keep such specifications on file in their respective offices, and to serve or cause to be served a written notice in behalf of the State of Iowa upon the owner or owners, or their agents or lessees, of buildings within this State not provided with fire escapes in accordance with the provisions of this act, commanding such owner, owners, or agents or either of them, to place or cause to be placed upon said buildings, such fire escape or fire escapes as are provided in this act within sixty days after service of such notice, pursuant to the specifications established. Any such owner, owners' agents, trustees and lessees or either or any of them so served with notice as aforesaid, who shall not within sixty days after the service of said notice upon him or them, place or cause to be placed such fire escape or fire escapes upon such buildings as required by this act and the terms of said notice, shall be subject to a fine not less than fifty ($50) dollars, and not more than one hundred ($100) dollars, and shall be subject to a further fine of twenty-five ($25) dollars for each additional week of neglect to comply with such notice. Any owner, agent, trustee or leasee having charge of any building that is not equipped as provided in section forty-nine hundred and ninety-nine-a9 (4999-a9) of the Supplement to the Code, 1907, as amended, who shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of said section, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25) dollars and not to exceed one hundred ($100) dollars. SEC. 4999-a11. All fire escapes erected under the provisions of this act shall be subject to inspection and approval or rejection in writing, by the person named in section 4 [5, see sec. 4999-a10] of this act who has caused such written notice to be served. SEC. 4999-a13. It shall be unlawful for any person to establish or operate any dye works, pantorium, or cleaning works, in which gasoline, benzine, naphtha, or other explosive or dangerous fluids are used for the purpose of cleaning or renovating wearing ap parel or other fabrics, in any building any part of which is used as a residence or lodging house. Enforcement. Inspection. Use of explosive fluids, etc. SEC. 4999-a14. Any person convicted of violating the provisions Penalty. of the foregoing section shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty ($50) nor less than ten ($10) dollars. Inspection, etc., of steam boilers. Steam gauges, vided. SECTION 5026. Any person owning or operating steam boilers in this State shall provide the same with steam gauge, safety valve etc. to be proand water gauge, and keep the same in good order. Any person neglecting so to do shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. KANSAS. GENERAL STATUTES-1909. Inspection of factories, etc.-Fire escapes-Safety appliances. SECTION 4676. Every person owning or operating any manufacturing establishment which may contain any elevator, hoisting- shafts. shaft or wellhole shall cause the same to be properly and substan Elevator Stairways Fire escapes. Belt shifters, guards, etc. Action for injuries. Failure to pro tially inclosed or secured, in order to protect the lives or limbs of those employed in such establishment. SEC. 4677. Proper and substantial handrails shall be provided in all stairways in manufacturing establishments. The stairs shall be properly secured at the sides and ends, and all doors leading into such establishments shall be so constructed as to open outwardly, and shall be neither locked, bolted nor fastened during working hours. SEC. 4678. In all manufacturing establishments three or more stories high, at least one fire escape, and as many more as may be reasonably necessary, shall be provided on the outside of said establishment, connecting with each floor above the first, well fastened and secured, and of sufficient strength. Each of said fire escapes shall have landings or balconies not less than six feet in length and three feet in width, guarded by iron railings not less than three feet in height, and embracing at least two windows at each story, and connecting with the interior by easily accessible and unobstructed openings, and the balconies or landings shall be connected by iron stairs not less than eighteen inches wide, the steps not to be less than six inches tread, placed at a proper slant, and protected by a well-secured handrail on each side, with twelve-inch drop ladder from the lower platform reaching to the ground. SEC. 4679. Every person owning or operating any manufacturing establishment in which machinery is used shall furnish and supply for use therein belt shifters, or other safe mechanical contrivance, for the purpose of throwing on or off belts or pulleys; and whereever it is practicable machinery shall be operated with loose pulleys. All vats, pans, saws, planers, cog gearing, belting, shafting, set screws and machinery of every description used in a manufacturing establishment shall, where practicable, be properly and safely guarded, for the purpose of preventing or avoiding the death of or injury to the persons employed or laboring in any such establishment; and it is hereby made the duty of all persons owning or operating manufacturing establishments to provide and keep the same furnished with safeguards as herein specified. SEC. 4680. If any person employed or laboring in any manufacturing establishment shall be killed or injured in any case wherein the absence of any of the safeguards or precautions required by the act shall directly contribute to such death or injury, the personal representatives of the person so killed, or the person himself, in case of injury only, may maintain an action against the person owning or operating such manufacturing establishment for the recovery of all proper damages. In cases where the action is brought by the personal representative of the deceased, said action shall be governed in all respects not herein provided for by the provisions of the statutes now in force which authorize and regulate the bringing of actions to recover damages in cases where the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another: Provided, Action shall be commenced in the county where the accident occurred. SEC. 4681. In all actions brought under and by virtue of the provide appliances. visions of this act, it shall be sufficient for the plaintiff to prove in the first instance, in order to establish the liability of the defendant, that the death or injury complained of resulted in consequence of the failure of the person owning or operating the manufacturing establishment where such death or injury occurred to provide said establishment with safeguards as required by this act, or that the failure to provide such safeguard directly contributed to such death or injury. Definition. SEC. 4682. Manufacturing establishments, as those words are used in this act, shall mean and include all smelters, oil refineries, cement works, mills of every kind, machine and repair shops, and, in addition to the foregoing, any other kind or character of manufacturing establishment, of any nature or description whatsoever, wherein any natural products or other articles or materials of any |