kind, in a raw or unfinished or incomplete state or condition, are converted into a new or improved or different form. SEC. 4683. Wherever the expression occurs in this act in substantially the following words: "Every person owning or operating any manufacturing establishment," or where language similar to that is used, the word "person" in that connection shall be held and construed to mean any person or persons, partnership, corporation, receiver, trust, trustee, or any other person or combination of persons, either natural or artificial, by whatever name he or they may be called. Commissioner of labor-Inspection of factories, etc. Person defined. Duties of com SECTION 8017. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to collect, assort, arrange and present in annual reports to the governor, missioner. to be by him biennially transmitted to the legislature, statistical details relating to all departments of labor and industrial pursuits in the State; to the subjects of cooperaion, srikes, and other labor difficulties; to trade unions and other labor organizations and their effect upon labor and capital; to other matters relating to the commercial, industrial, social, educational, moral and sanitary conditions prevailing within the State; and the exploitation of such other subjects as will tend to promote the permanent prosperity of the respective industries of the State. It shall also be the duty of the commissioner of the bureau to cause to be enforced all laws regulating the employment of children, minors, and women; all laws established for the protection of health, lives and limbs of operators in workshops and factories, on railroads, and other places; and all laws enacted for the protection of the working classes now in force or that may hereafter be enacted. In its annual report the bureau shall also give an account of all proceedings which have been taken in accordance with the provisions of this act, or any of the other laws herein referred to, and in addition thereto such remarks, suggestions and recommendations as the commissioner may deem necessary for the information of the legislature. Powers of com SEC. 8018. The commissioner is hereby authorized to furnish and deliver a written or printed list of interrogatories to any person, missioner. company, or the proper officer of any corporation operating within the State, and require full and complete answers to be made thereto, and returned under oath. The commissioners [commissioner] shall have a seal, and have power to take and preserve testimony, to issue subpoenas and administer oaths, and examine witnesses under oath in all matters relating to the duties herein required by said bureau, such testimony to be taken in some suittable place in the vicinity to which the testimony is applicable. Witnesses subpoenaed and testifying before the commissioner of said bureau shall be paid the same fees as witnesses before the district court; such payment to be made from the incidental fund of the bureau. Any person duly subpoenaed under the provisions of this act who shall willfully neglect or refuse to attend, or refuse to answer any question propounded to him concerning the subject of such examination as provided in this act, or if any person to whom a written or printed list of interrogatories has been furnished by said commissioner shall neglect or refuse to answer and return the same under oath, such person or persons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon complaint of the commissioner before a court of competent jurisdiction, and upon conviction thereof, such person or persons 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 exceeding ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment: Provided, however, That no witness shall be compelled to go outside of the county in which he resides to testify. In the report of said bureau no use shall be made of the names of individuals, firms or corporations supplying the information called for by this act, unless by written permission, such information being deemed confidential and not for the Inspection factories, etc Definitions. Information be furnished. purpose of disclosing personal affairs; and any officer, agent or employee of the bureau violating this provision shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more than one year. of SEC. 8019. The commissioner, as State factory inspector, shall have power to enter any factory or mill, workshop, private works or State institutions which have shops or factories, when the same are open or in operation, for the purpose of gathering facts and statistics such as are contemplated by this act, and to examine into the methods of protection from danger to employees and the sanitary conditions in and around such buildings and places, and to make a record thereof of such inspection. If the commissioner as State factory inspector shall find upon such inspection that the heating, lighting, ventilation or sanitary arrangement of any workshops or factories is such as to be injurious to the health of the persons employed or residing therein, or that the means of egress in case of fire or other disaster are not sufficient, or that the belting, shafting, gearing, elevators, drums, saws, cogs and machinery in such workshops and factories are located or are in a condition so as to be dangerous to employees, and not sufficiently guarded, or that the vats, pans, or any other structures, filled with molten metal or hot liquid, are not surrounded with proper safeguards for preventing accidents or injury to those employed at or near them, he shall notify in writing the owner, proprietor or agents of such workshops or factories to make, within thirty days, the alterations or additions by him deemed necessary for the safety and protection of the employees; and if such alterations or additions are not made within thirty days from the date of such written notice, or within such time as said alterations or additions can be made with proper diligence upon the part of such proprietors, owners, or agents, said proprietors, owners or agents so notified shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon complaint of the commissioner as State factory inspector before a court of competent jurisdiction, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. to SEC. 8020. The following expressions used in this act shall have the following meanings: The expression “ person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, company, or association. The expression "children" means minor persons under the age of fourteen years. The expression "minor" means a male person under the age of twenty-one years, or a female person under the age of eighteen years. The expression "women means female persons of eighteen years of age and upward. The expression "factory means any premises where steam, water or other mechanical power is used in aid of any manufacturing process there carried on. The expression workshop means any premises, room, or place, not being a factory as above defined, wherein any manual labor is exercised by way of trade, or for the purpose of gain in or incidental to any 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 person or persons working therein has the right of access or control: Provided, however, That the exercise of such manual labor in a private house, or a private room by the family dwelling therein, or by any of them, or in case a majority of persons therein employed are members of such family, shall not of itself constitute such house or room a workshop within this definition. The aforesaid expressions shall have the meanings above defined for them respectively in all laws of this State relating to the employment of labor, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context. SEC. 8021. All State, county, township and city officers are hereby directed to furnish said commissioner, upon his request, such statistical or other information contemplated by this act as shall be in their possession as such officers. SEC. 8022. The annual reports of the bureau of labor and in- Reports. dustry provided for in this act shall be printed in the same manner and under the same regulations as the report of the executive officers of the State: Provided, Not less than three thousand nor more than ten thousand copies of the report shall be printed and distributed annually, as the judgment of the commissioner may deem best: And provided further, That said report shall not contain more than six hundred pages. The blanks and other stationery required in accordance with the provisions of this act shall be furnished by the secretary of state upon the requisition of the commissioner of said bureau, and paid for from the printing fund of the State. SEC. 8023. In addition to the assistant commissioner provided Special agents, for by section 2 of this act [sec. 8016], the commissioner shall etc. appoint a stenographer for the bureau, and he may also employ special agents and such other assistants as may be ncessary in the discharge of the official duties of said bureau. Such special agents and other assistants shall be paid for the services rendered such compensation as the commissioner may deem proper, but no such agents or assistants shall be paid more than three dollars per day in addition to necessary traveling expenses. KENTUCKY. STATUTES-1903. Bureau of agriculture, labor, and statistics-Inspection of fac tories, etc. tor. SECTION 33a. 1. In the bureau of agriculture, labor and statistics Labor inspecthere shall be appointed by the commissioner, with the approval of the governor, a labor inspector, and one assistant labor inspector, who shall be men having practical knowledge of factories, machine or work shops, and who shall be under the supervision of the commissioner. 2. It shall be the duty of the labor inspector to visit and inspect the various factories, machine and work shops in this State, and under the direction of the commissioner to report to the Commonwealth's attorney and county attorney of the county or district, where such factory, machine or work shop is located, any violation or infraction of laws enacted for the protection of women, children and other persons laboring in such places. Duties. Access to fao 3. It shall be the duty of every owner, manager and agent of any factory, machine or workshop where laborers are employed, tories, etc. to admit the labor inspectors during reasonable hours and while the same is open, for the purpose of making an inspection of same, and any person who shall refuse to admit such inspectors in violation of the provisions of this section shall be fined not to exceed one hundred dollars, or to be imprisoned in jail not more than six months, or both be so fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the jury. 4. It shall further be the duty of the labor inspector to collect statistics concerning labor wherever and however employed in this State, and report the same to the commissioner at such times as he may direct. It shall be the duty of the owner, officers, manager, or agent, of any factory, machine or work shop where laborers are employed, to furnish upon demand of the labor inspectors statistical information concerning the number and sex of laborers employed, the compensation of each, the amount and kind of labor performed by such laborers, and such other reasonable information as may be required by the commissioner: Provided, That no person shall be required to furnish the labor inspectors information concerning the private conduct or condition of his affairs, or the affairs of the firm or concern he represents, touching matters not contemplated in the provisions of this act: And, provided, further, That no labor inspector, for the purpose of Collection of statistics. Provisos. Report on labor. gathering statistics, shall interfere or detain from work any laborer while on duty during working hours. 5. The commissioner shall make a separate report biennially to the legislature on or before the second Monday in January, on the subject of labor, and include such recommendations as may be deemed proper, together with an account of the work done by the labor inspectors, and the expenses incurred in by them. The aumber of copies of such reports shall not be less than one thousand nor more than three thousand, in the discretion of the commissioner. Interference 7. Neither the labor inspector nor assistant labor inspector shall with strikes, etc. take any part, interfere, or become involved in any strike or similar labor difficulty, other than the performance of his duty as prescribed by law, upon penalty of forfeiting his office. Salaries. Act construed. be furnished. 8. The labor inspector and assistant labor inspector shall receive annual salaries of twelve hundred dollars and one thousand dollars, respectively, and their actual necessary traveling expenses while in the performance of their duties to be paid out of the fund appropriated for the bureau. Said labor inspectors shall make reports of expenses as directed by the commissioner, who shall approve the same when proper and certify same for payment as other expenses of said bureau are now allowed and paid. 9. Nothing in this act shall be construed to conflict with the powers and duties of the State mine inspectors as now prescribed by law. The words factory, machine and work shop, shall not be construed to mean a newspaper or printing office. Information to SEC. 34. The auditor of public accounts, assessors of the several counties, and all other officers of the State and counties, shall furnish the commissioner with such information within their power as he may require in regard to the matters connected with the bureau; and as a further means of procuring information, the commissioner shall put himself in communication with the different agricultural, horticultural and labor societies, manufacturing and mining companies, and such other organizations or persons in or out of the State, as he may deem proper. Fire escapes to be erected. By whom. Violations. Fire escapes on factories, etc. SECTION 1830. All buildings of three or more stories in height, in every city of more than ten thousand inhabitants as enumerated by the last United States census, excepting private residences and store and ware houses in which not more than twenty persons are employed, shall be provided with one or more permanent metallic ladders or fire escapes, extending from the first story to the upper stories of such building, and above the roof and on the outer walls thereof, in such location, numbers and character of construction as the chief of fire department or chief fire officer of each such city may determine. The said chief of the fire department or chief fire officer shall examine the building and serve, either in person or by deputy, a notice, in writing, upon the owner, agent, lessee or occupant of such building, by leaving at his or her residence or place of business a copy of such notice, setting forth the number, kind, construction and location of the ladder or ladders required, and directing that the work shall be completed not later than thirty days from the filing of the notice. SEC. 1831. If the owner of the building fails to take steps looking to the compliance of the specifications of the said notice, then the agent, lessee or occupant, who is jointly liable for the violation of the provisions of this act, must have the work performed at his own expense, and for which a lien on the building and grounds is hereby declared to exist after record in the office of the county clerk. SEC. 1832. Any owner, agent, lessee or occupant of such building violating any of the provisions of this act shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars for each thirty days the building may be unprovided with the ladder or fire escapes, recoverable on motion before any court of competent jurisdiction. ACTS OF 1908. CHAPTER 66.-Regulation and inspection of factories. [See Appendix A, page 709.] LOUISIANA. CONSTITUTION. Who may be officers-Factory inspectors. Electors eligi ARTICLE 210 (as amended, 1906). No person shall be eligible to any office, State, judicial, parochial, municipal, or ward, who is not ble. a citizen of this State and a duly qualified elector of the State, judicial district, parish, municipality or ward, wherein the func tions of said office are to be performed. And whenever any officer, State, judicial, parochial, municipal or ward, may change his residence from this State, or from the district, parish, municipality or ward in which he holds such office, the same shall thereby be vacated, any declaration of retention of domicile to the contrary notwithstanding. But the appointment or election to office of Exception. either male or female persons is allowed, to serve as factory inspectors as provided for by an act entitled "An act to regulate the employment of children, young persons and women in certain cases, and to provide penalties for violations of the provisions of this act." adopted by the general assembly at its session of the year 1906. REVISED LAWS-1897. Fire escapes on factories, etc. (Page 754. Act No. 97, Acts of 1888.) What buildings to have fire escapes. SECTION 1. All buildings, except such as are used for private residences exclusively, in the city of New Orleans, of four or more stories in height, shall be provided with one or more metallic ladders or metallic fire escapes, including from the first story to the upper stories of such buildings, and above the roof and on the outer walls thereof, in such location and numbers and of such material and construction as the mayor, chief engineer of the fire department of their respective districts, the city surveyor and chairman of the fire committee of the city council and commissioner of public buildings, or a majority of them may from time to time determine; after such determination shall have been made as aforesaid, the chief engineer of the fire department of said city may at any time, by a notice in writing served upon the owner or agent of any such building by leaving with such owner or agent, or at his residence or place of business, a copy of such notice, require such owner or agent to cause such building within thirty days after the service of such notice [sic], require such owner or agent to cause such metallic ladder or fire escape to be placed upon such building, within thirty days after the service of such notice: Provided, however, That all buildings more than two stories in height, used for manufacturing purposes, shall have one metallic ladder for every twenty-five persons, or less, employed above the Number. second story. SEC. 2. In case such owner, or agent, so served with notice as aforesaid shall not, within thirty days after the service of such notice upon him, place, or cause to be placed, such metallic ladder or fire escape upon such building, as required by this article and the terms of such notice, he shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, and to a further fine of twenty-five dollars for each week of such neglect to comply with such notice after the service of the same. The fines imposed for violation of this act shall be collected by any court of competent jurisdiction. Notice. Penalty. |