Factory Legislation in Pennsylvania: Its History and Administration |
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affidavit aforesaid amendment appointment attendance officer authority bakeshop boilers boys building Cambria Iron Company Captain Delaney cent Chief Factory Inspector chief inspector Child Labor Committee child labor law clause commissioners commonwealth complied Compulsory Education Court decision Department of Factory deputy factory inspectors Dora Keen duty dwelling house educational laws employers employment certificate enacted enforcement English language escape establishment evidence of age exemption factory act Factory Inspection Department Factory Inspector's Report factory law factory legislation fire fire-escapes firm or corporation Florence Kelley fourteen fourteenth amendment girls hours of labor hundred dollars inspec investigation Judge Legislature Luzerne County machinery manufacturers ment minimum age minor under sixteen night opinion owner payment of wages penalty Pennsylvania Child Labor permit Philadelphia Pittsburg principal teacher prohibited salary school district secured Senate session statute superin sweat sweat shop tendent tenement or dwelling tion twelve violation week women workshop
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Page 82 - which provides that the exercise of the police power of the state shall "never be abridged or so construed as to permit corporations to conduct their business in such manner as to infringe the equal rights of individuals or the general well-being of the state.
Page 40 - of the right of the employer and the employee; more than this, it is an insulting attempt to put the laborer under a legislative tutelage, which is not only degrading to his manhood, but subversive of his rights as a citizen of the United States. He may sell his labor for what he thinks best, whether money or goods, just as his
Page 114 - where the said articles or goods are to be made or partially made, and who have furnished the person, firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture or sale of said articles or goods, and with whom the bargain or contract is to be made, a certificate from the board of health of the city or town in which such
Page 82 - or so construed as to permit corporations to conduct their business in such manner as to infringe the equal rights of individuals or the general well-being of the state.
Page v - The whole is no greater than the sum of all the parts, and when the individual health, safety and welfare are sacrificed or neglected, the state must suffer.
Page 57 - employed a printed notice stating the number of hours per day for each day of the week required of such persons, and in every room where children under sixteen years of age
Page 76 - That no employee shall be required, permitted or suffered to work in a biscuit, bread or cake bakery, confectionery establishment more than six (6) days in any one week, said week to commence on Sunday not before six o'clock post meridian, and to terminate at the corresponding time
Page 82 - is no greater than the sum of its parts, and when the individual health, safety and welfare are sacrificed or neglected, the state must suffer.
Page 108 - SECTION 9. Not less than one hour shall be allowed for the noonday meal in any establishment. But the Chief Factory Inspector may, for good cause, reduce the time for the noonday meal in establishments where all the other provisions of this act are observed, which entail duties upon the part of the
Page 39 - An act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and all other manufactories, the payment of their wages at regular intervals and in lawful money of the United States;