United States Congressional Serial SetU.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - Child labor |
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14 Doubler 14 Reeler 14 Winder 15 Quiller 15 Spinner 60 Laborer 70 Dead 9 Yes affidavit age age age group American Aver Average earnings Average number Breaker boy broad silk capita weekly income cent chil child children 14 Children of ages children under 14 coal deserted dition dren Dutch earnings of children employment English establishments factory family income fathers FEMALE EMPLOYEES females 16 Foreign born foreign parents German girls Home 70 Home Home Home Laborer Income of family Irish Italian Jersey less loom Luzerne counties males 16 Membership of family mills investigated mothers Native born native parents Nativity and race number of children Number of families occupations organzine Paterson Pennsylvania mills PENNSYLVANIA-Continued persons Polish read school Rent reported revolutions per minute ribbon silk mills Slate picker Slovak specified ages spindles STATE-Continued table shows throwing mills total number wage Warper warping Weaver Welsh WOMEN 16
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Page 82 - ... for such school record and is able to read and write simple sentences in the English language, and has received during such period instruction in reading, spelling, writing, English grammar and geography and is familiar with the fundamental operations of arithmetic up to and including fractions.
Page 207 - ... pulleys. Whenever practicable, all machinery shall be provided with loose pulleys. All vats, pans, saws, planers, cogs, gearing, belting, shafting, set-screws and machinery, of every description, shall be properly guarded.
Page 206 - No person shall remove or make ineffective any safeguard around or attached to machinery, vats or pans, while the same are in use, unless for the purpose of immediately making repairs thereto, and all such safeguards so removed shall be promptly replaced.
Page 175 - ... six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning, provided such room is lighted by electricity at all times during...
Page 134 - No minor under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any...
Page 207 - If a machine or any part thereof is in a dangerous condition or is not properly guarded, the use thereof may be prohibited by the commissioner of labor and a notice to that effect shall be attached thereto. Such notice shall not be removed until the machine is made safe and the required safeguards are provided, and in the meantime such unsafe or dangerous machinery shall not be used.
Page 183 - Every person or corporation employing females in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment in this commonwealth, shall provide suitable seats for the use of the females so employed, and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed.
Page 82 - It shall be unlawful for any factory or manufacturing establishment to hire or to employ any child unless there is first provided and placed on file in the office of such employer an affidavit, signed by the parent or guardian or person standing [in] parental relation thereto, certifying...
Page 88 - Act entitled an Act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania, and for the protection and preservation of property connected therewith...
Page 184 - State, shall provide suitable seats for the use of the girls and women so employed, and shall permit the use of such by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed.