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Page 153 - No conspiracy is punishable criminally unless it is one of those enumerated in the last two sections, and the orderly and peaceable assembling or co-operation of persons employed in any calling, trade or handicraft for the purpose of obtaining an advance in the rate of wages or compensation, or of maintaining such rate, is not a conspiracy.
Page 259 - Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act, or refuses to comply with any requirements of the factory inspector or a deputy factory inspector as provided herein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and...
Page 259 - Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent the employment of a seamstress by any family for manufacturing articles for such family use. None of...
Page 259 - Inspector as required in this section, and shall keep a written register of the names and addresses of all persons to whom such work Is given to be made, or with whom they may have contracted to do the same.
Page 259 - Every person, firm, company or corporation contracting for the manufacture of any of the articles mentioned in this section, or giving out the incomplete material from which they or any of them are to be made, or to be wholly or partially finished, shall...
Page 259 - ... shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars for the first offense, and not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for...
Page 49 - Commissioners shall have been for not less than ten years of his life an employe for wages in some department of industry in which it is usual to employ a number of persons under single direction and control, and shall be at the time of his appointment affiliated with the labor interest as distinguished from the capitalist or employing interest.
Page ii - That it shall be the duty of this commission to investigate questions pertaining to immigration, to labor, to agriculture, to manufacturing, and to business, and to report to Congress and to suggest such legislation as it may deem best upon these subjects.
Page 258 - AN ACT to regulate the employment and provide for the health and safety of men, women and children in manufacturing establishments, mercantile Industries, laundries, renovating works or printing offices, and to provide for the appointment of inspectors, office clerks, and others to enforce the same.
Page lxxi - There were about 70 per cent more strikes in New York State during 1899 than during 1898. The chairman of the board of mediation and arbitration of the State of New York says that the great increase was due to the general improvement of conditions. Wages are the last thing to rise, and the general rise of prices and the apparent prosperity of employers made the workmen impatient.* Remit* of strikes.