LAWS OF VARIOUS STATES RELATING TO LABOR, ENACTED SINCE JANUARY 1, 1904.

[The Tenth Special Report of this Bureau contains all laws of the various States and Territories and of the United States relating to labor, in force January 1, 1904. Later enactments are reproduced in successive issues of the Bulletin, beginning with Bulletin No. 57, the issue of March, 1905. A cumulative index of these later enactments is to be found on page 403 et seq. of this issue.]

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

ACTS OF SECOND SESSION, FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS, 1906-1907.

CHAPTER 37.-Employment offices-Penalty.

SECTION 1. Section eleven of an act entitled "An Act to regulate the keeping of employment agencies in the District of Columbia where fees are charged for procuring employment or situations," approved June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby amended by inserting after the words at least six months from the date of revocation of such license" the words "every violation of any provision of this act, except as provided in section ten, shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed twentyfive dollars, and in default thereof the person or persons so offending shall be committed for a period not to exceed thirty days, and this penalty shall also include such violations of section ten for which no penalty is prescribed in said section ten." Approved, January 12, 1907.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

LAWS OF UNITED STATES PHILIPPINE COMMISSION, 1905-6.

ACT No. 1416.-Employees injured in line of duty-Insular government. SECTION 6. Unclassified employees of the insular government, including laborers, who are injured in clear line of duty may, in the discretion of the chief of the bureau and with the approval of the head of the department under which they are employed, continue to receive their regular compensation during the period of disability not exceeding ninety days: Provided, That the governor-general or proper head of department may, in his discretion, authorize payment of medical attendance, necessary transportation, and hospital fees for officers and employees injured in clear line of duty, but such payment shall not be made from the appropriation for the insular salary and expense fund when the bureau or office concerned has an available appropriation for contingent expenses or public works, as the case may be, from which such payment can be made, nor shall the provisions of this section be construed to cover sickness as distinguished from physical wounds.

Enacted, December 1, 1905.

ACT No. 1439.-Seamen-Desertion.

SECTION 1. On application of a consul or vice-consul of any foreign Government having a treaty with the United States stipulating for the restoration of seamen deserting, made in writing, stating that the person therein named has deserted from a vessel of any such Government while in any port of the Philippine Islands, and on proof, by the exhibition of the register of the vessel, ship's roll, or other official document, that the person named belonged at the time of desertion to the crew of such vessel, it shall be the duty of the supreme court, or of any court of first instance, or of any judge thereof, or of any judge of a municipal court lawfully established in the Philippine Islands, to issue warrants to cause such person to be arrested for examination. If, on examina

tion, the facts stated are found to be true, the person arrested, not being a citizen of the United States, or of the Philippine Islands, shall be delivered up to the consul or viceconsul, to be sent back to the dominions of any such Government, or, on the request and at the expense of the consul or vice-consul, shall be detained until the consul or vice-consul finds an opportunity to send him back to the dominions of any such Government. No person so arrested shall be detained more than two months after his arrest; but at the end of that time shall be set at liberty, and shall not be again molested for the same cause. If any such deserter shall be found to have committed any crime or offense, his surrender may be delayed until the tribunal before which the case shall be pending, or may be cognizable, shall have pronounced its sentence, and such sentence shall have been carried into effect.

Enacted, January 16, 1906.

ACT No. 1511.-Hours of labor on public roads.

SECTION 1. Every male inhabitant of the Philippine Islands who is subject to the payment of a poll or cedula personal tax by virtue of the provisions of the internal revenue law as now existing or as hereafter amended shall labor on the public highways, bridges, wharves, or trails for five days of eight hours each, every calendar year, or pay the equivalent in cash of such days' labor commuted at the rate and in the manner hereinafter provided, subject, however, to the provisions of section eighteen of this act: Provided, That this act shall not apply to the city of Manila nor to bona fide residents thereof, nor to members of the Philippine Constabulary and municipal police, nor to residents of provinces organized under act number thirteen hundred and ninetysix: And provided further, That this act shall not apply to a township or settlement of any non-Christian tribe in any province until made applicable to such township or settlement by resolution of the provincial board approved by the secretary of the interior.

SEC. 18. This act shall not be effective in any province until it shall have been adopted for that province by a majority vote of those present at an assembly as hereinafter provided.

Enacted, July 13, 1906.

VERMONT.

ACTS OF 1906.

ACT No. 52.-Employment of children.

SECTION 1. Section 712 of the Vermont Statutes as amended by section 1 of No. 155 of the Acts of 1904 is hereby amended so as to read as follows, viz.:

Section 712. A child under sixteen years of age, who has not completed the elementary course of study of nine years prepared for the public schools by the superintendent of education, shall not unless excused in writing by the town superintendent of schools be employed in work connected with railroading, mining, manufacturing, or quarrying, or be employed in delivering messages by any corporation or company, except during vacation and before and after school, unless said child deposits with his employer in work herein specified a certificate from the town superintendent of schools to the effect that he is eligible to employment in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and no child under sixteen years of age shall be employed after eight o'clock at night in any of the occupations or industries herein enumerated. In case said child has been in attendance upon a private or parochial school, the superintendent of schools is hereby empowered to examine said child for the purpose of determining his eligibility to employment in accordance with this section.

SEC. 2. Section 715 of the Vermont Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows, viz.:

Section 715. A town superintendent may inquire of the owner or superintendent of a mill, factory, quarry, workshop, or railroad office, shop, or yards, as to the employment of children therein, may call for the production of the certificates deposited with such owner or superintendent, and satisfy himself that the requirements of law have been complied with.

SEC. 3. Section 1 of No. 155 of the Acts of 1904 is hereby amended so as to read as follows, viz.:

Section 1. No child under the age of twelve years shall be employed by or permitted to work for any railroad company, or in any mill, factory, quarry, or workshop, or in delivering messages for a corporation or company.

Approved December 19, 1906.

ACT No. 69.-Assignment of wages.

SECTION 1. No assignment of future earnings shall be valid against a trustee process unless executed in writing, nor unless made to secure a debt of an amount stated in the assignment contracted prior to, or simultaneously with, the execution of the assignment, or a debt for necessaries thereafter to be furnished to the debtor to an amount stated in the assignment, nor unless such assignment is recorded in the office of the clerk of the town in which the assignor resides before the service of the writ upon the alleged trustee.

Approved November 19, 1906.

ACT No. 117.--Payment of wages-Weekly pay day.

SECTION 1. The word "employee" as used in this act shall mean a mechanic, workingman or laborer who works for hire.

SEC. 2. A mining, quarrying, manufacturing, mercantile, telegraph, telephone, railroad or other transportation corporation, and an incorporated express, water, electric light or power company doing and transacting business within the State shall pay each week, in lawful money, each employee engaged in the business the wages earned by such employee to a day not more than six days prior to the date of such payment: Provided, That if at any time of payment an employee is absent from his regular place of labor, he shall be entitled to such payment upon demand.

SEC. 3. No such corporation shall pay its employees in script, vouchers, due bills, or store orders; except it be a cooperative corporation in which the employee is a stockholder, but such cooperative corporation shall, upon request of any such shareholding employee pay him as provided in the preceding section.

SEC. 4. No assignment of future wages payable under the provisions of this act shall be valid, if made to the corporation from whom such wages are to become due, or to anyone in behalf of such corporation, or if made or procured to be made to anyone for the purpose of relieving such corporation from the obligation to pay under the provisions of this act. No such corporation shall require an agreement from an employee to accept wages at any other period as a condition of employment.

SEC. 5. Such a corporation, its lessee, or other person carrying on the business thereof, that fails to pay the wages of an employee as provided in this act shall forfeit to the State fifty dollars for each such failure, to be recovered in an action on this statute by the State's attorney of the county in which such violation occurs, and in his name; but an action shall not be maintained therefor until the State's attorney has given the employer ten days' notice in writing that such action will be brought if the wages are not paid as provided in this act.

Approved December 10, 1906.

ACT No. 118.-Railroads Employment of intemperate persons-Intoxication of

employees.

SECTION 29. Section 3922 of the Vermont Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 3922. If a railroad corporation employs or retains in its service a conductor, engineer, brakeman, switchman, semaphore or other signalman, train dispatcher, telegraph operator who receives train orders, motorman, or operator of an electric car, who uses intoxicating liquors as a beverage, such fact being known to the president, superintendent, or any of the directors of such road, such corporation shall be fined not more than three thousand dollars, and not less than three hundred dollars; and shall also be liable for the damages which a person sustains by the employment or retention of such employee.

SEC. 30. Section 3923 of the Vermont Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 3923. A person named in the preceding section, while in control of the movement of any engine, train, electric car or semaphore, or while engaged in the discharge of any duty relating to his employment who is intoxicated, shall be imprisoned in the State prison not more than one year or fined not more than five hundred dollars.

Approved December 13, 1906.

ACT No. 126.-Accidents on railroads.

SECTION 19. The general superintendent or manager of a railroad doing business in this State shall inform the board in writing of every accident upon his road, resulting in loss of life or injury to any person, and of every collision and derailment of trains on the same, immediately after its occurence. If such accident results

in loss of life or serious injury to the person of a passenger, such information shall be given by telegraph.

SEC. 20. Said board shall inquire into the cause of every accident on a railroad resulting in loss of life, and in its judgment, into any accident, collision or derailment of trains not so resulting. If, in its judgment, a public investigation is necessary in the interest of public safety it shall fix a time and place of holding the same and shall summon the person or corporation operating such railroad, the parties known to have been injured in the accident, and if known, a representative or friend of a person killed thereby, to appear and give evidence regarding the cause of such accident. Said board shall also notify the State's attorney for the county in which the accident occurred, who shall investigate the cause of such accident, produce witnesses who can give evidence in regard to the same and attend and represent the State in such hearing. All parties summoned, and other persons interested, may appear and be made parties thereto, may produce witnesses or other evidence and be represented by counsel. The person or corporation operating the railroad shall produce on notice from the board, all trainmen and other employees who can give pertinent evidence in regard to the cause of the accident, free of expense to the State. Said board shall make public its determination in regard to the cause of the accident so investigated, and cause a permanent record thereof to be made. Approved December 14, 1906.

UNITED STATES.

ACTS OF SECOND SESSION, FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS, 1906-1907.

CHAPTER 432.-Woman and child labor-Investigation.

SECTION 1. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized and directed to investigate and report on the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical condition of woman and child workers in the United States wherever employed, with special reference to their age, hours of labor, term of employment, health, illiteracy, sanitary and other conditions surrounding their occupation, and the means employed for the protection of their health, person, and morals.

SEC. 2. And for the purposes of this act the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby directed to utilize in so far as they may be adequate the forces of the Bureau of Labor and Bureau of Census.

Approved January 29, 1907.

CHAPTER 991.-Engineers, etc., of vessels-Licenses to be displayed.

SECTION 1. Section forty-four hundred and forty-six of the Revised Statutes, as the same is now in force and effect, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Sec. 4446. Every master, mate, engineer, and pilot who shall receive a license shall, when employed upon any vessel, within forty-eight hours after going on duty, place his certificate of license, which shall be framed under glass, in some conspicuous place in such vessel, where it can be seen by passengers and others at all times: Provided, That in case of emergency such officer may be transferred to another vessel of the same owners for a period not exceeding forty-eight hours without the transfer of his license to such other vessel; and for every neglect to comply with this provision by any such master, mate, engineer, or pilot, he shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars, or to the revocation of his license."

Approved February 19, 1907.

CHAPTER 1134.—Immigration-Alien contract labor.

SECTION 1. * * * Whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign Government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental

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territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President may refuse to permit such citizens of the country issuing such passports to enter the continental territory of the United States from such other country or from such insular possessions or from the Canal Zone.

SEC. 2. The following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United States: All idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane persons, and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public charge; professional beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy, anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or of all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public officials; prostitutes, or women or girls coming into the United States for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; persons who procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes or women or girls for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; persons hereinafter called contract laborers, who have been induced or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment or in consequence of agreements, oral, written, or printed, express or implied, to perform labor in this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled; those who have been, within one year from the date of application for admission to the United States, deported as having been induced or solicited to migrate as above described; any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes, and that said ticket or passage was not paid for by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign Government, either directly or indirectly; all children under sixteen years of age, unaccompanied by one or both of their parents, at the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor or under such regulations as he may from time to time prescribe: Provided, That nothing in this act shall exclude, if otherwise admissible, persons convicted of an offense purely political, not involving moral turpitude: Provided further, That the provisions of this section relating to the payments for tickets or passage by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign Government shall not apply to the tickets or passage of aliens in immediate and continuous transit through the United States to foreign contiguous territory: And provided further, That skilled labor may be imported if labor of like kind unemployed can not be found in this country: And provided further, That the provisions of this law applicable to contract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of any religious denomination, professors for colleges or seminaries, persons belonging to any recognized learned profession, or persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants.

SEC. 4. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever, to prepay the transportation or in any way to assist or encourage the importation or migration of any contract laborer or contract laborers into the United States, unless such contract laborer or contract laborers are exempted under the terms of the last two provisos contained in section two of this act.

SEC. 5. For every violation of any of the provisions of section four of this act the persons, partnership, company, or corporation violating the same, by knowingly assisting, encouraging, or soliciting the migration or importation of any contract laborer into the United States shall forfeit and pay for every such offense the sum of one thousand dollars, which may be sued for and recovered by the United States, or by any person who shall first bring his action therefor in his own name and for his own benefit, including any such alien thus promised labor or service of any kind as aforesaid, as debts of like amount are now recovered in the courts of the United States; and separate suits may be brought for each alien thus promised labor or service of any kind as aforesaid. And it shall be the duty of the district attorney of the proper district to prosecute every such suit when brought by the United States.

SEC. 6. It shall be unlawful and be deemed a violation of section four of this act to assist or encourage the importation or migration of any alien by promise of employment through advertisements printed and published in any foreign country; and any alien coming to this country in consequence of such an advertisement shall be treated as