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Page 897
... hands I have unqualified and the fullest assurance of the success of Welsh Sunday closing from all parts of the principality . The views expressed by Mr. Scholfield are perhaps generally , though not universally , entertained . The Very ...
... hands I have unqualified and the fullest assurance of the success of Welsh Sunday closing from all parts of the principality . The views expressed by Mr. Scholfield are perhaps generally , though not universally , entertained . The Very ...
Page 900
... hands of crimps . They had fleeced him thor- , oughly and without mercy . In common with most seaport towns , there is at Cardiff considerable dissipation , but this does not exist now to the same extent as formerly . Cardiff ...
... hands of crimps . They had fleeced him thor- , oughly and without mercy . In common with most seaport towns , there is at Cardiff considerable dissipation , but this does not exist now to the same extent as formerly . Cardiff ...
Page 918
... hands . Now Messrs . Daniel Owen & Co. , the largest stationers and printers , have about fifty girls in their factory , and there are alto- gether some two hundred young women engaged at the respective es- tablishments most of them ...
... hands . Now Messrs . Daniel Owen & Co. , the largest stationers and printers , have about fifty girls in their factory , and there are alto- gether some two hundred young women engaged at the respective es- tablishments most of them ...
Page 919
... hands . No doubt in many directions much ill - feeling and irrita- tion is caused by such a practice , and a bitter strife has for months been going on in Sunderland , arising out of the employment of apprentices , but prejudices are ...
... hands . No doubt in many directions much ill - feeling and irrita- tion is caused by such a practice , and a bitter strife has for months been going on in Sunderland , arising out of the employment of apprentices , but prejudices are ...
Page 920
... hands 243 00 364 50 303 75 Shop - walker 243 00 486 00 364 50 Buyer .. 486 00 631 80 558 90 NOTE . - Male and female are boarded free , laundry - work excepted . Much of the work done by women even a quarter of a century ago has ...
... hands 243 00 364 50 303 75 Shop - walker 243 00 486 00 364 50 Buyer .. 486 00 631 80 558 90 NOTE . - Male and female are boarded free , laundry - work excepted . Much of the work done by women even a quarter of a century ago has ...
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Popular passages
Page 1710 - Under sub-section one of section one, unless the defect therein mentioned arose from, or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer, or of some person in the service of the employer, and entrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, machinery, or plant were in proper condition.
Page 974 - The amount of compensation recoverable under this Act shall not exceed such sum as may be found to be equivalent to the estimated earnings, during the three years preceding the injury, of a person in the same grade employed during those years in the like employment and in the district in which the workman is employed at the time of the injury.
Page 1700 - Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse, or qualification, whether it does or not accompany the description of the offence in this Act, may be proved by the defendant, but need not be specified or negatived...
Page 1709 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer to whose orders or directions the workman at the time of the injury was bound to conform, and did conform...
Page 974 - ... the workman, or in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any person entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer nor engaged in his work.
Page 1710 - ... an employee, or his legal representative, shall not be entitled under this article to any right of compensation or remedy against the employer in any case where such employee knew of the defect or negligence which caused the injury and failed, within a reasonable time, to give, or cause to be given, information thereof to the employer...
Page 1697 - ... if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary...
Page 1702 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled, " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 1693 - Where persons are employed at home, that is to say, in a private house, room, or place which, though used as a dwelling, is by reason of the work carried on there a factory or workshop within the meaning of this act, and in which neither steam, water, nor other mechanical power is used in aid of the manufacturing process carried on there, and in which the only persons employed are members of the same family dwelling there...
Page 1685 - ... shall be renewed once at least in every seven years, and shall be washed with hot water and soap once at least in every six months ; where limewashed the limewashing shall be renewed once at least in every six months. A bakehouse in which there is any contravention of this section shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this Act.