or his deputies shall have free access at all reasonable hours to all buildings embraced herein, and the prosecuting attorney in each county of the State shall render all necessary legal assistance as may be required by said chief inspector in enforcing this act. CHAPTER 246.-Inspection of steam boilers. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation Equipment. owning or using or causing to be used any steam boiler for generating steam to be applied to machinery in all industrial institutions subject to inspection by the department of inspection, shall [sic] provide them with a full complement of gauge cocks, some visible means of indicating the water level, one steam gauge, one fusible plug properly inserted, one safety valve, all to be kept in good working order (the area of said valve, if known as a pop valve, shall be in the ratio of one square inch of area to three square feet of grate surface), a lever and ball safety valve in the ratio of one square inch of area to two square feet of grate surface: Provided, That fusible plugs shall be required only in boilers having crown sheets. SEC. 2. The owner, agent, manager, or lessee of any boiler or boilers Inspection. described in section 1 of this act, of 10 or more horsepower, shall cause such boiler or boilers to be inspected, internally, once in six months by a practical boiler maker of not less than five years' experience; or a practical steam engineer who has had not less than ten years' experience with steam boilers carrying not less than seventy (70) pounds pressure per square inch; or by a boiler inspector of any company doing business under the laws of the State, who shall furnish to the owner, agent, or lessee of such boiler a certificate of inspection stating the kind and showing the condition of said boiler, the connections, and maximum pressure to be carried by said boiler; such certificate to be retained in the office of said establishment and to be shown to the chief inspector of the department of inspection or his deputy when required. SEC. 3. Every boiler house in which a boiler, or nest, or battery of boilers is placed shall be provided with a steam gauge or gauges, properly connected with the boilers, and where the engine is in a separate room, or more than forty feet distant from the gauge or nearest boiler, shall have another gauge attached to the steam pipe, so the engineer can readily ascertain the pressure carried. The safety valves of steam boilers subject to inspection under this act shall be loaded to sustain only the maximum pressure allowed by said certificate of inspection. SEC. 4. The prosecuting attorney of any county of this State is hereby required upon request of the chief inspector of the department of inspection, his deputy or any other person of full age, to commence and prosecute to a termination before any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of the State, actions or proceedings against any person, firm, or corporation reported to him to have violated the provisions of this act. Steam gauges, etc. Enforcement. SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to Penalty. knowingly operate any aforesaid boilers except as provided for in this act, and for the violation of section 1 or 3 a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25) shall be assessed for each offense. Each day such violation or violations continue shall constitute a separate offense. Any person, firm or corporation knowingly failing to comply with section 2 of this act, or any order issued by the department of inspection in accordance therewith, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). IOWA. CODE OF 1897 AND SUPPLEMENT OF 1902. Bureau of labor statistics. SECTION 2469 (as amended by chapter 102, Acts of 1906). The bureau of labor statistics shall be under the control of a commissioner, biennially appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent Commissioner. Dutles. Witnesses. May enter premises. of the executive council, whose term of office shall commence on the first day of April in each odd-numbered year and continue for two years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. He may be removed for cause by the governor, with the advice of the executive council, record thereof being made in his office; any vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. He shall give bonds in the sum of two thousand dollars with sureties to be approved by the governor, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, and take the oath prescribed by law. He shall have an office in the capitol, safely keep all records, papers, documents, correspondence, and other property pertaining to or coming into his hands by virtue of his office, and deliver the same to his successor, except as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2470 (as amended by chapter 102, Acts of 1906). The duties of said commissioner shall be to collect, assort, systematize and present in biennial reports to the governor statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the State, especially in its relations to the commercial, social, educational and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes, the means of escape from, and the protection of life and health in factories, the employment of children, the number of hours of labor exacted from them and from women, and to the permanent prosperity of the mechanical, manufacturing and productive industries of the State; and he shall, as fully as practicable, collect such information and reliable reports from each county in the State, the amount and condition of the mechanical and manufacturing interests, the value and location of the various manufacturing and coal productions of the State, and in said biennial report he shall give a statement of the business of the bureau since the last regular report, and shall compile and publish therein such information as may be considered of value to the industrial interests of the State, the number of laborers and mechanics employed, the number of apprentices in each trade, with the nativity of such laborers, mechanics' and apprentices' wages earned, the savings from the same, with age and sex of laborers employed, the number and character of accidents, the sanitary condition of institutions where labor is employed, the restrictions, if any, which are put upon apprentices when indentured, the proportion of married laborers and mechanics who live in rented houses, with the average annual rental, and the value of property owned by laborers and mechanics; and he shall include in such report what progress has been made with schools now in operation for the instruction of students in the mechanic arts, and what systems have been found most practical, with details thereof. Such report shall not contain more than six hundred printed pages, and shall be of the number, and distributed in the manner, provided by law. He shall make a report to the governor during the year 1906, and biennially thereafter. * * * SEC. 2471. The commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics shall have the power to issue subpoenas, administer oaths and take testimony in all matters relating to the duties herein required by said bureau, said testimony to be taken in some suitable place in the vicinity to which testimony is applicable. Witnesses subpoenaed and testifying before the commissioner of the bureau shall be paid the same fees as witnesses before a justice's court, such payment to be made out of the general funds of the State on voucher by the commissioner, but such expense for witnesses shall not exceed one hundred dollars annually. Any person duly subpœnaed under the provisions of this section, who shall willfully neglect or refuse to attend or testify at the time and place named in the subpoena, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days: Provided, however, That no witness shall be compelled to go outside the county in which he resides to testify. SEC. 2472. The commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics shall have the power, upon the complaint of two or more persons, or upon his failure to otherwise obtain information in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to enter any factory or mill, workshop, mine, store, business house, public or private work, when the same is open or in operation, upon a request being made in writing, for the purpose of gathering facts and statistics such as are contemplated by this chapter, and to examine into the methods of protection from danger to em- Inspection. ployees, and the sanitary conditions in and around such buildings and places, and make a record thereof. If the commissioner shall learn of any violation of, or neglect to comply with the law in respect to the employment of children, or in respect to fire escapes, or the safety of employees, or for the preservation of health, he shall give written notice. to the owner or person in charge of such factory or building, of such offense or neglect, and if the same is not remedied within sixty days Notice. after service of such notice, such officer shall give the county attorney of the county in which such factory or building is situated, written notice of the facts, whereupon that officer shall immediately institute the proper proceedings against the person guilty of such offense or neglect. And any owner or occupant of such factory or mill, workshop, mine, Hindering emstore, business house, public or private work, or any agent or employee ployees of buof such owner or occupant, who shall refuse to allow any officer or employee of said bureau to so enter, or who shall hinder him, or in any way deter him from collecting information, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred Penalty. dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. SEC. 2473. The expressions "factory," "mill," "workshop," "mine," store, ""business house," and "public or private work, as used in this chapter, shall be construed to mean any factory, mill, workshop, mine, store, business house, public or private work, where five or more wage-earners are employed for a certain stipulated compensation. reau. Definitions. SEC. 2474. It shall be the duty of every owner, operator or manager of Reports to every factory, mill, workshop, mine, store, business house, public or bureau. private work, or any other establishment where labor is employed as herein provided, to make to the bureau, upon blanks furnished by said bureau, such reports and returns as said bureau may require for the purpose of compiling such labor statistics as are contemplated in this chapter; and the owner, operator or business manager shall make such reports or returns within sixty days from the receipt of blanks furnished by the commissioner, and shall certify under oath to the correctness of the same. Any owner, operator or manager of such factory, mill, workshop, mine, store, business house, public or private work, as herein stated, who shall neglect or refuse to furnish to the commissioner of labor such reports or returns as may be required by the following blank, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and cost of prosecution, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. BLANK. Name of firm or corporation?. Number of hands employed during year ending December thirty-first?... Males?... Females?..... Apprentices?.. Total amount of wages paid during the year ending December thirty-first? $.... Total amount of wages paid previous year? $.... Any general increase or reduction of wages during the past year? If so, what per cent of increase or reduction? Cause of increase or reduction?... Any increase What means are pro What or decrease of business during past year?.... water-closets and wash rooms provided for the different sexes?. on short time or with reduced force?.. past year business was suspended?. year ending December thirty-first?. Number of weeks during Alleged cause?...... Result?...... How many days did strike continue, and what was loss of wages in consequence thereof?..... Was any property destroyed, and, if so, its value?. Information confidential. Water-closets. pliances. tion. SEC. 2475. In the reports of the commissioner no use shall be made of names of individuals, firms or corporations supplying the information called for by sections twenty-four hundred and seventy and twentyfour hundred and seventy-one of this chapter, such information being deemed confidential and not for the purpose of disclosing personal affairs; and any officer or employee of the bureau of labor statistics violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year. Factories and workshops-Inspection, etc. SECTION 4999a. Every manufacturing establishment, workshop or hotel in which five or more persons are employed, shall be provided with a sufficient number of water-closets, earth closets or privies for the reasonable use of the persons employed therein, which shall be properly screened and ventilated and kept at all times in a clean condition; and if women or girls are employed in such establishment, the water-closets, earth closets or privies used by them shall have separate approaches and be separate and apart from those used by the men. Safety ap- SEC. 4999b. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, superintendent or other person having charge of any manufacturing or other establishment where machinery is used, to furnish and supply or cause to be furnished and supplied therein, belt shifters or other safe mechanical contrivances for the purpose of throwing belts on and off pulleys, and, wherever possible, machinery therein shall be provided with loose pulleys; all saws, planers, cogs, gearing, belting, shafting, set-screws and Cleaning ma- machinery of every description therein shall be properly guarded. No chinery in mo- persons under sixteen years of age, and no female under eighteen years of age shall be permitted or directed to clean machinery while in moEmployment tion. Children under sixteen years of age shall not be permitted to opof children. erate or assist in operating dangerous machinery of any kind. Blowers for SEC. 4999c. All persons, companies or corporations operating any facpolishing ma-tory or workshop where emery wheels or emery belts of any description, chines, etc. or tumbling barrels used for rumbling or polishing castings, are used, shall provide the same with blowers and pipes of sufficient capacity, placed in such manner as to protect the person or persons using same from the particles of dust produced or caused thereby, and to carry away said particles of dust arising from or thrown off such wheels, belts or tumbling barrels while in operation, directly to the outside of the building, or to some receptacle place[d] so as to receive or confine such particles or dust: Provided, however, That grinding machines upon which water is used at the point of grinding contact, and small emery wheels which are used temporarily for tool grinding, are not included within the provisions of this section, and the shops employing not more than one man at such work may, in the discretion of the commissioner of the bureau of labor of the State, be exempt from the provisions hereof. Enforcement. Penalty. Use of explogive fluids, etc. Penalty. SEC. 4999d. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of the bureau of labor of the State, and the mayor, and chief of police of every city or town, to enforce the provisions of the foregoing sections. Any person, whether acting for himself or for another or for a copartnership, joint stock company or corporation, having charge or management of any manufacturing establishment, workshop or hotel, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of said sections, within ninety days after being notified in writing to do so, by any one of said officers whose duty it may be to enforce the provisions of said sections, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. SEC. 4999k. It shall be unlawful for any person to establish or operate any dye works, pantorium or cleaning works, in which gasoline, benzine, naphtha, or other explosive or dangerous fluids are used for the purpose of cleaning or renovating wearing apparel or other fabrics, in any building any part of which is used as a residence or lodging house. SEC. 49991. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of the foregoing section shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty ($50) nor less than ten ($10) dollars. Inspection, etc., of steam boilers. vided. SECTION 5026. Any person owning or operating steam boilers in this Steam gauges, State shall provide the same with steam gauge, safety valve and water etc., to be progauge, and keep the same in good order. Any person neglecting so to do shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. Penalty. ACTS OF 1904. CHAPTER 136.-Fire escapes on factories, etc. SECTION 1. The owners, proprietors and lessees of all buildings, struc- Fire escapes to tures or enclosures of three or more stories in height, now constructed be erected. or hereafter to be erected, shall provide for and equip said buildings On what buildings. Number, con Fifth. Manufactories, warehouses and buildings of all character[s] of three or more stories in height, not specified in the foregoing sections. SEC. 3. Each twenty-five hundred (2,500) superficial feet of area, or fractional part thereof, covered by buildings or structures specified struction, etc. under classification one, of section 2, of this act, shall be provided with one ladder fire escape of steel or wrought iron construction, attached to the outer wall thereof, and provided with platforms of steel or wrought iron construction of such size and dimensions and such proximity to one or more windows of each story above the first with all doors leading thereto of half glass locked in such manner as to render access to such ladder from each story easy and safe, and with red lights to designate location of escapes said ladder to start about five feet from the ground and extend above the roof, or a drop ladder may be hung at the second story in such a manner that it can be easily lowered in case of necessity: Provided, however, That where such buildings shall be occupied by more than twenty (20) persons, the said building shall as a substitute for one ladder be provided with one stairway of steel or wrought iron construction with above described platforms, accessible from each story with a drop or counterbalance stairway from the second story balcony to the ground, or a stationary stairway may be carried down to within five feet from the ground. * * * Each five thousand (5,000) superficial feet of area, or fractional part thereof covered by buildings under classification 6, [5] section 2 of this act, shall be provided with at least one above described ladder, and platforms at each story, if not more than twenty (20) persons be employed in the same. If more than twenty (20) persons be employed, then there shall be at least two of the above described ladders, and platforms attached, or one such stairway, and platforms of sufficient size at each story, and if more than forty (40) persons be employed in said building, then there shall be at least two, or such number of the above described outside stairways as the chief of fire department, or the mayor of any city or town where no such chief of fire department exists, may from time to time determine. * * SEC. 4. In buildings under all above classification[s] signs indicating Signs. location of fire escapes shall be posted at all entrances to elevators, stairway landings and in all rooms. SEC. 5. It is hereby made the duty of commissioner of the bureau of Enforcement. labor statistics, the chief of fire department, or the mayor of each city or town where no such chief of fire department exists, or the chairman of the board of supervisors, in case such building is not within the corporate limits of any city or town, to adopt uniform specifications for fire escapes hereinbefore provided, and keep such specifications on file in their respective offices, and to serve or cause to be served a written notice in behalf of the State of Iowa upon the owner or owners, or their agents or lessees, of buildings within this State not provided with fire escapes in accordance with the provisions of this act, commanding such owner, owners, or agents or either of them, to place or cause to be placed upon said buildings, such fire escape or fire escapes |