History of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor of Massachusetts: And of Labor Legislation in that State from 1833 to 1876Wright & Potter, 1876 - 101 pages |
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66 Chap Acts annual appointed average Belgium bill Boston Bureau of Statistics census and industrial census of 1870 cent chief cities and towns co-operation co-operative commission commissioners Commonwealth condition cost of living deputy dollars earnings eight-hour eighteen hundred Elizur Wright employed employers employés employment of children enforce England English expenses F. B. SANBORN factory facts Fall River families fifteen fifty Governor half-time schools homes hours of labor House industrial statistics inquiries inspector interest investigations labor legislation labor reform laboring classes laboring powers legislature London manufacturing establishment Massachusetts Bureau mechanical establishments ment mills months obtained officers persons petitions present Prussia question received recommendations referred relating report for 1874 Resolve returns sanitary savings banks schedule SECT secure Senate societies Statistics of Labor subject of labor ten-hour law tenements tion truck system wage laborers week Worcester County workingmen yearly
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Page 8 - In the same session he submitted an elaborate report in favor of " an act to provide for the better instruction of youth, employed in manufacturing establishments,'
Page 14 - ... attended some public or private day school under teachers approved by the school committee of the place in which such school is kept, at least three months during the year next preceding such employment...
Page 96 - ... or intoxicating liquors into the Indian country that the acts charged were done under authority, in writing from the War Department or any officer duly authorized thereunto by the War Department.
Page 15 - SECT. 2. No child under the age of fifteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment more than sixty hours in one week.
Page 43 - Justices of police or district courts, trial justices, trial justices of juvenile offenders, and judges of probate shall have jurisdiction within their respective counties of the offences described in this act.
Page 11 - Labor being dearer in this country than it is in any other, with which we are brought in competition in manufacturing, operates as a constant inducement to manufacturers to employ female labor, and the labor of children, to the exclusion of men's labor ; because they can be had cheaper.
Page 46 - No child under the age of ten years shall be employed in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment within this Commonwealth...
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Page 27 - I commend to your candid and cordial consideration the varied interests of those who are denominated the laboring portion of our citizens. The question of practical concern is not so much whether the condition of this class is better or worse here than in other sections of the country, as whether that condition is satisfactory, whether it is what it might be made by honest and resolute endeavor, what it should be made by those who have the well-being of the Commonwealth deeply at heart. To this...
Page 22 - Labor to collect, assort, arrange, and present in reports in nineteen hundred and five, and every five years thereafter, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the Territory of Hawaii, especially in relation to the commercial, industrial, social, educational, and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and to all such other subjects as Congress may by law direct.