SEC. 3. Enforcement.-The district attorneys of the respective counties of this State, and the attorney general of this State, shall enforce the provisions of this act, and said district attorneys, and said attorney general and their deputies and agents, shall have all powers and authority of sheriffs or other peace officers to make arrests for violations of the provisions of this act, and to serve all processes and notices thereunder throughout the State.

SEC. 6. Emergency.-Nothing in this act shall forbid the employment of any female at any time where an emergency exists or unusual pressing business or necessity demands it, and if under such conditions a female does work over time she shall not be paid less than time and a half for each and every hour of overtime in any one day.

CHAPTER 63.-Mine regulations-Wash rooms

SECTIONS 1-5. When wash rooms to be supplied; equipment, etc.—[Owners, etc., of coal mines employing 20 or more miners must, on request of 60 per cent of the employees, erect a bathhouse, suitably equipped with lockers, and supplied with hot and cold water. The employees furnish their own towels and soap and are responsible for property left therein. A monthly fee, not exceeding $1, may be charged for the use of the house or room. Mines to which water for household or drinking purposes is hauled in railroad cars are exempt from the requirements of this act.]

UNITED STATES

COMPILED STATUTES-1916-SUPPLEMENTS-1919, 1923

Bureau of Mines-Safety

(Acts of Feb. 25, 1913, March 3, 1915, July 1, 1916)

SECTIONS 783-783c. Duties and powers.-[A bureau of mines in the Department of the Interior is charged, among other things, with the duty of making investigations with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, safeguarding the use of electricity and explosives, the preventon of fires, and the development of first aid and rescue work. Experiment stations and safety stations, movable or stationary, are to be established, and land, sidings, and housing secured for headquarters for mine rescue cars.]

Department of Labor

(Acts of March 4, 1913, June 30, 1922)

SECTION 932. Department created.-There is hereby created an executive department in the Government to be called the Department of Labor, with a Secretary of Labor, who shall be the head thereof, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and who shall receive a salary of twelve thousand dollars per annum, and whose tenure of office shall be like that of the heads of the other executive departments; and section one hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended to include such department, and the provisions of title four of the Revised Statutes, including all amendments thereto, are hereby made applicable to said department; and the Department of Commerce and Labor shall hereafter be called the Department of Commerce, and the Secretary thereof shall be called the Secretary of Commerce, and the act creating the said Department of Commerce and Labor is hereby amended accordingly. The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. The said Secretary shall cause a seal of office to be made for the said department of such device as the President shall approve and judicial notice shall be taken of the said seal.

SEC. 933. Assistant Secretary, etc.-There shall be in said department an Assistant Secretary of Labor, to be appointed by the President, who shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars a year. He shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary or required by law. There shall also be one chief clerk and a disbursing clerk, and such other clerical assistants, inspectors, and special agents as may from time to time be provided for by Congress.

SEC. 933a. Appointment.-There shall be in the Department of Labor an additional Secretary, who shall be known and designated as Second Assistant Secretary of Labor. He shall be appointed by the President and shall receive a salary of $5,000 a year. He shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Labor, or required by law, and in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Assistant Secretary shall, until a successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease, perform the duties devolving upon the Assistant Secretary by reason of section 177, Revised Statutes, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by section 179, Revised Statutes.

SEC. 934. Officers transferred. The following-named officers, bureaus, divisions, and branches of the public service now and heretofore under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and all that pertains to the same, known as the Commissioner General of Immigration, the commissioners of immigration, the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, the Division 1169

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SEC. 3. Enforcement.-The district attorneys of the respective counties of this State, and the attorney general of this State, shall enforce the provisions of this act, and said district attorneys, and said attorney general and their deputies and agents, shall have all powers and authority of sheriffs or other peace officers to make arrests for violations of the provisions of this act, and to serve all processes and notices thereunder throughout the State.

SEC. 6. Emergency.-Nothing in this act shall forbid the employment of any female at any time where an emergency exists or unusual pressing business or necessity demands it, and if under such conditions a female does work over time she shall not be paid less than time and a half for each and every hour of overtime in any one day.

CHAPTER 63.-Mine regulations-Wash rooms

SECTIONS 1-5. When wash rooms to be supplied; equipment, etc.-[Owners, etc., of coal mines employing 20 or more miners must, on request of 60 per cent of the employees, erect a bathhouse, suitably equipped with lockers, and supplied with hot and cold water. The employees furnish their own towels and soap and are responsible for property left therein. A monthly fee, not exceeding $1, may be charged for the use of the house or room. Mines to which water for household or drinking purposes is hauled in railroad cars are exempt from the requirements of this act.]

UNITED STATES

COMPILED STATUTES-1916-SUPPLEMENTS-1919, 1923

Bureau of Mines-Safety

(Acts of Feb. 25, 1913, March 3, 1915, July 1, 1916)

SECTIONS 783-783c. Duties and powers.-[A bureau of mines in the Department of the Interior is charged, among other things, with the duty of making investigations with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, safeguarding the use of electricity and explosives, the preventon of fires, and the development of first aid and rescue work. Experiment stations and safety stations, movable or stationary, are to be established, and land, sidings, and housing secured for headquarters for mine rescue cars.]

Department of Labor

(Acts of March 4, 1913, June 30, 1922)

SECTION 932. Department created.-There is hereby created an executive department in the Government to be called the Department of Labor, with a Secretary of Labor, who shall be the head thereof, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and who shall receive a salary of twelve thousand dollars per annum, and whose tenure of office shall be like that of the heads of the other executive departments; and section one hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended to include such department, and the provisions of title four of the Revised Statutes, including all amendments thereto, are hereby made applicable to said department; and the Department of Commerce and Labor shall hereafter be called the Department of Commerce, and the Secretary thereof shall be called the Secretary of Commerce, and the act creating the said Department of Commerce and Labor is hereby amended accordingly. The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. The said Secretary shall cause a seal of office to be made for the said department of such device as the President shall approve and judicial notice shall be taken of the said seal.

SEC. 933. Assistant Secretary, etc.-There shall be in said department an Assistant Secretary of Labor, to be appointed by the President, who shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars a year. He shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary or required by law. There shall also be one chief clerk and a disbursing clerk, and such other clerical assistants, inspectors, and special agents as may from time to time be provided for by Congress.

SEC. 933a. Appointment.-There shall be in the Department of Labor an additional Secretary, who shall be known and designated as Second Assistant Secretary of Labor. He shall be appointed by the President and shall receive a salary of $5,000 a year. He shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Labor, or required by law, and in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Assistant Secretary shall, until a successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease, perform the duties devolving upon the Assistant Secretary by reason of section 177, Revised Statutes, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by section 179, Revised Statutes.

SEC. 934. Officers transferred.-The following-named officers, bureaus, divisions, and branches of the public service now and heretofore under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and all that pertains to the same, known as the Commissioner General of Immigration, the commissioners of immigration, the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, the Division 1169

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of Information, the Division of Naturalization, and the immigration service at large, the Bureau of Labor, the Children's Bureau, and the Commissioner of Labor be, and the same hereby are transferred from the Department of Commerce and Labor to the Department of Labor, and the same shall hereafter remain under the jurisdiction and supervision of the last-named department. SEC. 940. Conciliation.-The Secretary of Labor shall have power to act as mediator and to appoint commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes whenever in his judgment the interests of industrial peace may require it to be done; and all duties performed and all power and authority now possessed or exercised by the head of any executive department in and over any bureau, office, officer, board, branch, or division of the public service by this act transferred to the Department of Labor, or any business arising therefrom or pertaining thereto, or in relation to the duties performed by and authority conferred by law upon such bureau, officer, office, board, branch, or division of the public service, whether of an appellate or revisory character or otherwise. shall hereafter be vested in and exercised by the head of the said Department of Labor.

SEC. 941. Reports.-The Secretary of Labor shall annually, at the close of each fiscal year, make a report in writing to Congress, giving an account of all moneys received and disbursed by him and his department and describing the work done by the department. He shall also, from time to time, make such special investigations and reports as he may be required to do by the President, or by Congress, or which he himself may deem necessary.

SEC. 942. Organization.—The Secretary of Labor shall investigate and report to Congress a plan of coordination of the activities, duties, and powers of the office of the Secretary of Labor with the activities, duties, and powers of the present bureaus, commissions, and departments, so far as they relate to labor and its conditions, in order to harmonize and unify such activities, duties, and powers, with a view to further legislation to further define the duties and powers of such Department of Labor.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

(Acts of June 13, 1888, March 2, 1895, April 8, 1904, March 4, 1913)

SECTION 944. Bureau of Labor Statistics.-The Bureau of Labor shall hereafter he known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor shall hereafter be known as the Commissioner of Labor Statistics; and all the powers and duties heretofore possessed by the Commissioner of Labor shall be retained and exercised by the Commissioner of Labor Statistics; *

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SEC. 945. Duties.-The Bureau of Labor Statistics, under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, shall collect, collate, and report at least once each year, or oftener if necessary, full and complete statistics of the conditions of labor and the products and distribution of the products of the same, and to this end said Secretary shall have power to employ any or either of the bureaus provided for his department and to rearrange such statistical work and to distribute or consolidate the same as may be deemed desirable in the public interests; and said Secretary shall also have authority to call upon other departments of the Government for statistical data and results obtained by them; and said Secretary of Labor may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise.

SEC. 946. Department created. There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Labor the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of laber, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.

SEC. 947. Commissioner.—The Department of Labor shall be under the charge of a Commissioner of Labor, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; he shall hold his office for four years, unless sooner removed, and shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars per annum.

[The original act (of 1888) here contained a provision to the effect that the chief clerk should, during the necessary absence of the commissioner or when