control. The State auditor is hereby authorized and directed to draw said warrant and the State treasurer is hereby directed to pay said warrant from said fund.

CHAPTER 22.-Payment of wages due deceased employees

SECTION 1. Payment without administration.-The surviving husband or wife of any deceased person may, without procuring letters of administration, collect from any corporation, copartnership, association, or individual any sum of money which said corporation, copartnership, association, or individual may have owed such deceased person at the time of his or her death for wages earned by such deceased person while in the employ of such corporation, copartnership, association, or individual, provided said sum of money shall not exceed $300.

SEC. 2. Procedure.-Any corporation, copartnership, association or individual, upon receiving an affidavit stating that a person previously in the employ of any such corporation, copartnership, association or individual is dead, and that the affiant in such affidavit is the surviving husband or wife of such employee, as the case may be, and that the whole amount that such corporation, copartnership, association or individual owed such deceased person at the time of his or her death, does not exceed the sum of $300, may pay to such affiant any amount of such wages earned by said deceased person if the same does not exceed $300, and the receipt of such affiant shall be sufficient acquittance therefor.

ACTS OF 1918-SPECIAL SESSION

CHAPTER 38 (as amended 1923, ch. 3).-Employment of women-Minimum wages

SECTION 1. $16.00 per week.-No person, persons, firm or corporation, transacting business within the State of Arizona, shall employ any female in any store, office, shop, restaurant, dining-room, hotel, rooming-house, laundry or manufacturing establishment at a weekly wage of less than sixteen dollars ($16.00) per week; a lesser amount being hereby declared inadequate to supply the necessary cost of living to any such female, to maintain her health, and to provide her with the common necessaries of life.

SEC. 2. Penalties.-[Violations are punishable by fine, $50 to $300, or imprisonment, 10 to 60 days, or both, for each separate offense.]

ACTS OF 1919

CHAPTER 113.-Employment of children-School attendance

SECTIONS 1-9. Attendance required.—[This act requires school attendance to 16 years of age, unless 14 and excused to enter regular employment; also attendance in part-time school.]

CHAPTER 165.-Regulation of factories, etc.-Wash rooms in smelters and

foundries

SECTION 1. Where required.-Suitable and proper bathrooms, wash rooms, and water-closets shall be provided by the owner or operator of any smelter, refinery, or foundry engaged in the treatment or reduction of ores or metals, and all cement works and ore reduction works using oils, cyanide, acids, quicksilver and such water-closets shall be properly screened and ventilated, and shall be kept at all times in a clean, sanitary condition, with not less than one seat for each twenty-five persons, and one seat for each fraction thereof above ten, employed in such establishment. One shower bath shall be provided for every twenty-five men employed in such establishment with adequate additional wash-room facilities, and at all times they shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition.

SEC. 2. Dressing room.-Every such establishment enumerated above shall provide, maintain, and suitably equip a heated change room immediately contiguous to such establishment, which shall at all times be open to employees and shall at all times be kept in a clean and sanitary condition.

SEC. 3. Enforcement.-The enforcement of the provisions of this act clared necessary for the maintenance of the public health, and t

tendent of the State board of health is charged with the enforcement of the provisions herein contained.

SEC. 4. Violations.-[Violation of this act is punished by a fine of not less than $50, nor more than $300, or imprisonment for not less than 10 nor more than 60 days, or both.]

ACTS OF 1921

CHAPTER 73.-Mine regulations-Notice of operation, etc.

SECTIONS 1, 2. Notice required.-[Notice is required to be given to the State mine inspector whenever mining operations of any character are begun on property coming under his jurisdiction; also notice of suspension if six or more workmen have been employed.]

ACTS OF 1923

CHAPTER 10.-Civil rights of employees-Protection as voters, etc.

SECTION 1. Intimidation.-It shall be unlawful for any corporation, its officers or agents, to make, enforce, or attempt to enforce, any order, rule, or regulation, or adopt any other device or method to prevent an employee from engaging in political activities, accepting candidacy for nomination or election to, or the holding of political office, or from holding a position as a member of any political committee; or from soliciting or receiving funds for political purposes; or from acting as a chairman or participating in a political convention; or assuming the conduct of any political campaign; or for any corporation, its officers or agents to instigate, encourage, aid or assist, whether by personal service or contributing money or anything of value, any employee in its employ to run for or be elected to any political office; or for any corporation, its officers or agents to pay or contribute anything of value, whether in wages, fees or contributions, to any such employee in its employ while such employee is engaged in the official duties of the office to which such employee is elected; or from casting his ballot or vote as his conscience may command: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting any employer from suspending the wages or compensation of any employee elected to office when the duties of such employee in such office shall interfere with the duties of such employee to his employer.

SEC. 2. Penalty.-Any corporation, its officers or agents, violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished, if a corporation, by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than five thousand dollars; and if an officer or agent of any such corporation, by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than six months nor more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

CHAPTER 77.-Employment on public works-Citizens to be preferred [This is a provision of the general appropriation act of 1923, but has been regularly embodied in similar acts for a number of years.]

SECTION 2. Preference.-In all cases where money appropriated under the provisions of this act is or shall be expended for labor, only citizens of the United States or wards of the United States shall be employed and actual bona fide resident citizens of the State shall be given the preference whenever such labor as may be required can be found within this State, and before any labor can be sought outside of this State, either directly or indirectly, the person, contractor, firm or corporation shall file with the State auditor a verified written statement setting out in detail the effort put forth, showing his, their, or its inability to secure labor as is required within this State, and if the auditor is satisfied of such inability, then the auditor may execute a release permitting the bringing into this State such citizens only of the United States as may be needed for such work. Before any money herein appropriated shall be paid out for labor or construction, a verified statement shall be filed with the auditor, showing strict compliance with the provisions of this section. If the provisions of this section are not complied with, it shall be unlawful to pay out any of the moneys herein appropriated; and any contract entered into wherein the provisions of this section have not been complied with shall be void; Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the working of prisoners by the State.

ARKANSAS

CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE 19.-Mine regulations, etc.

SECTION 18. Laws to be passed.-The general assembly by suitable enactments shall require such appliances and means to be provided and used as may be necessary to secure as far as possible the lives, health and safety of persons employed in mining and of persons traveling upon railroads and by other public conveyances, and shall provide for enforcing such enactments by adequate pains and penalties.

DIGEST OF 1921

Wages as preferred claims-In administration

SECTION 97. Rank.-[Wages rank with expenses of last sickness, next after the funeral expenses.]

Public service-Safety appliances

SECTION 1611 (as amended 1921, No. 124). Safety.-Every person, 'firm, or corporation engaged in a public service business in this State shall establish and maintain adequate and suitable facilities, safety appliances, or other suitable devices, and shall perform such service in respect thereto as shall be reasonable, safe and sufficient for the safety and comfort of its employees,

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Railroads-Height of wires over tracks

SECTION 1762. Trolley wires.-[Street railways using electric power must maintain their wires at railroad crossings at a height of not less than 22 feet.]

Wages as preferred claims-In insolvency of corporations

SECTIONS 1798, 1799. Wages to be paid first.-[No preferences are allowed in insolvency of corporations other than wages and salaries of laborers and servants. All other debts rank equally after the payment of such wages and salaries.]

Enticement of employees

SECTION 2789. Enticing workmen.-If any person shall interfere with, entice away, knowingly employ, or induce a laborer or renter who has contracted with another person for a specified time to leave his employer or the leased premises, before the expiration of the contract without the consent of the employer or landlord, he shall, upon conviction before any justice of the peace or cir cuit court, be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and in addition shall be liable to such employer or landlord for all advances made by him to said renter or laborer by virtue of his contract, whether verbal or written, with said renter or laborer, and for all damages which he may have sustained by reason thereof.

Tips for employees

SECTION 2849. Tips to waiters, etc., forbidden.-It shall be unlawful for any steward, waiter, porter or other employee at any hotel, restaurant, cafe, or eating house in the State of Arkansas to solicit or receive either directly or indirectly, or for any proprietor or manager of any such hotel, restaurant, cafe, or eating house, to permit any such steward, waiter, porter or other employee to receive, either directly or indirectly, from any guest or patron any gift, compensation or honorarium, or gratuity commonly known as a “tip.”

SEC. 2850. Tips to porters, etc., on railroads forbidden.—It shall be unlawful for any porter or other employee of any sleeping car company or dining car company or corporation or carrier operating any sleeping car or dining car in this State, to receive, either directly or indirectly, any gratuity or compensation commonly known as a "tip," and any sleeping or dining car company or any common carrier or corporation operating a sleeping or dining car in this

State that permits an employee to accept or receive any gratuity or compensation commonly known as a "tip," shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 2851. Penalty.—Any person, firm, corporation or common carrier violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars.

Protection of employees as voters

SECTION 3809. Coercion, etc., by employers.— * No person shall coerce, intimidate or unduly influence any elector to vote for or against the nominee of any political party, or for or against any particular question or candidate, by any threat ** of discharge from employment,

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Any violation of this section shall be deemed a felony, and, on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than three years.

Garnishment of wages of railroad employees

SECTION 4907. Judgment to be recovered before issue of writ.-Hereafter no garnishment shall be issued by any court in any cause where the sum demanded is two hundred dollars or less and where the property sought to be reached is wages due to a defendant by any railroad corporation, until after judgment shall have been recovered by plaintiff against defendant in the action.

Exemption of wages from garnishment—Unlawful assignments

SECTION 5546. Amount.-[All wages for 60 days shall be exempt from garnishment or other seizure, unless, taken with other personal property, the total would exceed the limits of the constitutional exemption ($200 if single, or $500 if married).]

SECS. 5547, 5548. Sending claims outside the State-[Sending claims outside the State or assigning them for collection with the intent of depriving resident debtors of their rights under the exemption laws of the State, when the parties are within the jurisdiction of the courts of the State is a misdemeanor.]

Wages as preferred claims—In insolvency

SECTION 5888. Amount.-[Salaries of employees earned within 3 months, and all wages are to be paid first in the distribution of assets by receivers.]

Bureau of labor and statistics

SECTION 6535. Bureau created.-A bureau of labor and statistics is hereby created for a period of fifty years, which shall be under the charge and control of a commissioner of labor and statistics.

SEC. 6536. Commissioner.-A commissioner of labor and statistics shall be appointed by the governor immediately upon the taking effect of this act, who shall hold office until the first day of February, 1915, and until his successor shall have been appointed and qualified, after which the term of office of each commissioner shall begin on the first day of February of every odd numbered year, and shall continue for two years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, and all appointments shall be made by the governor of this State. The commissioner may be removed for cause by the governor, record thereof being made in his office, and any vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. The commissioner of labor and statistics shall give bond 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 he shall also take the oath of office prescribed by the constitution. He shall have an office in the capitol building, and, except as hereinafter provide he shall safely keep and shall deliver to his successor all records. ments, correspondence, and property pertaining to or coming virtue of his office.

SEC. 6537. Duties.-The commissioner of labor and stat assort, systematize, and present in biennial reports to the details relating to all departments of labor in Arkansas, a fecting or bearing upon the commercial, social, educational, ditions of the employees and their families, the means of e

incident to their employment, the protection of life and health in factories and other places of employment, the labor of children and of women and the number of hours of labor exacted of them, and in general all matters and things which affect or tend to affect the prosperity of the mechanical, manufacturing, and productive industries of this State, and of the persons employed therein. Said commissioner shall also, as fully as may be done, collect reliable reports and information from each county, showing the amount and condition of the mechanical and manufacturing interests therein, and all sites offering natural or acquired advantages for the location and operation of any of the different branches of industry, and he shall by correspondence with interested parties in other parts of the United States, or in foreign countries, impart to them such information as may tend to induce the location of manufacuring and producing plants within the State, together with such information as may tend to increase the employment of labor and the products of such employment in Arkansas.

SEC. 6538. Biennial reports.-In each biennial report the commissioner shall give a full statement of the business of the bureau, since the last preceding report, and such information as may be of value to the industrial interests and to persons employed therein, showing among other things the number of laborers and mechanics employed and the number of apprentices in each trade, with the nativity of such laborers, mechanics and apprentices, the wages earned, the savings from the same, the age and sex of the persons employed, the number and character of accidents, the sanitary conditions of places where persons are employed, the restrictions put upon apprentices when indentured, the proportion of married employees living in rented houses, with the average rental paid, the value of property owned by such employees, and a statement as to the progress made in schools in operation for the instruction of students in mechanic arts, and what systems have been found most practical, but such reports shall not contain more than six hundred printed pages, and the same shall be printed and distributed in such manner as is or may be provided by law.

SEC. 6539. Powers.-The commissioner of the bureau of labor and statistics shall have the power to issue subpoenas, administer oaths, and take testimony in all matters related to the duties herein required of the said bureau, but such testimony must be taken in the vicinity of the residence or office of the person testifying. Any person duly subpoenaed under the provisions of this act who shall willfully neglect or fail to attend or testify at the time and place mentioned 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 of not to exceed fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not to exceed thirty days: Provided, however, That no witness shall be compelled to go outside of the county in which he resides in order to testify.

SEC. 6540. Reports by employers.-It shall be the duty of every owner, manager, and superintendent of every factory, mill, workshop, business house, public or private work, or any other establishment or place where five or more persons are employed at work, to make to the bureau of labor and statistics, upon blanks to be furnished by such bureau, such reports and returns as said bureau may require for the purpose of securing such labor statistics as are contemplated by this act, and such reports and returns shall be made within not to exceed sixty days from the receipt of the blanks furnished by the commissioner or by the bureau, and the same shall be verified under oath. Any owner, manager, superintendent, or any other person in charge or control of any factory, mill, workshop, store, business house, public or private work, or other establishment or place where five or more persons are employed at work, who shall neglect or refuse to make such reports and returns as are required by the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty days.

SEC. 6541. Information confidential.-In the reports made by the commissioner of labor and statistics to the governor, the names of individuals, firms, or corporations supplying information under the provisions of this act shall not be disclosed, nor shall the name of any such individual, firm, or corporation be communicated to any person or persons, except such as are employed in the bureau of labor and statistics, and any officer or employee of such bureau violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not to exceed five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety days.