Railroads-Shelters for employees at division points

SECTION 6557. Shelters required.-It shall be the duty of every person, firm, or corporation that may now or hereafter own, control, or operate any line of railroad in the State of North Carolina, to erect and maintain at every divisiou point where cars are regularly taken out of trains for repairs or constuction work, or where other railroad equipment is regularly made, repaired, or constructed, a building or shed with a suitable and sufficient roof over the repair and construction track or tracks so as to provide that all men or employees permanently employed in the construction and repair of cars, trucks, or other railroad equipment of whatever description shall be under shelter and protected during snows, rains, sleets, hot sunshine, and other inclement weather: Provided, The corporation commission shall have the power to direct the points at which sheds shall be erected, and the character of the sheds: Provided further, That such order shall only be made after a hearing of which public notice shall have been given.

[Violation is punishable by a fine, not less than $100 nor more than $500, each day's failure to comply being a separate offense.]

Payment of wages to railroad employees

SECTION 6558. Scope of law. All persons, firms, companies, corporations, or associations owning, leasing, or operating any railroad, or railroads, wholly or partially within this State, shall pay and settle with their employees engaged or employed in shops, roundhouses, or repair shops within this State at least twice in each month, which settlements shall not be less than two weeks nor more than three weeks apart, and shall in such settlements, pay such employees the full amounts due them for their work and services up to the date of the preceding settlement, and such payment shall be made in lawful money of the United States, or by check or cash order redeemable by the maker thereof for its face value in lawful money of the United States upon demand of or presentation by the lawful holder thereof: Provided, This section shall not apply to repair shops where less than ten employees are engaged.

Factory, etc., regulations-Toilets

SECTIONS 6559-6563. Supply, location, etc.-[Employers of more than two males and females in indoor work mainly, in towns and cities of 1,000 population or more, must provide properly kept toilets for the races and for both sexes, located in separate places in the buildings or grounds, and shut off by substantial walls. Failure to provide entails a penalty of $5 for each day's continuance. Town and city police and county sheriffs are charged with the enforcement of the law.]

SEC. 6564. Exemptions.-This article shall not apply to Sampson, Harnett, Lee, Johnston, Northampton, Cleveland, Rutherford, Polk, and Henderson Counties.

Suits for wages-Unlawful assignments, etc.

SECTION 6568. Sending claims outside of State.-[Resident creditors are for bidden to send out of the State or assign a claim against a resident employee of a railroad company with the intent of depriving him of the benefit of the exemption laws of the State.]

Mine regulations

SECTIONS 6897-6909. Employment; safety.-[Minors under 16 may not be employed in any mine. Timber must be furnished, unused underground entrances fenced, and at least two outlets provided. Hoisting, ventilation, and the use of safety lamps are regulated. Daily examinations must be made before men begin work. Notice must be given of accidents causing personal injury or loss of life; also of the opening and closing of mines. Failure to comply with the act entails liability for resultant injuries, and also subjects to penalties.]

SECS. 6910-6919. Inspection.-[Inspection of mines employing more than 10 men is to be made by the commissioner of labor and printing, who is to enforce the law, investigate accidents and make annual reports to the governor of his proceedings in this connection.]

Department of labor and printing

SECTION 7309. Department created.-A department of labor and printing is hereby created and established. The duties of the department shall be exercised and discharged by a commissioner, who shall be designated as commissioner of labor and printing, and an assistant commissioner, who shall be appointed by the commissioner, and who shall be a practical printer.

SEC. 7310. Commissioner.-The commissioner shall be elected by the people in the same manner as is provided for the election of the secretary of state. His term of office shall be four years. The office of the department shall be kept in the city of Raleigh and same shall be provided for as are other public offices of the State. The assistant commissioner shall perform the duties of the commissioner in his absence from office or in case of a vacancy therein.

SEC. 7311. Duties and powers.-The commissioner, aided by the assistant commissioner, shall collect and collate information and statistics concerning labor and its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laborers and their educational, moral, and financial condition, and the best means of promoting their mental and moral and material welfare; shall also collect and collate information and statistics concerning the various mining, milling and manufacturing industries in this State, their location, capacity, and actual output of manufactured products, the kind and quantity of raw material annually used by them and the capital invested therein; shall also collect and collate information and statistics concerning the location, estimated and actual horsepower, and conditions of valuable water powers, developed and undeveloped, in this State; also concerning farm lands and farming, the kinds, character and quantity of the annual farm products in this State; also of timber lands and timbers, truck gardening, dairying, and such other information and statistics concerning the agricultural and industrial welfare of the citizens of this State as he may deem to be of interest and benefit to the public, and shall also perform the duties of mine inspector as prescribed in the chapter entitled mines; and shall have the powers and perform the duties in relation to the public printing that are set forth in this chapter.

SEC. 7312. Reports.-The commissioner shall annually publish a report embodying therein such information and statistics as he may deem expedient and proper, which report shall be printed and paid for by the State just as the reports of other public officers are printed and paid for. The number of copies of such report to be printed to be designated by the commissioner. The distribution of the reports will be paid for from the general fund and not from the appropriation. The commissioner shall send or cause to be sent a copy of the report to every newspaper in this State and a copy to each member of the general assembly; a copy to each of the several State and county officers; a copy to each labor organization in the State and a copy to any citizen who may apply for the same either in person or by mail, and he may also send a copy to such officers of other States and Territories and to such corporations or individuals in other States and Territories as may apply for the same or as he may think proper. He shall also make a full report to the governor as other State officers are required to do, embodying therein such recommendations as he may deem calculated to promote the efficiency of his department.

ACTS OF 1921

CHAPTER 131-Free public employment offices

SECTION 1. Office established.-In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of free employment offices for men, women, and juniors who are legally qualified, seeking employment, and for employers desiring workers, there is hereby erected in the department of labor and printing a free employment bureau. It shall be in charge of the commissioner of labor and printing, who shall appoint an assistant, whose duties shall be to supervise the work of said bureau and its branch offices, under the direction of the commissioner, and who shall receive an annual salary to be fixed by the commissioner of labor and printing, the governor, and the Director-General of the United States Employment Service. There shall also be appointed in said bureau, by the commissioner of labor and printing, such assistants and other employees as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

SEC. 2. Places.-It shall be the duty of the commissioner of labor and printing, and he shall have the power, jurisdiction, and authority:

(a) To establish and conduct free employment offices in the State where, in the opinion of the commissioner, such action may be deemed advisable and expedient; to in all proper ways within the limitations of this act to bring together employers seeking employees and applicants for employment seeking employers; to make known the opportunities for self-employment in the State; to devise and adopt the most efficient means to avoid unemployment; to cooperate with existing State and Federal agencies in extending vocational guidance to minors seeking employment.

(b) To establish and maintain such sections of the employment service as will best serve the public welfare.

SEC. 3. Veterans. The employment bureau hereby created shall cooperate with the Federal Board for Vocational Education division for rehabilitation of crippled soldiers and sailors in endeavoring to secure suitable employment and fair treatment of the veterans of the World War.

SEC. 4. Minors.-The employment bureau shall have jurisdiction over all matters contemplated in this act pertaining to securing employment for all minors who avail themselves of the free employment service; to so conduct its affairs that at all times it shall be in harmony with laws relating to child labor and compulsory education; to aid in inducing minors over sixteen, who can not or do not for various reasons attend day school, to undertake promising skilled employment; to aid in influencing minors who do not come within the purview of compulsory education laws, and who do not attend day school, to avail themselves of continuation or special courses in existing night schools, vocational schools, part-time schools, trade schools, business schools, library schools, university extension courses, etc., so as to become more skilled in such occupation or vocation to which they are respectively inclined or particularly adapted; to aid in securing vocational employment on farms for town and city boys who are interested in agricultural work, and particularly town and city high-school boys who include agriculture as an elective study; to cooperate with various social agencies, schools, etc., in group organization of employed minors, particularly those of foreign parentage, in order to promote the development of real, practical Americanism through a broader knowledge of the duties of citizenship; to investigate methods of vocational rehabilitation of boys and girls who are maimed or crippled, and ways and means for minimizing such handicap.

SEC. 5. Information.-Said employment bureau shall make public, through the newspapers and other media, information as to situations it may have ap plicants to fill, and establish relations with employers for the purpose of supplying demands for labor. Said bureau shall collect, collate, and publish statistical and other information relating to the work under its jurisdiction; investigate economic developments, and the extent and causes of unemployment and remedies therefor within and without the State, with the view of preparing for the information of the general assembly such facts as in its opinion may make further legislation desirable.

SEC. 6. Corporation.-The commissioner of labor and printing is hereby authorized to enter into agreement with the governing authorities of any municipality, county, township, or school corporation in the State for such period of time as may be deemed desirable for the purpose of establishing and maintaining local free employment offices, and for the extension of vocational guidance to minors. The commissioner is likewise authorized, with the advice of the governor, to enter into such cooperative agreement as may be deemed desirable with the United States Employment Service, or such bureau of the United States Department of Labor as the Secretary thereof may hereafter designate, or other Federal agency as Congress may hereafter authorize, for the purpose of securing financial aid from the United States Government for the establishment and maintenance of free employment service and the extension of vocational guidance to minors, and under and by virtue of any such agreement as aforesaid to pay from any funds appropriated by the State for the purposes of this act, any part of the whole of the salaries, expenses or rent, maintenance, and equipment of offices and other expenses.

SEC. 7. Gifts.-It shall be lawful for the commissioner of labor and printing to receive, accept, and use, in the name of the people of the State, or any com munity or municipal corporation, as the donor may designate, by gift or device, any moneys, buildings, or real estate for the purpose of extending the benefits

of this act, and for the purpose of giving assistance to deserving maimed or crippled boys and girls through vocational rehabilitation.

SEC. 8. Municipal action.—It shall be lawful for the governing authorities of any municipality, county, township, or school corporation in the State to enter into cooperative agreement with the commissioner of labor and printing, and to appropriate and expend the necessary money, and to permit the use of public property for the joint establishment and maintenance of such offices as may be mutually agreed upon, and which will further the purpose of this act.

SEC. 9. Appropriation.-For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act there is hereby appropriated out of the general funds of the State not otherwise appropriated the sum of ten thousand dollars per annum. Upon the certificate of the commissioner of labor and printing, the auditor is hereby directed to audit and the treasurer to pay expenses of said free employment service not exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum.

ACTS OF 1923

CHAPTER 122.-Department of labor and printing—Division for the deaf SECTIONS 1-5. Division created; functions.-[This act provides for a bureau of labor for the deaf, with "a competent deaf man" as its chief, who shall collect statistics of the deaf, ascertain what trades or occupations are most suitable for them, and aid in securing employment for them. He is also to Investigate the matter of education of the deaf with a view to their usefulness and happiness. He may be assigned other duties if his time is not thus fully occupied.]

CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE II.-Local and special laws regulating labor, etc.

SECTION 29. Legislation forbidden.-The general assembly shall not pass any local, private or special act or resolution:

trade, mining or manufacturing *

Regulating labor,

NORTH DAKOTA

CONSTITUTION

Interference with employment

SECTION 23. Employment to be free.-Every citizen of this State shall be free to obtain employment wherever possible, and any person, corporation or agent thereof, maliciously interfering or hindering in any way, any citizen from obtaining or enjoying employment already obtained, from any other corporation or person, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

Department of agriculture and labor-Commissioner

SECTION 82. Commissioner to be elected.-There shall be chosen by the quali fied electors of the State at the times and places of choosing members of the legislative assembly, * * one commissioner of agriculture and labor, who shall have attained the age of twenty-five years, shall be citizens of the United States, and shall have the qualifications of State electors. They shall severally hold their offices at the seat of government, for the term of two years and until their successors are elected and duly qualified,

Employment of children

SECTION 209. Age limit.-The labor of children under twelve years of age shall be prohibited in mines, factories and workshops in this State.

Blacklisting

SECTION 212. Blacklisting prohibited.—The exchange of "black lists" between corporations shall be prohibited.

REVISED CODES OF 1905

POLITICAL CODE

Department of agriculture and labor—Commissioner

SECTION 127. Duty of commissioner.-It shall be the duty of the commissioner of agriculture and labor to collect, systematize and present in biennial reports to the legislative assembly statistical details relating to all labor departments in the State, such as hours and wages of labor, the estimated number of persons employed by the several industries within the State, the operation of laborsaving machinery and its relation to hand labor, a description of the different kinds of labor organizations in existence in this State, and what they have accomplished in favor of the class for which they were organized. Such sta tistics may be classified as the commissioner of agriculture and labor deems best..

SEC. 128. Duty of officials.-It shall be the duty of all State, county, township, and municipal officers to furnish upon the written request of the commissioner of agriculture all the information in their power necessary to assist in carrying out the objects of this article. For the purpose of obtaining statistics relating to manufactures and mining the commissioner of agriculture shall procure in a manner that may seem best to him, the names and addresses of all the manufacturers and mine owners and operators in the State, and shall transmit by mail to each owner, operator or manager of each shop, mill, manufacturing establishment or mine, not later than the first day of July of each year, suitably prepared blanks embodying inquiries into the subjects upon which the commissioner is required or authorized to prepare statistics, which blanks shall