SEC. 13007-8 (as amended 1921, p. 376). False statements.-[Any person making false statements as to the age of a minor for the purpose of procuring employment may be fined $20 to $50, or imprisoned not over 30 days.]

SECS. 13007-9, 13007-10 (both as amended 1921, p. 376). Violations.—[Employers who, by themselves or by their foremen, etc., employ minors in violation of the law, and parents or guardians permitting such employment may be fined $10 to $50 for a first offense; and employers continuing unlawful employment after notice may be fined from $5 to $20 for each day's continued employment.] SEC. 13007-12 (as amended 1919, p. 532). Hindering inspectors.-[Any employer or agent thereof who hinders or refuses admission to inspectors, or refuses required information, is subject to a fine of from $25 to $200.]

SEC. 13007-13 (added 1913, p. 864). False statements.-[Persons authorized to sign certificates, etc., under this act, knowingly certifying any materially false statement, may be fined $25 to $100.]

SEC. 13007-14 (as amended 1921, p. 376). Minors refusing information.[Minors refusing to give their name, age, and place of residence on proper official demand may be conducted by the officer so refused to the juvenile court, or other competent court, to be dealt with according to law.]

Labor organizations—Unauthorized use of badges

SEC. 13163. Unlawful use an offense.-Whoever, not being entitled so to do under the rules and regulations thereof, willfully wears the badge or button of * * a labor organization, or uses or wears it to obtain aid

or assistance thereby, shall be fined not more than $20 or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both.

OKLAHOMA

CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE VI.-Department of labor-Mine inspector-Arbitration of labor disputes

SECTION 1. State officials.-The executive authority of the State shall be vested in a * chief mine inspector, commissioner of labor, each of whom shall keep his office and public records, books, and papers at the seat of government, and shall perform such duties as may be designated in this constitution or prescribed by law.

SEC. 20. Department of labor.-A department of labor is hereby created to be under the control of a commissioner of labor who shall be elected by the people, whose term of office shall be four years, and whose duties shall be prescribed by law.

SEC. 21. Board of arbitration and conciliation. The legislature shall create a board of arbitration and conciliation in the department of labor and the commissioner of labor shall be ex officio chairman.

SEC. 25. Inspector of mines, etc.-The office of chief inspector of mines, oil, and gas is hereby created, and the incumbent of said office shall be known as the chief mine inspector. The term of said office shall be four years, and no person shall be elected to said office unless he shall have had eight years' actual experience as a practical miner, and such other qualifications as may be prescribed by the legislature. The chief mine inspector shall perform the duties, take the oath, and execute the bond prescribed by the legislature.

SEC. 26. Mining districts.-The legislature shall create mining districts and provide for the appointment or election of assistant inspectors therein, who shall be under the general control of the chief mine inspector, and the legis lature shall define their qualifications and duties and fix their compensation.

ARTICLE IX.-Liability of employers for injuries to employees

SECTION 36. Fellow servant not a defense.-The common-law doctrine of the fellow servant, so far as it affects the liability of the master for injuries to his servant, resulting from the acts or omissions of any other servant or servants of the common master, is abrogated as to every employee of every railroad company and every street railway company or interurban railway company, and of every person, firm, or corporation engaged in mining in this State; and every such employee shall have the same right to recover for every injury suffered by him for the acts or omissions of any other employee or employees of the common master that a servant would have if such acts or omissions were those of the master himself in the performance of a nonassignable duty; and when death, whether instantaneous or not, results to such employee from any injury for which he could have recovered under the above provisions, had not death occurred, then his legal or personal representative, surviving consort or relatives, or any trustee, curator, committee or guardian of such consort or relatives, shall have the same rights and remedies with respect thereto as if death had been caused by the negligence of the master. And every railroad company and every street railway company or interurban railway company, and every person, firm, or corporation engaged in underground mining in this State shall be liable under this section for the acts of his or its receivers.

Nothing contained in this section shall restrict the power of the legisla ture to extend to the employees of any person, firm, or corporation, the rights and remedies herein provided for.

The provisions of this section affecting designated classes of employment do not conflict with the "equal protection "clause of the fourteenth amendment of the Federal Constitution. The drilling of oil or gas wells is not mining within the meaning of this section. 133 Pac. 216.

ARTICLE IX.-Arbitration of labor disputes-Corporations

SECTION 42. Arbitration compulsory, for whom.-Every license issued or charter granted to a mining or public service corporation, foreign or domestic, shall contain a stipulation that such corporation will submit any difference it may have with employees in reference to labor, to arbitration, as shall be provided by law.

SEC. 44. Foreign corporations.—No foreign corporation shall be authorized to carry on in this State any business which a domestic corporation is prohibited from doing, or be relieved from compliance with any of the requirements made of a similar domestic corporation by the constitution or laws of the State. Nothing in this article, however, shall restrict or limit the power of the legislature to impose conditions under which foreign corporations may be licensed to do business in this State.

ARTICLE XXIII.-Hours of labor-Employment of children—Actions for personal injuries

SECTION 1. Hours of labor on public works.-Eight hours shall constitute a day's work in all cases of employment by and on behalf of the State or any county or municipality.

SEC. 3. Age limit for children.-The employment of children, under the age of fifteen years, in any occupation injurious to health or morals or especially hazardous to life or limb is hereby prohibited.

SEC. 4. Women and children in mines.-Boys under the age of sixteen years, and women and girls, shall not be employed, underground, in the operation of mines; and, except in cases of emergency, eight hours shall constitute a day's work underground in all mines in the State.

SEC. 5. Laws to be passed.-The legislature shall pass laws to protect the health and safety of employees in factories, in mines, and on railroads.

SEC. 6. Employers' defenses.-The defense of contributory negligence or of assumption of risk shall, in all cases whatsoever, be a question of fact, and shall, at all times, be left to the jury.

SEC. 8. Contracts waiving rights.-Any provision of a contract, express or implied, made by any person, by which any of the benefits of this constitution is sought to be waived, shall be null and void.

SEC. 9. Requirements as to notice.-Any provision of any contract or agreement, express or implied, stipulating for notice or demand other than such as may be provided by law, as a condition precedent to establish any claim, demand, or liability, shall be null and void.

REVISED LAWS-1910

Bonds of employees-Railroads, etc.

SECTION 871. Employees to have free choice.-No common carrier authorized to do business in this State, when requiring of an employee a bond or undertaking of any nature whatever, shall require such employee to have such bond or undertaking executed as surety by any particular person, company, corporation, association, or firm, or by any one or more of any number of such persons, companies, corporations, associations, or firms named by such common carrier; and no such common carrier shall reject any such bond or undertaking for any reason other than the financial insufficiency of such bond or undertaking.

SEC. 872. Resident sureties.-[No surety by a nonresident may be required, and corporations acting as sureties must be State corporations, or have resident agents on whom legal process can be had.]

SEC. 873. Term; cancellation.-[Surety contracts must have definite terms, and may not be canceled without the consent of all parties, except for a breach of condition, of which notice must be given.]

SEC. 874. Violations.-[Violation of these provisions entails a fine of from $100 to $1,000 and imprisonment not less than 30 days nor more than one year. Contracts made in violation thereof are void.]

Interference with employment-Intimidation

SECTION 2396. Intimidating workingmen.-Any person who, by any use of force, threats, or intimidation, prevents or endeavors to prevent any hired foreman, journeyman, apprentice, workman, laborer, servant, or other person employed by another, from continuing or performing his work, or from accepting any new work or employment, or induces such hired person to relinquish his work or employment, or to return any work he has in hand, before it is finished, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 2397. Intimidating employers.-Any person who, by use of force, threats, or intimidation, prevents or endeavors to prevent another from employing any person, or to compel another to employ any person, or to force or induce another to alter his mode of carrying on business, or to limit or increase the number of his hired foremen, journeymen, apprentices, workmen, laborers, servants, or other persons employed by him, or their rate of wages or time of service, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Suits for wages-Sending claims outside the State

SECTION 2911. Sending out claims forbidden.—[Sending out of the State claims for debt to be collected by attachment, garnishment, etc., when the parties are within the jurisdiction of the courts of the State is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not less than $500 nor more than $1,000.]

SEC. 2912. Assignments to nonresidents.-[The assignment or transfer of a claim or debt against a citizen of the State to be collected by attachment, etc., or which is attempted to be collected out of the wages or personal earnings of the debtor in courts outside the State, when the parties are within the jurisdiction of the State, is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of from $500 to $1,000, or imprisonment from 30 days to one year, or both.]

SEC. 2913. Liability.—[Persons violating the provisions of this act are liable to the aggrieved party in the amount of the claim and costs, to be recovered in a civil action.]

Protection of employees as voters

SECTION 3139. Influencing vote.-Any corporation, whether chartered under the laws of this State, or of a foreign State, and which has been permitted to do business herein, which, through its officials, employees, agents, attorneys, representatives or some other person or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, influences or attempts to influence, by bribe, favor, promise, inducement, threat, intimidation, importuning or beseeching to control the vote of any employee or other person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, and the person or persons so acting for such corporation in the violation of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail not less than sixty nor more than one hundred and twenty days.

SEC. 3140. Acts of agents of corporations.-When any official, agent, attorney or employee of a corporation has been shown to have violated the provisions of sections and 3139 of this article, it shall be presumed that he was acting for such corporation, and the burden shall be upon the accused corporation to show that such official, agent, attorney, or employee was not acting for it or with its sanction.

Exemption of wages from execution

SECTION 3342 (as amended 1915, ch. 188). Amount.-[Seventy-five per cent of all current wages or earnings for the last 90 days are exempt in case of attachment, execution, etc., to the head of every family residing in the State]

To constitute a head of a family requires a condition of dependence on the part of others whom one is under legal or moral obligations to support. An unmarried man supporting a dependent mother and sister is the head of a family within this section. 73 Pac. 291.

SEC. 3345 (as amended 1915, ch. 188). Persons not heads of families.—[To ́ persons not heads of families, 75 per cent of current wages or earnings are exempt.]

SEC. 3347. Suits for wages.-[Exemptions are not available where the claim is for wages.]

Department of labor-Commissioner

SECTION 3703 (as amended 1911, ch. 128). Duties of commissioner.-The duties and scope of the commissioner of labor is to carry into effect all laws in relation to labor, passed by the legislature, in regard to the transportation, mechanical and manufacturing industries of the State; to supervise the work. of the different branches of his department, which shall be divided into four bureaus, as follows: Statistics; arbitration and conciliation; free employment and factory inspection. He shall appoint all officers, clerks and employees in the department of labor; to collect, assort and systematize reports of all persons, firms or corporations required to report to the commissioner of labor annually, and present the same to the legislature at the following session thereof, to compile statistical detailed reports relating to the commercial, industrial, educational and sanitary conditions of the people, included in the mining, transportation, transmission, commercial, mechanical and manufacturing industries of the State; he may administer oaths, issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses, and take testimony in all matters relating to the proper enforcement of all laws over which he has supervision of [under] this act. He shall also give bond of [with] approved security in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), the same to be approved by the governor, for the faithful performance of his duties as defined by the laws passed by the legislature.

SEC. 3704 (as amended 1911, ch. 128). Assistants.-The commissioner of labor is hereby authorized to appoint an assistant at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly, who shall act as his deputy, if by reason of sickness, absence, or for other cause the commissioner of labor is temporarily unable to perform the duties of his office, and said assistant shall perform the duties of the office of commissioner of labor until such disability ceases and said assistant shall act as secretary to the board of arbitration and conciliation. He is also authorized to appoint one statistical clerk at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum, payable monthly; a deputy State factory inspector, who shall be under his supervision, and whose term of office shall be during the term of the commissioner of labor, unless sooner removed for cause, and who shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum, payable monthly, and one stenographer, at a salary of nine hundred dollars ($300), payable monthly.

Arbitration of labor disputes-Board of arbitration and conciliation

SECTION 3705. Board to be appointed. The governor shall, upon his own motion, appoint two farmers and one employer, and upon recommendation of the commissioner of labor shall appoint one employer and two employees, as hereinafter specified, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and the six persons so appointed shall constitute and be styled "The State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation" and shall hold office during the term of the governor appointing them. If a vacancy should occur at any time on said board, the governor or the commissioner shall appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy as in the first instance. Except the farmers, the said appointments shall be made from the employers and employees who shall have been for at least three years preceding said appointment engaged as employer or employee in the mining, transportation, mechanical, or manufacturing industries of the State. Each member of said board shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, be sworn to a faithful discharge of the same. The board shall at once organize at the call of the commissioner of labor, who by virtue of his office is chairman, and they shall as soon as possible establish rules and procedure for the government thereof. The assistant commissioner of labor shall be secretary of said board.

SEC. 3706. Action by board.-Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the State board of arbitration and conciliation that a strike or lockout is seriously