access at any time to all books, papers, documents, and records pertaining to or belonging to the department, and may require oral or written information from any officer or employee thereof.

SEC. 1803. Housing inspection.-[Directs the department of health to cooperate with the department of labor and industry in the inspection of the sanitary condition of tenements, lodging, and boarding houses "for the purpose of avoiding any duplication of inspection or overlapping of functions."] SECS. 2401-2403. Department of mines.-[The department of mines is to continue to exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred on it by law, to see that the laws are faithfully executed, to make necessary inspections of mines and machinery to that end, to aid and instruct the inspectors and to make examinations, investigations, and recommendations in the interest of miners, owners, and operators. Inspectors continue to perform the duties devolved upon them by law.]

SEC. 1706. Mediation and arbitration.—The department of labor and industry shall have the power and its duty shall be, whenever a difference arises be tween an employer and his employees with regard to wages, hours, or conditions of employment, to send a representative of the department promptly to the locality in which such difference exists and endeavor by mediation, to effect an amicable settlement of the controversy. If such settlement can not be effected and the dispute is submitted for arbitration, the department, in the event of the failure of representatives of employer and employees to name an impartial chairman of the board of arbitration, shall select such chairman to act as such third member.

SEC. 1707. Women and children.-The department of labor and industry shall have the power and its duty shall be:

(a) To make studies and investigations of the special problems connected with the labor of women and children;

(b) To create the necessary organization and to appoint an adequate number of inspectors to enforce the laws, and rules and regulations of the depart ment relating to the work of women and children.

SEC. 1708. Workmen's compensation.—The department of labor and industry shall have the power and its duty shall be:

(a) To administer and enforce the laws of this Commonwealth, as now existing or hereafter enacted, relating to workmen's compensation: Provided, however, That the workmen's compensation board and the workmen's com pensation referees shall perform their respective duties independently of the secretary of labor and industry or any other official of the department, except that all clerical, stenographic, and other assistance, required by the workmen's compensation board and the several workmen's compensation referees, shall be appointed by the department as provided in this act;

SEC. 1709. Rehabilitation.—The department of labor and industry shall have the power:

(a) To render aid to persons injured in industrial pursuits, to arrange for medical treatment for such persons, and procure artificial limbs and appliances to enable them to engage in remunerative occupations;

(b) To make surveys to ascertain the number and condition of physically handicapped persons within the Commonwealth;

(c) To cooperate with the department of public instruction in arranging for training courses in the public schools or other educational institutions for persons injured in industrial pursuits, and to arrange for such courses in industrial or agricultural establishments; and

(d) To such extent as the department shall have funds available for the purpose, to provide maintenance for such injured persons during such training in such amounts as may be provided by law.

SEC. 1710. Employment and unemployment.-The department of labor and industry shall have the power:

(a) To endeavor to bring together employers seeking employees and applicants for employment;

(b) To supervise all public and private employment agencies;

(c) To report on the extent of unemployment, the remedy therefor, and the means for the prevention thereof;

(d) To establish employment offices or labor exchanges at convenient places throughout the Commonwealth;

(e) To promote the intelligent distribution of labor and, when necessary, to assist in securing transportation for employees desiring to go to places where work is available.

SEC. 1714. Industrial board.—The industrial board created by this act shall have the power and its duty shall be:

(a) To meet at least once each month for the purpose of considering such matters as are brought before it or the secretary shall request;

(b) To hold hearings with reference to the application by the department of the laws affecting labor upon appeal either of employees or employers or of the public, and after such hearings to make recommendations to the depart ment;

(c) To approve or disapprove the rules and regulations established by the department of labor and industry and to make suggestions to the department for the formulation of such rules and regulations;

(d) To consider, study, and investigate the conduct of the work of the department of labor and industry. For this purpose the board shall have

access at any time to all books, papers, documents, and records pertaining to or belonging to the department, and may require oral or written information from any officer or employee thereof.

SEC. 1803. Housing inspection.-[Directs the department of health to ceeperate with the department of labor and industry in the inspection of the sanitary condition of tenements, lodging, and boarding houses for the purpose of avoiding any duplication of inspection or overlapping of furetions"1 SECS. 2401-2403. Department of mines.-[The department of mines is to continue to exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred on it by law. to see that the laws are faithfully executed, to make necessary inspections of mines and machinery to that end, to aid and instruct the inspectors and to make examinations, investigations, and recommendations in the interest miners, owners, and operators. Inspectors continue to perform the d-: devolved upon them by law.]

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SECTION 5.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

ACTS OF UNITED STATES CONGRESS-1901-2

CHAPTER 1369.-Slave labor

Slavery prohibited.-Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist in said islands.

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SEC. 74. Employment of slave labor.-The government of the Philippine Islands may grant franchises, privileges, and concessions, including the authority to exercise the right of eminent domain for the construction and oper ation of works of public utility and service, * * Provided further, That

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it shall be unlawful for any corporation organized under this act, or for any person, company, or corporation receiving any grant, franchise, or concession from the government of said islands, to use, employ, or contract for the labor of persons claimed or alleged to be held in involuntary servitude; and any per son, company, or corporation so violating the provisions of this act shall for feit all charters, grants, franchises, and concessions for doing business in said islands, and in addition shall be deemed guilty of an offense, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars.

ACTS OF U. S. PHILIPPINE COMMISSION-1903

ACT No. 702.-Chinese labor-Immigration-Registration

SECTIONS 1-8. Certificates.-[All Chinese laborers in the islands are required to have a certificate of registration, showing name, age, date, and place of birth, residence and occupation, with a photograph of the person described; for which a fee of fifty cents is charged. A reasonable time is to be allowed for replacing lost certificates; but those without certificates will be deported. Chinese entitled to enter the islands may secure a certificate on landing.]

SEC. 12. Definitions.-The word "laborer" or "laborers" wherever used in this act shall be construed to mean both skilled and unskilled manual laborers, including Chinese laundrymen and Chinese employed in mining, fishing, huckstering, peddling, or taking, drying, or otherwise preserving shell or other fish for home consumption or exportation.

The term "merchant' as employed in this act signifies a person engaged in buying and selling merchandise at a fixed place of business, which business is conducted in his name, and who during the time he claims to be engaged as a merchant does not engage in the performance of any manual labor except such as is necessary in the conduct of his business as such merchant. The definition of "laborer" and "merchant" set out in this section shall receive the same construction as that given to it by the Federal courts of the United States and the rulings and regulations of the Treasury Department of the United States.

ACT No. 703.-Railroads-Safety appliances-Rules

SECTION 19. Brakes, etc.-* Brakes and such other safety appliances for the security of life and property shall be installed by the grantee [Manila Railroad] company on all trains and locomotives, at road crossings and at other places of danger, as may from time to time be designated and approved by the government.

SEC. 29. Rules.-Before inaugurating the first district of the line conceded the grantee company shall submit for the approval of the proper governmental authority of the Islands the working rules and regulations

for the

guidance of its employees, and the government having given the company op

portunity to be heard thereon, shall make in said working rules and regulations the additions and alterations which shall be considered necessary. These working rules and regulations, after being approved by the proper governmental authority, shall have the force of law, but they shall be subject to modification at any time at petition of the company, or by direction of the government, said modifications being subject, after giving the company opportunity to be heard, to alteration by the proper authority, and when approved in presented or modified form shall have the force of law.

ACTS OF U. S. PHILIPPINE COMMISSION--1904

ACT No. 1189.-License tax-Exemption of mechanics

SECTION 139. Tar.-Except as hereinafter specifically exempted, there shall be paid by each merchant and manufacturer a tax at the rate of one-third of one per centum on the gross value in money of all goods, wares, and merchandise sold, bartered, or exchanged for domestic consumption in the Philippine Islands, and this tax shall be paid whether such commodities consist of raw materials or manufactured or partially manufactured products, and whether of domestic production or imported.

SEC. 142. Exemptions.-The following persons shall be exempted from the payment of the taxes imposed in section one hundred and thirty-nine:

(f) Carpenters, brick masons, tinsmiths, joiners, plumbers, and other mechanics and artisans, and all other persons who work by contract, by the piece, or by the day for others and who have no shop and keep no stock for sale or distribution of articles manufactured by them.

ACTS OF PHILIPPINE LEGISLATURE-1908

ACT NO. 1874.—Liability of employers for injuries to employees

SECTION 1. When liable.-If personal injury is caused to an employee, who, at the time of the injury, is in the exercise of due care, by reason of

First, a defect in the condition of the ways, works, or machinery connected with or used in the business of the employer, which arose from, or had not been discovered or remedied in consequence of, the negligence of the employer or of a person in his service who had been intrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, or machinery were in proper condition; or

Second, the negligence of a person in the service of the employer who was intrusted with and was exercising superintendence and whose sole or principal duty was that of superintendence, or, in the absence of such superintendent, of a person acting as superintendent with the authority or consent of such employer; or

Third, the negligence of a person in the service of the employer who was in charge or control of a signal, switch, locomotive engine, or train upon a railroad; the employee, or his legal representatives, shall, subject to the provisions of this act, have the same rights to compensation and of action against the employer as he had not been an employee, nor in the service, nor engaged in the work, of the employer.

A car which is in use by, or which is in possession of, a railroad corporation shall be considered as part of the ways, works, or machinery of the corporation which uses or has it in possession, within the meaning of clause one of this section, whether it is owned by such corporation or by some other company or person. One or more cars which are in motion, whether attached to an engine or not, shall constitute a train within the meaning of clause three of this section, and whoever, as part of his duty for the time being, physically controls or directs the movements of a signal, switch, locomotive engine, or train shall be deemed to be a person in charge or control of a signal, switch, locomotive engine, or train within the meaning of said clause.

SEC. 2. Injuries causing death.-If, as the result of the negligence of the employer or that of a person for whose negligence the employer is liable under the provisions of section one, an employe is killed or dies by reason of injuries received, his widow, or legal heirs, or next of kin who at the time of his death were dependent upon his wages for support, shall have a right of action for damages against the employer.

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