Labor in Europe: Reports from the Consuls of the United States in the Several Countries of Europe on the Rates of Wages, Cost of Living to the Laboring Classes, Past and Present Wages, &c., in Their Several Districts, in Response to a Circular from the Department of State ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1885 |
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Page 883
... employment afforded to ton- nage , cannot fail to induce capitalists to erect ship yards on the Taff and other streams on the Bristol Channel . In the preparation of this report I have not confined myself entirely within the lines ...
... employment afforded to ton- nage , cannot fail to induce capitalists to erect ship yards on the Taff and other streams on the Bristol Channel . In the preparation of this report I have not confined myself entirely within the lines ...
Page 899
... employment to nearly 200,000 men and boys of the sea - faring class . The local marine office of London pays out $ 48,600 per month in salaries , and the wages paid each year to British seamen amount in round numbers to $ 60,000,000 ...
... employment to nearly 200,000 men and boys of the sea - faring class . The local marine office of London pays out $ 48,600 per month in salaries , and the wages paid each year to British seamen amount in round numbers to $ 60,000,000 ...
Page 911
... employment to about fifty thousand men . The great ironmasters of this district are turning their attention to- wards steel as a ship - building material . The Landore Siemens Steel Company , situated at Landore , near Swansea , have ...
... employment to about fifty thousand men . The great ironmasters of this district are turning their attention to- wards steel as a ship - building material . The Landore Siemens Steel Company , situated at Landore , near Swansea , have ...
Page 919
... employment of womea is not an important feature of the town or district . There is undoubtedly a tendency on the part of masters to engage young women and children in various employments , at a saving as re- gards salary and other ...
... employment of womea is not an important feature of the town or district . There is undoubtedly a tendency on the part of masters to engage young women and children in various employments , at a saving as re- gards salary and other ...
Page 929
... employment dangerous ? -A . Yes ; in some instances , very much so . I will explain ; some of the coal shipped here is tiery in a high degree . We have to work in the hold of the vessel with safety lamps , just as though we were down in ...
... employment dangerous ? -A . Yes ; in some instances , very much so . I will explain ; some of the coal shipped here is tiery in a high degree . We have to work in the hold of the vessel with safety lamps , just as though we were down in ...
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Page 968 - ... the workman, or in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any persons entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer, nor engaged in his work.
Page 1686 - Where the occupier of a factory or workshop is charged with an offence against this Act, he shall be entitled upon information duly laid by him to have any other person whom he charges as the actual offender brought before...
Page 1669 - ... be provided within a reasonable time, and if the same is not provided, maintained and used, the factory or workshop shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this act.
Page 1690 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 1689 - ... used for any manufacturing process or handicraft or in cleaning or oiling any part of the machinery or in any other kind of work whatsoever incidental to or connected with the manufacturing process or handicraft or connected with the article made or otherwise the subject of the manufacturing process...
Page 1683 - ... such person to be so examined and to sign a declaration of the truth of the matters respecting which he is so examined : and (g) To exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying this Act into effect.
Page 1697 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer to whose orders or directions the workman at the time of the injury was bound to conform and did conform...
Page 1699 - ... and if served by post shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post...
Page 1688 - ... purposes of gain, in or incidental to the following purposes or any of them ; that is to say...
Page 1691 - Education Department" means " the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education...