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LABOUR LAWS

OF

ONTARIO

BEING

A collection of the Revised Statutes of 1897 and subsequent enactments
affecting the relations of Employers and Employees and other
matters of interest to Operatives and Wage-Earners.

COMPILER'S NOTE.

This collection of the Laws of Ontario affecting Labour and Wages,
has been compiled at the suggestion of some of the leading members of Trades
Organizations in the Province, in the hope that a wider knowledge of their
rights and remedies may prove of substantial value to wage-earners. It is most
desirable that all classes should take a lively interest in legislation which has
proved of inestimable benefit to the community, and of which, while we do not
claim that it has been brought to perfection, the people of this Province may
be justly proud. Our labour laws are a striking evidence of the existence of
a progressive and enlightened public opinion, and a desire for fair dealing to-
wards those upon whom in so large a measure our national happiness and
prosperity depend.

TORONTO, 15th December, 1898.

A. M. D.

ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the

follows:-

of Province of Ontario, en

1. This Act may be cited as "The Mines Act." 55 V. c. 9, s. 1.

Short title.

APPLICATION OF PART.

59. This Part shall apply to all mines, quarries and pits, and oil, Application of gas and salt wells, and other openings from which ores or minerals of Part IV. any kind or class are raised or taken, and to all furnaces or works for smelting or otherwise treating ores, rocks, clays, sands, oils, brines or other minerals for any economic object; and all owners or agents of such mines, quarries, pits, wells, furnaces and works shall observe and keep the provisions of this Part, and in case of non-observance thereof shall incur the penalties provided therefor by section 80. 59 V. c. 13,

s. 2.

EMPLOYEES.

children.

60. No boy under the age of fifteen years shall be employed in or Employment allowed to be for the purpose of employment in any mine to which of women and this Act applies below ground; and no girl or woman shall be employed at mining work or allowed to be for the purpose of employment at mining work in or about any mine. 55 V. c. 9, s. 54.