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Page 284 - ... the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him, may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be prosecuted...
Page 287 - The mayor and aldermen of a city or the selectmen of a town may...
Page 283 - ... requests or accepts a gift or gratuity or a promise to make a gift or to do an act beneficial to himself, under an agreement or with an understanding that he shall act in any particular manner...
Page 284 - No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing documentary evidence before the commission or in obedience to the subpoena of the commission on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture.
Page 279 - Said board shall, upon the request of the governor, investigate and report upon a controversy if in his opinion it seriously affects, or threatens seriously to affect, the public welfare.
Page 280 - ... in business or at work without any lockout or strike until the decision of said board, if it shall be made within three weeks of the date of filing said application.
Page 279 - The board shall hear all persons interested who come before it, advise the respective parties what ought to be done or submitted to by either or both to adjust said controversy, and make a written decision thereof which shall at once be made public...
Page 279 - ... the occurrence of the strike or lock-out was employing, not less than twenty-five persons in the same general line of business in any city or town in the...
Page 185 - ... gas, water or electric light works, pipes or lines, shall pay weekly each employee engaged in his or its business the wages earned by him to within six days of the date of said payment, but any employee leaving his or her employment, shall be paid in full on the following regular pay day ; and any employee discharged from...
Page 279 - ... employes, if at the time he is employing, or up to the occurrence of the strike or lockout, was employing not less than twenty-five persons in the same general line of business in any city or...