Second Report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1913 ...J. B. Lyon Company, printers, 1913 |
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Page 1335 - The term owner as used in this article shall be construed to mean the owner or owners of the freehold of the premises, or the lessee or joint lessees of the whole thereof, or his, her or their agent in charge of the property.
Page 1325 - In looking through statistics regarding all trades and occupations, it may be true that the trade of a baker does not appear to be as healthy as some other trades, and is also vastly more healthy than still others. To the common understanding the trade of a baker has never been regarded as an unhealthy one.
Page 1347 - It is to the interest of the state to have strong, robust, healthy citizens, capable of self-support, of bearing arms, and of adding to the resources of the country. Laws to effect this purpose, by protecting the citizen from overwork and requiring a general day of rest to restore his strength and preserve his health, have an obvious connection with the public welfare.
Page 1347 - ... purpose, by protecting the citizen from overwork, and requiring a general day of rest to restore his strength and preserve his health, have an obvious connection with the public welfare. Independent of any question relating to morals or religion, the physical welfare of the citizen is a subject of such primary importance to the state, and has such a direct relation to the general good, as to make laws tending to promote that object proper under the police power, and hence valid under the constitution,...
Page 1197 - SIB: — I have the honor to present the following report of the work of this office during the year 1902. A complete and trustworthy set of sample drillings from the deep well at the Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Mt. Pleasant was obtained in January, thus giving us a clear geological seclion of the deeper strata in this area.
Page 1250 - The term cellar when used in this article shall mean a room or a part of a building which is more than onehalf its height below the level of the curb or ground adjoining the building (excluding areaways).
Page 1325 - It might be safely affirmed that almost all occupations more or less affect the health. There must be more than the mere fact of the possible existence of some small amount of unhealthiness to warrant legislative interference with liberty. It is unfortunately true that labor, even in any department, may possibly carry with it the seeds of unhealthiness. But are we all, on that account, at the mercy of legislative majorities!
Page 1816 - No female minor under the age of twenty-one years and no woman shall be employed or permitted to work in any factory in this state before six o'clock in the morning, or after nine o'clock in the evening of any day...
Page 1237 - ... in or about any distillery, brewery, or any other establishment where malt or alcoholic liquors are manufactured, packed, wrapped, or bottled...
Page 35 - The People of the State of yew York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section eighty-one of chapter thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to labor, constituting chapter thirty-one of the consolidated laws...