Labor and Industrial Chronology of the Commonwealth of MassachusettsWright & Potter Printing Company, 1901 |
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8-hour day account of accident agreement April Association August authorized capital began manufacture boiler Boots and shoes Brewery Bricklayers Bricklayers Union Brockton Bros building Central Labor Union cents per hour cities and towns clerks committee contractors Cotton Council damaged by fire December died employed employers employés endorsed engine Fall River February feet firm granted Haverhill Holyoke Hospital hours of labor increase in wages increased wages January journeymen July June Labor Day later Leather Leominster Loom Fixers Lowell Lynn Machine machinists March Massachusetts Mills shut non-union North Adams North Attleborough North Brookfield November October operatives organized overtime paid painters Pittsfield plant ran nights received refused repairs request resolutions retired Saturday schedule SECTION September shoe factory shut down temporarily sold spinners spinning frames Springfield stock taking stories strikers struck to enforce Taunton trades trades unions union label Union voted weavers week Worcester Workers Union
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Page 128 - ... under the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be invalid or insufficient solely by reason of any inaccuracy in stating the time, place or cause of the injury if it be shown that there was no intention to mislead and that the party entitled to notice was not in fact misled thereby.
Page 124 - ... fine not exceeding fifty dollars for the first offence, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for each subsequent offence. SEC. 2. The term " food," as used in this act, shall include every article used for food or drink by man.
Page 128 - ... no action for the recovery of compensation for injury or death under this act shall be maintained, unless notice of the time, place and cause of the injury is given to the employer within thirty days, and the action is commenced within one year, from the occurrence of the accident causing the injury or death.
Page 123 - ... by virtue of an agreement with, or by consent of, the owner of such building or structure, or any person having authority from, or rightfully acting for, such owner, in procuring or furnishing such labor or materials...
Page 120 - ... if he files with his application a written request signed by the owner or user of said plant for such examination, be examined as to his competence for such service and no other, and if found competent and trustworthy shall be granted a license for such service and no 'other.
Page 126 - ... and inserting in place thereof the following : — Section 3. This act shall take effect In any City or town upon its acceptance by a majority of the voters present and voting thereon by ballot at any annual election thereof, and it shall be submitted for such acceptance upon the petition of one hundred or more registered voters of any...
Page 128 - Any person employing labor in a factory or workshop and violating any provision of this act shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars...
Page 128 - ... assessed with reference to the degree of culpability of the employer or of the person for whose negligence the employer is liable.
Page 122 - Whenever it shall appear to an inspector of factories and public buildings that further or different sanitary provisions or means of ventilation are required in any public building or school-house in order to conform to the requirements of this act, and that the same can be provided without Incurring unreasonable expense, such inspector may issue a written order to the proper person or authority directing such sanitary provisions or means of ventilation to be provided, and they shall thereupon be...
Page 124 - That the provisions of this Act are in addition to and not in substitution for the provisions of the immigration laws.