ARTICLE II

EMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS

3561 Sec. 11. Ten hours a day labor.—Ten hours shall constitute one day's labor, so far as it concerns laborers and mechanics, throughout the state. (R. S. p 379; Ann 6937; Comp 6273.)

3562 Sec. 12. Duty of employers to supply seats.-It shall be the duty of every agent, proprietor, superintendent or employer of female help in stores, factories, offices, or schools within the State of Nebraska to provide a chair, stool, or seat for each and every such employee, upon which their female workers shall be allowed to rest when their duties will permit, or when said position does not interfere with the faithful discharge of their incumbent duties. (1883 p 229; 1913 p. 644; Ann 6938; Comp 7914c.)

3563 Sec. 13. Same-penalty for not providing.-Any neglect or refusal to provide a chair, stool or seat for every female worker in the employ of any agent, proprietor, superintendent or employer in the State of Nebraska shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof such agent, proprietor, superintendent or employer shall be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and stand committed until such fine be paid, and shall likewise be liable to an action for damages to such female worker whose health has been injured by this neglect of her employer to provide a chair, stool or seat, as required by the next preceding section. (1883 p 229; Ann 6939; Comp '7914D.)

3564 Sec. 14. Limit for employment of female.-No female shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel or restaurant, office, or by any public service corporation in this state more than nine hours during any one day or more than fifty-four hours in one week. The hours of each day may be so arranged as to permit the employment of such female at any time from six o'clock a.m. to ten o'clock p.m., but in no case shall such employment exceed nine hours in any one day: Provided, however, such female shall not be employed between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.; provided, further, public service corporations may employ females between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., but in no event shall such employment be for more than eight consecutive hours. (1899 p 362; 1913 p 388; Ann 6940; Comp 7914c.)

Decision under former section. Wenham v State, 65 Neb. 394 (91 N. W. 421).

3565 Sec. 15. Hours required posted up.-Every such employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room where such females are em

ployed a printed notice stating the number of hours work required of them each day of the week, the hours of commencing and stopping such work, and the hours when the time or times allowed for dinner or for other meals begins and ends. Printed forms of such notice shall be furnished by the deputy labor commissioner, and the form of such notice approved by the attorney general of this state. (1899 p. 362 Ann. 6941; Comp. 7914f.)

3566 Sec. 16. Seats must be provided.—Every such employer in such establishment, shall provide suitable seats for the females so employed, and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in active duties for which they are employed. (1899 p. 363; Ann. 6942; Comp. 7914g.)

3567 Sec. 17. Penalty.-Any employer, overseer, superintendent or other agent of any such employer who shall violate any of the provisions of the three next preceding sections, shall be fined for each offense in a sum not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars; and it is hereby made the duty of the deputy labor commissioner to enforce the provisions of the three next preceding sections. (1899 p. 363; Ann. 6943; Comp. 7914h.)

GENERAL INSPECTION LAW

Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska:

Section 1. That sections 9992, 9993, 9994, 9995, 9996, 9999X1, 9999X2, 9999X3, 9999X5, Cobbey's Annotated Statutes, 1911, be amended to read as follows:

Section 9992. Every factory, mill, workshop, mercantile or mechanical establishment or other building where one or more persons are employed, shall be provided within reasonable access, with a sufficient number of water-closets, earth closets, or privies for the reasonable use of the persons employed therein, and whenever male and female persons are employed as aforesaid together, water-closets, earth closets or privies separate and apart, shall be provided for the use of either sex, and plainly so designated, and no person shall be allowed to use such closet or privy assigned to the other sex. Such closet shall be properly enclosed and ventilated and at all times kept in a clean and good sanitary condition. When the number employed is more than twenty of either sex, there shall be provided an additional closet for each sex up to the number of forty, and above that number in the same ratio. The Labor Commissioner, his Deputy or any Factory Inspector, may require such changes in the placing of such closets as he may deem necessary and may require other changes which may serve the best interest of morals and sanitation.

Section 9993. In factories, mills or workshops, mercantile or mechanical establishments or other places where the labor performed by the operator is of such a character that it becomes necessary to change the clothing, wholly or in part, before leaving the building at the close of the day's work, separate dressing rooms shall be provided for females whenever so required by the Labor Commissioner, his Deputy or any Factory Inspector. It shall be the duty of every occupant, whether owner or lessee of any such premises used as specified by this act, to make all the changes and additions thereto. In case such changes are made upon the order of the Commissioner of Labor, or any Factory Inspector to the lessee of the premises, the lessee may at any time within thirty days after the completion thereof, bring an action against any person or corporation or partnership having interest in such premises, and may recover such proportion of expenses of making such changes and additions as the court adjudges should justify and equitably be borne by such defendant.

Section 9994. If in any of the aforesaid places, any process is carried on, by which dust or fumes is caused, which may be inhaled by the persons employed therein, or if the air should become exhausted or impure, there shall be provided a fan or other such mechanical device as will substantially carry away all such dust or fumes or other impurities, subject.

to the approval of the Commissioner of Labor, his Deputies or Factory Inspectors.

Section 9995. All of the aforesaid places shall be kept clean and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or nuisance, and shall be ventilated and kept in a sanitary condition. The Labor Commissioner, his Deputy or any Factory Inspector, may require such changes or additions to be made in any of the aforesaid places as will promote the best measures of sanitation.

Section 9996. All persons, companies or corporations operating any factory or workshop where grinding wheels, or grinding machines, emery wheels or emery belts of any description are used either solid emery, leather covered, felt, canvas, linen, paper, cotton, or wheels or belts rolled or coated with emery or carborundum or cotton wheels used as buffs, shall, when deemed necessary, by the Labor Commissioner, his deputy or any Factory Inspector, provide such wheels or belts with blowers or similar apparatus, which shall be placed over, beside or under such wheels or belts in such manner as to protect the person or persons using the same from particles of the dust produced and caused thereby, and to carry away the dust arising from or thrown off by such wheels or belt while in operation directly to the outside of the building or to some receptacle placed so as to receive and confine such dust; Provided, that grinding machines upon which water is used at the point of grinding contact and other wheels used for tool grinding shall be exempt from the provisions of this act.

Section 9999XI. It shall be the duty of any person, company or corporation operating any factory, mill, workshop, mercantile or mechanical establishment or other institution where machinery is used, to provide or construct such guards and protection as will protect all employes against injury from belting, shafting, gearing, elevators, drums, saws, cogs, electric currents, or any vessel filled with molten metal or hot liquid which shall be properly protected by placing guards, boxing or screens to prevent all such, and they shall also furnish and supply therein belt shelters or other safe mechanical contrivance, for the purpose of throwing on or off belts or pulleys, which can be operated from the floor. Such guards and protections shall be constructed in the following manner: All exposed cogs or gears shall be inclosed in metal casings or woven wire screens, every protruding set-screw in collars and couplings of shaftings or other revolving machinery shall be countersunk or covered with metal boxing, all keys or shaftings, wheels, etc., shall not be allowed to project from the ends of shafting and all dead ends of shaftings shall be enclosed in metal casings or boxings, all pulleys, belts and shaftings must be protected by boxings or inclosing the dangerous parts with metal or other suitable material. Belts shall not be allowed to rest on shafting when machinery is in motion. Rest hooks must be provided which will hold the belting free from shafting, all machines known as roll-feed in. which the operator feeds, by hand, the material, there shall be placed at

the point where material is fed into the rolls, roll guards. A device for instantly stopping the machine by the hand or foot shall also be provided which shall be within reach of the operator when operating the machine.

There shall be placed around each laundry extractor or other exposed high speed revolving machinery, when in motion, a metal or other suitable screen. Wood planers, wood shapers, swing saws, equalizing saws, circular heading jointers, wood polishers, buzz planers, lathe bolters and all similar machines shall be equipped with safety devices necessary for the protection of the operators, said protection to be constructed of such materials as will afford the proper protection and shall be subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Labor, his Deputy or any Factory Inspector. Signs or indicating lamps shall be used at all switches, in electric light and power plants or other places where high pressure currents are used, to show whether the current is on or off the circuit. When current is turned off a circuit, for repair, the switch must first be tagged as a means of showing for whom it is turned off and said tag shall bear the name of the person for whom switch is so tagged. Said tag shall not be removed or current turned on until the person for whom it was tagged shall notify the operator that his work has ceased.

Every elevator, whether freight or passenger, shall be equipped with a speed governor safety device, every elevator shall be equipped with gates or doors to be not less than five feet in height, all freight elevators shall be equipped with a signal or gong to warn persons of its approach.

Where a number of boilers deliver to a common steam main, there shall always be a shut-off or throttle valve for each boiler to take it out of service for repairs, and inspection which necessitates the entry therein of the workmen. A metal shield shall be constructed covering the handwheel of the valve, hinging in the center and containing hasp and lock and said shield to be painted red and marked with the words "Man in Boiler." The workman shall be allowed to retain key in his possession while in said boiler.

Every factory or other institution, more than two stories in height, shall be equipped with outside fireproof, iron stairways, chutes or toboggans. Also one automatic fire escape for every fifteen persons working or congregating therein at any one time, who, for any reason, are unable to reach or use the outside fire proof stairways, chutes or toboggans.

Section 9999X2. It shall be the duty of the owners or superintendents of all factories, workshops, mills, or mechanical establishments or other institutions where one or more persons are employed to report in writing to the Labor Commissioner or his Deputy, all fatal accidents within forty-eight hours after their occurrence; and all accidents within two weeks after their occurrence shall be reported in writing by the person in charge of such establishment or place of employment to the said Labor Commissioner or his Deputy, stating as fully as possible the cause