SEC. 4999-a7. Number of fire escapes.-[A formula is given by which the number of fire escapes on buildings of three or more stories in height is to be determined; the location, spacing, etc., are also regulated, and time allowances stated within which exit of employees, etc., must be possible by the use of the fire escapes supplied or to be supplied in buildings of the various kinds of construction. The use of sprinkler systems may extend the time allowance.]

SEC. 4999-a8. Construction.-[Fire escapes are of three classes, A, B, and C. Standards of type and construction are fixed for each, or approval by the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics. Necessary windows or openings must be furnished, and ways and paths of access kept open and clear, and windows and doors not locked. Suitable signs must indicate exits.] SEC. 4999-a9. Buildings classified.—[Classes of buildings are fixed, and the type or class of escape for each indicated.]

SEC. 4999-a9a. Doors to open outward.-[Doors of all structures where the hazard is deemed sufficient by the inspector must open outward and not be fastened against exit.]

SEC. 4999-a10. Enforcement.-[Building inspectors in cities and the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics are charged with enforcement. Inspectors finding defects, etc., must give notice of changes required, from which an appeal to the commissioner may be taken. The commissioner is to make necessary rules and regulations for carrying out the law.]

SEC. 4999-a11. Violations.-[Violations of the law or of orders are misdemeanors, punishable by fine, $25 to $100, and $25 additional for each week's delay.]

Inspection, etc., of steam boilers

SECTION 5026. Steam gauges, etc., to be provided.-Any person owning or operating steam boilers in this State shall provide the same with steam gauge, safety valve and water gauge, and keep the same in good order. Any person neglecting so to do shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.

Blacklisting

SECTION 5027. Blacklisting.-If any person, agent, company or corporation, after having discharged any employee from his or its service, shall prevent or attempt to prevent by word or writing of any kind, such discharged employee from obtaining employment with any other person, company or corporation, except by furnishing in writing on request a truthful statement as to the cause of his discharge, such person, agent, company or corporation shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred nor less than one bundred dollars, and shall be liable for all damages sustained by any such person. SEC. 5028. Acts of agents.-If any railway company or other company, partnership or corporation shall authorize or allow any of its or their agents to blacklist any discharged employee, or attempt by word or writing or any other means whatever to prevent such discharged employee, or any employee who may have voluntarily left said company's service, from obtaining employment with any other person or company, except as provided for in the preceding section, such company or copartnership shall be liable in treble damages to such employee so prevented from obtaining employment.

Bribery of employees

SECTION 5028-n. Receiving bribes.-It shall be unlawful for any agent, representative or employee, officer or any agent of a private corporation, or a public officer, acting in behalf of a principal in any business transaction, to receive, for his own use, directly or indirectly, any gift, commission, discount, bonus or gratuity connected with, relating to or growing out of such business transaction; and it shall be likewise unlawful for any person, whether acting in his own behalf or in behalf of any copartnership, association or corporation, to offer, promise or give directly or indirectly any such gift, commission, discount, bonus or gratuity. Any person violating the provisions of this act or any of them shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 5028-0. Witnesses not excused.-No person shall be excused from artending, testifying or producing books, papers, contracts, agreements and

documents before any court or in obedience to the subpoena of any court having jurisdiction of the misdemeanor on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary, or otherwise, required of him, may tend to incriminate him or to subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be liable to any criminal prosecution, for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before said court or in obedience to its subpoena or in any such case or proceeding: Provided, That no person so testifying or producing any such books, papers, contracts, agreements or documents shall be exempted from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying: Provided, This act shall not apply to those cases in which the principals, being the contracting parties, have knowledge of and consent to the payment of a commission to an agent or representative.

False charges against employees of railroads, etc.

SECTION 5028-w1. What acts misdemeanors.-Every person who shall by any letter, mark, sign or designation whatever, or by any verbal statement, falsely and without probable cause, report to any railroad or any other company or corporation, or to any person or firm, or to any of the officers, servants, agents or employees of any such corporation, person or firm, that any conductor, brakeman, engineer, fireman, station agent or any employee of such railroad company, corporation, person or firm has received any money or thing of value for the transportation of persons or property or for other service for which he has not accounted to such corporation, person or firm, or shall falsely and without probable cause report that any conductor, brakeman, engineer, fireman, station agent or other employee of any railroad company, corporation, firm or person, neglected, failed or refused to collect any money or ticket for transportation of persons or property or other service when it was their duty so to do, shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceeding thirty days.

Anti-trust law-Labor organizations exempt

The

SECTION 5067-a (as amended 1919, ch. 213). Status of labor.labor of a human being either mental or physical is not a commodity or article of commerce and it shall not be unlawful for men and women to organize themselves into or carry on unions for the purpose, by lawful means of lessening the hours of labor or increasing the wages, or bettering the condition of the members of such organizations; or lawfully carrying out their legitimate purposes.

ACTS OF 1917

CHAPTER 183.-Public printing-Wages and hours of labor

SECTION 10. Union conditions.—* * The contracts for printing and binding let under this act shall provide that as an assurance of satisfactory work being performed, those offices doing work for the State shall pay the wages and work the hours established by the typographical union in the city where said work is done.

ACTS OF 1923

CHAPTER 18.-Factory, etc., regulations-Elevators

SECTION 1. Safety.-[Elevators and machinery connected therewith, hoistways, hatchways and the like must be constructed, equipped, and guarded so as to be safe. Hoisting devices under the jurisdiction of the mine inspector are not affected by this act.]

SECS. 2-4. Standards; conference board.-[The governor is to appoint a conference board for the purpose of adopting a code of standards as to the construction, equipment, maintenance, and operation of elevators, such standards to have the force of law, and to be observed as regards all elevators coming under this act. The commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics is charged with the duty of inspection, and the enforcement of the provisions of this act.] SEC. 5. Ordinances.-[Cities and towns may enact ordinances as to elevators not in conflict with this act or the rules authorized by it.]

SEC. 6. Violations.-[Violations are punishable by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100, or imprisonment not over 30 days, or both.]

KANSAS

GENERAL STATUTES-1915

Arbitration of labor disputes

SECTION 421. Arbitration tribunals.-The district court of each county, or a judge thereof in vacation, shall have the power, and upon presentation of a petition as hereinafter provided it shall be the duty, of said court or judge to issue a license or authority for the establishment within and for any county within the jurisdiction of said court, of a tribunal for voluntary arbitration and settlements of disputes between employers and employed in the manufacturing, mechanical, mining, and other industries.

SEC. 422. Petition.-The said petition shall be substantially in the form hereinafter given, and the petition shall be signed by at least five persons employed as workmen, or by two or more separate firms, individuals or corportions within the county who are employers within the county: Provided, That at the time the petition is presented, the judge before whom said petition is presented may, upon motion, require testimony to be taken as to the representative character of said petitioners; and if it appears that the requisite number of said petitioners are not of the character they represent themselves to be, the establishment of the said tribunal may be denied, or he may make such other order in that behalf as shall to him seem fair to both sides.

SEC. 423. License.-If the said petition shall be signed by the requisite number of either employers or workmen, and be in proper form, the judge shall forthwith cause to be issued a license, authorizing the existence of such a tribunal and containing the names of four persons to compose the tribunal, two of whom shall be workmen and two employers, all residents of said county, and fixing the time and place of the first meeting thereof; and an entry of the liceuse so granted shall be made upon the journal of the district court of the. county in which the petition originated.

SEC. 424. Duration, jurisdiction, etc.-Said tribunal shall continue in existence for one year from the date of the license creating it and may take jurisdiction of the dispute between employers and workmen in any mechanical, manufacturing, mining, or other industry, who may submit their disputes in writing to such tribunal for decision. Vacancies occurring in the membership of the tribunal shall be filled by the judge or court that licensed said tribunal. Disputes occurring in one county may be referred to a tribunal already existing in an adjoining county. Said court at the time of the issuance of said license shall appoint an umpire for said tribunal, who shall be sworn to impartially decide all questions that may be submitted to him during his term of office. The umpire shall be called upon to act after disagreement is manifested in the tribunal by failure to agree during three meetings held and full discussion had. His award shall be final and conclusive upon such matters only as are submitted to him in writing and signed by the whole of the members of the tribunal, or by parties submitting the same. And the award of said tribunal shall be final and conclusive upon the questions so submitted to it: Provided, That said award may be impeached for fraud, accident, or mistake.

Sec. 425. Organization.—The said tribunal when convened shall be organized by the selection of one of their number as chairman, and one as secretary, who shall be chosen by a majority of the members.

SEC. 426. Compensation, etc.-The members of the tribunal and the umpire shall each receive as compensation for their services, out of the treasury of the county in which said disputes shall arise, two dollars for each day of actual service. The sessions of said tribunal shall be held at the county seat of the county where the petition for the same was presented, and a suitable room for the use of said tribunal shall be provided by the county commissioners.

SEC. 427. Submissions.—All submissions of matters in dispute shall be made to the chairman of said tribunal, who shall file the same. The chairman of the tribunal shall have power to administer oaths to all witnesses who may be produced, and a majority of said tribunal may provide for the examination and investigation of books, documents and accounts necessary, material and pertaining to the matters in hearing before the tribunal, and belonging to either

party to the dispute. The umpire shall have power where necessary to administer oaths and examine witnesses, and examine and investigate books, documents and accounts pertaining to the matters submitted to him for decision.

SEC. 428. Rules.-The said tribunal shall have power to make, ordain and enforce rules for the government of the body when in session, to enable the business to be proceeded with in order, and to fix its sessions and adjourne ments, but such rules shall not conflict with this statute nor with any of the provisions of the constitution and laws of the State: Provided, That the chairman of said tribunal may convene said tribunal in extra session at the earliest day possible, in cases of emergency.

SEC. 429. Statements to be in writing.-Before the umpire shall proceed to act, the question or questions in dispute shall be plainly defined in writing and signed by the members of the tribunal or a majority thereof, or by the parties submitting the same; and such writing shall contain the submission of the decision thereof to the umpire by name, and shall provide that his decision thereon after hearing shall be final; and said umpire must make his award within five days from the time the question or questions in dispute are subinitted to him. Said award shall be made to the tribunal; and if the award is for a specific sum of money, said award of money or the award of the tribunal, when it shall be for a specific sum, may be made a matter of record by filing a copy thereof in the district court of the county wherein the tribunal is in session. When so entered of record it shall be final and conclusive, and the proper court may, on motion of anyone interested, enter judgment thereon; and when the award is for a specific sum of money may issue final and other process to enforce the same: Provided, That any such award may be impeached for fraud, accident, or mistake.

SEC. 430. Form of petition.-The form of the petition praying for a tribunal under this act shall be as follows:

"To the district court of

County [or a judge thereof, as the case may be]: The subscribers hereto being the number and having the qualifications required in this proceeding, being desirous of establishing a tribunal of voluntary arbitration for the settlement of disputes in the manufacturing, mechanical, mining and other industries, pray that a license for a tribunal of voluntary arbitration may be issued, to be composed of four persons and an umpire, as provided by law."

Payment of wages-Semimonthly pay day

SECTION 2164. Duty of corporations.-All corporations doing business in this State, which shall employ any mechanics, laborers, or other servants, shall pay the wages of such employees as often as semimonthly: Provided, This act shall not apply to the State or any municipal corporation.

SEC. 2165. Violations.-[Violations entail a fine, $50 to $500 for each offense.]

Strikes of railroad employees, etc.

SECTION 3755. Abandonment of locomotives.-If any locomotive engineer, in furtherance of any combination or agreement, shall willfully and maliciously abandon his locomotive upon any railroad, at any other point than the regular schedule destination of such locomotive, he shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and confined not less than twenty days nor more than ninety days in the county jail.

SEC. 3756. Intimidation, etc.-If any person or persons shall willfully and maliciously by any act or by means of intimidation, impede or obstruct, except by due process of law, the regular operation and conduct of the business of any railroad company, or other corporation, firm, or individual in this State, or of the regular running of any locomotive engine, freight or passenger train of any such company, or the labor and business of any such corporation, firm, or individual, he or they shall on conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and confined in the county jail not less than twenty days nor more than ninety days.

SEC. 3757. Conspiracy.-If two or more persons shall willfully and maliciously combine or conspire together to obstruct or impede by any act, or by means of intimidation, the regular operation and conduct of the business of any railroad company, or any other corporation, firm, or individual in this

State, or to obstruct, hinder, or impede, except by due process of law, the regular running of any locomotive engine, freight or passenger train on any railroad, or the labor or business of any such corporation, firm, or individual, such persons shall on conviction thereof be punished by a fine not less than twenty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and confined in the county jail not less than twenty days nor more than ninety days.

SEC. 3758. Act construed.-This act [secs. 3755-3757] shall not be construed to apply to cases of persons voluntarily quitting the employment of any railroad company, or such other corporation, firm, or individual, whether by concert of action or otherwise, except as is provided in section one of this act [sec. 3755].

Protection of employees as voters

SECTION 4219. Attempting to influence vote.-Any person or corporation who shall refuse to an employee the privilege hereby conferred, or shall subject an employee to a penalty or deduction of wages because of the exercise of such privileges, or who shall in any manner attempt to influence or control such voter as to how he shall vote, by offering any reward, or by threatening his discharge from employment, or otherwise intimidating him from a full and free exercise of his right to vote, or shall directly or indirectly violate the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.

Wages-Exemptions-Preference

SECTION 4553. Widow's preference.-[Grants the widow of a deceased workman his personal earnings exempt to him from attachments, etc.]

SEC. 4564. Wage preference.-[Wage debts owed by a deceased employer rank with expenses of last sickness and of administration, funeral expenses being a prior charge.]

SEC. 4703. Personal property not exempt.-[No personal property of any wage debtor is "exempt from attachment or execution for the wages of any clerk, mechanic, laborer or servant."]

SEC. 4705. Wages exempt, when.-Wages earned out of this State and payable out of this State shall be exempt from attachment or garnishment in all cases where the cause of action rose [arose] out of this State, unless the defendant in the attachment or garnishment suit is personally served with process; and if the writ of attachment or garnishment is not personally served on the defendant, the court issuing the writ of attachment or garnishment shall not entertain jurisdiction of the cause, but shall dismiss the suit at the cost of the plaintiff.

Free public employment offices

SECTIONS 5849-5857. Bureau established.-[These sections contain provisions for the organization of a free employment bureau, under a director of free employment, the purpose of which is to establish and maintain free employment offices in cities of the first and second class. The duties of the director and of the officials of the cities concerned are prescribed, printing provided for, and a system of registration and reports, arrangements to secure harvest labor, etc. (See the act, chapter 62, Acts of Extra Session, 1920, declared cumulative of acts now in force, but in apparent conflict in several respects with the above sections, and being of later enactment, must be regarded as the current law.)]

Private employment offices

SECTIONS 5858, 5859. Licenses.-[Licenses must be procured from the director of the State free employment bureau before any private agency can open. The fee in cities of 20,000 or over is $25 per annum, and in smaller cities, etc., $10. Licenses may issue for fractional parts of the year, but not for less than one-third of the full annual rate.]

SECS. 5860, 5861. Bonds.-[Bond in the sum of $500 is required in all cases, conditioned on compliance with the act. The director of free agencies may bring action thereon in case of violations.]

SEC. 5862. Revocation.—[Licenses may be revoked for violations, after written complaint filed, and hearing.]