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 FA CTORY LEG I SLA TION FOR WOMEN \ g I

to prevent stoppage of ordinary running of machinery. (Law of 1874, amended, 1895.)

2. The same classes may not be employed more than ten hours per day or fifty-eight hours per week. (Law of 1895, chap. 508, sec. 1 1.)

3. No women or children are to be employed more than six hours without an interval of half an hour, with the proviso that they may work six and one-half hours if the place closes at one o'clock or seven and one-half hours if they have a chance to eat lunch while working and the place closes not later than two p. M. (Law of 1887.)

4. Minors or women shall not be employed in any capacity for purposes of manufacture between the hours of 10 P. M. and 6 \. M. (Law of 1893.)

Sanitary regulations. All factories must be kept clean and well ventilated.

Scats provided. All employers are compelled to furnish suit- able seats for females in manufacturing, mechanical, and mercan- tile establishments to be used when said females are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed. (Law of 1882.)

The above was taken from the Twenty-first Annual fieport of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, pp. 1-112.

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Inspection. This was provided in 1886.

Hours of labor. i. Children under eighteen and women under twenty-one years of age shall not be employed in any manufac- turing establishment more than sixty hours per week or ten per day unless to make a shorter working day on Saturday. (Law of 1886, chap. 409, amended in 1892, chap. 409, sec. I.)

2. The employment of the same classes is prohibited between the hours of 9 P. M. and 6 A. M. (Law as above, sec. I.)

3. The number of working hours per day of each day in tin-

ictory Inspection Law passed May 18, 1887, amended May 25, 1888, June 15, 1889, May 21, 1890, May 18, 1892.