Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their FutureCampbell, Helen
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Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
Campbell, Helen
Women -- Employment -- United States
Sec. 13. No room or rooms, apartment or apartments, in any tenement or
dwelling-house, shall be used for the manufacture of coats, vests,
trousers, knee-pants, overalls, cloaks, furs, fur-trimmings,
fur-garments, shirts, purses, feathers, artificial flowers, or cigars,
excepting by the immediate members of the family living therein. No
person, firm, or corporation shall hire or employ any person to work in
any one room or rooms, apartment or apartments, in any tenement or
dwelling-house, or building in the rear of a tenement or dwelling-house,
at making in whole or in part any coats, vests, trousers, knee-pants,
fur, fur-trimmings, fur-garments, shirts, purses, feathers, artificial
flowers, or cigars, without first obtaining a written permit from the
Factory Inspector, Assistant Factory Inspector, or a Deputy Factory
Inspector, which permit may be revoked at any time the health of the
community or of those employed therein may require it, and which permit
shall not be granted until an inspection of such premises is made by the
Factory Inspector, Assistant Factory Inspector, or a Deputy Factory
Inspector, and the maximum number of persons allowed to be employed
therein shall be stated in such permit. Such permit shall be framed and
posted in a conspicuous place in the room or in one of the rooms to
which it relates.
Sec. 14. Not less than two hundred and fifty cubic feet of air space shall
be allowed for each person in any workroom where persons are employed
during the hours between six o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in
the evening, and not less than four hundred cubic feet of air space
shall be provided for each person in any workroom where persons are
employed between six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the
morning. By a written permit the Factory Inspector, Assistant Factory
Inspector, or a Deputy Factory Inspector, with the consent of the
Factory Inspector, may allow persons to be employed in a room where
there are less than four hundred cubic feet of air space for each person
employed between six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the
morning, provided such room is lighted by electricity at all times
during such hours while persons are employed therein. There shall be
sufficient means of ventilation provided in each workroom of every
manufacturing establishment; and the Factory Inspector, Assistant
Factory Inspector, and Deputy Factory Inspectors, under the direction of
the Factory Inspector, shall notify the owner, agent, or lessee, in
writing, to provide, or cause to be provided, ample and proper means of
ventilating such workroom, and shall prosecute such owner, agent, or
lessee, if such notification be not complied with within twenty days of
the service of such notice.
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