§ 17. The District Attorney of any county of this State is hereby authorized, upon the request of the Factory Inspector, Assistant Factory Inspector, or of a Deputy Factory Inspector, or of any other person of full age, to commence and prosecute to termination before any Recorder, Police Justice, or court of record, in the name of the people of the State, actions or proceedings against any person or persons reported to him to have violated the provisions of this act.
§ 18. The words "manufacturing establishment," wherever used in this act, shall be construed to mean any mill, factory, or workshop, where one or more persons are employed at labor.
§ 19. A copy of this act shall be conspicuously posted and kept posted in each workroom of every manufacturing establishment in this State.
§ 20. Any person who violates or omits to comply with any of the provisions of this act, or who suffers or permits any child to be employed in violation of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for the first offence, and not more than one hundred dollars for the second offence, or imprisonment for not more than ten days, and for the third offence a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, and not more than thirty days' imprisonment.
§ 21. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
§ 22. This act shall take effect immediately.
AUTHORITIES CONSULTED IN PREPARING THIS BOOK.
United States Census, from 1790 to 1880 inclusive.
Reports of the State Bureaus of Labor Statistics as follows:--
Maine, 1889. Massachusetts, 1870 to 1889 inclusive. Connecticut, 1881. Rhode Island, 1889. New York, 1885. New Jersey, 1885, 1886, and 1889. Iowa, 1887 and 1889. Kansas, 1889. Wisconsin, 1883-84 and 1887. Colorado, 1889. Minnesota, 1889. California, 1888. Nebraska, 1887-90. Michigan, 1892.
Reports of the Factory Inspectors for various States.
Working Women in Large Cities: Report of the United States Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., 1889.
The Labor Movement in America. By Richard T. Ely. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York.
The Wages Question: A Treatise on Wages and the Wages Class. By Francis A. Walker. Henry Holt & Co., New York.