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12 per cent 40 acres acre and bushel Acre Bush 1896 age discharged amount Annual investment Appleton Average number Bros capital invested Cedarburg Cigars Complied corn Cost of production Cost per acre COUNTY crops Crosse Date of Inspection Eau Claire Electric expenses fire escapes Flour and Feed Fly wheel guarded Fond du Lac grain Green Bay Green Co horses Jefferson labor land Lath and Shingles Lutheran Machinery vats main belt Males 18 Manitowoc Marathon Marinette Mfrs Mill Milwaukee Number of accidents Number of boilers Number of engines Number of fire number of persons Oconto Openings guarded Oshkosh Outagamie percentage persons employed Platteville Plowing production and value Publishing and Printing Racine Richland Center Rock County Running or idle Sash Seed Shawano SHAWANO COUNTY Sheboygan straw surplus value Threshing Total and average Total value value of products value per acre Waukesha Waupaca Wausau West Superior Winnebago
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Page 199 - ... and not sufficiently guarded, or that the vats, pans, or structures filled with molten metal or hot liquid are not surrounded with proper safeguards for preventing accident or injury to those employed at or near them...
Page 199 - All belting, shafting, gearing, hoists, fly-wheels, elevators, and drums of manufacturing establishments so located as to be dangerous to employes when engaged in their ordinary duties shall be securely guarded or fenced so as to be safe to persons employed in any such place of employment.
Page 670 - AVERAGE YEARLY EARNINGS. The average yearly earnings in the nine leading industries are brought forward in the following table from the presentation on pages...
Page 203 - ... in writing, of the offense or neglect, and if such offense or neglect is not corrected or remedied within thirty days after the service of...
Page xii - The second act regulates the employment in all kinds of industrial establishments of women and children, decreeing that no child under 14 years of age shall be employed in any establishment...
Page 198 - SECTION 1 . All churches, public and private school-houses, hotels, factories or other manufacturing, establishments, constructed at any time after the passage of this act, shall be so constructed that the doors shall swing outward, or both in and out, as the builders thereof may elect.
Page 155 - ... that a pilot can do in a day is limited by the time that he can spend upon the actual surveying, it follows that the use of the gyro azimuth indicator will make it possible to cover some 50 per cent. more ground for a given amount of flying. The gyro rudder control on the other hand does not affect the amount of work that can be done in a given time, but it relieves the pilot of a very exhausting operation and thus allows him to work longer hours in each flight. Both these gyroscopic instruments...
Page 191 - ... protection of life and health In factories and work-shops, the employment of children," etc.; or in other words, It made it his duty to gather statistics as well as to inspect factories, or see to it that the factory laws are complied with, and to enforce the same by prosecution before courts if necessary. One of the defects of this law was that it did not provide for special inspectors with duties and powers to enforce it, as it was manifestly impossible for the commissioner, in addition to...
Page 191 - ... enforce the same by prosecutions before the courts. It was manifestly beyond the power of the commissioner to do more than slightly fulfil these duties. April 4, 1885, the labor bureau was reorganized, and among other changes provision was made for the appointment of a special inspector of factories as one of the officers of the bureau. At the same time the laws relating to the conduct of labor in factories were considerably elaborated and made more stringent. This law thus provided for a fairly...
Page 585 - ... an increase of $7,049,293, or 5.57 per cent. For industries other than the nine, the increase in the aggregate amounted to $4,100,223, or 5.66 per cent. On pages 38 and 39 average yearly earnings are presented for each industry and for All Industries. The averages are obtained by dividing the total amount paid in wages in each industry by the average number of persons employed therein, as drawn from the table on pages 27 and 28. These averages are, of course, comparable only with averages similarly...