"Paper mills" shall mean any premises in which the manufacture of paper is carried on. "Person" shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership, company or association. "Print works" shall mean any premises in which is carried on the process of printing figures, patterns or designs upon cotton, linen, woolen, worsted or silken yarn or cloth, or upon any woven or felted fabric which is not paper. "Woman" shall mean a woman eighteen years of age or over. "Workshop" shall mean any premises, room or place, which is not a factory as above defined, wherein manual labor is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain in or incidental to a process of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale any article or part of an article, and to which or over which premises, room or place the employer of the persons working therein has the right of access or control; but the exercise of such manual labor in a private house or private room by the family dwelling therein or by any of them or if a majority of the persons therein employed are members of such family, shall not of itself constitute such house or room a workshop within this definition. "Young person" shall mean a person of the age of fourteen years and under the age of eighteen years. (See also Joint Board, page 16.) AN ACT RELATIVE TO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS. Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 1, amended by Acts of 1915, Chapter 81 (General). School Attendance. - SECTION 1. Every child between seven and fourteen years of age, every child under sixteen years of age who does not possess such ability to read, write and spell in the English language as is required for the completion of the fourth grade of the public schools of the city or town in which he resides, and every child under sixteen years of age who has not received an employment certificate as provided in this act and is not engaged in some regular employment or business for at least six hours per day or has not the written permission of the superintendent of schools of the city or town in which he resides to engage in profitable employment at home, shall attend a public day school in said city or town or some other day school approved by the school committee, during the entire time the public schools are in session, subject to such exceptions as are provided for in sections four, five and six of this chapter and in section three of chapter forty-two of the Revised Laws, as amended by chapter four hundred and thirty-three of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and two, and by chapter five hundred and thirty-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven; but such attendance shall not be required of a child whose physical or mental condition is such as to render attendance inexpedient or impracticable, or who is being otherwise instructed in a manner approved in advance by the superintendent of schools or the school committee. The superintendent of schools, or teachers in so far as authorized by said superintendent or by the school committee, may excuse cases of necessary absence for other causes not exceeding seven day sessions or fourteen half-day sessions in any period of six months. For the purposes of this section, school committees shall approve a private school only when the instruction in all the studies required by law is in the English |