PREFERENCE OF CITIZENS.

Acts of 1914, Chapter 600.

SECTION 1. In all work of any branch of the service of the commonwealth, or of any city or town therein, citizens of the commonwealth shall be given preference.

SECTION 2. The civil service commission shall not place upon its lists any person not a citizen of the United States.

SECTION 3. If an appointing officer, because of the non-existence of a list of eligible appointees, appoints under provisional authority from the civil service commission a person not a citizen of the United States, he shall discharge the person so appointed and appoint from the eligible list whenever the civil service commission establishes a list of the proper class.

SECTION 4. Whenever the attention of the civil service commission shall be called by complaint on the part of any citizen of the commonwealth to the employment of a non-citizen when there is a list of eligibles existing, the commission shall take steps to enforce the dismissal of such non-citizen and the appointment in his place from the suitable eligible list.

SECTION 5. Whenever it shall appear that any appointing officer has had due notice of unlawful employment of a non-citizen and that the said appointing officer has continued such employment for ten days after such notice, he shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 45.

Time allowed for Voting. - No person entitled to vote at an election shall, upon the day of any such election, be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, except such as may lawfully conduct its business on Sunday, during the period of two hours after the opening of the polls in the voting precinct or town in which he is entitled to vote, if he shall make application for leave of absence during such period. An owner, superintendent or overseer in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, except such as may lawfully conduct its business on Sunday, who employs or permits to be employed therein any person entitled to vote at a state election, during the period of two hours after the opening of the polls in the voting precinct or town in which such person is entitled to vote, if he shall make application for leave of absence during such period, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 33.

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Use of Bells and Whistles by Manufacturers. turers and others who employ workmen may, for the purpose of giving notice to them, ring bells and use whistles and gongs of such size and weight and in such manner and at such hours as the board of aldermen of cities and the selectmen of towns may designate in writing.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 20.

Lodgings of Public Employees. - Every employee in public work shall lodge, board and trade where and with whom he elects, and no person or his agents or employees under contract with the commonwealth, a municipal corporation or a county, or with a board, commission or officer acting therefor, for the doing of public work shall, directly or indirectly, require, as a condition of employment therein, that the employee shall lodge, board or trade at a particular place or with a particular person. The provisions of this section shall be made a part of the contract for such employment, and whoever violates the provisions thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for each offence.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 93, amended by Acts of 1914, Chapter 566. Locked Doors prohibited. - No outside or inside doors of any building in which operatives are employed shall be so locked, bolted or otherwise fastened during the hours of labor as to prevent free egress. Any person having charge of any such building or of any room thereof, any exit door of which shall be found to be so locked, bolted or otherwise fastened during the hours of labor as to prevent free egress, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Acts of 1913, Chapter 655, Section 20.

Case of Only One Egress. -... Women or children shall not be employed, in a factory, workshop, mercantile or other establishment, in a room above the second story from which there is only one egress....

Acts of 1914, Chapter 263.

Posting Information in Industrial Establishments. - The state board of labor and industries may require employers to post in conspicuous positions in any place of employment such placards, posters or signs as the said board may issue for the information of employees.

Acts of 1914, Chapter 778.

Limiting the Issue of Injunctions. - SECTION 1. It shall not be unlawful for persons employed or seeking employment to enter into any arrangements, agreements or combinations with the view of lessening the hours of labor or of increasing their wages or bettering their condition; and no restraining order or injunction shall be granted by any court of the commonwealth or by any judge thereof in any case between an employer and employees, or between employers and employees, or between persons employed and persons seeking employment, or involving or growing out of a dispute concerning terms or conditions of employment, or any act or acts done in pursuance thereof, unless such order or injunction be necessary to prevent irreparable injury to property or to a property right of the party making the application, for which there is no adequate remedy at law; and such property or property right shall be particularly described in the application, which shall be sworn to by the applicant or by his agent or attorney.

SECTION 2. In construing this act, the right to enter into the relation of employer and employee, to change that relation, and to assume and create a new relation for employer and employee, and to perform and carry on business in such relation with any person in any place, or to do work and labor as an employee, shall be held and construed to be a personal and not a property right. In all cases involving the violation of the contract of employment either by the employee or employer where no irreparable damage is about to be committed upon the property or property right of either, no injunction shall be granted but the parties shall be left to their remedy at law.

SECTION 3. No persons who are employed or seeking employment or other labor shall be indicted, prosecuted or tried in any court of the commonwealth for entering into any arrangement, agreement, or combination between themselves as such employees or laborers, made with a view of lessening the number of hours of labor or increasing their wages or bettering their condition, or for any act done in pursuance thereof, unless such act is in itself unlawful.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 36.

General Penalty. - Whoever violates a provision of [chapter 514 of the acts of 1909] for which no specific penalty is provided shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.

DEFINITIONS.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 17, amended by Acts of 1911, Chapter 241, and by Acts of 1912, Chapter 191.

The following words and phrases as used in all laws relative to the employment of labor shall, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, have the following meanings:

"Bleaching works" shall mean any premises in which the process of bleaching yarn or cloth of any material is carried on.

"Child" or "Minor" shall mean a person under eighteen years of age, except that in regard to the compulsory attendance of illiterate minors at day or evening schools, the word "minor " shall mean a person under the age of twenty-one years.

"Dyeing works" shall mean any premises in which the process of dyeing yarn or cloth of any material is carried on.

"Factory" shall mean any premises where steam, water or other mechanical power is used in aid of any manufacturing process there carried on.

"Glass works" shall mean any premises in which the manufacture of glass is carried on.

"Iron works" shall mean a mill, forge or other premises in or upon which any process is carried on for converting iron into malleable iron, steel or tin plate, or for otherwise making or converting steel.

"Letter press establishments" shall mean any premises in which the process of letter press printing is carried on.

"Manufacturing establishments " shall mean any premises, room or place used for the purpose of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale any article or part of an article.

"Mechanical establishments" shall mean any premises, other than a factory as above defined, in which machinery is employed in connection with any work or process carried on therein.

"Mercantile establishments" shall mean any premises used for the purposes of trade in the purchase or sale of any goods or merchandise, and any premises used for the purposes of a restaurant or for publicly providing and serving meals.