may file with the clerk of the circuit court or the county court of the county in which the offending party resides, or in the case of an employer in the county in which the place of employment is located, a duly authenticated copy of such decision, accompanied by a verified petition reciting the fact that such decision has not been complied with and stating by whom and in what respects it has been disregarded. b. Thereupon the circuit court or the county court (as the case may be) or the judge thereof, if in vacation, shall grant a rule against the party or parties so charged to show cause within ten days why such decision has not been complied with, which shall be served by the sheriff as other process. c. Upon return made to the rule, the court, or the judge thereof if in vacation, shall hear and determine the questions presented, and to secure a compliance with such decision, may punish the offending party or parties for contempt, but such punishment shall in no case extend to imprisonment. § 5b. Whenever two or more employers engaged in the same general line of business,. employing in the aggregate not less than twenty-five persons, and having a common difference with their employés, shall, coöperating together, make application for arbitration; or whenever such application shall be made by the employés of two or more employers engaged in the same general line of business, such employés being not less than twenty-five in number, and having a common difference with their employers; or whenever the application shall be made jointly by the employers and employés in such a case, the board shall have the same powers and proceed in the same manner as if the application had been made by one employer, or by the employés of one employer, or by both. APPROVED April 12, 1899, in force July 1, 1899. § 6. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the State board that a strike or lockout is seriously threatened in the State involving an employer and his employés, if he is employing not less than twenty-five persons, it shall be the duty of the State board to put itself into communication as soon as may be with such employer or employés, and endeavor by mediation to effect an amicable settlement between them, or to endeavor to persuade them to submit the matters in dispute to the State board. APPROVED and in force August 2, 1895. § 6a. a. It shall be the duty of the mayor of every city, and president of every incorporated town or village, whenever a strike or lockout, involving more than twenty-five employés, shall be threatened or has actually occurred within or near such city, incorporated town or village to immediately communicate the fact to the State board of arbitration, stating the name or names of the employer or employers and of one or more employés, with their postoffice addresses, the nature of the controversy or difference existing, the number of employés involved and such other information as may be required by the said board. b. It shall be the duty of the president or chief executive officer of every labor organization, in case of a strike or lockout, actual or threatened, involving the members of the organization of which he is an officer to immediately communicate the fact of such strike or lockout to the said board, with such information as he may possess, touching the differences or controversy, and the number of employés involved. APPROVED April 12, 1899, in force July 1, 1899. § 7. The members of the said board shall each receive a salary of $1,500 a year, and necessary traveling expenses, to be paid out of the treasury of the State upon bills of particulars approved by the Governor. § 8. Any notice or process issued by the State board of arbitration shall be served by any sheriff, coroner or constable to whom the same may be directed, or in whose hands the same may be placed for service. $9. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore it is enacted that this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED and in force August 2, 1895. EMPLOYES, DECEPTION AND UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE IN PROCURING. 21. Prohibits deception, false advertising, false pretenses and unlawful influ- 22. Fenalty for violating provisions of sec- 23. Penalty for guarding with deadly weapons any workmen or property without a written permit from the Governor, penalty, proviso. 24. Workmen, recovery of damages, attorney's fees. AN ACT prohibiting the use of deception, misrepresentation, false advertising and false pretenses and unlawful force in the procuring of employés to work in any department of labor in this State and fixing penalties, criminal and civil, for violation thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any person. persons, company, corporation, society, association or organization of any kind doing business in this State, by himself, themselves, his, its or their agents or attorneys, to induce, influence, persuade or engage workmen to change from one place to another in this State, or to bring workmen of any class or calling into this State to work in any of the departments of labor in this State, through or by means of false or deceptive representations, false advertising or false pretenses concerning the kind and character of the work to be done, or amount and character of the compensation to be paid for such work, or the sanitary or other conditions of the employment, or as to the existence or non-existence of a strike or other trouble pending between employer and employés, at the time of or prior to such engagement. Failure to state in any advertisement, proposal or con tract for the employment of workmen that there is a strike, lockout or other labor troubles at the place of the proposed employment, when in fact such strike, lockout or other labor troubles then actually exist at such place, shall be deemed as false advertisement and misrepresentation for the purposes of this act. § 2. Any person or persons, company, corporation, society, association or organization of any kind doing business in this State, as well as his, their or its agents, attorneys, servants or associates, found guilty of violating section 1 of this act, or any part thereof, shall be fined not exceeding $2,000 or confined in the county jail not exceeding one year, or both, where the defendant or defendants is or are a natural person or persons. §3. Any person or persons who shall, in this or another State, hire, aid, abet or assist in hiring, through agencies or otherwise, persons to guard with arms or deadly weapons of any kind other persons or property in this State, or any person or persons who shall come into this State armed with deadly weapons of any kind for any such purpose, without a permit in writing from the Governor of this State, shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than five years: Provided, that nothing contained in this act shall be construed to interfere with the right of any person, persons, or company, corporation, society, association or organization in guarding or protecting their private property or private interests as is now provided by law; but this act shall be construed only to apply in cases where workmen are brought into this State, or induced to go from one place to another in this State, by any false pretenses, false advertising or deceptive representations, or brought into this State under arms, or removed from one place to another in this State under arms. § 4. Any workman of this State, or any workman of another state who has or shall be influenced, induced or persuaded to engage with any persons mentioned in section 1 of this act, through or by means of any of the things therein prohibited, each of such workmen shall have a right of action for recovery of all damages that each such workman has sustained in consequence of the false or deceptive representations, false advertising and false pretenses used to induce him to change his place of employment, against any person or persons, corporations, companies or associations directly or indirectly. causing such damages; and, in addition to all actual damages such workmen may have sustained, shall be entitled to recover such reasonable attorney's fees as the court shall fix, to be taxed as costs in any judgment recovered. APPROVED April 24, 1899. AN ACT to create free employment offices in cities of certain designated populations, and to provide for the maintenance, management and control of the same, and to prevent private imitations of the name of the same and regulating private employment agencies. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That free employment offices are hereby created as follows: One in each city of not less than fifty thousand population, and three in each city containing a population of one million or over, for the purpose of receiving applications of persons seeking employment. and applications of persons seeking to employ labor. Such offices shall be designated and known. as Illinois Free Employment Offices. § 2. Within sixty days after this act shall have been in force, the State board of commissioners of labor shall recommend, and the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a superintendent and assistant superintendent and a clerk for each of the offices created by section 1 of this act, and who shall devote their entire time to the duties of their respective offices. The assistant superintendent or the clerk shall in each case be a woman. The tenure of such appointment shall be two years, unless sooner removed for cause. The salary of each superintendent shall be $1,200 per annum, the salary of such assistant superintendent shall be $900 per annum. The salary of such clerks shall be $800 per annum, which sums, together with proper amounts for defraying the necessary costs of equipping and maintaining the respective offices, shall be paid out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 3. The superintendent of each such free employment office shall, within sixty days after appointment, open an office in such locality as shall have been agreed upon between such superintendent and the secretary of the bureau of labor statistics as being most appropriate for the purpose intended; such office to be provided with a sufficient number of rooms or apartments to enable him to provide, and he shall so provide, a separate room or apartment for the use of --16 L. S. women registering for situations or help. Upon the outside of each such office, in position and manner to secure the fullest public attention, shall be placed a sign which shall read in the English language, Illinois Free Employment Office, and the same shall appear either upon the outside windows or upon signs in such other languages as the location of each such office shall render advisable. The superintendent of each such free employment office snall receive and record in books kept for that purpose names of all persons applying for employment or help, designating opposite the name and address of each applicant the character of employment or help desired. Separate registers for applicants for employment shall be kept, showing the age, sex, nativity, trade or occupation of each applicant, the cause and duration of non-employment, whether married or single, the number of dependent children, together with such other facts as may be required by the bureau of labor statistics to be used by said bureau: Provided, that no such special registers shall be open to public inspection at any time, and that such statistical and sociological data as the bureau of labor may require shall be held in confidence by said bureau, and so published as not to reveal the identity of any one: And, provided, further, that any applicant who shall decline to furnish answers to the questions contained in special registers shall not thereby forfeit any rights to any employment the office might secure. § 4. Each such superintendent shall report on Thursday of each week to the State bureau of labor statistics the number of applications for positions and for help received during the preceding week, also those unfilled applications remaining on the books at the beginning of the week. Such lists shall not contain the names or addresses of any applicant, but shall show the number of situations desired and the number of persons wanted at each specified trade or occupation. It shall also show the number and character of the positions secured during the preceding week. Upon receipt of these lists, and not later than Saturday of each week, the secretary of the said bureau of labor statistics shall cause to be printed a sheet showing separately and in combination the lists received from all such free employment offices; and he shall cause a sufficient number of such sheets to be printed to enable him to mail, and he shall so mail, on Saturday of each week, two of said sheets to each superintendent of a free employment office, one to be filed by said superintendent, and one to be conspicuously posted in each such office. A copy of such sheet shall also be mailed on each Saturday by the secretary of the State bureau of labor statistics to each State inspector of factories and each State inspector of mines. And it is hereby made the duty of said factory inspectors and coal mine inspectors to do all they reasonably can to assist in securing situations for such applicants for work, and describe the character of work and cause of the scarcity of workmen, and to secure for the free employment offices the coöperation of the employers of labor in factories and mines. It shall be the duty of such factory inspectors and coal mine inspectors to immediately notify the superintendent of free employment offices of any and all vacancies or opportunities for employment that shall come to their notice. |