BUREAU OF STATISTICS LABOR BULLETIN No. 116 (Being Part IV of the Annual Report on the Statistics of Labor for 1916) LABOR LEGISLATION IN MASSACHUSETTS 1916 With Index to Bills affecting Labor introduced during the session and other matter bearing on the Labor Legis- (SUPPLEMENTARY TO LABOR BULLETINS NOS. 104 AND 110) SEPTEMBER 1, 1916 BOSTON WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING COMPANY STATE PRINTERS CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY, I. TEXT OF THE ACTS RELATIVE TO LABOR PASSED DURING THE LEGISLATIVE A. Administrative Provisions, 1. Civil Service Commission, 2. State Board of Labor and Industries, 3. Industrial Accident Board, 4. Joint Board of State Board of Labor and Industries and Industrial Accident Board, 5. District Police, 6. Minimum Wage Commission, 7. Other Boards, Commissions, etc., B. General Provisions, . 1. Unemployment, 2. Industrial Safety, 3. Industrial Sanitation, 4. Women and Children, 5. Wages (See also "Women and Children" and "Public Employment"), 6. Workmen's Compensation and Employers' Liability, 7. Pension and Retirement Systems, 8. Small Loans Law, 9. Industrial Education, 10. Labor Disputes, 11. Licensed Occupations, 12. Public Employment, 13. Prison Labor, 14. Legal Holidays, 15. Miscellaneous, PAGE . 5 II. INDEX TO BILLS AFFECTING LABOR INTRODUCED DURING THE LEGISLATIVE A. Administrative Provisions, 1. Civil Service Commission, 2. State Board of Labor and Industries, 3. Industrial Accident Board, 4. District Police, 5. Board of Boiler Rules, 6. State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, 7. Minimum Wage Commission, 8. Homestead Commission, 9. Other Commissions, . [IV. 3.] II. INDEX TO BILLS AFFECTING LABOR INTRODUCED DURING THE LEGISLATIVE 4. Wages (See also "Women and Children" and "Public Employment"), 5. Workmen's Compensation and Employers' Liability, 6. Pension and Retirement Systems, 7. Savings Bank Insurance, 8. Co-operative Associations, 9. Small Loans Law, 10. Industrial Education, 11. Labor Disputes, 12. Licensed Occupations, 13. Public Employment, 14. Railroad Labor, 15. Prison Labor, 16. Legal Holidays, 17. Sunday Labor and Weekly Day of Rest, 18. Housing, 19. Miscellaneous, III. OPINION OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL ON PENDING LEGISLATION, IV. RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING LABOR IN THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF THE LABOR LEGISLATION IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 1916. INTRODUCTORY. This Bulletin contains the text of those acts relating to labor, broadly defined, which were passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts during the session of 1916, and is intended to serve as a supplement to Labor Bulletin No. 104, entitled "Handbook of Labor Laws in Massachusetts" which consisted of a compilation of the labor laws in effect in the Commonwealth at the close of the legislative session in 1914, and also to Labor Bulletin No. 110, which contained the labor legislation enacted in 1915. Certain other matter, described below, having a direct bearing upon the labor legislation of the present year, is also included in this bulletin. The labor legislation enacted in 1916 was somewhat meagre as compared with that of the years just preceding 1915, and the acts passed during the session were largely amendatory in character, no laws establishing a distinctively new policy in the administration of labor affairs having been passed. The more important measures enacted were those which provided for the reorganization of the Civil Service Commission, with attendant legislation relative to a revision of its rules and additions to its powers of investigation within the classified service. The Civil Service laws were further extended to cover a number of city and county appointive positions, such as that of chief of police, town clerk, and town accountant. Other important labor enactments were those providing for the abolition of the Joint Board of the State Board of Labor and Industries and the Industrial Accident Board and the transfer of its powers and duties to the State Board of Labor and Industries; the reorganization of other departments, having as part of their duties the enforcement of labor laws; the extension of the law relative to the weekly payment of wages to include hotel employees; and rather important changes in the law relative to the assignment of wages. Acts amendatory of earlier statutes relative to pensions, hawkers and pedlers' licenses, employment of women and children, and workmen's compensation, and certain other acts of minor importance were also passed during the session. In this Bulletin, as in Bulletins Nos. 104 and 110 to which it is supplementary, the several enactments have been classified by subjects rather than by chapter numbers in order that the legislation on any particular subject may be immediately accessible. In the preparation of such classification, it has been necessary to rearrange the various acts, chapters, sections, and even parts of sections, by transferring or omitting certain words, phrases, and clauses and by inserting certain matter in order to make the context clear. Each enactment in 1916, which is an amendment of an earlier enactment, has been given the same paragraph number which the earlier enactment had in the Handbook, and those specific words, phrases, etc., which are merely in the nature of amendments have been put in italics, so that the effect of the amendment may be readily observed. For purposes of conciseness certain phrases, which for present purposes are non-essential, have been omitted, such omissions being indicated by three points, thus: . . . ; wherever any insertion, for purposes of correlation or explanation, has been made, such insertion has been enclosed in brackets, thus: [ 1. Citations of sections printed in this compilation are given in italic type, enclosed in brackets, at the |