employments, or places of employment or public buildings of a class under the jurisdiction of the commission. All other orders of the commission shall be considered special orders.

(9) The term "local order" shall mean and include any ordinance, order, rule or determination of any common council, board of aldermen, board of trustees, or the village board, of any village or city, or the board of health of any municipality, or any order or direction of any official of such municipality, upon any matter over which the industrial commission has jurisdiction.

(10) The term "welfare" shall mean and include comfort, decency and moral well-being.

(11) The term "safe" or "safety" as applied to an employment or a place of employment or a public building, shall mean such freedom from danger to the life, health, safety or welfare of employes or frequenters, or the public, or tenants, or firemen, and such reasonable means of notification, egress and escape in case of fire, and such freedom from danger to adjacent buildings or other property, as the nature of the employment, place of employment or public building will reasonably permit.

(12) The term "public building" as used in sections 2394-41 to 2394-71 shall mean and include any structure used in whole or in part as a place of resort, assemblage, lodging, trade, traffic, occupancy, or use by the public, or by three or more tenants.

(13) The term "owner" shall mean and include every person. firm, corporation, state. countv. town. city. village, manager, represensative, officer, or other person having ownership, control or custody of any place of employment or public building, or of the construction, repair or maintenance of any place of employment or public building, or who prepares plans for the construction of any place of employment or public building. Said sections 2394-41 to 2394-71, inclusive, shall apply, so far as consistent, to all archifects and builders.

Creation of Commission; Appointments; Salaries. Section

2394-42. There is hereby created a board which shall be known as the "Industrial Commission of Wisconsin." The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a member who shall serve two years, another who shall serve four years, and another who shall serve six years. Thereafter each member shall be appointed and confirmed for terms of six years each. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner for unexpired terms. Each member of the board, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take the oath prescribed by the constitution. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the exercise of the powers or authority conferred upon it. In case of a vacancy the remaining two members of the board shall exercise all the powers and authority of the board until such vacancy is filled. This board shall supersede and perform all of the duties of the industrial accident board provided in section 2394-1 to 2394-40, inclusive.

Organzization Quorum. Section 2394-43. Within thirty days after the passage and publication of this act, such commission shall meet at the state capitol and organize in the manner provided for the organization of the industrial accident board in section 2394-13 of the statutes. A majority of said commissioners shall constitute a quorum to transact business. No vacancy shall impair the right of the remaining commissioners to exercise all the powers of the commission.

Office at Capitol; Supplies; Extramural Sessions. Section 2394-44. The commission shall keep its office at the capitol and shall be provided by the superintendent of public property with suitable rooms, necessary furniture, stationery, books, periodicals, maps, instruments and other necessary supplies. The commission may, however, hold sessions at any place other than the capitol when the convenience of the commission and the parties interested so requires.

Legal Status; Seal. Section 2394-46. The commission shall be known collectively as the "Industrial Commission of Wisconsin" and in that name may sue and be sued. It shall have a seal for the authentication of its orders and proceedings, upon which shall be inscribed the words "Industrial Commission-Wisconsin-Seal."

Employes of Commission and Accident Board Interchangeable. Section 2394-47. When public interest requires, the employes of either the industrial commission or those of the industrial accident board may be required to perform service in whole or in part for either such board or commission.

Employer's Duty to Furnish Safe Employment and Place. Section 2394-48. Every employer shall furnish employment which shall be safe for the employes therein and shall furnish a place of employment which shall be safe for employes therein and for frequenters thereof and shall furnish and use safety devices and safeguards, and shall adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render such employment and places of employment safe, and shall do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of such employes and frequenters. Every employer and every owner of a place of employment or a public building now or hereafter constructed shall so construct repair or maintain such place of employment or public building, and every architect shall so prepare the plans for the construction of such place of emploment or public building, as to render the same safe.

Same; Employes Not to Meddle With Safeguards. Section 2394-49. 1. No employer shall require, permit or suffer any employe to go or be in any employment or place of employment which is not safe, and no such employers shall fail to furnish, provide and use safety devices and safeguards, or fail to adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render such employment and place of employment safe, and no such employer shall fail or neglect to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life health, safety or welfare of such employes and frequenters; and no employer or owner, or other person shall hereafter construct or occupy or maintain any place of employment, or public building, that is not safe, nor prepare plans which shall fail to provide for making the same safe.

2. No employe shall remove displace, damage, destroy or carry off any safety device or safeguard furnished and provided for use in any employment or place of employment, nor interfere in any way with the use thereof by any other person, nor shall any such employe interfere with the use of any method or process adopted for the protection of any employe in such employment or place of employment or frequenter of such place of employment, nor fail or neglect to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety or welfare of such employes or frequenters.

Employers to Furnish Information; Inspected by Commission. Section 2394-50. 1. Every employer and every owner shall furnish to the commission all information required by it to carry into effect the provisions of sections 2394-41 to 2394-71, inclusive, and shall make specific answers to all questions submitted by the commission relative thereto.

2. Any employer receiving from the commission any blanks calling for information required by it to carry into effect the provisions of sections 2394-41 to 2394-71, inclusive, with directions to fill the same, shall cause the same to be properly filled out so as to answer fully and correctly each question therein propounded, and in case he is unable to answer any questions, he shall give a good and sufficient reason for such failure; and said answer shall be verified under oath by the employer, or by the president, secretary or other managing officer of the corporation, if the employer is a corporation, and returned to the commission at its office within the period fixed by the commission.

3. Any commissioner or deputy of the commission may enter any place of employment or public building, for the purpose of collecting facts and statistics; examining the provisions made for the health, safety and welfare of the employes, frequenters, the public or tenants therein and bringing to the attention of every employer or owner any law, or any order of the commission, and any failure on the part of such employer or owner to comply therewith. No employer or owner shall refuse to admit any commissioner or deputy of the commission to his place of employment or public building.

Jurisdiction and Powers of Commission Over Employments and Places of Employment. Section 2394-51. The Industrial Commission is vested with the power and jurisdiction to have such supervision of every employment, place of employment and public building in this state as may be necessary adequately to enforce and adminster all laws and all lawful orders requiring such employment, place of employment or public building to be safe, and requiring the protection of the life, health, safety and welfare of every employe in such employment or place of employment and frequenter of such place of employment, and the safety of the public or tenants in any such public building.

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Other Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Commission. tion 2394-52. It shall also be the duty of the industrial commission, and it shall have power, jurisdiction and authority:

(1) To employ, promote and remove deputies, clerks and other assistants as needed, to fix their compensation, and to assign to them their duties; to appoint advisors who shall, without compensation, assist the industrial commission in the execution of its duties; to retain and to assign to their duties any or all the officers, subordinates and clerks of the bureau of labor and industrial statistics, of the state factory inspectors' department, and of the free employment offices, the bakery inspector, woman factory inspector, and secretary of the state board of arbitration; provided, that the number of employes of said commission shall not be increased to exceed the number now employed in the bureau of labor and industrial statistics, except upon the certificate of the governor, to be filed with the secretary of state before any such additional employe shall be appointed, certifying that any such additional employe is necessary to the work of the commission, and approving the amount of the salary to be paid to any such additional employe. The dep

uties employed by the commission shall not be exempt from the operation of sections 990-1 to 990-32, inclusive, of the statutes. (2) To administer and enforce, so far as not otherwise provided for in the statutes the laws relating to child labor, laundries, stores, employment of females, licensed occupations, school attendance, bakeries, employment offices, intelligence offices and bureaus, manufacture of cigars, sweatshops, corn shredders wood-sawing machines, fire escapes and means of egress from buildings, scaffolds, hoists. ladders and other matters relating to the erection, repair, alteration or painting of buildings and structures, and all other laws protecting the life, health, safety and welfare of employes in employments and places of employment and frequenters of places of employment.

(3) To investigate, ascertain, declare and prescribe what safety devices, safeguards or other means or methods of protection are best adapted to render the employes of every employment and place of employment and frequenters of every place of employment safe, and to protect their welfare as required by law or lawful orders, and to establish and maintain museums of safety and hygiene in which shall be exhibited safety devices, safeguards and other means and methods for the protection of life, health, safety and welfare of employes.

(4) To ascertain and fix such reasonable standards and to prescribe, modify and enforce such reasonable orders for the adoption of safety devices, safeguards and other means or methods of protection to be as nearly uniform as possible, as may be necessary to carry out all laws and lawful orders relative to the protection of the life, health, safety and welfare of employes in employments and places of employment or frequenters of places of employment.

(5) To ascertain, fix and order such reasonable standards, rules or regulations for the construction, repair and maintenance of places of employment and public buildings, as shall render them safe.

(5a) To make reasonable orders for the repair or removal of any building or other structure which for want of repair or by reason of age or dilapidated conditions or for any other cause is especially liable to fire, and which is so situated as to endanger other buildings or property and for the repair or removal of any combustible or explosive material or inflammable conditions, dangerous to the safety of any building or premises or the occupants thereof or endangering or hindering firemen in case of fire.

(5b) The industrial commission and its deputies shall have the right at all reasonable hours to enter into and upon all buildings. premises and public thoroughfares excepting only the interior of private dwellings, for the purpose of ascertaining and causing to be corrected any condition liable to cause fire, or any violation of any law or order relating to the fire hazard or to the prevention of fire. Any employe of the department of the state fire marshal who may be on July 1, 1917, engaged in fire prevention inspection shall be eligible to appointment as a deputy for similar work by the industrial commission.

(6) To investigate, ascertain and determine such reasonable classifications of persons, employments, places of employment and public buildings, as shall be necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 2394-41 to 2394-71, inclusive.

(7) To adopt reasonable and proper rules and regulations relative to the exercise of its powers and authorities and proper rules to govern its proceedings and to regulate the mode and manner of

all investigations and hearings; such rules and regulations shall not be effective until ten days after the.r publication. A copy of such rules and regulations shall be delivered to every citizen making application therefor, and a copy delivered with every notice of hear

ing.

(8) To do all in its power to promote the voluntary arbitration, mediation and conciliation of disputes between employers and employes, and to avoid the necessity of resorting to lockouts, boycotts, blacklists, discriminations and legal proceedings in matters of employment. In pursuance of this duty it may appoint temporary boards of arbitration, provide necessary expenses of such boards, order reasonable compensation not exceeding five dollars per day for each member engaged in such arbitration, prescribe rules of procedure for such arbitration boards, conduct invesugaLions and hearings, publish reports and advertisements, and may do all other things convenient and necessary to accomplish the purposes directed in sections 2394-41 to 2394-71, inclusive. The commission shail designate a deputy to be known as chief mediator and may detail other deputies from time to time to act as his assistants, for the purpose of executing these provisions. Deputies may act on temporary boards without extra compensation.

(9) To establish and conduct free employment agencies, to 11cense and supervise the work of private employment offices, to do all in its power to bring together employers seeking employes and working people seeking employment, to make known the opportunities for self-employment in this state, to aid in inducing minors to undertake promising skilled employments, to provide industrial or agricultural training for vagrants and other persons unsuited for ordinary employments, and to encourage wage earners to insure themselves against distress from unemployment. It shall investigate the extent and causes of unemployment in the state of Wisconsin and the remedies therefor in this and other countries, and it shall devise and adopt the most efficient means within its power to avoid unemployment, to provide employment, and to prevent distress from involuntary idleness.

(9a) Any county, city, town or village may enter into an agreement with the Industrial commission for such period of time as may be deemed desirable for the purpose of establishing and maintaining local free employment offices, and it shall be lawful for any county, city, town or village to appropriate and expend the necessary money and to permit the use of public property for the joint establishment and maintenance of such offices as may be agreed upon. Provided, however, that no local free employment office shall be established by the Industrial commission in any county, city, town or village to be maintained in whole or in part by public funds unless such county, city, town or village shall jointly or severally agree to furnish as a minimum in the joint enterprise suitable quarters for such office, which must be approved by the industrial commission and to pay all expenses for such quarters such as rent, heat, light, furniture, telephone rental and janitor service. The industrial commission may defray all other expenses in connection with such office.

(10) To collect, collate and publish statistical and other information relating to the work under its jurisdiction and to make public reports in its judgment necessary.

(11) To rent, furnish, and equip, except as provided in subsection (9a) of this section, such offices as may be needed in cities for the conduct of its affairs. All payments arising under this section shall