Duplicate Permits and Statement of Evidence. Section 1728e. 2. All permits provided for under sections 1728a to 1728j, inclusive, shall be issued upon blanks furnished by the commissioner of labor and shall be made out in duplicate. One of such duplicates shall be forthwith returned to the commissioner of labor, together with a detailed statement of the character and substance of the evidence offered prior to the issue of such permit. Such statement so forwarded shall be upon blanks furnished by the commissioner of labor, and shall contain such details as to such evidence, and shall fully reveal its character and substance as indicated in such blank.

Revocation of Permits. Section 17286. 3. Whenever it shall appear to the commissioner of labor that any permit has been improperly or illegally issued, or that the physical or moral welfare of such child would be best served by the revocation of the permit he may forthwith, without notice, revoke the same, and shall by registered mail notify the person employing such child and the child holding such permit of such revocation.

Exemption of Agricultural Pursuits. Section 1728e. 4. Nothing contained in Sections 1728a to 1728), inclusive, shall be construed to forbid any child from being employed in agricultural pursuits, nor to require a permit to be obtained for such child.

Hours of Labor for Children.13 Section 1728c. 1. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, required, permitted or suffered to work at any gainful occupation, other than domestic service or farm labor, for more than forty-eight hours in any one week, nor more than eight hours in any one day, or before the hour of seven o'clock in the morning or after the hour of six o'clock in the evening, nor more than six days in any one week. A dinner period of not less than thirty minutes shall be allowed during each day. During such dinner period the power shall be shut off from

similar place of any name in which strong, spirituous or malt liquors are made, bottled, sold, served or given away.

(3) All minors under 14 y ars of age in any drug store, and all minors under 16 years of age in any drug store which has a government license for the sale of strong, spirituous or malt liquors.

(4) Female children under 17 years of age in any hotel, restaurant, boarding or rooming house.

(5) Male children under 16 years of age in any hotel.

(6) Minors under 16 years of age in lumbering and logging operations.

(7) Minors under 17 years of age in any pool room or billiard hall.

(8) Any place of employment in which an active strike or lockout of the employes is in progress.

18 All children between the ages of fourteen and seventeen working under permit in any town, village, or city, in which a vocational school has been established, must attend such school in the daytime for not less than eight hours per week at least eight months in each year.

The total hours of schooling and employment of children under 16 years of age must not exceed 8 in any one day and 48 in any one week.

The total hours of schooling and employment of girls between 16 and 17 must not exceed 10 in any one day and 55 in any one week if they are engaged in day work, or in 8 in any one day and 48 in any one week if the girls are engaged in night work. The total hours of schooling and employment of boys betwe n 16 and 17 must not exceed 55 in any one week. On the days that the child attends vocational school, his hours of work must be reduced by the number of hours that he is in school.

Coples of the vocational school law may be obtained from the Board of Vocational Education, Madison, Wisconsin.

the machinery operated by children, and no work shall be permitted. Provided nothing in sections 1728a to 1728j inclusive, shail be construed to interiere with the employment of children as provided in sections 1728a-1 and 1728u of the statutes.

Section

Hours of Labor of Minors under 18 in Cigar Factories. 1636-106. No person under eighteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in a cigar shop or cigar factory at manufacturing cigars for longer than eight hours a day or fortyeight hours a week.

Posting of List of Children Employed. 2. Each employer shall post in a conspicuous place in each of the several departments in or for which minors are employed, a list on a printed form furnished by the bureau of labor and industrial statistics or factory inspection department, stating the names, ages and the hours required of each child during each day of the week, the hours of commencing and stopping work, and the hours when the time or times allowed for dinner or other meals begin and end.

Definitions. Section 1728g. The words "manufacturing establishment," the word "factory" or the word "workshop," as used in sections 1728a to 1728j, inclusive, shall each be construed to mean any place where goods or products are manufactured or repaired, dyed, cleaned or assorted, stored or packed, in whole or in part, for sale, for wages or directly or indirectly, for gain or profit.

Complaints of Violations of the Child Labor Law. Section 1728a-4. 1. For the purposes of sections 1728a to 1728j, inclusive, the commissioner of labor, factory inspector, any assistant inspector, truant officer, any police officer or any private citizen may make complaint of the violation of any provisions of sections 1728a to 1728j, inclusive.

2. When complaint is made by truant officer, police officer or any private citizen to the commissioner of labor, state factory inspector, or any assistant factory inspector, the commissioner of labor shall investigate or cause to be investigated such complaint, and if pursuant to any such investigation, a violation of any of the provisions of section 1728a to 1728j, inclusive, shall be found, the commissioner of labor shall prosecute or cause to be prosecuted any such violation.

Inspections and Prosecutions under the Child Labor Law. Section 1728d. 1. It shall be the duty of the industrial commission to enforce all the provisions of the statutes regulating or relative to child labor, and to prosecute violations of the same before any justice of the peace or other court of competent jurisdiction in this state. It shall be the duty of the said industrial commission and truant officers, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to visit and inspect. at all reasonable times, and as often as possible, all places covered by sections 1728a to 1728j, inclusive. The industrial commission, for the purpose of the enforcement of sections 1728a to 1728j, inclusive, shall have the power of truant officers to enforce all legal requirements relating to school attendance.

2. The justices of the peace in the various counties of the state of Wisconsin shall have criminal jurisdiction of actions brought for violations of all statutes, regulating or relative to child labor, notwithstanding any statute depriving such justice of the peace in any county of such jurisdiction. Nothing contained herein, however, shall deprive the municipal courts and other courts of record of concurrent jurisdiction, nor shall anything contained herein be con

strued to give justices of the peace in cities of the first class jurisdiction of such actions.

Proof of Age in Court.

Section 1728j. When in any proceeding in any court under sections 1728a to 1728j, inclusive, there is any doubt as to the age of any child, a verified baptismal certificate or a duly attested birth certificate shall be produced and filed with the court. In case such certificates cannot be secured, upon proof of such fact, the record of age stated in the first school enrollment of such child shall be admissible as evidence thereof.

Penalties for Violations." Section 1728h. 1. Any person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of any firm or corporation, who, whether for himself or for such firm or corporation, or by himself or through agents, servants, or foremen, shall employ, require, suffer or permit any person to work in any employment prohibited under the provisions of section 1728a, or hinders or delays the commissioner of labor, the factory inspector or assistant factory inspectors, or truant officers, or any or either of them, in the performance of their duties, or refuses to admit or locks out any such officer from any place required to be inspected by said sections shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense, or imprisoned in the county jail not longer than thirty days.

2. Any corporation which, by its agents, officers or servants violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of the sections specified in subsection 1 shall be liable to the above penalties, which may be recovered against such corporations in action for debt or assumpsit brought before any justice of the peace or other court of competent jurisdiction.

3. Any person, being the owner or lessee of any opera house, theatre or moving picture house, or any similar place of any name, or having in whole or in part, the management or control thereof, shall be responsible for any violation of sections 1728a to 17281, inclusive, on the premises, of such opera house, theatre or moving picture house or similar place of any name.

4. Any person, firma or corporation, agent or manager of any corporation who, whether for himself or for such firm or corporation, or by himself or through agents, servants or foreman fails to return the employment permit of any child in violation of section 1728a—6, shall be liable in action to such child whose permit is not returned, for two dollars for each day during which such failure continues.

5. The failure of any person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of any firm or corporation, to produce for inspection to the commissioner of labor, factory inspector or any assistant factory inspector, truant officers, the employment permit herein before described, shall be prima facie evidence of illegal employment of minor before any justice of the peace or other court of competent jurisdiction. The presence of any minor in any factory, workshop, place of employment or in or about any mine, or the presence of any minor at any time other than those on the posted hours of labor, as herein before provided, or in any establishment employed at any work listed as dangerous or forbidden employments, shall be prima facie evidence of the employment of such child.

Liability of Parents. Section 1728i. Any parent or guardian, who suffers or permits a child to be employed, at any gainful occu

14 See also sub-section (7) and (8) of section 2394-9 (page 235-236) which gives treble compensation to minors injured while employed in violation of the child labor law.

pation, directly or indirectly, or suffered or permitted to work in violation of sections 17284 to 1728, inclusive, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment ir the county jail for not longer than thirty days.

RULES AND REGULATIONS UPON P?COF OF AGE FOR CHILD LABOR PERMITS

Adopted by the Industrial Commission Pursuant to Section 1728a-3. (A) Proof of Age That Must be Furnished by Children 14 to 16 Years of Age Who Apply for Labor Permits

Persons designated by the industrial commission to issue child labor permits under the authority of the statutes shall require the child desiring employment to make application for the permit in person, accompanied by its parent, guardian, or custodian, (in the discretion of the permit officer having jurisdiction, this requirement may be waived in the case of a child living outside of his home city and the permit may be issued by mail) and shall receive, examine and approve documentary evidence of age showing that the child is 14 years of age or over, which evidence shall consist of one of the follow.ng-named proofs of age:

(a) A birth certificate or attested transcript thereof issued by a registrar of vital statistics or other officer charged with the duty of recording births.

(b) A record of baptism or a certificate or attested transcript thereof showing the date of birth and place of baptism of child.

(c) A bona fide contemporary record of the date and place of the child's birth kept in the bible in which the records of the births in the family of the child are preserved, or other documentary evidence satisfactory to the industrial commission or such person as the commission may designate, such as a passport showing the age of the child, a certificate of arrival in the United States issued by the United States immigration officers and showing the age of the child, or a life insurance policy; provided that such other satisfactory documentary evidence has been in existence at least one year prior to the time it was offered in evidence; and provided further that a school record or a parent's, guardian's or custodian's affidavit, certificate or other written statement of age shall not be accepted except as specified in paragraph (d).

(d) A certificate signed by a public-health physician or publicschool physician, specifying what in the opinion of such physician is the physical age of the child; such certificate shall show the height and weight of the child and other facts concerning its physical development revealed by such examination and upon which the opinion of the physician as to the physical age of the child is based. A parent's, guardian's, or custodian's certificate as to the age of the child and a record of age as given on the register of the school which the child first attended, or in the school census, if obtainable, shall be submitted with the physician's certificate showing physical age.

The officer issuing the permit for a child shall require the evidence of age specified in subdivision (a) in preference to that specified in any subsequent subdivision and shall not accept the evidence of age

permitted by any subsequent subdivision unless he shall receive and file evidence that the evidence of age required by the preceding subdivision or subdivisions can not be obtained; but a certified copy of the certificate of baptism, showing the date of birth and place of baptism of the child, may be accepted in the first instance as proof of age, if it bears a date at least ten years prior to the application for a permit, and in all cases for children born outside of the state of Wisconsin.

(B) Proof of Age That Must Be Furnished by Children 16 to 17 Years of Age Who Apply for Labor Permits

1. A minor 16 to 17 years of age may apply for a labor permit either in person or by mail.

2. Minors 16 to 17 years of age may furnish any one of the proofs of age specified for minors 14 to 16, provided that the proof furnished shall be satisfactory to the person designated by the commission to issue permits, and provided further, that proofs shall be furnished in the order named in the regulations relative to proofs of age of minors 14 to 16 insofar as this is reasonably possible.

(C) Proof of Age That Must be Furnished by Children 12 to 14 Years of Age Who Apply for Labor Permits

1. A child 12 to 14 years of age may apply for a vacation labor permit either in person or by mail.

2. Children 12 to 14 years of age may furnish any one of the proofs of age specified for minors 14 to 16, provided that the proof furnished shall be satisfactory to the person designated by the commission to issue permits, and provided further that proofs shall be furnished in the order named in the regulations relative to proofs of age of minors 14 to 16 insofar as this is reasonably possible.