t^.l ^^J H Cornell University Library KFC3931.A31913 Labor laws and directory of 'abof ""jS^"' "iM^ 3 1924 000 182 885 ^tuU of (Utinn^ttitnt. KFC 3931 A3 j 1913 i R J IBUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS PATRICK H. CONNOLLET, Commissioner Labor Laws and Directory of Labor Organizations of Connecticut 1913 HARTFORD PUBLISHED BY THE STATE THE MARTIN P. CATHERWOOD LIBRARY OF THE NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY Stat? 0f (UntxntttUnt. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS PATRICK H. CONNOLLET, Commissioner Labor Laws and Directory of Labor Organizations of Connecticut y 1913 HARTFORD PUBLISHED BY THE STATE Jf'i Publication Approved by The Board of Control Press of The Journal PuBLisHrNG Co. Mkridkn, Conn. Labor Laws of Connecticut Ml m W r4 Cornell University WM Library The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/cletails/cu31924000182885 LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. General Statutes^ Revision oi 1902, and Amendments, Janttary Sessions, 1903, J905, t907, 1909, t9U and J9J3. Section i. Wages paid weekly. The comptroller shall make weekly payments of wages to all persons enjployed by him about the state capitol and grounds, except those who are em- ployed only during a session of the general assembly, or whose compensation is fixed by law.— ^General Statutes, ipi)2, Section 136. Sec. 2. Claims foj- wages, when preferred. All debts due to any laborer or mechanic for personal wages, from any insol- vent debtor whose estate is in settlement, for any labor per- formed for him within three months next preceding the com- mencement of proceediogs in insolvency, shall be allowed by the commissioners on his estate, and paid in full by the trustee, to the amount of one hundred dollars, before the general liabilities of such debtor are ps.id.^^General Statutes, ipo2. Section 2^1. Sec, 3. Costs where wages only are attached. In any ac- tion in which wages only are attached, no costs shall be taxed in favor of the plaintiff, unless it shall appear to the. court or jus- tice of the peace before which or whom such action is brought, that demand was made upon the defendant for the payment of the claim sued for, not more than thirty days nor less than three days prior to the bringing of such action. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 774. Sec. 4. Costs on attachment of debt for personal services. In any action in which, upon the service of process, moneys due to the defendant by reason of personal services are attached the plaintiff shall not recover of the defendant, as costs, a suiji ex- ceeding one-half of the amount of damages recovered in the ac- tion. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 777. Sec. 5. Attachment of ^ages; assignment of future earn- ings. No assignment of future earnings made as security for a loan or other indebtedness shall be valid unless the amount of such indebtedness shall be stated therein, together with the rate of interest to be charged thereon, nor unless the term for which such earnings are assigned shall be definitely limited in 6 LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. the assignment, nor unless such assignment shall bear a. dated certificate of acknowledgement of the assignof made before a proper authority. " No such assignment shall be valid against an attaching cred- itor of the assignor unless, in addition to the provisions of the preceding; ^eclipifj'suehpassignin^nt , shallbe recorded' before such attachment in the town clerk's office in the town where the assignor resides, or, if h«j resides without thp state,, in the town' ■iA^here' thd employer resides, and a copy thereof left with the employer from wl|om the , wages are to become due. All certificates of acknowledgement required under section one of this act shall bear date of the day such acknowledgement is made, and any person who shall intentionally date such a cer- tificate of acknowledgement as of a date other than the actual date such acknowledgement is inade, shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars, or imprisoned for not more than thirty days or both. — Public Acts of 1905, Chapter 78. Sec. 6. Exemption of wages, benefits and insurance mon- eys. So inuch of any debt which has accrued by reason of the personal services of the defendant as shall not exceed twenty- five dollars, including wages due for the personal services of any minor child, shall be exempted and not liable to be taken by for- eign attachment or execution; but there shall be no exemption of any debt accrued by reason of the personal services of the defendant against a claim for the defendant's personal board, or for the rental of any house or tenement occupied by the defend- ant as a place of residence when such rental shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars; provided, that in any action founded upon such claim, in which such debt is sought to be attached by foreign attachment, the complaint shall set forth only the true cause of action, 'and the amount due thereunder, so that the gar- nishee may be informed, from the allegations of the complaint, of the real nature arid amount of the demand. All benefits al- lowed by any assoeiation of persons in this state towards the sup- port of any of its members imeaikcitated by sickness or infirm- ity from attending to his usual- business shall also be exempted and not liable- to be- taken by foreign attachment or execution; and all moneys due the debtor from any insurance company up- on policies issued fot" insui-ance: upon property, either real or per- sonal, which is exempt from attachment and execution shall in like manner be exempted to' the same extent as the property so insured. — General Statutes, tpo2. Section pop. As amended by Act of ipo3, Chapter ps by Act of ipo5, Chapter ips, and by Act of -ipop. Chapter 181. "j Sec. 7. Unlawful cxhibMon dr employment of child. EVery persoh who shall exhibit, use; employ; apprentice^ give away, let oUt,' or otherwise ■ dispose of any child under the age of twelve yearsy in or for thfe' vocation, occupation, service, or LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. 7 purpose of rope or wire walking, dancing, skating, bicycling, or peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, rider, or acrobat, in any place whatever or for or in any obscene, indecent, or immoral purpose, exhibition, or practice whatsoever; or for or in any business, exhibition, or vocation, injurious to the health, or dangerous to the life or limb of such child; or who shall cause, procure, or encourage any such child to engage therein, shall be fined not more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. But nothing herein shall prevent the employment of any such child as a singer or musician, in any church or school, or in learning or teach- ing the science or practice of music.; — General Statutes, ipos, Section 1163. Sec. 8. Enticement of minor from lawful service. Every person who shall eloign any lawfully bound minor from the ser- vice or custody of his master, or shall entice such minor from such service, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 1250. Sec. g. Intimidation; boycotting. Every person who shall threaten, or use any means calculated or intended to in- timidate any person to compel such person, against his will, to do or abstain from doing any act which such person has a legal right to do, or shall persistently follow such person in a disor- derly manner, or injure or threaten to injure his property, with intent to intimidate him, shall be fined not more than one hun- dred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months. — General Statutes; 1902, Section 1296. As amended by Act of 1909, Chapter 202. Sec. 10. Attempt to prevent laborers joining labor organ- izations. Every person and every agent or officer of any cor- poration who shall coerce or compel, or attempt to coerce or compel, any laborer, mechanic, or other employee in the employ of such person or corporation, to agree, that as a condition of retaining his position as such employee, he will not join any labor organization, shall be fined not more than two hundred dol- lars, or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both. — Gen- eral Statutes, 1902, Section 129J. Sec. II. Blacklisting. Sec. r. No person or corporation, nor any agent or attorney thereof, nor any association of per- sons or corporations, shall maintain, subscribe to, belong to, or support any bureau or agency conducted for the purpose of pre- serving and furnishing to any member thereof or to others in- formation descriptive of the character, skill, acts or affiliations of any person whereby his reputation, standing in a trade, or ability to secure employment may be affected, unless a complete record of such information shall be open at aH reasonable times to the inspection of the person to whom such information re- 8 LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. lates, or his duly authorized agent or attorney. All items of in- formation pertaining to each person so described shall be re- corded, in reasonably clear and unambiguous terms, on a single sheet or card, and all records preserved in any such bureau or agency shall be at all times open to the inspection of the com- missioner of the bureau of labor statistics. The name of the per- son or corporation, together with the names of the officers of any such corporation, conducting any gueh bureau or agency, the exact business address of such bureau or agency, and the name of every subscriber thereto or member thereof shall be fur- nished promptly to the commissioner of the bureau of labor sta- tistics and by him recorded and preserved in a convenient form for public inspection. Sec. 2. Penalty. Any person or corporation, or any officer or employee of any bureau or agency subject to the provisions of this act who shall violate any of said provisions shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense. Sec. 3. This act shall not apply to religious or charitable in- stitutions maintained solely for humanifarian purposes ; nor to agencies maintained solely for the purpose of vending employ- ment and in which persons seeking such employment duly au- thorize the registration of their names and qiialifications ; nor to companies, agencies, or associations conducted solely for the pur- pose of preserving records and furnishing reports of financial standing and personal or business credit ; nor to the private rec- ords of employees kept by any person or corporation to be used in accordance with the provisions of Public Acts of 1969, Chap- ter 153, and Acts of 1911, Chapter 163. Sec. 12. Work or Recreation on Sunday. Sec. i. Every person who shall do any secular business or labor, except works of necessity or mercy, or keep open any shop, warehouse, or manufacturing or mechanical establishment, or expose any prop- erty for sale, or engage in any sport between twelve o'clock Sat- urday night and twelve o'clock Sunday night, except as provided in section two of this. act, shall be fined not more than fifty dol- lars. The provisions of this section shall not affect the issue or service of any criminal complaint or any proceedings thereon, nor the performance by haywards Of their duties, nor the issue or service of complaints for injunctions and orders thereon, nor the issue or service of any other civil process, except between sunrise and sunset on Sunday. Sec. 2. The park commissioners or park committee of any town, city, or borough are hereby authorized to permit free con- certs of music to be given, and proper amateur athletic sports to be engaged in between the hours of .two o'clock and sunset on Sunday afternoons, at stated places, in one or more of the pub- lic parks belonging to said city, town, or borough, subject to such LABCHl LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. 9 rules as the respective committee or commissioners may adopt for the purpose of securing order and quiet conduct on the part of all who shall engage in said music or sports, and also of all persons in attendance, provided, that only places shall be so des- ignated where such music can be given or sport engaged in with- out disturbing the reasonable comfort, quiet,. and peace of any other citizen, and provided no game or sport shall be permitted in any tournament, or for any admission fee or prize. Sec. 3. Every person who shall be present at any concert of music, dancing, or other public diversion on Sunday, or on the evening thereof, except as permitted by this act, shall be fined not more than four dollars. Sec. 4. Sections 1369 and 1370 of the general statutes are hereby repealed; — Public Acts of 1913, Chapter up. Sec. 13. Sports in Public Parks on Sunday Afternoons. Chapter 119 of the public acts of 1913 relating to music and athletic sports in public parks on Sunday afternoons shall take effect from the passage of this act, and this act shall take effect from its passage. — Public Acts of 1913, Chapter 2i§. Approved, June 6, 1913. Sec. 14. Persons who observe Saturday excepted from, Sunday lavr. No person who conscientiously believes that the seventh day of the week ought to be observed as the Sab- bath, and actually refrains from secular business and labor on that day, or who conscientiously believes that the Sabbath be- gins at sundown on Friday night and ends at sundown on- Sat- urday night, and actually refrains from secular business and labor during said period, and who has filed written notice of such belief with the prosecuting attorney of the court having jurisdiction, shall be liable to prosecution for performing secu'- lar business and labor on Sunday, provided he disturbs no other person who is attending public worship. — Public Acts of 190J, Chapter i8p. Sec. 15. One day of rest in seven. Except in cases of emergency, it shall be unlawful for any person to require or per- mit any employee engaged in any commercial occupation or in the work of any industrial process to do any work of his occu- pation on Sunday unless such employee shall be relieved from work for one full regular working day during the six days next ensuing. This act shall not be construed as authorizing any work on Sunday not now authorized by law ; nor as applying to farm or personal service, to druggists, watchmen, superintendents or managers, janitors, or persons engaged solely in transportation, nor to the sale or delivery of milk, food, or newspapers, nor to such commercial occupations or industrial processes as by their nature are required to be continuous ; nor as prohibiting the do- ing of necessary work of inspection, repair, or care of any man- lO LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT, ufacturing or other plant or of any merchandise or stock on Sunday. Penalty. Any person violating any provision of this act shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars for each offense. — Public Acts of 1911, Chapter 162. Sec. 16. Employers' threats. Every person who shall, at or within sixty days prior to any electors, town, city, borough, or school meeting, attempt to influence the vote of any operative in his employ by threats of withholding employment from him, or by promises of employment, or who shall dismiss any opera- tive from his employment on account of any vote he may have given at any such meeting, shall be fined not less than one hun- dred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than six months, nor more than twelve months, or both. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 1700. Sec. 17. Mechanics' lien. Whenever any certificate of mechanics' lien lodged with a town clerk does not disclose the name of the owner of the premises against which such lien is claimed, such town clerk shall ascertain and index the same from such information as he may be able to obtain from the town records or otherwise ; but he shall not be liable to mistake in as- certaining such name. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 1849. Sec. 18. Duties of parents and guardians. All parents and those who have the care of children shall bring them up in some lawful and honest employment, and instruct them or cause them to be instructed in reading, writing, spelling, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, and United States history. Every parent or other person having control of a child over seven and under sixteen years of age shall cause such child to attend a public day school regularly during the hours and terms the public school in the district wherein such child resides is in session, or while the school is in session where provision for the instruction of such child is made, according to law, unless the parent or person having control of such child can show that the child is elsewhere receiving regularly, thorough instruction dur- ing said hours and terms in the studies taught in the public schools. ' Children over fourteen years of age shall not be sub- ject to the requirements of this section while lawfully employed at labor at home or elsewhere, but this provision shall not per- mit such children to be irregular in attendance at school while they are enrolled as scholars, nor exempt any child who is en- rolled as a member of, from any rule concerning irregularity of attendance which has been enacted or may be enacted by the town school committee, board of school visitors, or board of ed- ucation, having control of the school. — General Statutes, 1902. Section 2116. Sec. 19. Employment of children under fourteen. Every person who shall employ a child under fourteen years of age LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. 1 1 during the hours while the school which such child should attend is in session, and every person who shall authorize or permit on premises under his control any such child to be so employed, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars for every week in which such child is so employed. — General Statutes, 1902, Sec- tion 2iig. Sec. 20. Penalty. Every parent or other person having control of a child, who shall make any false statement concern- ing the age of such child with intent to deceive the town clerk or registrar of births, marriages and deaths of any town, or the teacher of any school, or shall instruct a child to make any such false statement shall be fined not more than twenty dollars. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2120. Sec. 21. Report of violations of law. The school visitors or the town school committee in every town shall, once or more in every year, examine into the situation of the children em- ployed in all manufacturing establishments, and ascertain whether all the provisions of this chapter are duly observed, and report all violations thereof to the proper prosecuting authority. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2121. Sec. 22. Ehiplo3rment of child not atending evening school; penalty. No person over fourteen and under sixteen years of age, who cannot read and write, shall be employed in any town where public evening schools are established unless he can produce every school month of twenty days a certificate from the teacher of an evening school showing that he has at- tended such school eighteen consecutive evenings in the current school month, and is a regular attendant. Every person who shall employ a child contrary to the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, and the state board of education shall enforce the provisions of this section as provided in Section 4707. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 214^. Sec. 23. Sanitary condition of bake shop. Every build- ing or room occupied as a bakery shall be drained and plumbed in a manner conducive to its healthful and sanitary condition, and constructed with air shafts and windows or ventilating pipes sufficient to insure ventilation, as the factory inspector shall di- rect. Every bakery shall be provided, with a wash-room and water-closet apart from the bakeroom and rooms where the manufacturing of food products is conducted; no water-closet, earth-closet, privy, or ash pit shall be within or . communicate directly with a bakery. Rooms used for the manufacture of flour and meal food shall be at least eight feet in height ; the side walls of suqh rooms shall be plastered or wainscoted, the ceiling plastered or ceiled with lumber or metal and if required by the factory inspector, shall be whitewashed at least once in three months; the furniture, utensils, and floor of such rooms shall be kept in healthful sanitary condition. The manufactured 12 LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. flour or meal food products shall be kept in dry, clean, and airy- rooms. The sleeping rooms for persons employed in a bakery shall be separate from the rooms where food products are man- ufactured or stored. No person, firm, or corporation shall op- erate a bakery without having obtained from the factory inspect- or a certificate of inspection describing the building used as a bakery and stating that the same complies with the laws of this state relating to bakeries, which certificate shall be kept posted by the owner or operator of such bakery in a conspicuous place in the shop described in such certificate or in the salesroom con- nected therewith. Such certificate may be revoked by said in- spector, for cause, and when revoked said inspector shall cite the person operating such bakery^ or, in the case of a corpora- tion, the manager, to appear before him within ten days there- after to show cause why such certificate should not remain re- voked. No person, firm, or corporation shall open a new bak- ery without having given at least ten days' notice to the factory inspector of his intention to open such bakery, which notice shall contain a description of the building proposed to be used as such bakery and shall give its location. Upon receipt of ■ such notice said inspector shall examine the premises, and if found to comply with the provisions of the statutes relating to bakeries he shall issue such certificate of inspection. This act shall not prevent local health authorities from enforcing orders or regu- lations concerning the sanitary conditions of bakeries. No room or rooms either wholly or partly underground, not now used as a bakery, shall hereafter be used as a bakery. No room or rooms wholly or partly underground, now used as a bakery, which shall hereafter be closed, shall be again used as a bakery. No room or rooms wholly or partly underground which shall have been closed on account of fire, attachments, observance of religious ceremonies, or quarantine regulations, shall be deemed to be closed within the meaning of this act. A bake shop shall be deemed to be closed whenever for any reason except those specified in Section three, the business of baking for the public shall be suspended therein. Every person who violates any provision of this act shall be subject to the penalties provided by Section 2572 of the gen- eral statutes. Duty of employer. No employer shall permit any person to work in his bake shop' who is affected with pulmonary tuber- culosis, scrofulous, or venereal disease, or with a communicable skin affection, and every employer shall maintain himself and his employees in a clean and sanitary condition while engaged in the manufacture, handling, or sale of such food products. Factory inspector's orders. The owner, agent, or lessee of any property used as a bakery shall, within thirty days after the LABOR tAWS OF CONNECTICUT. I3 service of notice upon him of an order issued by the factory in- spector, comply therewith, or cease to use or allow the use of such premises as a bake shop; such notice shall be in writing and may be served upon such owner, agent or lessee, either per- sonally or by mail, and a notice by registered letter, mailed to the last known address of such owner, agent, or lessee, shall be sufficient service. Penalty. Every person who violates any provision of Sec- tions 2569, 2570 or 2571, or who fails to comply with an order of the factory inspector, shall be fined not more than fifty dol- lars for the first offense, not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than ten days for the second offense, and not more than two hundred dollars and imprisoned not more than thirty days for each subsequent offense. — General Statutes, 1902, Sections 2569, 2570, 2571, 2572. As amended by Act of 1905, Chapter 13, by Act of 1909, Chapter 147, and by Act of 1913, Chapter 59. The provisions of Sections 2569, 2570, 2571, and 2572 of the general statutes relating to bake shops shall apply to all confec- tionery, candy, and ice cream factories, macaroni factories, and all other factories for the preparation of food stuffs, tobacco, and cigars. In any factory of the above-named classes where the factory inspector shall have cause to suspect that an oper- ative or employee has any disease enumerated in the stat- utes thereto pertaining, he shall have authority to cause an examination to be made of such suspected case by a physician. — Section 14, Chapter 120, Public Acts of 1909. Sec. 24. Regulations concerning elevators. No person, partnership, or corporation shall permit or employ a person un- der the age of sixteen years to have the care, custody, operation, or management of an elevator. Every person, partnership, or corporation violating any provisions of this section shall forfeit not more than twenty-five dollars for each offense. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2614. • Sec. 25. Fire escapes to be provided. Every story above the first story of a building used as a schoolhouse, orphan asy- lum, insane asylum, reformatory, opera house, hall for public assemblies, hotel, boalrding house accommodating more than twelve persons, or a tenement house occupied by more than two familities or as a workshop, manufactory, or store in which more than ten persons are employed above the first story, shall be pro- vided with more than one way of egress, by stairways on the in- side or fire escapes on the outside of such buildings. Said stair- ways and fire escapes shall be so constructed, in such number, of such size, and in such location as to give, in the opinion of the of- ficer charged with the enforcement of this act, safe, a:dequate, and convenient means of exit, in view of the number of persons who may need to use such stairway or fire escape, shall, at all times 14 LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. be kept free from obstruction and shall be accessible from each room in every story above the first story.- — General Statutes, ipo2, Sections 2628. As amended by Act of 1911, Chapter 239. Fire escapes in hotels. If any buildingf specified in Sec- tion 2628, or any workshop, manufactory; boarding house, ten- ement house, or other building used, in whole or in part, for any of the purposes therein specified, or in which more than six per- sons shall be employed above the third story, shall be more than three stories in height, it shall be provided with at least one fire escape of iron or other incombustible material, on the outside of said building ; and if such building shall be more than one hun- dred and fifty feet in length it shall be provided with one such fire escape for every one hundred and fifty feet, or fractional part thereof exceeding fifty feet, and such fire escape shall be conveniently accessible for each story of said building ; and if such building be a tenement house the fire escapes shall be di- rectly accessible from each apartment, without passing through any public ha;ll. Any hotel, or other- building connected there- with, which is more than two stories in height and contains sleep- ing accommodations for more than ten persons, shall be provided with one such fire escape for each one hundred and fifty run- ning feet, or fractional part thereof exceeding fifty feet, in the perimeter of such hotel or other building. The factory inspector shall have power to enforce the provi- sions of Sections 2628 and 2629 of the general statutes as amended by this act so far as concerns workshops and manufac- tories and may order fire escapes erected thereon wheiiever deemed by him to be necessary ; and any owner, agent, or lessee neglecting or refusing to comply with such order shall be sub- ject to the penalties prescribed in Section 2633 of the general statutes. In all cases in which any person shall suffer injury or in wiich the death of any person shall ensue in consequence of the failure of the owner of any building to provide the same with fire escapes or stairways, as required by the provisions of this act, or in consequence of the failure of such owner to comply with any order of the factory inspector, made in conformity to the provisions of this act, such owner shall be liable to any per- son so injured for damage for such injury; and in case of death such owner shall be liable in damages for the injury caused by the death of such person. It shall be no defense to any action for the recovery of such damages that the person injured, or whose death ensued as aforesaid, had knowledge that such building was not provided with fire escapes on stairways as re- quired by the provisions of this act, or that such person con- tinued to work in or to occupy such building with such knowl- edge. LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. 1 5 Penalty. The owner of any building, or in case such own- er be non compos mentis or a minor, the guardian of such own- er, or in case such owner be non-resident, the agent of such owner having charge of such property, who shall neglect or fail to comply with the foregoing provisions of this act shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than live hundred dollars. In case there shall be several owners of any building the use of which shall be continued in violation of the provisions of this act, all of such owners jointly, or any one of them shall be liiable to such fine. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 262Q, and Act of 191 1, Chapter 239. As amended by Act of 1913, Chap- ter 81. The owner of every such building shall provide such fire es- capes and means of egress, or cause the same to be provided, and, if he shall neglect to do so for a period of three months after notice from the building inspector or other proper author- ity, he shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or im- prisoned not more than six months, or both. Duties of building inspectors. The building inspector of each city, the warden of each borough, or the first selectman of each town not having a building inspector, either by himself or by some proper person appointed by him, shall inspect all the above-named buildings at least once each year between April first arid October first, and shall see that the provisions of Sec- tions 2628, 2629 and 2630 are complied with ; and for such pur- pose he shall have the right to enter any of said buildings in the day time, between the hours of nine and five o'clock. Said city, borough or town shall fix and pay the compensation for all such services. — General Statutes, 1902, Sections 2630 and 263 t. Sec. 26. Connecticut School for Boys. Duties and powers of trustees. The board of trustees shall manage said school according to law ; adopt rules for its management and the main- tenance of strict discipline therein; provide instruction in relig- ion, morality, and useful knowledge, and in some regular course of labor for the inmates; bind them out, discharge, or remand them; appoint a superintendent, not of their number, and other officers, whom they may remove. for cause; prescribe their duties and compensation ; adjust and certify all claims and accounts against said school ; appoint as treasurer a member of said board, who shall give a bond to the state in such sum, not less than five thousand dollars, as the trustees shall require, condi- tioned fot- the faithful performance of his duties, and who shall pay all claims against said school after the same have been prop- erly certified ; and said board shall annually report under oath to the governor the condition and rules of the school. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2819. Sec. 27. Trustees may indenture boy as apprentice. The trustees shall have full power to place. any boy committed to i6 lab6r laws of Connecticut. said school during minority, at such employment, and cause him to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge as may be suitable to his age and capacity; and they may, with the con- sent of any such boy or his parents, or guardians, bind him out as an apprentice during his minority, or for a shorter period, to learn a trade, or to other employment as in their judgment will tend to his future benefit ; and the president of the board shall, for such purpose, have power to execute and deliver, on behalf of the said board, indentures of apprenticeship for any such boy ; and such indentures shall have the same force and effect as in- dentures of apprenticeship executed by his legal guardian, and shall be filed with the records in the office of said school. — Gen- eral Statutes, 1902, Section 2S28. Sec. 28. Trustees to control persons and earnings of Boys so placed. The trustees of said school shall have and exer- cise full control of the persons and earnings of boys so placed out during their minority, and shall, at least once during every period of six months, obtain, by authorized visitation or inspec- tion, definite and reliable information concerning their general deportment and progress in the occupa;tions they are pursuing, and in general shall exercise in their behalf the care and super- vision of guardians. The number and general condition of boys so placed out and cared for shall be embraced in the annual re- port of the trustees of the school. — General Statutes, 1902, Sec- tion 2832. Sec. 29. Pupils may be bound out. The directors may bind out to service girls committed to said school for terms not exceeding the terms of their respective commitments. — General Statutes, igo2. Section 2841. Sec. 30. Parent or guardian may indenture child to school. Any parent or guardian may indenture a child or ward to the Connecticut sc.hool for boys, or to the Connecticut industrial school for girl Sj on such terms as may be agreed upon between such parent or guardian and the trustees or directors of said schools, the expense to be paid quarterly in advance, and in case of any failure on the part of such parent or guardian so to pay said expense, the superintendent of such school may sue on such agreement. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2848. Sec 31. Equal rights and restraints for all pupils. All children indentured or admitted to the Connecticut school for boys or to the Connecticut industrial school for girls, shall re- ceive the same supervision, medical treatment, support, and ed- ucation, and be subject to the same regulations, employment, and restraint. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2849. Sec. 32. .Emplo3mient of veterans in public iservice. "In every public department, and upon all public works of this state, honorably discharged union soldiers and sailors shall be pre- ferred for appointment and employment. Age, loss of limb, or LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. 1 7 Other physical impairment, which does not in fact incapacitate, shall not be deemed to disqualify them, provided they possess the other requisite qualifications. — General Statutes, 1902, Sec- tion 28y6. Sec. 33. Veteran discharged from employment; pay re- duction. No honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or marine, having served as such in the union army or navy during the war of the rebellion, holding a position by appointment or employ- ment as janitor, engineer, or fireman in any public building owned by the state of Connecticut, or by any county, city or town, shall be removed from such position or employment ex- cept for incompetency or misconduct shown, or have his com- pensation reduced except for cause shown, and after a hearing of which he had due notice. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 287'^. As amended by Act of 1903, Chapter 60. Sec. 34. Appeal; reinstatement. Any such person, who shall be removed from any of said positions, or whose compen- sation shall be reduced while so employed, may appeal from said action or decision to the superior court in the county in which said person is employed. Such appeal shall be privileged in the order of its trial, and shall be tried to the court. The appellant shall give bond to the state or county, as the case may be, to pay all costs in case he fails to sustain his appeal. Costs as in civil actions shall be allowed the prevailing party. If said ap- peal shall be sustained, the appellant shall be reinstated on the same terms as to employment and compensation as existed prior to said removal, with full pay from the date of his removal. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2878. Sec. 35. State Prison — Powers and duties of warden; re- ward for good behavior. The warden shall manage the pris- on, subject to the rules of the directors and their written orders ; he shall keep all the prisoners employed in such labor as the di- rectors shall order, during the term of their imprisonment ; and in case they are disobedient or disorderly, or do not faithfully perform their task, may put fetters and shackles on them, and moderately whip them, not exceeding ten stripes for any one of- fense, or confine them in dark and solitary cells ; he shall keep a book in which a record shall be made of every punishment by solitary confinement, as follows: the name and number or other suflfkient designation of the person punished; the day and hour when put in solitary confinement; the day and hour when re- leased ; the offense ; and such remarks as may be necessary to complete the record ; and shall also keep a record of the punish- ment inflicted upon each prisoner, showing its cause, mode and degree, and a like record of the conduct of each prisoner. Any prisoner may, by prompt and cheerful obedience to the rules of said prison, earn a commutation or diminution of his sentence as follows : Sixty days for each year, and pro rata for a part of a l8 LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. year, of a sentence which is for more than one year and not for more than five years; and ninety days for the sixth and each subsequent year, and pro rata for a part of a year ; provided, that any serious act of insubordination or persistent refusal to con- form to prison regulations occurring at any time during his con- finement in said prison shall subject the prisoner, at the discretion of the warden and board of directors, to the loss of all or any portion of the time earned ; but this provision shall not apply to prisoners sentenced to confinement in said prison for a term that is not greater than one year. Where any prisoner is held under more than one conviction the several terms of imprison- ment imposed thereunder shall be construed as one continuous term for the purpose of estimating the amount of commutation which he may earn under the provisions of this section. — Gen- eral Statutes, 1902, Section 2900. Sec. 36. Warden; powers and duties, continued. The warden may employ such number of prisoners as may be ap- proved by the board of directors outside the prison walls, within two miles thereof, under the charge of some proper officer of the prison. He shall provide for the prisoners suitable food and clothing, and proper implements and materials for their wor)<, and shall provide for the relief of any sick or infirm prisoner, and shall be paid for the same out of the earnings of said pris- oners, if sufficient, and if not, by the state; shall superintend the labor and conduct of the prisoners ; shall act as general agent of the prison, in the purchases and sales therefor, which shall be for cash only ; shall keep accurate accounts, and render the same to the directors at their stated meetings, and, when re- quested, communicate to them any information in his knowledge respecting the prison; and shall settle his accounts with the comptroller, quarterly, and may, in his own name, as warden, sue on any contract made by him in the business of said prison. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2901. Sec. 37. Convicts ; employment restricted. No person anywhere confined for criihe shall be employed in or about the manufacture or preparation of tobacco or of any article which in its use comes into contact with the mouth of a human being. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2902. Sec. 38. Discharge of prisoner held for costs. Every pris- oner, detained only for the payment of costs, shall be allowed for his labor the wages paid journeymen for like labor; but if, in the opinion of the directors, he shall be unable to pay said costs, and has conducted himself well during his confinement, the warden may remit the amount of such costs, and discharge him. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 291^. Sec. sg. Allowance for labor in pa5mient of fine. Every prisoner held in said prison for non-payment of a fine shall be allowed one hundred dollars a year for his labor, from the time LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. I9 when his imprisonment for non-payment of said fine commenced, if, in the opinion of the warden and directors, he shall have been submissive to the officers of the prison during his confinement, and conducted himself as a -faithful prisoner. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2914. Sec. 40. Employment of convicts and prisoners. The county commissioners may require all convicts to work accord- ing to their ability, permit other prisoners, if they desire it, to be provided with materials for work and employment, require the deputy jailer or deptity jailers, other officers and employes, to superintendend the conduct and labor of the prisoners, pre- scribe rules for the management, government, discipline, and em- plojmient of the prisoners in the jails and jail buildings of their respective counties, and the respective sheriffs shall enforce the same. Said commissioner^ shall visit the jails in their several counties at least once a month, and examine into their manage- ment, and audit all accounts pertaining to th"e jails. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2933. Sec. 41. Food; clothing; medical aid; work. The deputy jailer or deputy jailers under the rules and directions of the county commissioners, shall procure suitable food, clothing and medical aid for prisoners committed on criminal process, and such implements and materials as shall be proper for employ- ing and keeping such prisoners at work, and said commissioners shall draw their orders in payment for the same upon the treas- urers of their respective counties. — General Statutes, 1902, Sec- tion 2935. Sec. 42. Workhouses-;-How established. Any town may establish a workhouse, and provide suitable buildings for the con- finement of offenders sentenced thereto ; furnish materials for their work, direct the kind of labor, and the manner and place in which it is to be performed, either in or out of the workhouse ; and make any lawful regulations necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2960, Sec. 43. Duties of masters. The master shall receive all persons lawfully sent there, and keep them employed in such labor as they shall be able to,.-perf6rm ; and if any one of them shall refuse to work in a proper manner, may put him in close confinement until he shall obey orders, and in case of great ob- stinacy or perverseness, may reduce him to bread and water un- til he shall be brought to obedience. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 2962. * Sec. 44. Corporations — Profits may be shared with em- ployes. Any corporation organized after May thirty-first, 1886, may, by its boafd of directors, distribute to the persons employed in itfe service, or to any of them, such portion of the profits of its business as said board may deem just and proper. 20 LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. Any corporation organized on or prior to May thirty-first, 1886, may give to its board of directors the power to make such dis- tribution, by a majority vote of all the stockholders at a meet- ing warned and held for the purpose. — General Statutes, 1902^ Section 3342. As amended by Act of 1903, Section p. Chap- ter 194. Sec. 45. Railroads — Security from contractors for labor;, liability of company. Every company, in making contracts for the building of its road, shall require sufficient security from the contractors for the payment of all labor thereafter to be performed in constructing the road by persons in their em- ploy; and the company shall be liable to the laborers employed for labor actually performed on the road if, within twenty days after the completion of such labor, they shall, in writing, no- tify its treasurer that they have not been paid by the contractors. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 369^, Sec. 46. Safety couplers on freight cars. Every company, operating a railroad located wholly or partly in this state, shall cause every freight car built or purchased for use on such rail- '•oad to be provided with couplers so arranged as to render un- necessary the presence of any person between the ends of the cars for the purpose of coupling the same. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 3762. Sec. 47. Couplers to be approved by commissioners. No couplers shall be placed on any such freight car, nor shall any couplers be substituted for any in uge, until the same shall have been approved by the commissioners, and such couplers shall be hung at such height above the railroad tracks as shall be desig- nated by the Commissioners. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 3763- Sec. 48. Penalty. Every railroad company which shall permit a violation of any provision of Sections 3762 or 3763 shall forfeit fifty dollars to the state for every such violation. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 3764. Sec. 49. Certain employes to wear badges. All the con- ductors, brakemen, and baggagemen, employed upon the pas- senger trains of any company, when on duty shall wear, in a con- spicuous place, a badge showing their respective duties and the name of such company. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 3782. Sec. 50. Number of brakemen. Upon every train run, or intended to be run, upon any railroad in this state, at a greater average speed than thirty miles an hour between stations, and including more than two passenger cars, one brakeman shall be kept at the brake of each car, but when the double action brake is used on any such train, but one brakeman need be kept upon and for every two cars connected with such train. The com- missioners may grant permission to any company to reduce the number of brakemwi required upon passenger trains, when such LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. 21 company has adopted a system of brakes to be operated by the engineer, which, in the opinion of the commissioners will render such number of brakemen unnecessary. The commissioners " may revoke such permission when they consider that public safe- ty requires ; and on such revocation the company shall place up- on its trains the number of brakemen required by law. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 3799. The railroad commissioners shall have power to order, after a public hearing, such changes in the number of employes upon freight or passenger trains as in their opinion will conserve the public safety or the safety of such employes. If any company shall fail to place upon any of its trains the number of brakemen required by the provisions of the general statutes or in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this act, it shall forfeit twenty-five dollars to the state for each day of such neglect, to be recovered by the state's attorney in the county where such offense is committed. — Public Acts of 1909, Chap- ter 219. Sec. 51. Commissioners may order platforms to be in- closed. When the railroad commissioners deem it necessary, in the interests of the public, or of the employes concerned, that the platforms of any or all of the cars operated by any street railway company should be protected by gates or vestibules, or that fenders should be placed upon such cars, said commission- ers may order the company operating such cars to inclose the platforms thereon with gates or vestibules, or both, or to place fenders upon such cars, of such kind and in such manner as they may deem necessary and proper, first giving such company reasonable notice to appear and be heard, and may, after simi- lar notice modify or revoke any such order. The commission- ers shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction over the inclosing of such platforms and the placing of fenders on such cars; but nothing in this section shall prevent any such company from in- closing its platforms or placing fenders on its cars without such order. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 3869. Sec. 52. Penalty. Any company operating such car or cars which shall neglect or refuse to comply with any order re- lating to platforms made pursuant to Section 3869 shall forfeit to the state twenty-five dollars for each day of such neglect or refusal. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 3870. Whenever the railroad commissioners deem it necessary, in Ihe interests of the public, that any or all of the cars operated by any street railway company upon any highway in this state shall be equipped with air brakes or other sufficient brakes, said railroad commissioners may order the company operating such cars to equip such cars with brakes, operated by air or otherwise, of such kind and in such manner as said railroad commissioners may deem necessary and proper, first giving such company rea- 22 LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. sonable notice to appear and be heard, and may;. after; similar no- tice, alter, modify, or revoke any such order. Any company : operating such car or cars which shall neglect or refuse to cbmply with any order relating to brakes made pur- suant to the provisions of Section one of this act shall forfeit to the state twenty-five dollars for each day of such neglect or re- fusal. — Public Acts of ipop, Chapter 92. Sec. 53. Sunday laws! not applicable to electric cars. No law affecting travel, business, or labor on Sunday, or the opera- tion on Sunday of any railroad or railway, shall apply to any railroad company or street railway company so as to prohibit or limit the operation on Sunday of electric cars. — General Stat- utes, 1902, Section 3875. Sec. 54. Regulation and Supervision of Public Service Corporations. Sec. 12. TRANSFER OF POWERS OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS. The office of railroad, com- sioner is hereby abolished, and all rights, powers and duties here- tofore vested in the railroad commissioners and not inconsistent with other provisions of this act are hereby transferred to and continued in the public utilities commission herein created; and all orders heretofore made by said railroad commissioners shall continue in force, except as hereafter altered or until reversed or rescinded by said public utilities commission ; and all books, records, and other papers of the railroad commissioners are hereby transferred to the public utilities commission; Sec. 13. DUTIES RELATIVE TO SAFETY OF PUB- LIC AND EMPLOYES. The commission shall, so far as is practicable, keep fully informed as to the condition of the plant, equipment, and manner of operation of all public service com- panies, in so far as the safety of the public and of the employes of such companies may be involved, and may order such rea- sonable repairs or alterations in such plant or equipment, or such changes in the manner of operation, as may be reasonably nec- essary for public safety or for the health or safety of said em- ployes. Sec. 14. COMPLAINTS AS TO DANGEROUS CONDI- TIONS. Any person or any town, city, or borough may make complaint, in writing, to the commission, of any defects in any portion of the plant or equipment of any public service com- pany, or of the manner of operating such plant, by reason of which the public safety or the health > or safety of employes is endangered ; and, if he or it so requests, the name of the com- plainant shall not be divulged unless in the opinion of the com- mission the comjplaint is such that publicity is demanded. Sec. 15. '.PROCEDURE UPON COMPLAINT. Upon re- ceipt of such complaint the commission shall fix a time and place for hearing thereon, and shall give due notice therieof to all par- ties in interest, and shall make such further investigation into LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. 23 the alleged conditions as it shall deem necessary. If,' upon such hearing, the commission shall find the conditions to be danger- ous to public safety or to the safety of employes, it shall make such order as may be' necessary to remedy the same, and shall furnish a copy of such order to the complainant, upon request. If the commission finds that the complaint is not justified, it shall so notify the complainant in writing, by registered letter, specifying the reasons for such finding, and shall file a copy of such notification in the office of the commission. Sec. i6. COMPLIANCE WITH ORDERS. PENALTY. Every public service company shall comply, immediately with any order of the commission made in accordance with the provisions of the preceding section, and any company failiHg to comply with any such order shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars for each offense, and shall be liable in double damages for any injury or damage resulting to any person from such failure. Sec. 17. COMPANIES TO REPORT ACCIDENTS. Every public service company shall, in the event of any accident, attended with personal injury or involving public safety, which was or may have been connected with or due to the operation of its plant or Equipment, or caused by contact with its wires, no- tify the commission thereof, by telephone or otherwise, as soon as may be reasonably possible after the occurrence of such ac- cident. If said notice be given otherwise than in writing it shall be confirmed in writing within five days after the occurrence of such accident. Any company failing to comply with the pro- visions of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for each offence. Sec. 36. ACT NOT TO AFFECT. LABOR CONTRACTS. Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the commis- sion to interfere in any manner with contracts between public service companies and their employes. — Public Acts of 1911, Chapter 128. Sec. 55. Operation of Railroad Trains. The public utili- ties commission is hereby directed to investigate the operating and manning of passenger and freight trains, and to make such orders, regulations, or recommendations as, upon investigation, the commission may deem necessary for the safety and protec- tion of the public or of the employees of any railroad company operating such trains. — Public Acts of 1913, Chapter 210. Sec. 56. Mechanic's Hen on buildings and land. Prece- dence of same. If any person shall have a claim for more than ten dollars for materials furnished or services rendered in the construction, raising, removal, or repairs of any building, or any of its appurtenances, and such claim shall be by virtue of an agreement with or by consent of the owner of the land upon which such building is erected or has been moved, or of some person having authority from or rightfully acting for such own- 24 LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. er in procuring such labor or materials, such building with the land on which it stands shall be subject to the payment of such claim. Such claim shall be a lien on such land, building, and ap- purtenances, and shall take precedence of any other incumbrance originating after the commencement of such services, or the fur- nishing of any such materials, subject to apportionment as pro- vided in Section 4138; but in case of removal no such lien shall take precedence of any incumbrance upon the land to which the building is removed which accrues before the building has been actually moved upon the land. Said premises may be foreclosed by the owner of such claim in the same manner as if held by mortgage. — General Statutes of 1902, Section 4135. Sec. 57. Certificate of lien to be recorded. No such lien shall be valid, unless the person performing such services or furnishing such materials, within sixty days after he has ceased so to do, shall lodge with the town clerk of the town in which said building is situated a certificate in writing, describing the premises, the amount clajmed as a lien thereon, and the date of the commencement of the performance of services or furnishing of materials, stating that the amount claimed is justly due, as nearly as the same can be ascertained, and subscfcibed and sworn to by the claimant ; which certificate shall be recorded by the town clerk with deeds of land; but in case a party who might have filed such a certificate dies before filing the same, his ex- ecutor or administrator may make and lodge such a certificate within three months from the time of qualifitation of such ex- ecutor or administrator; provided that such certificate must be lodged within six months from the decease of the original claim- ant. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 4136. Sec. 58. Notice of intent. Liens of subcontractors and material men. No person, other than the original contractor for the construction, raising, removal, or repairing of the build- ing, or a sub-contractor, whose contract with such original con- tractor is in writing, and has been assented to in writing by the other party to such original contract, shall be entitled to claim any such lien, unless he shall, after commencing, and not later than sixty days after ceasing, to furnish materials or render ser- vices for such construction, raising, removal, or repairing, give written notice to the owner of such building that he has fur- nished or commenced to furnish materials, or rendered or com- menced to render services, and intends to claim a lien there- for on said building which shall be served upon said owner, if he resides in the same town in which said building is being erected, raised, removed, or repaired, by any indifferent person, by leaving with him or at his usual place of abode a true and attested copy thereof ; and if said owner does not reside in said town, but has a known agent therein, such notice may so be served upon said agent, otherwise it may be served by any in- LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. 2$ "different person, by mailing a true and attested copy of said no- tice to such owner at the place where he resides ; and when there shall be two or more owners, such notice to one of them shall be notice to all ; and said notice with the return of the person who served it indorsed thereon shall be returned to the original mak- er thereof within said period of sixty days. No Subcontractor, without a written contract complying with the provisions of this section, and no person who furnishes material or renders ser- vices by virtue of a contract with the original contractor or with any subcontractor, shall be required to obtain an agreement with, or the consent of, the owner of the land, as provided in Section 4135; to enable him to claim a lien under this section. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 4137. Sec. 59. Liens limited; apportionment; pa3mients of orig- inal contractor. No such lien shall attach to any building or its appurtenances, or to the land on which the same may stand, in favor of any person, to a greater amount in the whole than the price which the owner agreed to pay for such building and its appurtenances ; and when there shall be several claimants, and the amount of their united claims shall exceed such price, the claimants, other than the original contractor, shall be first paid in full, if the amount of such price is sufficient for that purpose ; but if not, it shall be apportioned among the claimants, having such liens, other than the original contractor, in propor- tion to the amount of the debts due them respectively; and the ■court having jurisdiction thereof, on application of any person interested, may direct the manner in which such claims shall be paid; but in determining the amount to which any lien or liens shall attach upon any land or building, the owner of such land or building shall be allowed whatever payments he shall have made, in good faith, to the original contractor or contractors, before receiving notice of such lien or liens. No payments made in advatnce of the time stipulated in the original contract shall be considered as made in good faith, unless notice of intention to make such payment shall have been given in writing to each per- son known to have furnished materials or rendered services at least five days before such p^ment is made. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 4138. .See. 60. Dissolution of mechanic's lien by substitution of bond. Whenever any mechanic's lien shall have been placed upon any real estate pursuant to Sections 4i35. 4136 and 4137, the owner of such real estate, or any person interested therein, may make an application to any judge of the superior court of common pleas, or district court, that said lien be dissolved upon the substitution of a bond with surety, and such: j,udge; shall or- der reasonable notice to be given to the lienor of such applica- tion. If such lienor shall not be a resident of the state, such judge may order notice to be given by publication, registered 26 LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. letter or personal service. If such judge shall be satisfied that the applicant in gOod faith intends to contest such lien, he shall, if the applicant offer a bond, with sufficient surety, conditioned to pay to the lienor or his assigns such amount as a court of com- petent jurisdiction may adjudge to have been secured by said lien, with iifPerest and costs, order said lien to be dissolved, and such bond substituted therefor, and shall return such applica- tion, notice, order, and bond to the clerk of the superior court for the county wherein such lien is recorded ; and if the appli- cant, within ten days from such return, shall cause a copy of such order, certified by said clerk, to be recorded in the town clerk's office where such lien is recorded, such lien shall, be dis- solved. Whenever a bond S:hall be substituted for any lien after an action for the foreclosure of a lien has been commenced, the plaintiff in such foreclosure may amend his complaint without costs, so as to make the action one upon such bond. Whenever a bond shall have been substituted for any lien, pursuant to this section, unless an action shall be brought to recover upon such bond -within two years from the date of recording the certificate of lien, such bond shall be void.: — General Statutes, ipos. Sec- tion 4139. Sec. 61. Lien on railroad for services or materials in con- struction. If any person shall have a claim for materials fur- nished or services rendered for the construction of any railroad, or any of its appurtenances, under any contract with or approved by the corporation owning or managing 'it, such railroad shall, with its real estate, right of way, material, equipment, rolling stock, and franchises, be subject to the payment of such claim; and said claim shall be a lien on railroad, railroad property, and franchises, and such lien shall be asserted, perfected, and fore- closed in all respects in accordance with the provisions of Sec- tions 4136, 4137, 4138 and 4139, except that the certificates of the lien and of its discharge shall be filed in the office of the sec- retary of state, who shall record them in a book kept for that purpose. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 4140. Sec. 62. Limitation of mechanic's lien. No mechanic's lien shall continue in force for f longer period than two years after such lien has been perfected, unless the party claiming such lien shall, within said period, commence an action to foreclose the same, and proceed therewith to final judgment; and every such lien after the expiration of two years without action com- menced shall be discharged of record by the person claiming the same, upon the request of the owner of the property upon which the lienr had been claimed. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 4148. Sec. 63. Lien on vessel for materials or services. Every vessel in the construction or repairs of which, or of any of whose appurtenances, any person shall have a claim for more than twenty dollars, for materials furnished or services rendered. LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. 2^ shall be subject to lien for the amount of such claim ; and such lien shall be on such vessel and its appurtenances, and shall take precedence of any other incumbrance (except a lien for mari- ners' wages) originating subsequent to the commencement of such services, or the furnishing of such materials, subject to ap- portionment as provided by Section 4163, and may be fore- closed like a mortgage of personal property. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 4160. Sec. 64. Certificate to be left with town clerk, and copy with owner. No such claim shall remain a lien on such ves- sel or its appurtenances more than ten days after the . person performing such services, or furnishing such materials, has ceased so to do, unless he shall sign and lodge with the town clerk of the town where such vessel was so constructed or re- paired, a certificate in writing describing the kind' of vessel, the amount claimed as a lien thereon, the place in the town where the services or materials were furnished, the date of the com- mencement of the performance of services or furnishing of ma- terials, the name of the vessel if known to him, and the name of the owner or owner's agent, if known to him ; which certificate »the town clerk shall record in a book kept by him for that pur- pose ; nor unless such person shall also leave a copy of such cer- tificate with the owner of said vessel or his agent, if either of them are known to him to have a residence in this state. — Gen^ eral Statutes, 1902, Section 4161. Sec. 65. Liens not to exceed contract price. Apportion- ment. No vessel or its appurtenances shall be subject to such liens for a greater amount in the whole than the price agreed to be paid for such vessel or its repairs ; and when sev- eral liens shall be claimed by different persons to an amount in all exceeding such agreed price, the claimants other than the original contractor shall be first paid in full, if such amount be sufficient for that purpose, but if it be not sufficient, it shall be apportioned among the claimants other than the original con- tractor, in proportion to the amount of their respective claims, and the court having jurisdiction thereof, on application of any person interested, may direct the manner in which such claims shall be paid. — General Statutes, Ip02, Section 4163. Sec. 66. Claims against estates of deceased persons. Sec- tion 345 of the general statutes is hereby amended by inserting in the seventh line thereof, after the word "fourth," the words "all debts due to any laborer or mechanic for personal wages for labor performed by: such laborer or mechanic for the deceased within three months next preceding the decease of such person ; fifth," so that said section as amended shall read as follows : "The. executor or administrator shall render an account of such sales to the court of probate, which on the final settlement of, the es- tate shall direct the payment of claims against such estate to 'be 28 LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. made in the following order : first, the funeral expenses and the •expenses of settling the estate; second, debts due for the last .sickness of the deceased ; third, all lawful taxes and all debts due to the state and to the United States ; fourth, all debts due lo any laborer or mechanic for personal wages for labor per- formed by such laborer or mechanic for the deceased within three months next preceding the decease of such person; fifth, other preferred claims ; ajid last, all other debts allowed, in pro- portion to their respective amounts." — Public Acts of rpii. Chap- ter 88. Sec. 67. Legal holidays. Days designated. Section i. Section 4364 of the general statutes is hereby amended by in- serting in the fourth line thereof, after the words "Labor Day," the words "the twelfth day of October (known as Columbus Day) ," so that said section as amended shall read as follows : "In each year the first day of January, the twelfth day of February ^ known as Lincoln Day), the twenty-second day of February, the thirtieth day of May, the fourth day of July, the first Mon- day in September (known as Labor Day), the twelfth day of October (known as Columbus Day), and the twenty-fifth day of December, or whenever any of said days shall fall upon Sun- day, the Monday next following such day and any day appointed or recommended by the governor of this state or the president of the United States as a day of thanksgiving, fasting or relig- ious observance, shall be a legal holiday." Sec. 2. Chapter 74 of the public acts of 1909 is hereby re- pealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage — Public Acts of 1911, Chapter gs. Sec. 68. Appointment of factory inspector. The governor shall, with the consent of the senate, on or before the fifteenth day of May, A. D., 1903, and before the first day of May. quad- rennially thereafter, appoint a factory inspector, who shall hold office for four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The governor may remove the iuspector for cause. Said factory inspector shall receive an annual salary of twenty- five hundred dollars and necessary expenses. — General Statutes, 1902/ Section 4514. As amended by Act of 1903, Chapter p7. Sec. 69. Duties of factory inspector. The inspector shall examine all elevators, whether in factories, mercantile estab- lishments, storehouses, workhouses, dwellings or other buildings, and may order hoistways, hatchways, elevator wells, . and well holes to be protected by trapdoors, self-closing hatches, safety catches, or other safeguards as will insure the safety of all per- sons therein. Due diligence shall be used to keep such trap- doors dosed at all times, except when in actual use by an occu- pant of the building having the use and control of the same. All elevator cabs or cars, whether used for freight or passengers. LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. 29^ shall be provided with some suitable mechanical device, if con- sidered necessary by said inspector, whereby the cab or car will be securely held in the event of accident to the shipper rope or lioisting machinery, or from any similar cause, and said mechani- cal device shall at all times be kept in good working order. — Gen&ral Statutes, 1902, Section 4515. Sec. 70. Appointment of deputies. Section three of Chap- ter 97 of the public acts of 1903 as amended by section four of Chapter 241 of the public acts of 1907 is hereby amended to read as follows : The factory inspector shall appoint eight deputies, two of whom shall be women, to assist him in the performance of his duties. Such deputies shall have the same power as the inspector, subject to his approval. Each of said deputies shall receive a compensation of five dollars per day for actual services, and necessary expenses incident to the performance of the duties of his or her office. The total amount expended under this sec- tion shall not exceed in any year eighteen thousand dollars, which shall be paid upon proper vouchers by the deputies, signed by the inspector. The factory inspector and all deputies appointed under authority of this section are hereby authorized to lodge a complaint with any. prosecuting offilcer for the violation of the provisions of this act, and if such prosecuting officer shall refuse to prosecute such offense, such factory inspector or deputy may present such complaint to the judge of the court or the justice of the peace having jurisdiction, and if such judge or justice of the peace shall find that sufficient facts to warrant prosecution have been presented, he shall forthwith order the proper prose- cuting officer to issue a warrant for such offender. Any prose- cuting officer refusing to issue such warrant when so ordered shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars for each of- fense. — Public Acts of 1913, Chapter 131. The factory inspector shall, in addition to the deputy factory inspectors provided for by Chapter 97 of the public acts of 1903, appoint from time to time, on the recommendation of an advis- ory commission of three women appointed by the governor for that purpose as specified in Section five of this act, a female dep- uty factory inspector, who shall hold office until her successor is appointed and qualified, unless removed by said factory in- spector for cause. Said female deputy factory inspector shall receive the compensation for services and expenses provided by Section three of Chapter 97 of the public acts of 1903 as amend- ed by this act. Said female deputy factory inspector shall inquire into the en- forcement of the laws regulating the employment of women and girls in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establish- ment, investigate the conditions relating to the health and wel- fare of women and girls employed in such establishments, and report thereon to the factory inspector ; provided, however, that 30 . LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. she shall have no power or authority over and no duty concern- ing any machinery, appliances, or fixtures except sanitary fix- tures. Said female deputy factory inspector shall have . the same power and authority as the factory inspector, except as to ma- chinery, appliances, and fixtures, subject to his approval, and shall serve under the direction of said factory inspector in all respects as other deputy inspectors. The governor shall, on or before the first day of August, 1907, appoint three women, no two of whom shall be residents of the same town, who shall constitute an advisory commission for the appointment of a female deputy factory inspector and shall serve for two, four, and six years respectively; and biennially there- after the governor shall appoint one member of said commission to serve for the term of six years. It shall be the duty of said commission to recommend to the factory inspector some woman for appointment as female deputy factory inspector, such recom- mendation to be made on or before October i, 1907, and there- after whenever a vacancy shall occur in said office. — Public Acts of 1907, Chapter 241, Sec. 71. To make report to governor. The inspector shall, as often as practicable, examine all buildings and places where machinery is used, and may enter such buildings and places at all proper times for the purposes of inspection. He shall, on or before the first of December in each year, make a report to the governor of the condition, as respects safety to life and health, of th^ factories, buildings, and places visited by him. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 4515. Sec. 72. Sanitary conditions of factories. All factories and buildings where machinery is used shall be well lighted, ven- tilated, and kept as clean as the nature of the business will per- mit. The belting, shafting, gearing, machinery, and drums, of all factories and buildings where machinery is used, when so placed as, in the opinion of the inspector, to be dangerous to the persons employed therein while engaged in their ordinary duties, shall, as far > as practicable, be securely guarded. No machinery other than steam engines in a factory shall be cleaned while running after notice forbidding the same is given by the inspector to the owners, or operators of the factory. — General Statutes, ipo2, Section 4516. Sec. 73. Reporting of accidents. It shall be the duty of the person in active diarge of any manufacturing or mercantile establishment to forward by mail to the factory inspector at his office in Hartford, within fifteen days after each accident result- ing in serious physical injury to an employe while a:t work in sufch establishment, a written notice of every' such accident of which he shall have knowledge, which notice shall state the name of the injured employe, the time of the accident dnd the nature LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. 3I of the injury, and shall also contain a general description of the location in the establishment and of the character of the machine, if any, upon which the employe was at work at the time. The factory inspector shall forthwith transmit to the person in charge of such establishment a written acknowledgment of the receipt of such notice, and shall keep a record of such acci- dents thus reported to him. Such records, notices, and reports to the factory inspector, and any investigation made by him or his deputies or agents, shall be privileged and confidential and shall not be open for examination or inspection and neither such factory inspector nor any of his deputies or agents shall be a competent witness as to the facts involved in such accident in any proceeding pending in any court, unless such factory inspector, deputy, or agent was present at the time of the occurrence of the accident. The term "accident resulting in serious physical injury," as used in this act, shall be construed to mean every accident which results in the death of the epmloye or causes his absence from work for at least one week thereafter. Any person, after having received from the factory inspector forms for such notices, who shall fail to send notice of any ac- cident as required by this act shall be fined not more than twen- ty dollars. — Public Acts of ipop. Chapter 150. Sec. 74. Passenger Elevators. On and after January i, 1908, any elevator for the carriage of passengers, used and op- erated in this state, which is not so constructed as to' allow egress of persons from such elevator in any position in which it might be stopped by accident, shall be so constructed or arranged that the roof or top of such elevator, or a sufficient portion thereof to allow egress of persons therefrom, may be conviently opened, from the inside ; and no such elevator shall be thereafter used or operated which shall not be so constructed and arranged. Any person or corporation operating a passenger elevator not so constructed, after January i, 1908, shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars for each offense. — Public Acts of i^of. Chapter 156. Sec. 75. Use of stained glass windows forbidden. Every person, firm, or corporation using stained, painted, or corrugated glass in factory windows, where the same is injurious to the eyes of the workmen therein, shall remove the same upon the order of the factory inspector. — General Statutes, igo2. Section 4518. Sec. 76. Water-closets to be provided. Every person or corporation managing or operating, any factory, or owning or controlling the use of any other building where more than five persons are employed, shall provide and keep in good, sanitary condition suitable water-closet accommodations for the use of the persons employed. — General Statutes, ip02. Section 4519. , 32 LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. Sec. 77. Toilet rooms in foundries. The factory inspect- or shall have power and authority by order to that effect to re- quire the proprietor of any foundry in this state in which ten or more men are employed, and situated in a locality where there is such system for the disposal of sewage as to make such order practicable, to provide for the use of such employes a toilet rooni of such suitable dimensions as such inspector may deter- mine, containing- washbowls or sinks connected with running water, with facilities for heating the same, such room to be di- rectly connected with such foundry building, properly heated, ventilated, and protected from the dust of said foundry. Any person, company, or corporation failing to comply with such order shall be fined not more than fifty dollars in each prosecution for such neglect or refusal to obey such order. — Public Acts of 1905, Chapter 140. Sec. 78. Notice of complaints by inspector. The inspect- or shall enforce the provisions of this chapter by giving proper orders or notices to the persons or corporations owning, oper- ating, or managing the factories or buildings inspected by him, and shall make complaint to the state's attorneys of all violations of this chapter. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 4520. Sec. 79. Order to remove excessive dust. Section i. Every employer whose business requires the operation or use of any emery, tripoli, rouge, corundum, stone, carborundum, or other abrasive, polishing, or buffing wheel, in the manufacture of articles of metal or iridium, or whose business includes any pro- cess which generates an excessive amount of dust, shall install and maintain in connection ' therewith such devices as may be considered necessary by the factory inspector and state board of health to remove from the atmosphere any dust created by such process. The factory inspector, with the state board of health, shall issue to any employer engaged in such business any orders necessary to render effective the foregoing provision, and if within sixty days from the issuance of such order stating the changes to be made, such order shall not be complied with, the factory inspector may order such department closed until such order is complied with. Sec. 2. The violation of any provision of the foregoing sec- tion or the failure to comply with any written order issued in accordance therewith within sixty days thereafter shall consti- tute a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each offense, and every such order shdl be enforceable by the superior court or by a judge thereof if said court is not in session, by injunction on application of the fac- tory inspector or of the state board of health. Sec. 3. Section 4521 of the general statutes is hereby re- pealed. — Public Acts of 1913, Chapter 208. LABOR LAWS OF CONNECTICUT. 33 Sec. 80. Penalty for violation of orders. Every owner, lessee, or occupant of a factory or building included within the provisions of this chapter, or owning or controlling the use of any room in such building, shall, for the violation of any provi- sion of Sections 4516, 4517, 4518, 4519, or 4521, or for obstruct- ing and hindering the inspector of factories or his deputies in carrying out the duties imposed on them by law, be fined not more than fifty dollars; but no prosecution shall be brought for any such violation until four weeks after notice has been given by the inspector to such owner, lessee, or occupant of any changes necessary to be made to comply with the provisions of said sec- tions, and not then, if in the meantime such changes have been made in accordance with such notification. Nothing herein shall limit the right of a person injured to bring an action to recover damages. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 4522. As amended by Act of 190S, Chapter 53. Sec. 81. Notices of inspector. The orders and notices given by the inspector under this chapter shall be written or printed, signed by him officially, and may be served by himself or any proper officer or indifferent person, by leaving an at- tested copy thereof with or at the usual place of abode of the person upon whom service is to be made; and the notice, prop- erly indorsed with the doings of the person or officer serving the same, shall be returned to the office of the town clerk of the town in which is located the factory, building, or business to which such notice appertains, where it shall be kept on file. Such notice, or copies thereof, duly certified by the town clerk, shall be prima facie evidence that notice was given as therein appears. Notice to one member of a firm shall be notice to every member thereof, and notice to the president, secretary, or treasurer of a corporation shall be notice to such corporation. The fees for serving such orders and notices, unless served by the inspector, shall be the same as for the service of process in civil actions, and shall be included in the necessary expenses of the inspector. — General Statutes, 1902, Section 4523. Sec. 82. Appeal. Any person, firm, or corporation ag- grieved by any order of the factory inspector may appeal to the superior court in the county where the person, firm, or corpora- tion owns, leases, or occupies the factory or building to which said order relates, within four weeks after notice of such order shall be given. Said appeal shall operate as supersedeas, shall be made in writing, and shall contain a brief' statement of the facts and reasons of appeal and a citation to the inspector to appear before said court, and said court or a judge thereof may direct the time of appearance and the manner of service. Said court ■ of certain drugs, liquors or explosives, prohibited 113 42 employment of, under sixteen, to operate or •' adjust machinery^ prohibited 113 42 under sixteen, employment of, without certifi- cate from state board of education^ pro- hibited .;■ ■ 112 41__ under eighteen, employment of, upon islevat- ors, prohibited .. i 113 42 employmeiit of, vacation certificate for . . : . . 112 41 daims, against decedent estates, order of payment of 66 27 Coercion of employes .1'^ '^ Commission of Bureau of Labor Statistics,' appoint- ment of duties, etc 89, 94 35 7^ INDEX ,TO LABOR LAWS. Section. Page. Commissioner of, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, phy- sicians to report cases of poisoning contraot- ■ ed ■ from nature of patient 's employ- ment, to ..... .. •••• 123 46 Commercial OcctitiatioU, employment in on Sunday, prohibited .....:. 15 9 Complaints, to public utilities commission procedure upon • S^ 22 Compensation to Workmen, injured in the coxtrse of their employment, concerning (see Work- men 's Compensation) '. 148 54 Concerts, Sunday afternoon; concerning 12 8 Conductors on railroads to wear badges 49 20 Connecticut Industrial School for GirlSi to inquire con- cerning treatment of apprentices' 106 38 Contractors, not. to receive fees for furnishing em- ployment • • • 131 47 Contracts and Agreements, for labor or products of la- bor, of inmates of public, institutions, notice to ' be published before the making of 119 45 Corporation Stores, not to overcharge laborers . 133 48 Couplers, Safety, freight cars to have 46-48 20 Damages, limit of, in. action for recovery for injuries resulting in death ,^ . ' 121 45 Day of Best, providing of one in seven 15( 9 Death, limit of damages in actions for recovery for injuries resujting in 121 45 Debts, due for last sickness of deceased, order as .claim against estate 66 27 Decedent Estates, order of paymient of claims against. . 66 27 Deputy Factory Inspectors, appointment and duties of, 70 29 female, appoinfcmeot and duties of 70 29 Diseases, occupational, concerning reports of 124 46 Dissolute Women, living from the earnings of, pro- hibited 110 40 Dust, devices for removal of, certain manufacturers to install 79 32 Earnings, future, assignment of 5 5 Education, of .children, duties of parents and guar- dians as to 18 10 state board of, to codify school laws 114 43 Eight Hours, a legal day's work , 125 46 Electric Cars, may run on Sunday .■ 53 22 Elevators, passenger) how constructed 74 31 employment of children under the age of eighteen, in the .operation of, prohibited 113 42 Employes, improperly influencing as to voting 16 10 at State Capitol, weekly payment of 1 5 intimidation of , . . 9 7 in paper factory, to be vaccinated 126 47 of corporations, divisions of profits among. . 44 19 bake shops, < sleeping places for 23 11 on elevators, , not to be under sixteen 24 13 constructing railroads, wages, how secured.. 45 20 of railroad companies certain, to wear badges 49 20 coercion of 10 7 bureaus or agencies lists of, to be open to public inspection 11 7 INDEX TO LABOR LAWS. 73 Section. Page. Employes, safety of, duties of public utilities eommis- mission relative to 54 22 in saloons, of unsuitable persona, or females, prohibited 115 44 shall be provided with safe places and appli- ances and fit and competent co-laborers . . 135 48 public service companies, resistance to, pen- alty for 118 45 Employer, in mechanical, mercantile or manufactur- ing establishment, to notify state board of education of receipt of certificate as to children 112 41 forfeiture for withholding wages 127 47 discount for prepayment Of wages by . 134 48 shall obtain certificate of child's age 112 41 neglect to keep on file certificate by, pen- alty for 112 41 unlawful employment of child by, penalty for 112 41 to provide for employe safe places and appli- ances and fit and competent co-laborers 135 48 to be held liable for default of vice-principal 135 48 Employers' Liability, concerning (see Workmen's Compensation Act) 148 54 defenses removed » 148 54 notice of hours of work to be posted by .... 108 39 Employment of women and children, hours limited .... 108 39 of children under fourteen prohibited, when . . 112 41 fouiteen, regulated 19, 112 10, 41 sixteen, regulated 112 41 of convicts in State Prison 36,37 18 allowance of convicts of labor in Prison. . . . 38, 39 18 of prisoners in County jails 40,41 19 in work-housea , 42, 43 19 of children, during vacation, concerning .... 112 41 of women, in state of confinement^ restricted 109 40 in service of state, veterans given preference 32, 33 16, 17 to be furnished by contractors without fees 131 47 of children, under sixteen, to operate or ad- just machinery, prohibited 113 42 harboring or using, females for immoral pur- poses, penalty for i . . Ill 40 free public bureaus for furnishing 95-100 35-37 Employment Agencies, public 95-100 35-37 private license for 96-100 36, 37 regulations concerning 96-100 36, 37 restrictions upon 96-100 36, 37 license fee of 97 36 license required by 97 36 offices of to be approved by commissioner .... 97 36 Estates, decedent, order of payment of claims against 66 27 expenses of settlement, as claim against dece- dent estate, order of 66 27 Evening Schools . ! 22 11 certain children not to be employed unless they attend 22 11 74 INDEX TO LABOR LAWS. Section. Page. Executor, or administrator, limit of damages in ac- tions for injuries resulting in death, re- covered 1 ; • ■ ^"^ ™ Expenses of Iiiviiig, and employment of wage earning women, investigation of , 1*6 53 Factory Inspector, power ,of, with regard to enforce- ment of provisions concerning fire es- capes in public buildings 25 13 to enforce the provisions concerning the employment of children 113 42 dust removing devices, duties of concerning the installation of ■ • • 79 32 Factory Inspectors, deputy, appointment and duties of ^0 29 deputy, female, appointment and duties of . . 70 29 Fees for occupational disease reports . — 124 46 Females, abducting or enticing for immoral purposes, penalty for ; m *" or unsuitable persons, employment of, in sa- loons, prohibited 115 *4 Female Factory Inspectors, deputy, appointment and duties of 70 29 Female Operatives, seats for 136 48 Fire Escapes, act concerning 25 13 liability of owner of building for death or in- juries due to failure to provide 25 13 penalty for failure to comply with provisions concerning 25 13 hotels to be provided with 25 13 hotels, work shops, boarding houses, and ten- ement houses, to be provided with 25 13 Fifty-five Hour Law (so-called) 108 39 Foreign Attachment 6 6 Free Employment Bureaus 95-100 35-37 Freight Cars, to be provided with safety couplers 46-48 20 Funeral Expenses, as claim against decedent estate, order of 66 27 , Guardian or Conservator, of person non compos mentis 18 10 penalty for failure to comply with provisions concerning fire escapes by 25 13 Halls, for public assemblies, to be provided with fire escapes 25 13 Harboring or Uelng, females for immoral purposes, pen- alty for . . Ill « Holidays^ legal, days designated as 67 28 Hotels, fire escapes, to be provided with 25 13 Hours of Employment, of . women and minors, in manufacturing and mechanical establish- ments 108 39 Hours of Labor, of mechanics in state institutions.... 120 45 immoral Purposes, abducting or enticing females for, penalty HI i'> Industrial Commission, establishment of 146 53 Industrial Occupation, -employment in on Sunday, pro- hibited 15 9 Injunctions, issuance of 147 54 Injuries to Workmen, injured in the course of their employment (see Workmen's Compensation) 148. 5' INDEX TO LABOR LAWS. 75 Section. Page. Inmates of FuWc Institutions, contTacts or agree- ments for labor or products of labor, to be made only after public notice 119 45 Intimidation ; 9 7 Intoxicating Lioiuors, employment of unsuitable per- sons or females in saloons, prohibited 115 44 Inspector of Factories, appointment and duties 68-87 28-34 Issuance of Injunctions, concerning 147 54 Iiabels and Trademarks of Trades Union 143, 144 50,51 Labor, claim for against estate of insolvent debtor or corporation or partnership preferred 2 5 when wages for are attached, plaintiff shall be taxed not exceeding one-half of costs.... 4 5 record of assignment of future earnings 5 5 on Sunday, regulated 12-15 8-9 contracts, not to be affected by act establish- ing public utilities commission 54 22 hours of mechanics, in state institutions .... 120 45 day, designated a legal holiday 67 28 or products of labor, of inmates of public insti- tutions, notice of, agreements or contracts for, to be published 119 45 what a legal day's work 125 46 in construction and repairs, liens for 65 27 in building railroads, payment for, how secured 45 20 Laborer or Mechanic, claim of, against estate of de- ceased persons, payment of 66 27 Laborers, alien 94 35 to be furnished employment by contractors without fees 131 47 lodging houses for, to be inspected by health oflicer 132 47 agents of corporations furnishing goods not to overcharge 133 48 Legal Holidays, days designated as 67 28 Liability, employers ', concerning 148 54 Licensed Barbers, of other states, may be licensed in this state 122 46 Licenses, to employment agencies 97 36 Liens 56-63 23-26 mechanics I 17,56 10,23 ■j. 60,62 25,26 for services 61 26 Limit, of damages, in actions for recovery for in- juries resulting in death 121 45 Lincoln I>ay, designated as a legal holiday 67 28 Liquors, employment of unsuitable persons or females, in saloons, prohibited 115 44 malt or alcoholic, employment of children un- der the age of sixteen, in the manufac- ture, storage, or packing of, prohibited 113 42 Lodging Houses for Laborers, inspection by health ^ oflScer : ...;.. 132 47 Machinery, employment of children under sixteen years in the adjustment of, prohibited.. 113 42 oiling of, employment of children under the age of sixteen prohibited 113 42 Manufactories, employment of minors and women in . . 108 39 76 INDEX TO LABOR LAWS. Section. Page. Manufactories, school visitors to examine 21 11 Manufacturers, dust removing devices, to be installed by 79 32 Manufacturing EgtabUstaments, hours of employment in, of minors and women 108 39 employment of children under sixteen withou]^ certificate, prohibited 112 41 working hours of minors and women in, re- stricted 108 39 Itlauufactory, to be provided with fire escapes 25 13 Mechanic, wages due a privileged debt 2 5 Mechanics' Liens '. ( 17,56 10,23 \ 60, 62 25, 26 limitation of time for foreclosure 62 26 Mechanics, in state institutions, hours of labor of .... 120 45 Mechanical Establishments, employment of children under fourteen in, prohibited 112 41 employment of children, under sixteen, with- out certificate from state board of educa- tion, prohibited 112 41 hours of employment in, of minors and women 108 39 Mercantile Establishment, employment of children, un- der sixteen without certificate, prohibited . . 112 41 employment of children, under fourteen in, pro- hibited 112 41 working hours of minors and women in, re- stricted 108 39 Minors and Women, hours of empjovment of, in man- ufacturing and mechanical establishments .... 108 39 employment of, after six o'clock in the after- noon, restricted . / 108 39 employment of, in saloons, concerning 116 44 employment of, amending an act concerning 108 39 number of working hours of, restricted 108 • 39 Musical Concerts, on Sunday, concerning 12 8 Notice, public, to be given before the making of con- tracts or agreements for labor or products of labor of inmates of public institutions. . 119 45 Occupational Diseases, reports of 123, 124 46 Orders, of public utilities commission, penalty for non- compliance with 54 22 orders of, penalty for non-compliance with .... 54 22 Paper Factory employes to be vaccinated 126 47 Park Commissioners, Sunday concerts and amateur ath- letic sports, authorized to permit 12 8 Passenger Elevators, how constructed 74 31 Peddlers, unlawful employment of children as 7 6 Penalty for unlawful employment of child 7 6 violating bake shop laws 23 11 exacting fees from employes 131 47 employment of children, in certain occupations 113 42 failure to comply with provisions concerning fire escapes 25 13 violation of provisions concerning listing of employes 11 7 violation of provisions concerning employment on Sunday 15 9 -Personal Wages, order of payment of, as claims against decedent estate 66 27 INDEX TO LABOR LAWS. Section. Pbysicians, to report certain cases of poisoning con- tracted during patient's employment, to com- missioners of the bureau of labor statistics 123 Frisoners, warden shall keep keep all in State Prison em- ployed 35 FliTileged Claims against insolvent estates 2 Profits, division of, among employes by corporations . . 44 Prostitution, enticing or abducting females, for pen- alty for Ill Protection of Workmen, employed on buildings 145 Public Service Companies, resistance to employees of, penalty for 118 Public Service Corporations, accidents of, to be report- ed to public utility comm' ssion 54 complaints, as to dangerous condition of, to be made to public utilities commission 54 penalty for non-compliance with 54 powers of railroad commissioners concerning, transferred to public utilities commission 54 Public Utilities Commission, accidents of public service corporations to be reported to 54 complaints to, as to dangerous conditions of public service corporations 54 complaints as to public service corporations, procedure upon 54 labor contracts, act establishing not to affect 54 powers of railroad commission, transferred to 54 Ballroad Commissioners, powers of, transferred to the public utilities commission 54 Railroad Trains, concerning operation of 55 Becreatiou, on Sunday, concerning 12 Report of Occupational Diseases, concerning 123 Reporting of Accidents 73 Safety Couplers, freight cars to have 46-48 Saloons, employment of unsuitable persons or females prohibited 115 employment of minors in, prohibited 116 School Laws, codifying of, concerning 114 Seal, unauthorized use of 144 Seats for Female Operatives 136 Secular Business on Sunday, prohibited 12 when not prohibited 14 Secretary of State Board of Education, to sign certifi- cate of studies of children for certain em- ployments '. 112 Services, lien for 61-65 Sport, on Sunday, engaging in, concerning 12 State Board of Mediation and Arbitration 137-142 State Institutions, hours of labor of mechanics in .... 120 Store, emplojTnent of minors and women in 108 Street Railway Cars, to be vestibuled, when 51 Superintendent of Schools, certificate of studies of chil- dren to be signed by, before employment.... 112 Sunday, labor restricted .' 12 persons who observe Saturday excepted from observance of 14 work or recreation on, act concerning to take effect 13 71 Page. 46 17 5 19 40 51 45 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 23 S 46 30 20 44 44 43 51 43 8 41 26, 27 8 48-50 45 39 21 41 8 9 9 78 INDEX TO LABOR LAWS. Section. Page. Sunday, work or recreation on, concerning 12 8 sweat Shop Law 79-87 32-24 Threateuing, workmen 9 7 to influence their votes 16 10 Trade Unions, labels and trademarks of 143-144 50, 51 Trains, railroad, concerning operation of 55 23 Vaccination of Certain Employes 126 47 Vestihuled, street railway oars 51, 52 21 Veterans, given preference in public employment 32, 33 16, 17 not to be removed or have compensation re- duced except for cause 33 17 appeals by, from removal or reduction of com- pensation 34 17 reinstatement of, after appeal 34 17 Wages, due from insolvent estate, or from a corpora- tion, or partnership in receiver's hands, a priv- ileged debt 2 5 exemption of, from foreign attachment 6 6 when attached, plaintiff shall bear either half or all cost 3, 4 5 assignment of future 5 5 forfeiture for withholding 127 47 forfeiture for discount on payment 134 48 payment of by corporation 127-130 47 weekly payment Of 128-130 47 how secured, by mechanics' lien 56-63 23-26 how secured, by lien on a vessel 63-65 26, 27 how secured, by employes building railroad . . 45, 61 20, 26 investigation of by bureau of labor statistics . . 146 53 Weekly Payments, of employes of State Capitol 1 5 of corporations 128-130 47 Women, dissolute, living from the earnings of, pro- hibited 110 40 employment of, in state of confinement, re- stricted 109 40 wage earning, bureau of labor to investigate expenses of living, and employment of. . 146 53 Women and IMinors, employment of, amending an act concerning 108 39 number of working hours of, restricted. 108 39 hours of employment of, in manufacturing and mechanical establishments 108 39 Workmen, improperly influencing as to voting 16 10 protected employed on buildings 145 51 intimidating 9 7 Work Shops 84-87 34 Work, on Sunday, concerning 12 8 Work Shops, certain, to be provided with fire escapes 25 13 Workmen's Compensation Act Parts A, B and C, Sec. 148 54-66 Workmen's Compensation, acceptance of. Part B, effect Part B, See. 1 54 acceptance presumed Part B, Sec. 2 55 acceptance, refusal of, effect of Part B, Sec. 4 55 acceptance, withdrawal or renewal of ... .Part B, Sec. 3 55 accidents, reports of, concerning Part B, Sec. 20 61 agreement, voluatary, between employer and injured employee, concerning Part B, Sec. 22 61 allowances for advance payments Part B, Sec. 14 59 INDEX TO LABOR LAWS. 79 Section. Page. , Workmen's Compeusatlon, annual report of commis- sioners Part B, Sec. 18 60 appeals Part B, Sec. 27 63 awards of commissioner, final unless Part B, Sec. 26 63 awards of compensation subject to revision. .Part B, Sec. 15 59 ' claims for compensation Part B, Sec. 21 61 commissioners, compensation, appointment and terms of o&ee of Part B, See. 16 59 commissioners, powers of Part B, Sec. 17 60 commissioners, salaries and expenses of . . . .Part B, Sec. 19 61 compensation begins, when Part B, Sec. 8 56 defenses removed Part A, Sec. 1 54 definitions of "commissioner," "commis- sion, " " dependents, " " employee, ' ' " em- ployer," and "outworker" Part B, Sec. 43 66 dependents, defined Part B, Sec. 10 57 earnings, average weekly, how ascertained. .Part B, Sec. 13 59 effective Part C, See. 14 69 employers ' defenses removed Part B, Sec. 1 54 exemption and preference of compensations Part B, See. 36 65 failure to observe act ' Part B, Sec. 42 66 fatal injuries, compensation for Part B, Sec. 9 56 fees, for physicians, attorneys, etc., subject to approval of ocmmissioner Part B, Sec. 35 65 forms, custody of, by town clerks Part B, Sec. 39 65 hearings of claims Part B, Sec. 24 62 hearings, how conducted Part B, See. 25 62 incapacity, partial, compensation for Part B, Sec. 12 58 incapacity, total, compensation for Part B, Sec. 11 58 injuries and actions, prior to January 1, 1914 Part B, Sec. 41 66 insurance of compensation liability Part B, Sec. 30 64 insurance policies, requirements in Part B, Sec. 31, 32 64 interstate commerce, effect upon employers' liability to employees, engaged in ....Part B, Sec. 40 65 lump sums, commutation of compensation into Part B, Sec. 28 63 medical examinations Part B, Sec. 23 62 medical and surgical care to be provided. . .Part B, Sec. 7 56 minors, action for Part B, Sec. 34 65 mutual associations authorized, upon ap^ proval of insurance commissioner . . Part C, Sec 1, 2 66,67 mutual insurance associations, appeals to superior court Part C, See. 12 ' 69 mutual insurance associations, assessments provided for Part C, Sec. 9 68 mutual insurance associations, by-laws and regulations of Part C, Sec. 11 68 • mutual insurance associations, investments of Part C, Sec. 10 68 mutual insurance associations, membership, and control of Part C, Sec. 3, 4 67 mutual insurance associations, oflScers, vot- ing, etc., concerning Part C, Sec. 6 67 mutual insurance associations, policies of, concerning Part C, See. 5 67 mutual insurance associations, premiums .... Part C, Sec. 8 68 mutual insurance associa;tions, safety rules, adoption and enforcement of Part C, Sec. 7 68 80 INDEX TO LABOR LAWS. Section. Page. Workmen's Compensation, non-application to cer- tain employers Fart A, Sec. 2 54 notices, manner of serving Part B, Sec. 38 65 obligations not to be evaded Part B, See. 33 65 payments of compensation, at times and in manner prescribed by commissioner . .Part B, Sec. 37 65 principal employer, liability o£ Part B, Sec. 5 55 substitute systems of compensation, upon approval of state insurance commis- missioner Part B, See. 29 64 third person, liability of Part B, Sec. 6 56 unconstitutionality concerning Part B, Sec. 44 6B DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 83 STATE AND DISTRICT ORGANIZATIONS. liailbeTs' Protective Association, George Goss„ 5 Coit street, New Lon- don, Conn. Blacksmiths' and Blacksmith's Helpers District Council, No. 8, Inter- national Brotherhood of (N. Y., N. H. & H. B. R.), Thomas S. Hutchinson, 128 Carlisle street, New Haven, Conn. Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' State Conference, Philip G. Me- Dermott, 108 Adeline street. New Haven, Conn. Car Workers' Trades Council of the New York, New Haven & Hartford System, A. L. Hamilton, 118 Lombard street. New Haven, Conn. Carpenters' and Joiners' State Council, George Chandler, 125 Green- wich avenue, Greenwich, Conn. Carpenters of New Haven and vicinity. District Council, Harry Grif- fiths, 151 Butler street. New Haven, Conn. Carpenters' and Joiners' District Council of New Britain, W. J. Sem- mens, 198 South Main street. New Britain, Conn. Cigar Makers' New England Federation, F. A. Goddard, 298 Main street. New Britain, Conn. Connecticut State Association of Journeymen Plumbers, Gas and Steam Fitters, Walter Walsh, 44 Hawthorne avenue, Derby, Conn. Connecticut District Lodge of Machinists, No. 22j Harry Priestly, 983 Connecticut avenue, Bridgeport, Conn. Connecticut Federation of Labor, Bobert Cunningham, 34 Heeler street, Danbury, Conn. Electrical Workers, New England District Council, George E. Whit- taker, 201 Carpenter street. Providence, E. L Federal Labor Union, No. 14,426, F. J. Fallon, 69 Mt. Pleasant street, Norwich, Cpnn. Machinists' District Lodge, No. 43 (N. Y., N. H. & H. E. E.), John C. Eeady, 51 Orchard street. New Haven, Conn. Molders' Union, International New England Conference, Board of, W E. Haupt, 59 Market street, Hartford, Conn. New England Typographical Union, John F. Murphy, P. O. Boj 71? Providence, E. I. Painters', Decorators' and Paperhangers' State Conference, JaiCa J Dunne, P. O. Box 897, Hartford, Conn. Bailway Track Foremen, New England Order, A. N. DeMore, 697 Oamp bell avenue, West Haven, Conn. Eetail Clerks' International Protective Association, New England Dis- trict Organization, No. 2, Frank J. Kiernan, 427 A. Saratoga, East Boston, Mass. EaUroad Station Agents, Order of, P. H. Phineas, Monument Beach, Mass. Eailway Clerks' Lodge, No. 107, Clarence B. Messinger, 55 Freeman street, Norwich, Conn. Sheet Metal Workers, New England District of, W. H. Partridge, P. O. Box 221, Hartford, Conn. State Building Trades Council," Charles MullhoUand, Waterbury, Conn. Stationary Engineers, State Assn., John Galvin, 100 Silver street, Mer- iden. Conn. 84 DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. Steam, Hot Water and Power Pipe Fitters and Helpers, New England Branch, No. 2, E. S. Logan, 46 Hollis street, Worcester, Mass. TroUeymen in Massaeliusetts and Connecticut Joint Conference Board, E. J. Leahy, 15 Washington street, Derby, Conn. LOCAL UNIONS. ANSONIA. Amalgamated Society of Etngineers, E. C. Bell, 36 Fifth street. Bricklayers' and Plasterers' Union, No. 15, J. J; Blaekham, 116 Jack- son street. Cigar Makers' Union, No. 103, John Ziegler, 18 Clifton avenue. Iron Holders' Union, No. 71, Edward Bleakely, 23 Clarkson street. Machinists' Lodge, No. 362j L. W. Downie, 45 Vine street. Musicians' Union, No. 113, John J. Corcoran, 269 North State street. Pattern Makers' Association, Eobert T. MacDongall, P. O. Box 353, Derby, Conn. BALTIC (Sprague.) Spinners' Union, Fremont C. Firth, P. O. Box 186. BETHEL. Hat Finishers' Association, No. 2, William P. Bailey, P. O. Box 532. Hat Makers' Association, No. 1, Charles O. Lathrop, P. O. Box 385. Hat Trimmers' Union, No. 300, Mrs. Edward Treadwell, 72 South street. BRANFORD. Bartenders' Union, No. 529, Jeremiah Brannigan, Eussell street. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 995, Hugh McGowen, 30 Pros- pect street. Iron Molders' Union, No. 82, Luke Quinn, 81 East Main street. BRIDGEPORT. Amalgamated Society of Engineers, E. C. Baine,'233 Eiver street. Bakers' Union, No. 38, William H. Miller, 213 Hougli avenue. Barbers' Union, No. 288, Peter Palumbo, 1036 Main street. Bartenders' Union, No. 256, John M. Sears, 868 Broad street. Brewery Workers' Union, No. 40, Karl Lang, 211 Merriam street. Bricklayers^ and Plasterers' Union, No. 2, John Nairn, 535 Park street. Building Laborers' Union, No. 9, James McCaulty, cor. Madison and. North avenues. Carpenters' (Amalgamated) Union, John E. MUler, 108 Park Terrace. Carpenters' and Joinfers' Union, No. 115, Ernest Elmendorf, 671 Kossuth street. Central Labor Union, 'John J. O'Neill, Park Theater Building. Cigar Makers' Union, No. 282, George Engelhard^ 80 Edwin street. Garment Workers' Union, No. 80 (Ladies ')> N. Horowitz, 673. Barnum avenue. Granite Cutters' Union, E. F. Decatur, P. O. Box 770. DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 85 Iron Holders' Union, No. 110, Joseph L. Klein, 390 East Washington avenue. Journeymen Tailors' Union, Charles Spivaek, 145 Golden Hill street. Machinists' and Toolmakers' Lodge, No. 30, John J. Egan, 557 Cen- tral avenue. Musical Protective Union, No. 63, John H. Schmidt, 176 Cedar street. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No. 190, Alfred J. MoKeon, P. O. Box 914. Pattern Makers' Association, S. E. Gilbert, 1008 Hancock avenue. Plumbers' and Steam Fitters' Union, No. 173, D. J. McCoy, 162 Prank street. Pocket Knife Grinders' and Finishers' Union, No. 1, P. A. Didsbury, 508 Brook street. Polishers' and Buffers' Union, No. 40, Pred Richardson, 86 Austin street. Printing Pressmen's Union, No. 175, A. M. Livermore, 73 Clifford street. Eailroad Trainmen's Lodge, No. Ill, Charles M. O'Brien, 1062 Stratford avenue. Eailway Clerks' Order, No. 81, George W. Carey, Stratford, Conn. Eetail Clerks' Association, No. 451, E. K. Marshall, 73 Courtland street. Eetail Clerks' Union, Miss Minnie Bender, 620 Fairfield avenue. Sheet Metal "Workers' Union, No., 114, James Dunn, 465 Lafayette street. Slate and Tile Eoofers' Union, No. 6, Jasper McLevy, Woodmont avenue. Steam Fitters' Union, No. 66, Joseph KUey, 133 Main street. • Street Eailway Employes' Union, No. 459, Bernard Flanagan, 169 Wood avenue. ' Switchmen's Union, No. 40, L. A. Hemming^ay, 88 Sixth street. Theatrical Stage Employes' Union, No. 109, Edwin Lambert, P. O. Box 568. Typographical Union, No. 252, Peter W. Pulver, P. O. Box 852. Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers' Union, No. 23, Henry McCarty, 767 Broad street. BRISTOL. Building Trades Council, Morgan B. Farrell, General Delivery. Building Laborers' Union, No. 13, Louis Fioochi, E. P. 1)., No. 3. Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 25, William Selbie, 16 Laundry street. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 952, Charles H. Peck, 323 Summer street. Musicians' Union, No. 432, John B. Mitchell, 97 School street. Painters', Paperhangers ' and Decorators' Unipn, No. 663, James Epot, General Delivery. Plumbers' and Steam Fitters' Union, No. 410, Henry F. Murphy, P. 0. Box 815. Table Knife Grinders' Union, No. 18, John F. Gleason, 76 Chestnut street. DANBURY. Bakers' Union, No. 193, Charles Steinhart, 118 Eose Hill avenue. Barbers' Union, No. 175, William Seltzer, 11 Liberty avenue. Bartenders' Union, No. 255, C. B. Finegan, 1 Keeler street. Bootblacks' Protective Union, No. 11,623, Jack Vigno, 287 Main street. Boot and Shoe Workers' Uniom, No. 323, Paul Grano, 119 South street. 86 DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. Brewery Workers' Union, No. 326, Branch No. 1, Chas. Petersen, 11 Elm street. Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 22, Charles Johnson, B. F. D., No. 19, Box 16; Building Laborers' Union, Joe Larese, 2 Marcus avenue. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 927, M. B. Msibie, 19 Smith street. Central Labor Union, Edwin Daniels, 136 South street. Cigar Makers' Union, No. 180, John H. Eiley, 13 James street. Hat Finishers' Association No. 11, H. O. Shalvoy, 264 Main street. Hat Makers' Association, No. 10, John O'Hara, 264 Main street. Hat Tip r'rinters' Union, No. 1, Ford H. Anderson, Jr., 55 Jeflerson avenue. Hat Trimmers' Union, Nellie H. Gallagher, 54 Lake avenue. Locomotive Firemen's Lodge, No. 493^ A. S. Giddings, 42 Maple avenue. Meat Cutters' Union, No. 207, John Carrodus, Hoyt street. Musicians ' Union, No. 87, Harry W. Euffels, 5 Cherry street. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No. 522, Albert A. Scott, 42 J>few street. Paper Box Makers Union, No. 9,309, Walter Slaving, Elm street. Plumbers', Gas and Steam Fitters' Union, No. 303, William Crowe, Bethel Conn. Eailway Clerks' Order, No. 21, Fred A. Miller, 40 Division street. Bailroad Trainmen's Lodge, No. 332, W. H. Murray, 9% Delay street. Street Eailway Employes' Division, Uo. 269, Herman Hirsch, 36 Wil- liam street. Team Drivers' Union, No. 151, M. Edwin Harrison, 25 Smith street. Typographical Union, No. 143, A. B. Brown, 13 Eobinson avenue. DANIELSON (Killingly.) Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 21, Wm. M. Franklin, Danielson, Conn., E. F. D. No. 1 Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 623, Frank E. Young, P. O. Box 138. DERBY. Barbers' Union, No 216, Carl Christensen, 14 East Main street. Bartenders' Union, No. 229, A. L. Eapp, P. O Box 566, Shelton, Conn Brewery Workers' Jnion, No. 37, Branch No. 1, Conrad Iffland, care Derby Brewing Co. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 127, William J. Eiordon, 12 West Ninth street. 'Central Labor Union, James J. O'Donnell, 38 Commerce street. Machinists' Lodge, No. 259, F. B. Herriot, 212 Howe avenue, Shelton, Conn. Painters', Paperhangers ' and Decorators' Union, No. 99, George W. King, 136 School street, Ansonia, Conn. Plumbers' and Steam Fitters' Union, No. 132, Edward Gaffney, 66 Cen- tral street, Ansonia Conn, Street Eailway Employes' Union, No. 469, William P. Eeilly, 13 Cherry etreet. Typographical Union, No. 365, Harry F. Signan, 61 Perry avenue, Shel- ton, Conn. EAST CANAAN (North Canaan). Stone Cutters' Union, D. McGregor, P. O. Box 71, Ashley FaUs, Mass. DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 87 EAST HARTFORD. BlackfimithB ' Union, No. 267, Peter Hansen, 1210 Main street, Hart- ford, Conn. Bailroad Trainmen's Order, No. 551, G. VanGasbeek, 33 Burnside avenue. Switchmen's Union, No. 59, M. Conley, 16 Governor street, Hartford, Conn. ^ FAIRFIELD. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union No. 647, H. A. Lyman, Southport, Conn. FARMINGTON. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No. 845, William J. Bronson. GREENWICH. Bartenders' Union, No. 455, Arthur F. O'Neill, 135 Milbank avenue. Bricklayers' and Masons' Union, No. 14, Henry Leininger, 73 William street. Building Laborers' Union, No. 240, George Slauson, Highland Park. Building Trades' Council, W. H. Parrell, 89 Bailroad avenue. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, Wo. 196, Robert Talmage, 59 Church street. Painters', Decorators' and Paperhangers ' Union, No. 17, James Fogg, St., 35 Northfield street. Plumbers' and Steam Fitters', Union, No. 133, Bichard Canfield, 95 Bail- road avenue. Sheet Metal Workers' Union, No. 21, Frank E. Daly, 33 Lincoln avenue. Soil Pipe Makers' and Helpers' Union, No. 13,052, Frank Pavlik, 11 Division street. East Portehester, Conn. HARTFORD. Allied Printing Trades' Council, W. G. Murray, P. O. Box 594. Amalgamated Society of Engineers, H. S. Guy, 218 Barbour street. AsBorters' and Packers' Union, No. 8,316, Miss Mae Cotter, 290 Maple avenue. Bakery and Confectionery Workers' Union, No. 8, G. T. Bochman, 40 Whitmore street. Bakery and Confectionery Workers' Union, No. 80 (Jewish), Max O. Persch, 39 Pawtucket street. Barbers' Union, No. 73, Frederick W. Davis, 17 Walnut street. Bartenders' Union, No. 200, Frank J. Madden, 50 Annawan street. Boiler Makers' Union, No. 237, Edw. F. Mullaly, 26 Loomis street. Bookbinders' Union, No. 15, Edward M. Clark, 196 Buss street. Brewery Workers' Union, No. 35, Herman Quilitzsch, 860 Windsor avenue. Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 1, Martin FeUetter, P. O. Box 590. ' Bridge Carpenters' Union, No. 1,437, Alex. A. O. Olsen, Newington Junc- tion, Conn. Building Laborers' Union, No. 3, James Shea, 26 Elm street. Building Trades' Council, P. P. O'Beilly, P. O. Box 221. 86 DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 43, George E. Miskill, 21 May ' street. Carriage Workers' Union, No. 112, E. I. Cody, 162 Buss street. Car Workers' Union, No. 29, F. A. Enes, 7 Latimer street, East Hart- ford, Conn. Central Labor Union, P. P. O'Eeilly, Box 29. Cigar Makers' Union, No. 42, Eli BruneU, P. O. Box 343. Electrical Workers' Union, No. 35, (Inside), G. J. Lyman, 25 Asylum street. Electrical Workers' Union, No. 37, Joseph Rossano, 20 Village street. East Hartford, Conn. Electrotypers' Union, No. 74, John B. Robin, 27 Bliss street. Granite Cutters' Union, Hugh Rogers, 23 Wethersfield avenue. Hat and Cap Makers' Union, No. 31, Jacob Chaimson, 30 Wooster street. Horse Nail Makers' Union, No. 6,170, B. C. Hitchcock, 52 Annawan street. Horseshoers' Union, No. 14, Daniel J. Sullivan, 126 Brown street. International Molders' Union, No. 73, Charles Baisden, 152 Windsor avenue. International Molders' Union, No. 453, (Brass), James J. Bumster, 591 Zion street. Lathers' Union, No. 78, Henry Boudrean, 8 Bedford street. Leather Workers' (On Horse Goods) Union, No. 79, John J. Dalkin, 70 Harbison avenue. Letter Carriers' Association, No. 86, A. N. Kingsbury, 19 Pliney street. Lithographers' Union, No. 21, Thomas S. Donohue, 573 Franklin avenue. Locomotive Engineers' Division, No. 205, E. E. Bill, 29 Mansfield street. Locomotive Firemen's Lodge, No. 285, John Clancy, 54 Ranney street, East Hartford, Conn. Machinists' Lodge, No. 354, John W. Bartholomy, 229 Franklin avenue. Musicians' Protective Association, No. 4O0, John M. Linnon, 23 Cen- tral Row. Painters', Decorators' and Paperhangers' Union, No. 481, Frank Lewis, P. O. Box 193. Pattern Makers' Association, Frank C. Champlin, 3 Asylum street. Photo Engravers' Union, No. 33, Albert O. Olson, 53 Blue Hills avenue. Plumbers' Union, No. 76, F. W. Murphy, 209 Bellevue street. Polishers' and Buffers' Union, No. 35, Joseph Beauregard, 1 Webster street. Post Office Clerks' Association, No. 54, WiUiam J. Cosker, Hartford Post Office. Printing Pressmen's Union, No. 75, Ed. A. White, 746 Broad street. Prompter's Union, No. 170, F. W. Barrows, 306 Pearl street. Railway Clerks' Lodge, No. 186, Maurice O'Connor, 24 Cedar street. Railway Conductors' Order, No. 50, Charles H. Curtiss, 265 Main street. Railroad Trainmen's Lodge, No. 118, G. C. VanOstrem, 17 Seyms street. Retail Clerks' Union, No. 295, R. J. Jeffers, 15 South Prospect street. Sheet Metal Workers' Union, No. 77, S. Christensen, P. O. Box 480. Slate and Tile Roofers' Union, No 5, W. E. Williams, P. O. Box 741. Stationary Firemen's Union, No. 258, Joseph O'Donnell, 9 Benton street. Stereotypers' Union, No. 27, George W. Langreth, 28 Garvan street, East Hartford, Conn. Steam Fitters' Union, No. 44, M. McD. White, 853 Park street. Steam Fitters' and Helpers' Union; No. 218, W. J. MacLachlan, 5 Ken- yon Court. Stone Cutters' Union, Abraham Rice, 228 New Britain avenue. Street Railway Employees' Division, No. 425, Michael J. Morkan, 76 Retreat avenue. , DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 89 Structural Building Trades Alliance, William J. Moran, 60 Madison street. Tailors' Union, No. 139, F. Holmgren, 8 State street. Teamsters' Union, No. 399, Thomas G. Tracy, 16 Kussell street. Theatrical' Stage Employes' Union, No. 84, Gus May, 20 Douglas street. Tile Layers' Union, No. 31, James Hutton, 18 Lincoln street. Tobacco Strippers' Union, No. 10,227, Miss Lucy T. Doyle, 639 Wind- sor avenue. Typographical Union, No. 127, Oscar A. Miles, 67 Harbison avenue. Waiters' and Cooks' Alliance, No. 304, Albert Forni, 96 Wadsworth street. ' HOTCHKISSVILLE (Woodbury.) Pocket Knife Blade Grinders' and Finishers' Union, Harry Linton. Pocket Knife Makers' Union, No. 12,349, W. G. Norton. JEWETT CITY (Griswold.) Mule Spinners' Union, J. S. Sullivan, P. 0. Box 165. LONG HILL (TrumbflU.) Cigar Makers' Union, No 139, Charles G. Peet, P. O. Box 19. MANCHESTER. Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 20, T. J. Gorman, 2 Gorman Place, South Manchester, Conn. Carpenters' Union, No. 757, C. E. Truax, 3 Spring street, South Man- chester. Painters ' and Decorators ' Union, No. 869, W. M. Chase, 6 Union street. Betail Clerks' Union, Charles Logan, 30 Hilliard street, Manchester, Conn. MERIDEN. Allied Printing Trades Council, H. C. MaydweU, 61 Bast Main street. Bakers' Union, No. 60, Charles Torft, 238 Spring street. Barbers' Union, No. 88, Joseph J. Gutleber, 55 West Main street. Bartenders' Union, No. 159, John C. Hoban, 12% Pratt street. Brewery Workers' Union, No. 51, James Carroll, 27 Grant street. Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 9, George W. Ar- nold, 225 Curtis street. Building Laborers' Union No. 12, Kalph Nesci, 20 Pine street. Building Trades Council, William J. Buckley, P. O. Box 274. Carpenters ' and Joiners ' Union, No. 920, Joseph Dupins, 59 Elm street. Central Labor Union, George J. Stanley, 121 Elm street. Cigar Makers' Union> No. 484, F. Despin, 261 Broad street. Glass Cutters' Union, No. 63, William Marsland, Jr., 173 Center street. Iron Holders' Union, No. 74, William C. Corves, 40 South Second street. Lathers' Union, No. 296, James A. Galpin, Old Colony Road. Machinists' Lodge, No. 819, George E. Fowler, North Wall street. Musical Protective Union, No. 55, John J. Cody, 53 Prospect street. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No. 685, William J. Wedlake, P. O. Box 544. 90 DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. Plumbers' and Steam Fitters' Union, No. 21, A. B. Brodeur, Sylvan avenue. Pocket Knife Grinders' Union, No. 4, Lester Wadsworth, 78 Yale street. Polishers' and Buffers' Union, No. 8, Bicbard J. Bartbolomew, 248 West Main street. Printing Pressmen's Union, No. 156, John St. George, 109 Goodwill avenue. Eetail Clerks' Union, No. 56, A. P. Hagner, P. O. Box 185. Sheet Metal Workers' Union, No. 307, Martin S. Lemke, 54 North street. Street EailWay Etaployees' Division, No. 163, G. J. Tittel, 9 Hickory street. Table Knife Grinders' Union, No. 3, Herbert Hinde, P. O. Box 94, South Meriden, Conn. Table Knife Grinders' Union, John Finn, North First street. Typographical Union, No. 314, H. C. Maydwell, 61 East Main street. MIDDLETOWN. Barbers' Union, No. 648, Frank Fitzgerald, 490 Main street. Bartenders' Union, No. 469, M. E. GrifSn, 227 Main street. Building Laborers ' -Union, No. 4, F. Granaldi, 11 Elm street. Bricklayers', Masons' aAd Plasterers' Union, No. 11, Peter J. Whalen, 647 North High street. Carpenters' Union, No. 1,512, Alfred A. WUeox, 50 Schuyler avenue. Cigar Makers' Union, No. 299, Charles Anderson, 166 Grand street. Central Labor Union, C. J. Hoffman, 44 North Main street. Granite Cutters' Union, John W. Kahre, 254 Pearl street. International Molders' Union, No. 373, Harry Howard, Portland, Conn. Musical Protective Union, No.. 499, Arthur A, Leonard, 7 Cooley avenue. Street Eailway Employes' Division, No. 479, Charles J. Hoffman, 44 North Main street. MILFORD. Carp'enters' and Joiners' Union, No. 1,580, William H. Merwin, B. F. D., No. a. NAUGATUCK. Carpenters' Union, No. 804, Thomas F. Maher, care Naugatuck Hotel. Musicians' Union, No. 445, A. E. Langello, 346 High street. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No. 418, Edward P. Wilcox, 100 Gor- man street. NEW BRITAIN. Bakers' Union, No. 107, WilUam Glaban, 427 Chestnut street. Barbers' Union, No. 316, F. O. Wildman, 123 Main street. Bartenders' Union, No. 166, James E. O'Brien, 87 Beaver street. Brewery Workers' Union, No. 35, Branch No. 3, John Sohaub, care Cremo Brewing Co. Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 3, Walter Kinesburv. 454 Stanley street. b j> Building Laborers' Union, No. 4, S. Morelli, P. O. Box 964. Building Trades Council, Charles Weare, 282 Arch street. Carpenters' Union, No. 97, J. F. McGrath, 79 Spring street. DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 9I Carpenters' Union, No. 1,672 (MiU), Caxl A. Ahlstrom, 35 Hawkins street. Central I/abor Union, Carl A. Ahlstrom, 35 Hawkins street. Cigar Makers' Union, No. 321, F. A. Goddard, 298 Main street. Granite Cutters' Union, William JW. Greene, 15 Clark street. Iron Molders' Union, No. 241, C. J. Anderson, 94 Griswold street. Musicians' Union, No. 440, George W. Blinn, 350 Washington street. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No. 21, George S. Bivers, 132 Oak street. Polishers' and Buffers' Union, No. 126, M. J. Welch, 134 Winter street. Plumbers' and Steam Fitters' Union, No. 256, Claude Leroux, 65 North Glen street. Eailway Clerks' Lodge, No. 62, J. J. Eahaley, 381 Center street. Steam Fitters' Union, No. 43, James M. Lynch, 61 South Burritt street. Typographical Union, No. 679, H. J. Woodward, 72 Grand street. NEW CANAAN. Carpenters' Union, No. 409, M. S. Lahey. Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 29, Eafaele San Tam- ario, P. O. Box 107. Building Laborers' Union, Giovanni Pellegrino, P. O. Box 925. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No. 297, Charles M. Bette, 57 Main street. NEW HAVEN. Allied Printing Trades Council, Timothy A. Eyan, P. O. Box 1,463. Bakers' Union, No. 11, George J. Woedtke, 57 Mechanic street. Bakers' Union, No. 171, Harry Sheer, 324 West Portsea street. Barbers' Union, No. 215, Thomas G. L;si, 225 Franklin street. Bartenders' Union, No. 217, Edward T. MuUen, 549 Lombard street. Blacksmiths' Union, No. 180, Eobert Bruce, 208 Eosette street. Boiler Makers ' Union, No. 61, M. J. Whalen, 138 Carlisle street. Boiler Makers' Helpers' Union, No. 96, Isaac Goldstein, 141 Ward street. Bricklayers' and Plasterers' Union, No. 6, James Confrey, 606 Congress avenue. Building Laborers' Union, No. 5, Willie Paperella, 40 Bradley street. Building Trades Council, William J. Weber, 123 Lombard street. Brewery Workers' Union, No. 37, Gust. Buehler, 308 Davenport avenue. Cloth Hat and Cap Makers' Union, No. 28, J. Smith, 418 Oak street. Car Workers' Lodge, No. 48, A. L. Hamilton, 118 Lombard street. Carpenters' Union, No. 79, George F. Mordecai, P. O. Box 336. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 611 (Mill), Alfred Westeott, 155 Eead street. Carpenters' Union, No. 1,742 (Jewish), H. Wernoff, 47 Eedfield street. Cigar Makers' Union, No. 39, F. A. Grube, 23 Church street. Engineers' and Janitors' Association, D. A. Murray, 7 Greenwood street. Electrical Workers' Union, No. 90, C. F. Ganter, 141 Eamsdell street, Westville, Conn. Eleetrotypers ' Union, No. 83, George C. Wright, 230 Edgewood avenue. Garment Workers' Union (Ladies), Fred Varonick, 128 Washington avenue. Granite Cutters' Union, No. 62, Antonio_ C. Milici, 20 York street. Iron Molders' Union, No. 60, John Peterson, 179 Main. street. East Ha- ven, Conn. Lathers' Union, No. 215, E. T. Stevenson, 33 Judson avenue. 92 DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. Locomotive Engineers' Division, No. 77, Francis B. Gates, 354 Daven- port avenue. Locomotive Firemen's Lodge, No. 284, J. F. O'Cpnnell, 23fi Crescent avenue. Machinists' Lodge, No. 420, William H. Earn, P. O. Box 83, East Haven, Conn. Machinists' Lodge, No. 609, William F. McGarry, 110 Liberty street. Machinists' Lodge, No. 726, George Cary, 46 Ailing street. Musicians' Union, No. 234, Henry G. NichoUs, 174 Crown street. Painters' Union, No. 409, James J. Dunne, P. O. Box 887. Pattern Makers' Association, W. J. Gardner, 585 Howard avenue. Photo Engravers' Union, No. 65, Paul F. Kossick, 283 Campbell avenue. West Haven, Conn. Plumbers' and Gas Fitters' United Association, No. 349, George P. Farren, 772 George street. Polishers' and Buffers' Union, No. 25, Patrick Mahon, 299 Columbus avenue. Polishers' and Buffers' Union, No. 37, John Grace, 77 Woolsey street. Polishers' and Buffers' Union, No. 75, Edward Bole, 136 Peek street. Printing Pressmen's Union, No. 74, A. T. Eyan, P. O. Box 1,463. Eailway Clerks' Order, No. 224, A, I. Guthrie, 216 Kimberly avenue Railway Clerks' Order, No 227; Thomas E. Griggin, 696 Dixwell avenue. Eailway Conductors' Order, No. T (Independent), W. W. Pardee, 348 Crown street. Eailway Conductors' Order, No. 317, F. J. Planigan, 272 Portsea street. Eailroad Station Agents' Order, Sub-division, No. 2, William E. Purdy, Southport, Conn. Eailroad Trainmen's Lodge, No. 201, John L. Wynne, 17 Adeline street. Eailroad Telegraphers' Order, No. 29, G. F. McCormack, 95 Main street. West Haven, Conn. Sheet Metal Workers' Union, No. 225, John Cobey, 979 State street. Steam Engineers' Union, No. 478, Martin Kelly, 32 Allyn street, Hart- ford Conn. Steam Fitters' Union, No. 11, Harry J. Little, 549 Lombard street. Steam Fitters' Union, No. 16, Charles F. Brenan, 39 Arthur street. Stereotypers' Union, No. 27, George W. Langreth, 28 Garvan street. East Hartford, Conn. Stone Cutters' Union, W. B. Christie, 5 Hine Place. Stone Masons' Union, No. 7, Philip G. McDermott, 108 Adeline street. Street Eailway Employes' Division, No. 281, James J. Lynch, 227 Pine street. Tailors' Union, No. 22, Charles A. Olsen, 273 Munson street. Tailors' Union (Second Local), Abraham Eosenberg. Theatrical Stage Einployes' Union, No. 74, John A, O'Brien, 175 Chest- nut street. Tobacco Strippers' Union, No. 12,046, Miss Sadie J. Lyman, 52 Button street. Trades Council, Joseph J. Eeilly, P. O. Box 1,341. Typographical Union, No. 47, E. E. Otterson, P. O. Box 1,269. Wood Carvers' Association, Louis LaPorte, 652 Campbell avenue, West Haven, Conn. NEW LONDON. Barbers' Union, No 330, George Gosa, 5 Coit street. Bartenders' Union, No. 356, Ja^mes T. Dray, 50 Hempstead street. Bricklayers' and Plasterers' Union, No. 10, Joseph Lewis, P. O. Box 657. Brewery Workers' Union, No. 35, Branch No. 1, J. Sauersapf, 85 Hunt- ington street. DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 93 Building Laborers' Union, No. 242, P. Shea, 63 Tremont. street. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 30, Alex Murphy, 28 Connecticut s^venue. Central Labor Union, George Goss, 5 Coit street. , Electrical Workers ' Union, No; 543, E. J. Frost, 115 Connecticut avenue. Granite Cutters' Union, Albert A. Daniels, Groton, Conn. Hod Carriers' Union, Battelli Virgilio, 20 Shaw street. Iron Molders' Union, No. 156, O. H. Bennet, 109 Montauk avenue. Labor Council, A. Hoyle, Roosevelt street. Locomotive Engineers' Division, No. 348, H. J. Adams, 7 Boswell ave- nue, Norwich, Conn. Locomotive Firemen's- and Enginemen's Lodge, No. 608, L Davis, 15 Fourth street. Machinists' Lodge, No. 617, George Henry, P. O. Box 234, Groton, Conn. Marine Engineers' Association, No. 62, Edward W. Havens, 14 Ever- green avenue. Musicians' Union, No. 285, F. A. Christmann, 91 Truman street. Pattern Makers' Association, T. W. Henshall, 17 Masonic street. Plumbers', Gas and Steam Fitters' Union, No. 305, Thomas Murray, Jr., 9 Jefferson avenue. Eailway Conductors' Division, No. 500, George L. Spafford, 105 Broad street. Railway Clerks' Lodge, No. 107, E. J. Wilson, 65 Asheroft Eoad. Railroad Trainmen's Lodge, No. 496, H. E. Levitt, 14 Woodbridge street. Street Railway Employees' Division, No. 482, George E. Batting, 44 Reed street. Typographical Union, No. 159, Otto T. Cone, 33 Ocean avenue. NEW MILFORD. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 1,005, James G. MeaUa, P. O. Box 714. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No. 640, William Wohler. .NORTHFIELD (Litchfield.) Pocket Knife Grinders' Union, Joe Roberts, Northfield, Conn. NORWALK AND SOUTH NORWALK. Bakers' Union, No. 92, Robert Blydenburg, 19 Cove avenue, East Nor- waUc, Conn. Barbers' Union, No. 72, Charles Oddo, 215 Washington street. Bartenders' Union, No. 269, Herman E. Malmo, South Norwalk, Conn. Bricklayers' and Masons' Union, No. 13, J. V. Close, 74 Franklin ave- nue, Norwalk, Conn. Building Laborers' Union, No. 276, Gabriele Marino, 103 Lexington ave- nue. South Norwalk, Conn. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 746, W. H. Buttery, Sherry avenue, Norwalk, Conn. Central Labor Union, Mrs. Fannie J. Joyce, 16 Monroe street. South Norwalk, Conn. Cigar Makers' Union, No. 26, William F. Korn, 2 Burritt avenue. South Norwalk, Conn. Hat Finishers' Association, No. 16, Joseph M. Clancy, 30 Chestnut street. South Norwalk, Conn. 94 DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. Hat Makers' Association, No. 15, John W. Smith, 38 Elm-wood avenue, South Norwalk, Conn. Hat Trimmers' Aasoeiation, Miss Emma F. Buxton, 16 West avenue, South Norwalk, Conn. Hod Carriers' Union, Angelo Saldino, 14 Snowden avenue. South Nor- walk, Conn. Iron Holders' Union, No. 209, Gould J. Hoyt, 22 Spring Hill avenue. Musicians' Union, No. 52, Prank B. Field, 10 Franklin street, South Norwalk, Conn. ' Oyster Openers' Union, No. 13,081, L. W. Laud, 23 Day street. South Norwalk, Conn. Painters', Decorators' and Paperhangers ' Union, No. 527, Thomas Mc- CuUom, 6 East Cliff street. Plumbers' and Steam Fitters' Union, No. 22, H. E. Smith, 15 Union street, Norwalk, Conn. Sheet Metal Workers' Alliance, No. 127, Edward J. Hines, 129 South Main street, South Norwalk, Conn. Silk Weavers' Union, Joseph Miller, 22 Catherine street, Norwalk, Conn. Stone Masons' Union, No. 24, B. Scarso, 18 Clay street. Street Eailway Employes' IMvision, No. 476, Coles M. FrewweUin, 23 Myrtle street. East Norwalk, Conn. Tailors' Union; No. 364, Fred Fluek, 12 Tolles street. Team Drivers' Union, No. 293, W. E. Buxton, 1 Isaac street. Typographical Union, No. 529, Walter S. Ireland, Broad Eiver, 'Norwalk, Conn. NORWICH. Barbers' Union, No. 337, Walter D. Abendroth, 244 Main street. Bartenders', Hotel and Bestaurant Employers' Union, No. 367, George D. Ballon, 50 Union street. Bricklayers' and Masons' Union, No. 12, John Toomy, 419 North Main street. Building Laborers' Union, No. 15, James Fogarty, 42 Mt. Pleasant street. Building Trades Council) Walter Spaulding, 494 Main street. Carpenters' Union, No. 137, Eobert McNeely, 252 Main street. Carpenters' (Gun and Pistol Stockers) Union, No.*l,781, Harry Free- man, .49 Baltic street. Central Labor Union, Walter Spaulding, 494 Main street. Cigar Makers' Union, No. 407, R. A. Krohn, 1 Tyler avenue. Electrical Workers' Union, No. 343, Willis Hill, 28 Division street. Gun and Pistol Stockers' Union, No. 1781, Alonzo Letendre, Norwich avenue, Taftville, Conn. Iron Molders' Union, No. 126, William Fitzgerald, 165 North Main street. Loom Fixers' Union, No. 24, William T. Morton, R. F. D. No.. 4, Box 105. Musicians' Union, No. 235, Fred N. Clark, 245 West Main street Painters', Paperhangers' and Decorators' Union, No. 630, E. C. Leete, R. F. D., No. 7. Polishers', Brass Workers' and Buffers' Union, No 169, John A. Calla- han, Jr., 125 Cliff street. Plumbers' and Steam Fitters' Union, No. 267, Ed. Harrington, 354 Franklin street. Stationary Firemen's Union, No. 91, John P. Driscoll, 50 Central avenue. Stone Masons' Union, No. 28, Cesare Conti, 18 North Thames street. Street Railway Elmployes' Division, No. 262, John MeDerinott, 274 Pros- pect street. Typographical Union, No. 100, George B. Neibert, 65 Seventh street. DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 95 ONECO (Sterling.) Granite Cutters' TJnion, Frank Carpenter, P. O. Box 62. PLAINFIELD. Mule Spinners' Union, Asa Hilton, P. O. Box 426. PUTNAM. Barbers' Union, No. 405, Felix J. Lessard, 20 Elm street. ' Bartenders' Union, No. 318, Albert Broussean, 11 Lee street. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 818, Fred W. TeflEt, 88 Mechanic street. ROCKVILLE (Vernon.) Bartenders' Union, No. 706, Michael J. O'ConneU. Carpenters' Union, No. 1,472, William Hetzler, Ellington avenue. Painters' Union, No. 969, Balph Matthewson, 153 East Main street. RIDGEFIELD. Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 27, Arthur Ellenstein, P. O. Box 357. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 1,119, Norman Walker, E. F. D., No. 46. Musicians' Union, No. 459, J. Patrick O'Leary. Plumbers ', Gas and Steam Fitters ' Union, No. 344, P. J. McKenna, P. O. Box 171. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No. 808, C. L. Sherwood, P. O. Box 186. ROXBURY. Granite Cutters' Association, Charles G. Anderson, B. F. D., No. 66. SEYMOUR. Horse Nail Makers' Union, No. 10,953, Frank H. Wyant, 69 High street SHELTON (Huntington.) Bakery and Confectionery Workers' Union, No. 138, Adam Bauer, 936 Howe avenue. • ' SOMERS. Metal Polishera' and Buffers' Union, No. 52, J. M. Midwood. SOUTHINGTON. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 793, A. F. Lindsay. Drop Forgers' Union, Frank Gill. Polishers' Union, No. 183, John J. Gray, P. O. Box 711. t 96 DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. STAFFORD. Painters' and Paperhangers ' Union, No. 569, William Slater, P. O. Box 470, Stafford Springs, Conn. STAMFORD. Barbers' Union, No. 491, L. P. Braun, 827 East Main street. Bartenders' Union, No. 455, Arthur F. O'Neill, 135 Milbank avenue, Greenwich, Conn. Bricklayers' and Plasterers' Union, No. 8, George Waterbury, 131 Lock- wood avenue. Building Laborers' Union, Cesare Latte, 68 Liberty street. Building Trades Council, James V. Kelley. Carpenters' (Amalgamated) Union, No. 808, John McKerchar, 785 At- lantic street. Carpenters' Union, No. 210, John D. Flynn, West North street. Central Labor Union, James F. Jerman, 36 Orchard street. Cigar Makers' Union, No. 398, Felix L. Pirz, 413 Main street. Electrical Workers' Union, No. 310, F. H. Clear, 371 Main street. Iron Molders' Union, No. 161, Charles McGill, 24 Hazel street. Journeymen's Tailors' Union, Konrad Loske, 18 Adams avenue. Lathers' Union, Bdw. Pendergast, 38 Chapel street. Musicians' Union, L. G. Wood, 12 Clinton avenue. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No. 192, T. H. McVeigh, 15 Wood- land avenue. ^'lumbers' and Steam Fitters' Union, No. 311, Albert A. MiUer, P. 0. Box 8, Glenbrook, Conn. Bailroad Trainmen's Lodge, No. 693, C. A. Beers, 12 Bedford Placa Sheet Metal Workers' Union, No. 189, Eobert C. Sloat, 205 Franklin street. Street EaUway Employes' Division, No. 443, P. McMann, Woodside street. Stone Masons' Union, No. 23, Enrico D'Aprile, P. O. Box 8. Typographical Union, No. 503, Horace W. Graves, 19 Luther street. STONINGTON. Iron Molders ' Union, No. 163, J. E. Lahey, P. O. Box 179. STRATFORD. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 1,914, G. W. Howard, 178 Beards- ley street, Bridgeport, Conn. STONY CREEK (Branford.) Granite Cutters '- Union, Harry Julian, P. O. Box 104. SUFFIELD. Cigar Makers' Union, No. 156, James L. Barnett, Lock Box 32. DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 97 TAFTVILI.E (Norwich.) Mule Spinners' Union, No. 11, George Eastham, P. 0: Box 419. Loom Fixers' Union, No-. 63, William Y. Morton, E. F. D., No. 4, P. O. Box 105, Norwich, Conn. THOMASTON. Pocket Knife Blade Grinders' Union, John Hohn, Eeynolds Bridge, Conn. Musical Protective Association, No. 438, Leuis Lake. THOMPSONVILLE (Enfield.) Barbers' Union, No. 344, Charles Graham, 59 North School street. Bartenders' Union, No. 148, Timothy J. Connors, 49 Alden avenue. Carpenters' Union, No. 284, Lester H. Creelman. Central Labor Union, Charles E. Iserman, P. O. Box 879. Metal Polishers' and Buffers' Union, No. 52, E. J. Lester, 21 Central street. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No. 386, J. J. Grarrow, 33 Garden street. Street Railway Employes' Division, No. 452, F. W. Lovejoy. TORRINGTON. Bartenders' Union, No 283, Armond Dupree, High street. Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 19, D. B. Doyle, 797, South Main street. Building Laborers' Union, No. 8, Umberto Fellirrari, P. O. Box 466. Carpenters' Union, No. 216, J. L. Drum, 403 South Main street. Machinists' Lodge, No. 558, Lawrence Smith, 81 Pearl street. Musicians' Union, No. 514, Paul Welch, 81 New Litchfiel,d street. Italian Labor Society, Antonio Quartulli, 39 Willow street. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No. 516, Harry E. Vail, 33 Brookes street. UNIONVILLE (Farmington.) Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 1,341, E. H. Harris, P. O. Box 88. WALLINGFORD. Bartenders' Union, No. 358, James A. Downey, 98 Orchard street. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 1,626, Charles A. Smith, 138 Fair street. Central Labor Union, J. J. Houlihan. Iron Molders' Union, No. 113, Fred Raarup, P. O. Box 153, South Mer- iden. Conn. Musicians' Union, No. 332, Francis A. Degnan, North Colony street. Painters' and Decorators 'Union, No. 1;028, Harry Smith, 519 East Cen- ter street. Polishers' and Buffers' Union, No. 73, A. J. McCart, 392 Center street. Polishers ' and Buffers ' Union, No.. 77, Frank A. Parker, 23 Pearl street. Table Knife Grinders' Union, No. 2, James Flynn, Colony street. gS DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. WATERBURY. Allied Printing Trades Council, J. W. Wiggins, P. O. Box 63. Bakers' Union, No. 155, Theo. J. Eitel, 132 OaJs street Bartenders' Union, No 254, William G. Doncette, 444 South Main street. Brewery Workers ' Union, No. 126, August Beutter, 347 West Main street. Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 16, Joseph P. Hay- den, 22 East Wood avenue. Building Laborers' Union, No. 7, Genaro Giorgi, 257 Bank street. Building Trades Alliance, J; Lundwall, P. O. Box 108. Carpenters' Union, j.>o. 260, N. J. Engelke, 50 Leavenworth street. Central Labor Union, P. J. Lynch, P. O. Box 57 Cigar Makers' Union, No 395, Val. C. Hahn, 27 Irion street. Granite Cutters' Union, James M. Skahan, 695 East Main street. Horseshoers' Union, No. 166, C. E. Mann, 111 Griggs street. Iron Molders' Union, No. 298, Thomas E. Allen, 420 River street. Machinists' Lodge, No. 625, F. H. Morrisseau, €9 Cherry street. Machinists' Lodge, No. 960, Jos TriUkanskas, 700 N. Riverside street. Musicians' Union, No. 186, Ray B. EeiUy. Meat Cutters' Union, No. 492, James P. Morehouse, P. O. Box 57. Painters' and Decorators' Union, No 491, P. E. Lundvall, 190 Hill street. Pattern Makers' Association, Michael Croce, 274 South Main street. Plumbers' and Steam Fitters' Union, No. 22, J. E. Dowlin, 14 Wood street. Printing Pressmen's Union, No. 150, Harry Frank, 75 Phoenix avenue. Railway Clerks' Lodge, No. 14, P. J. Cronin, 493 Meadow street. Railroad Trainmen's Lodge, No. 423, G. H. Turkington, 33 Abbott avenue. Stampers' Union, No. 207, James P. Donohue, P. O. Box 57. Sheet Metal Workers' Union, No. 199, A. C. Richmond, 1,764 East Main street. Steam and Hot Water Fitters' Union, No. 52, William Hayden, 268 Wil- low street. Stone Cutters' Union, Patrick Quinlan, 107 North Elm street. Street Railway Eiinployes' Union, No. 570, Thomas Berube, 928 West Main street. Theatrical Stage Employes' Union, No. 88, Thomas F. Corrigan, Box 365. Typographical Union, No. 329, P. J. Lynch, P. O. Box 63. WATERFORD. Granite Cutters' Union, Louis E. Perkins, P. O. Box 92. WESTPORT. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 1,945, Joseph McGill, P. O. Box 17. Painters' and Decorators' Union, Carl Lindquist, P. O. Box 210. WILLIMANTIC. Barbers' Union, No. 642, Felix J. Lessard, 702 Main street. Bartenders' Union, No. 519, M. P. Driseoll, 1149 Main street. Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 17, Henry Gee, care Oliver Willard. Building Trades Council, John R. McCarthy, P. O. Box 335. Carders' and Ring Spinners' Union, No. 811, Albert Angill, 34 Winter street. DIRECTORY OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 99 Carpenters' Union, No. 825, Bufus H. Bood, 156 Oak street. Central Labor Union, Joseph W. Beauchemin, P. O. Box 242. Machinists' Lodge, No. 300, Harry Anderson, P. O. Box 231. Musicians' Union, No. 403, H. A. Ihimas, 75 Valley street. Painters' Union, No. 537, J. Goldsborough, 254 Jackson street. Plumbers', Steabi and Gas Fitters' Union, No. 345, John E. MeCarty, Spring street. Spoolers' Union, No. 671, Miss Anna Burke, 215 Jackson street. WILTON. Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, No. 1,700, Chris B. Evans. WINSTED (Winchester.) Bricklayers', Masons' and Plasterers' Union, No. 18, William Kennedy, P. O. Box 343, Norfolk, Conn. Painters ' and Decorators ' Union, No. 575, W. L. Barnes, 22 Allen street. Pen and Pocket Knife Grinders', and Finishers' Union, Charles Fines, 710 Main street. Track Foremen's Union of the C. N. E. R. R., Michael McMahon, 18 Cherry street. 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