Commonwealth v. Riley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint received and sworn to in the Second District Court of Bristol on March 1,1910, charging the defendant with a violation of St. 1909, c. 514, §§ 48, 49, in that on February 24, 1910, “ being then and there the superintendent of the Davol Mills,” a corporation carrying on a manufacturing establishment in Fall River, in which women were employed and in which the corporation had caused to be posted and had maintained on February 24 “ in a conspicuous place in said…
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Complaint received and sworn to in the Second District Court of Bristol on March 1,1910, charging the defendant with a violation of St. 1909, c. 514, §§ 48, 49, in that on February 24, 1910, “ being then and there the superintendent of the Davol Mills,” a corporation carrying on a manufacturing establishment in Fall River, in which women were employed and in which the corporation had caused to be posted and had maintained on February 24 “ in a conspicuous place in said establishment in a certain room therein in which said room were employed certain women,” among them one Nora Callahan,…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a complaint against the defendant as superintendent of the Davol Mills for employing a woman contrary to the provisions of St, 1909, c. 514, § 48. This section limits the time during which minors under the age of eighteen years and women may be employed in labor in manufacturing and mechanical establishments, to fifty-six hours in each week, and to ten hours in each day, “ unless a different apportionment of the hours of labor is made for the sole purpose of making a shorter day’s work for one day of the week,” except that where employment is by seasons the hours of labor in each week…
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