ceed in the same manner as if the determination had been recommended to the commission by a wage board. [Acts, 1912, c. 706, § 10.]

112. Register of employees, witness fees, etc. - Every employer of women and minors shall keep a register of the names, addresses and occupations of all women and minors employed by him, together with a record of the amount paid each week to each woman and minor, and shall, on request of the commission or of the director of the bureau of statistics, permit the commission or any of its members or agents, or the director of the bureau of statistics or any duly accredited agent of said bureau, to inspect the said register and to examine such parts of the books and records of employers as relate to the wages paid to women and minors. The commission shall also have power to subpoena witnesses, administer oaths and take testimony. Such witnesses shall be summoned in the same manner and be paid from the treasury of the commonwealth the same fees as witnesses before the superior court. [Acts, 1912, c. 706, § 11, as last am. by Acts, 1914, c. 368, § 4.]

113. The commission may require the collection of data. Upon request of the commission, the director of the bureau of statistics shall cause such statistics and other data to be gathered as the commission may require, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the appropriation made for the expenses of the commission. [Acts, 1912, c. 706, § 12.]

114. Penalty for certain acts of employers. Any employer who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because such employee has testified, or is about to testify, or has served or is about to serve upon a wage board, or is or has been active in the formation thereof, or has given or is about to give information concerning the conditions of such employee's employment, or because the employer believes that the employee may testify, or may serve upon a wage board, or may give information concerning the conditions of the employee's employment, in any investigation or proceeding relative to the enforcement of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars for each offence. [Acts, 1912, c. 706, § 13, as last am. by Acts, 1914, c. 368, § 5.]

115. Names of certain employers to be published. The commission shall from time to time determine whether employers in each occupation investigated are obeying its decrees, and shall publish in the manner provided in section six, the name of any employer whom it finds to be violating any such decree. (See paragraphs 107 and 108.) [Acts, 1912, c. 706, § 14.]

116. Penalty upon newspaper for refusing to publish certain findings, etc. Any newspaper refusing or neglecting to publish the findings, decrees and notices of the commission at its regular rates for the space taken shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars for each offence. [Acts, 1912, c. 706, § 15.]

117. Wilful misrepresentation prohibited. No member of the commission and no newspaper publisher, proprietor, editor or employee thereof, shall be liable to an action for damages for publishing the name of any employer in accordance with the provisions of this act, unless such publication contains some wilful misrepresentation. [Acts, 1912, c. 706, § 16.]

118. Annual report. The commission shall annually, on or before the first Wednesday in January, make a report to the general court of its investigations and proceedings during the preceding year. [Acts, 1912, c. 706, § 17.]

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119. Duties. - There shall be a bureau of statistics, the duties of which shall be to collect, assort, arrange, and publish statistical information relative to the commercial, industrial, social, educational, and sanitary condition of the people, the productive industries of the commonwealth, . . .; to establish and maintain free employment offices as provided for by [Acts, 1909, c. 514, §§ 1-9] and amendments thereof; and to take the decennial census of the commonwealth required by the constitution and present the results thereof in such manner as the general court may determine. [Acts, 1909, c. 371, § 1.]

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120. Director and deputy director. tor who shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the council to serve for a term of three years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. ... He shall appoint a deputy director who, in the absence of the director, or in case of his disability, or in the event of his death, pending the appointment and qualification of his successor, shall have authority to perform all the duties of the director as prescribed by law. . . . [Acts, 1909, c. 371, § 2, as last am. by Acts, 1912, c. 560.]

121. Expenses. -... The director may expend for clerical assistance, special agents, and contingent expenses, such amount as the general court may annually appropriate for these purposes. [Acts, 1909, c. 371, § 2, as last am. by Acts, 1912, c. 560.]

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122. Examination of witnesses, etc. [The director] may require the attendance of witnesses, and the production of books and documents, and may examine witnesses under oath; and such witnesses shall be examined in the same manner and be paid the same fees as witnesses before the superior court. [Acts, 1909, c. 371, § 2, as last am. by Acts, 1912, c. 560.]

123. Blank forms, etc. The director of the said bureau is authorized to prepare a schedule or blank form for the collection of such data as may be, in his judgment, desirable for the proper presentation of statistics of manufactures and the promotion of the industrial welfare of the commonwealth. [Acts, 1909, c. 371, § 4.] 124. Schedule or forms to be furnished to manufacturing establishments, etc. The said schedule shall be sent by mail annually, on or before the fifteenth day of December, to the owner, operator or manager of every manufacturing establishment in the commonwealth, and such owner, operator, or manager, or any other person to whom the schedule or blank form is sent shall answer the inquiries thereon and return the same to the bureau properly certified as to its accuracy,

not later than the following twentieth day of January: provided, however, that the director may, in his discretion, extend the time for returning the schedule beyond said twentieth day of January. The director is authorized to suspend the operation of this section in years when the United States takes a census of manufactures in Massachusetts, to such degree as may be necessary in order to facilitate co-operation between said bureau and the federal census authorities in the collection and compilation of the statistics of Massachusetts manufactures in such census years, and the avoidance of needless duplication of labor and expense. [Acts, 1909, c. 371, § 4.] 125. Information collected not to be used except, etc. The information authorized to be collected by the preceding section shall not be used by said bureau either by publication or in any other manner, so as to disclose the private affairs of any person, partnership or corporation, and the bureau shall hold all such information to be strictly confidential with respect to persons, partnerships, or corporations. Any official, agent, or employee of said bureau who violates this provision shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year; but this section shall not be construed as prohibiting said bureau from tabulating and publishing such information relative to manufacturing corporations as may be required by law to be filed with other state departments. [Acts, 1909, c. 371, § 5.]

126. To gather statistics for the minimum wage commission. — Upon request of the [minimum wage commission], the director of the bureau of statistics shall cause such statistics and other data to be gathered as the commission may require, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the appropriation made for the expenses of the commission. [Acts, 1912, c. 706, § 12.]

127. Annual report. The director of the bureau of statistics shall annually on or before the third Wednesday in January submit to the general court a statement summarizing the work of the bureau during the preceding year, and shall make therein such recommendations as he may deem proper. He shall also prepare annually for distribution as public documents, a report on the statistics of labor, which shall embody statistical and other information relating especially to labor affairs in the commonwealth; a report on the statistics of manufactures, to be gathered as hereinafter more particularly provided for; . . . and a report covering the work of the free employment offices. The secretary of the commonwealth shall cause copies of these several annual reports to be printed as follows: Of the report on the statistics of labor, three thousand [five hundred] copies, of which two thousand [five hundred] shall be for the use of the bureau, [but there shall be issued an additional number of the several parts of said report such as in the judgment of the director of the bureau may be required to meet the public demand for the same]; of the report on the statistics of manufactures, three thousand copies, of which two thousand shall be for the use of the bureau; . . . of the report on the free employment offices, two thousand five hundred copies, of which one thousand five hundred shall be for the use of the bureau. . . . The director may also publish, at such intervals as he deems expedient, bulletins or special reports relative to industrial or economic matters and municipal affairs. [Acts, 1909, c. 371, § 3, as am. by Acts, 1910, c. 83, and Acts, 1913, c. 358.]

128. Organization of commission. A commission is hereby established, to be known as the homestead commission, and to consist of the following persons: the director of the bureau of statistics, the bank commissioner, the president of the Massachusetts agricultural college, one member of the state board of health, to be selected by the board, and three other persons to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council. The three members of the commission last named shall be appointed in the first place for terms of one, two and three years, respectively, and thereafter their successors shall be appointed for terms of three years. Of the persons so appointed by the governor, one shall be a woman, and one at least shall represent the laboring class. The commission shall report to the next general court, not later than January 10, 1912, a bill or bills embodying a plan and the method of carrying it out whereby, with the assistance of the commonwealth, homesteads or small houses and plots of ground may be acquired by mechanics, factory employees, laborers and others in the suburbs of cities and towns. The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be allowed such sums for their expenses as may be approved by the governor and council. [Acts, 1911, c. 607.]

129. Additional members, appointment of. The commission shall be enlarged by the addition of two new members, one of whom shall be an attorney-atlaw and one a recognized expert in the planning of cities and towns; and the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall, as soon as may be practicable after the passage of this act, appoint the said additional members, one of whom shall serve for a term of two years, and one for a term of one year, and upon the expiration of their terms, their successors shall be appointed in like manner for terms of three years each. [Acts, 1913, c. 595, § 2.]

130. Commission to continue its investigation. The commission established by Acts, 1911, c. 607 shall continue its investigation of the need of providing homesteads for the people of the commonwealth and its study of plans already in operation or contemplated elsewhere for housing wage-earners, and shall report to the legislature not later than the first Wednesday in January, 1913, and may recommend such legislation as in its judgment will tend to increase the supply of wholesome homes for the people. The commission may expend in prosecution of its work such sums, not exceeding in the aggregate two thousand dollars, as the governor and council may approve. [Acts, 1912, c. 714.]

131. Investigations to be continued indefinitely. The homestead commission, created by Acts, 1911, c. 607, is authorized to continue from time to time its investigations of defective housing, of the evils resulting therefrom, and of the work being done to remedy the same in Massachusetts and elsewhere; to make studies of the operation of building and tenement house laws; to encourage the creation of

local planning boards, and to gather information relating to city and town planning for the use of such boards; and to promote the formation of organizations intended to increase the supply of wholesome homes for the people. [Acts, 1913, c. 595, § 1.] 132. Commission to co-operate with local planning boards. The homestead commission, . . . is hereby directed to call the attention of the mayor and city governments in cities and the selectmen in each town having . a planning board, to the provisions of [Acts, 1913, c. 494, relating to the establishment of planning boards by cities and towns] in such form as may seem proper; and said commission is furthermore authorized and directed to furnish information and suggestions from time to time to city governments and to the selectmen of towns and to local planning boards, when the same shall have been created, such as may, in its judgment, tend to promote the purposes of [the above] act and of those for which the said commission was established. [Acts, 1913, c. 494, § 3, as am. by Acts, 1914, c. 283, § 2.]

133. To make annual report, etc. The commission shall make an annual report to the general court, which the secretary of the commonwealth shall cause to be printed as a public document, and the commission may expend annually such sums of money as the general court may appropriate. [Acts, 1913, c. 595, § 3.]

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OTHER BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, ETC.

The following state boards, commissions or officials are also concerned in the administration of the laws presented in this handbook: Governor and council, secretary of the commonwealth, treasurer and receiver-general, attorney-general, public service commission, state department of health, fire prevention commissioner, supervisor of loan agencies, highway commission, insurance commissioner, board of education, commissioner of corporations, board of prison commissioners, state board of charity, gas and electric light commissioners, bank commissioner, board of commissioners of the Massachusetts nautical school, state board of agriculture, sergeantat-arms, metropolitan park commission, and state actuary. For the respective duties of these boards, etc., in this connection see index.)