section 14 is amended by inserting the words or, where the building or proposed building is over two stories in height, as a shop or office building," after the word "factory" in the second line, and the words " shops or office buildings as the case may be" after the word 'factories" in the seventh line.

5. Every plan required to be submitted to the Inspector under the said section 14 shall be submitted in duplicate and one duplicate may be certified as provided in the said section and the other shall be retained by the Inspector and filed in the Trades and Labour Branch.

6. Notwitstanding anything contained in sections 18 to 21 of the Factory, Shop and Office Building Act the Inspector may enter, inspect and examine at all reasonable times by day or night any premises when he has reason to believe that such premises or any part thereof are being used as a factory, shop, bakeshop or office building.

7. The notices as to the provisions of The Factory, Shop and Office Building Act which are required by section 23 of the said Act to be affixed at the entrance to and in other parts of a factory, shop, bakeshop or office building, shall be so affixed by the Inspector, and thereafter the employer shall see that the same are constantly kept affixed and in default shall incur the penalty provided by subsection (2) of the said

section.

8. Whenever the Inspector deems that there is reasonable cause to believe that he may be resisted, obstructed or hindered in entering, inspecting, or examining any factory, shop, bakeshop or office building, he may require any constable authorized to act in the locality to accompany him and to put down any such resistance, obstruction or hindrance by force, if necessary, and it shall be the duty of the chief constable and every member of the police force in any locality to render the Inspector such assistance in carrying out his duties under the said Act as he may require.

Employment of Children in Factories.

9. No child shall be employed in any factory, and sections 25, 26, 31 and 36 of The Factory, Shop and Office Building Act relating to the employment of children in the business of canning or desiccating fruits and vegetables are repealed.

10. Section 35 of The Factory, Shop and Office Building Act authorizing the employ ment of women to a later hour than half past six o'clock in the afternoon during the months of July, August, September and October in a factory where the work of canning or desiccating fruits or vegetables is carried on, is repealed.

Sanitation.

11. (1) The employer in every factory, shop, bakeshop or office building shall, during working hours, keep the factory, shop, bakeshop or office building, including all passages and sanitary conveniences used in connection therewith and under his control, properly lighted so as not to be injurious to the health, safety and comfort of the employees, and the owner of every building used as a factory, shop, bakeshop or office building, shall at all times keep the same or such parts thereof as are under his control or are used in common by the tenants or occupants of the building, and the employer shall at all times keep any part thereof which is under his control, properly lighted so as not to be injurious to the health, safety or comfort of persons employed in the building or using or having access to the same.

(2) Every owner or employer who for thirty days or for such extended period as the Inspector allows, refuses or neglects to comply with the requirements of this section after being notified in writing with regard to the same, by the Inspector, shall incur a penalty of not less than $200 and not exceeding $500, and in default of payment shall be liable to imprisonment for a period of not more than twelve months.

12. (1) Where not less than thirty-five females are employed in a factory or shop, the employer shall provide suitable dressing-rooms and eating-rooms for the female employees and shall employ a suitable person as matron or attendant to have charge of such dressing-rooms and eating-rooms.

(2) Subsection 1 shall not apply to any case where, owing to the nature of the occupation or for other reasons, the Inspector dispenses with compliance thereof in writing signed by him.

(3) Every factory or shop in which the employer neglects to comply with the provisions of this section after notice in writing from the Inspector shall be deemed to be kept so that the health of the employees is endangered.

Guarding Machinery, &c.

13. Whenever the Inspector deems that any machinery, appliance, matter, or thing in a factory is a source of danger to the health or safety of the employees or of persons having access to the factory, he shall give notice in writing to the employer, requiring him to take such measures for guarding such machinery, appliances, matter or thing, or protecting the safety or health of employees and other persons against danger therefrom, as the Inspector may think requisite and a factory in which the

employer neglects to comply with any such notice within the time specified therein, shall be deemed to be kept so that the safety of the persons employed therein is endangered.

Boiler Inspection.

14. (1) No boiler in a factory, shop, bakeshop or office building or in any other building on any other premises or in any other place or in a highway or any other public place shall be operated or used unless the same is insured in some boiler insurance company, registered in the Department of Insurance, or has been inspected within one year by some person authorized in writing by the Superintendent of the Trades and Labour Branch,

(2) Every such boiler insurance company shall annually on the thirtieth day of November, transmit to the Chief Inspector, a report of the boilers in Ontario insured by it, and when the insurance is cancelled the company shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Chief Inspector.

(3) Whenever the Inspector is of opinion that a boiler is in such position, or is so located or operated as to be dangerous to life or property he may, by written notice to the owner and employer, and to the person operating or using such boiler, direct that the use of the boiler shall be discontinued until it has been inspected as provided in subsection (1) and a certificate has been given by the Inspector that the boiler may be safely operated.

(4) A factory, shop or office building in which a boiler is used in contravention of the requirements of this section after such notice from the Inspector and before a certificate has been given as provided in subsection (3), shall be deemed to be kept so that the safety of the persons employed in the factory, shop or office building is in danger.

(5) Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, the Superintendent of the Trades and Labour Branch may make regulations:

(a) prescribing the qualifications of persons to act as inspectors under subsection (1);

(b) respecting the examination of candidates and the granting of certificates and the evidence to be furnished by the candidates as to previous training and experience and as to sobriety and good character;

(c) determining the periods for which the certificates shall be granted and the terms upon which they may be renewed;

(d) fixing the fees to be paid by candidates upon examination and for certificates and renewals;

(e) prescribing the causes for which a certificate may be revoked, cancelled or suspended;

(f) fixing the fees or other remuneration to be paid to an inspector upon inspection;

(g) assigning the district or locality in which any inspector is to act; (6) Nothing in subsection (5) shall apply to the inspection of any boiler which is insured as provided in subsection (1).

(7) In this section "boiler" shall have the same meaning as the expression "steam boiler" in the Steam Boiler Act but shall not include nor shall this section apply to a boiler:

(a) used for heating purposes in a dwelling house, not being part of an apartment house, or;

(b) used on a farm for agricultural purposes only.

(8) Section 57 of the Factory, Shop and Office Building Act as amended by section 5 of the Act passed in the fourth year of His Majesty's reign, chapter 40, is repealed.

1919.

(9) This section shall come into force and take effect on the first day of January,

Penalties.

15. (1) Whenever in The Factory, Shop and Office Building Act it is provided that a penalty may be imposed for an offence against the Act and no minimum penalty is prescribed, no less penalty shall be imposed upon conviction for the offence than an amount equivalent to one-tenth of the maximum penalty and in no case less than $10.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in The Factory, Shop and Office Building Act contained, penalties recovered under the said Act shall be paid by the convicting Magistrate to the Inspector or to the Crown Attorney, and shall be paid over by the Inspector or the Crown Attorney as the case may be, to the Chief Inspector and accounted for to the Treasurer of Ontario.

Schedule.

16. Schedule "A" to The Factory, Shop and Office Building Act is amended by adding thereto the list set out in the Schedule to this Act, and this amendment shall have effect as from the 9th day of October, 1914.

17. This Act shall be read with and as part of The Factory, Shop and Office Building Act and the said Act shall be interpreted as amended hereby, and words and phrases used in this Act shall have the meaning given to the same words and phases respectively by section 2 of The Factory, Shop and Office Building Act.

Chapter 51.-12. Section 11 of the Industrial Education Act is amended by adding thereto the following subsection:

(5) Subject to the approval of the Board, an advisory industrial committee may appoint one or more officers with qualifications approved by the Minister, to collect and to distribute information regarding available occupations and employments, and to offer such counsel to the pupils of the schools under the charge of the commitee as will enable them to plan intelligently for their vocational and educational advancement and every person so appointed shall be subject to the control of the advisory industrial

committee.

Assented to March 26, 1918.

MANITOBA.

Employment of Children in Street Trades.

Chapter 12.-17. Section 40 of the said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subsection:

(2) Any person who violates any of the provisions of this [Children's] Act, or any regulations made pursuant to the provisions of this Act, relating to the employment of children as newsboys, delivery boys or messengers, shall be liable, on summary conviction before a Juvenile Court Judge, or a Police Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twenty-one days, or both. Assented to March 6, 1918.

Employment Offices.

Chapter 25.-1. This Act may be cited as The Employment Bureau Act.

2. There shall be a branch of the public service of Manitoba, to be known as "The Government Employment Bureau, which shall be attached to the Department of Agriculture and Immigration, and shall be under the direction and control of the Minister in charge of that Department.

3. The purpose of the bureau shall be to provide facilities for finding employment and for the distribution of male and female labour throughout the province.

4. (1) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint an officer to be known as the Superintendent of the Employment Bureau, and such other officers and clerks as may be required for carrying on the work of the bureau, and fix their salaries or other remuneration.

(2) The salaries of persons appointed as aforesaid, and also all the expenses of the adequate maintenance of the said Bureau, shall be paid out of the consolidated revenue fund of the province, and charged against any appropriation in the said Department. 5. (1) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may also appoint an advisory board of five members whose services are to be given without remuneration, except their actual travelling expenses whilst away from home in the discharge of the duties of their office.

(2) Three of the members of the advisory board shall be selected one from each of the following: The Trades and Labour Council, the organized Farmers, and the employers of non-agricultural labour, and the fourth member shall be the secretary of the Provincial Bureau of Labour.

6. It shall be the duty of the Bureau to:

(a) Establish and maintain one or more employment bureaus in the city of Winnipeg and at such other places within the province as may be designad by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

(b) Put employers who want workpeople, and workpeople who want work within the province of Manitoba, into communication with one another free of charge.

(c) Collect such statistical and other information respecting employment and unemployment in Manitoba as may be deemed necessary or expedient from time to time.

(d) Enquire and report as to the establishment of new industries in Manitoba, in any case where by reason of the production of raw material for such industry, or the immigration of persons skilled in the particular industry or other circumstances, it appears that such industry might be profitably carried on.

(e) Prepare and transmit to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council annually a report upon the work of the Bureau during the preceding year, together with such statistical and other information as may have been collected by the Bureau. (f) To co-operate with the Federal Labour Exchange.

7. The duties of the advisory board shall be:

(a) To receive, examine and decide upon complaints of employees and employers seeking the assistance of the Bureau, whenever the board considers such action necessary.

(b) To act in a general advisory capacity in framing regulations to be made under this Act, and advise and co-operate with the superintendent of the Bureau in promoting the efficiency of the said Bureau.

8. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations respecting the duties and working of the Government Employment Bureau, and all

such regulations not inconsistent with this Act shall have the same force and effect as if they were set forth in this Act.

9. (1) From and after the coming into force of this Act no person, corporation or association shall collect or receive, directly or indirectly, any fee or compensation for sending or persuading, enticing, inducing, procuring or causing to be sent from or to any place within the province, to or from any place outside the Province, or between any two places within the Province, any person seeking employment, or for giving or furnishing any information regarding employers seeking workers or workers seeking employment.

(2) In case of a strike of employees in any industry at any place, no bureau shall, with knowledge of such strike, send or assist in the sending of persons to take the places of the strikers without informing such persons of the existence of such strike.

10. Every person guilty of a contravention of the last preceding section of this Act shall be liable to a fine of not less than $10 and not more than $25 upon summary conviction thereof before a police magistrate or two or more justices of the peace, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs of prosecution, he shall be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months.

11. This Act shall come into force on the day of proclamation by Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

Assented to March 6, 1918.

Inspection and Regulation of Factories-Reports of Accidents.

Chapter 27.-1. Section 39 of The Manitoba Factories Act, being chapter 70 of the Revised Statutes of Manitoba, 1913, is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:

39. If a fire or accident in any factory occasions any bodily injury to any person employed therein, a notice in writing shall be sent by the employer to the Bureau of Labour within twenty-four hours after the occurrence of the fire or accident, and, in default of such notice being sent, the employer shall be liable to a fine not exceeding thirty dollars.

2. Section 41 of the said Act is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:

41. Where, in a factory, any person is killed or sustains injuries apparently likely to prove fatal, notice of the accident shall be sent by the employer to the Bureau of Labour, either by telephone, telegraph or messenger immediately after the occurrence thereof, and if such notice be not so sent, the employer shall be liable to a fine not exceeding thirty dollars.

3. Section 41A added to the said Act by section 5 of chapter 24 of 5 George V is hereby repealed.

4. This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented to. Assented to March 6, 1918.

Minimum Wage.

Chapter 38.-1. This Act may be cited as The Minimum Wage Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

Manitoba.

Minister" means the Minister of Public Works for the Province of

(b) Board" means the Board created by this Act for the purposes herein stated.

(c) "Bureau of Labour" means the Bureau of Labour created under Chapter 6 of 5 George V, Statutes of Manitoba or any Act substituted therefor.

(d)" Employer" means and includes every person, firm or corporation, agent, manager, representative, contractor, subcontractor or principal, or the person responsible directly or indirectly for the payment of the wages of one or more female workers in any shop, mail order house or factory in any city in Manitoba. (e) "Employee means and includes every female worker employed in any mail order house, shop or factory in any city in Manitoba who is in receipt of or is entitled to compensation for labour performed for any such employer.

(f) "Shop means and includes any barber shop and any building or portion of a building, booth, stall or place where goods are exposed or offered for sale by retail and without limiting the generality of the foregoing means and includes all places where the trade or business carried on is that of a tobacconist, newsagent, messenger service, hotel, inn, tavern, victualling house, restaurant, or refreshment house, and sale by retail shall be deemed to include sale by auction. (g) "Factory means the same as in The Manitoba Factories Act.