Labor Bulletin of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Issues 97-104

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Page 37 - All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
Page 100 - Where the injury for which compensation is payable under this Act was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other than the employer...
Page 157 - ... five years, one for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and thereafter as the terms of office expire in each year one member for a term of five years.
Page 57 - The following words and phrases, as used in this act, shall, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, have the following meaning : — "Employer" shall include the legal representative of a deceased employer.
Page 59 - Every such employment certificate shall be signed, in the presence of the officer issuing the same, by the child in whose name it is issued.
Page 95 - The following persons shall be conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent for support upon a deceased employee : — (a) A wife upon a husband with whom she lives at the time of his death.
Page 41 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Page 90 - ... no action for the recovery of compensation for injury or death under this Act shall be maintained, unless notice of the time, place, and cause of the injury is given to the employer within sixty days, and the action is commenced within one year, from the occurrence of the accident causing the injury or death.
Page 97 - ... but no notice under the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be invalid or insufficient solely by reason of any inaccuracy in stating the time, place or cause of the injury if it be shown that there was no intention to mislead and that the party entitled to notice was not in fact misled thereby.
Page 48 - ... by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars; for a second offense by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days...

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