Bureau Publication Volume 22-29 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...specified conditions and for zwieback bakeries by special permission. This does not appear, however, to have been a war measure.1 ITALY. On August 30, 1914, a royal decree allowed suspensions of the night work prohibition for women and children under specified conditions, and in June, 1915, after Italy had entered the war, a decree of the lieutenant general suspended for the duration of the war educational requirements for sons of soldiers who were 12 years old and wished to go to work. The weekly rest law, without any war time amendment, permitted exemptions in case of force majeure or for work in the public interest;2 these exemptions were frequent and seem to have been applied for without duo cause.3 It has been intended that exceptional hours should be permitted oidy in carefully considered cases, and one of the duties of the medical inspection of industry and labor, instituted in January, 1915, has been to give judgment on exemptions. On the other hand the budget and staff for factory inspection have been greatly reduced each year, although the police have to some extent supplemented the work of the few trained inspectors remaining. 1 Bulletin of the International Labor Office, Vol. XV ((ierman edition), Nos. 1 and 2, p. 15. - Law of July 7,1907, No. 4X9, on Weekly Rest, Art. 3, par. e (Nuovo Codiee del Lavoro, Prof. E. Noncdo, Milan, 1913, p. 41S). - La Confederazione del Lavoro, Mar. l(i-June 1, 1910, p. 435. Physicians and working men and the official advisory body, the comitato permanente del lavoro, have entered protests against the war exemptions, and the Government has referred frequently to the importance of safeguarding the health of women. In October, 1916, the central committee on industrial mobilization authorized the regional com...