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    principle of factory legislation; from the 1860s onwards more industries were brought within the Factory Act. The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802 (42...
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  • that they were being "stewed alive by Act of Parliament". Four years after Roscoe's report, the Factory Act of 1901 obliged cotton employers to ensure that...
    9 KB (1,174 words) - 08:09, 16 March 2023
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    sides often drawn on Irish/English and Catholic/Protestant lines. The Factory Act (1901) limited working hours for girls of thirteen to eighteen years of...
    42 KB (4,513 words) - 00:53, 10 August 2024
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    conditions, including the Ten Hours Act 1847 to reduce working hours, and these culminated in the Factory Act 1901. Many of these acts resulted from the...
    101 KB (13,638 words) - 18:40, 11 July 2024
  • building. In 1937 the Factories Act 1901 was extended to cover means of escape in case of fire. The Act required that the factory owner have a plan of...
    49 KB (6,243 words) - 07:05, 10 July 2024
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    Leon Czolgosz (category 1901 deaths)
    infected. Caught in the act, Czolgosz was tried, convicted, and executed by the State of New York seven weeks later on October 29, 1901. Leon F. Czolgosz was...
    34 KB (3,647 words) - 21:59, 7 August 2024
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    Rosaria "Sara" Maltese. The factory was located on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of the Asch Building, which had been built in 1901. Later renamed the "Brown...
    63 KB (6,950 words) - 06:43, 8 August 2024
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    The Factories Act 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 34) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. At the time of its passage, the Act consolidated much...
    16 KB (1,701 words) - 22:17, 19 January 2024
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    company maintained its headquarters office in New York City and built its factory in Dayton, Ohio. The two buildings designed by Dayton architect William...
    8 KB (529 words) - 11:24, 8 February 2024
  • greatly modified by the Factory and Workshop Act 1901 and will be dealt with in that connexion. The Factory and Workshop Act 1895 followed thus on a period...
    74 KB (11,506 words) - 13:31, 18 July 2024
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    the act was repealed by the Government of India Act 1915. 112 Saint Helena vested in the crown. The island of St Helena, and all forts, factories, public...
    6 KB (733 words) - 13:13, 30 May 2024
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    President William McKinley's 1901 funeral (he was buried in a different casket). In the early 1900s the company opened a factory in Niagara, Toronto (it closed...
    17 KB (1,646 words) - 12:34, 10 August 2024
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    was a tobacco and cigarette manufacturer based in Nottingham, England. In 1901, the company merged with other companies to form The Imperial Tobacco Company...
    23 KB (2,543 words) - 19:24, 6 April 2024
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    assent on 21 July 1845 as the Belfast and Ballymena Railway Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. lxxxi), "An Act for making a Railway from Belfast to Ballymena in the County...
    108 KB (13,420 words) - 12:16, 10 August 2024
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    weakness). The Factory Act 1844 made the superintendents into 'sub-inspectors' with the right of entry at will.: 86  By the same Act, the inspectors...
    5 KB (364 words) - 20:22, 29 March 2024
  • archived copy as title (link) "Andhra state act 1953". Retrieved 15 October 2013. THE FOOD CORPORATIONS ACT, 1964 Archived 9 April 2009 at the Wayback...
    74 KB (314 words) - 20:09, 21 July 2024
  • plants in Chennai in India. The first Royal Enfield motorcycle was built in 1901 by The Enfield Cycle Company of Redditch, Worcestershire, England, which...
    32 KB (3,103 words) - 11:16, 7 August 2024
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    and the match factory finally closed and was taken over by Bryant & May on 26 November 1901. In 1908 the House of Commons passed an Act prohibiting the...
    29 KB (3,564 words) - 06:41, 13 August 2024
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    which met from 23 January 1901 until 17 August 1901. No private acts were passed during this session. This was the first public act of the reign of King Edward...
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  • companies would relocate factories to Canada. Roosevelt prevailed over the isolationists, and on November 4, he signed the Neutrality Act of 1939 into law, allowing...
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