Dr. Reginald Farrar's report to the Local Government Board on the conditions under which persons are employed in pea-picking : with some general observations on the employment of casual labour in agricultural districts, and an appendix giving the police regulations in force during the hop-picking season in certain districts of Bavaria.

  • Farrar, Reginald, 1861-1921.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Dr. Reginald Farrar's report to the Local Government Board on the conditions under which persons are employed in pea-picking : with some general observations on the employment of casual labour in agricultural districts, and an appendix giving the police regulations in force during the hop-picking season in certain districts of Bavaria. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to'i' 19 6. In the case of workpeople being discharged, the employer must at once give notice to the police, and get from the police authorities the workpeople’s papers of identification and return them to the workpeople. 7. Neglect to obey Regulations contained in § 2 (1), 3 and 6 will be punishable by a fine of 60/- (sixty shillings) or 14 days’ imprisonment. 8. Special notice will be given of the date when 4 comes into force. The remaining Regulations come into force on the day of which notice will be given in the local papers. 20th July, 1908. (Translation.) District Police Regulations, Schwabach, Bavaria. Hop-p\cking, 1908. § 1. Every able-bodied workman, whether native or foreigner, who is in sound health and provided with the necessary clothing as well as with papers {e.g., passport, certificate of birthplace, and character from master or employer) will be eligible for employment as a picker in the approaching hop harvest. School children may not be employed unless accompanied by' one or both parents, and must be furnished with a permit from their school anthorities to the effect that their employment as pickers will not interfere with their school duties. Wandering persons of the gipsy class are not eligible as hop- pickers. Employers of labour and those who let lodgings are forbidden, under pain of penalty, to employ gipsies or itinerant persons of that class as hop-pickers, or to take them in, or allow them to pass the night under their roof. § 2. All those who are seeking work must, within 24 hours of their arrival, notify themselves to the Mayor of the district, or in such places as are distant from the Mayor’s residence, to the district officer, for the purpose of showing their papers. Such persons must seek for work without loss of time, as all wandering about in the parish without work or employment is strictly forbidden. § 3. Every employer of labour must, within 48 hours of engaging a hop-picker, give notice of the fact to the Mayor, or in the event of remoteness from the Mayor, to the District Officer, by laying before him the man’s papers. The Mayor or the appointed officer must keep a continuous register of all the persons engaged as pickers, based on the notice of the employer and the papers received. The entries to be made on receipt of the notice and the said register to be preserved even after the hop-picking is over. § 4. In the town of Spalt, as also in the parishes of Grosswein- garten and Mosbach, all persons engaged as hop-pickers must undergo a medical examination for the purpose of determining if they be in health ; eRiployers must be ca,reful to see that their workpeople are examined, and must, when they notify them, at the