PART III. LABOR LEGISLATION OF NEW JERSEY. LAWS AND DECISIONS OF COURTS RELATING TO THE The labor legislation enacted at the 1898 session of the Legislature of New Jersey consisted of statutes which are reproduced below: 1. An act to provide for the registration of labels, trade-marks, terms and designs. 2. An act for the better regulation of benevolent societies and associations. 3. A supplement to the act establishing a bureau of statistics of labor. 4. An act to protect the owners of bottles. 5. An act to incorporate associations not for profit. 6. An act to secure mechanics and others payment for their labor and material in the erection of buildings. 7. An act to repeal sundry acts relative to mechanics' liens. The opinions given in our higher courts, so far as they relate to workingmen's interests, follow the labor acts. These expound the extent of an employer's liability for injuries received by a workingman in the course of his employment. LABOR LAWS. Laws Relating to the Interest of Wage-Earners in this State. CHAPTER 50. An Act to provide for the registration of labels, trade-marks, terms, and designs, and protect and secure the rights, property and interests therein of the persons, associations, organizations and corporations adopting and filing the same. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. It shall be lawful for any person, association, organization or corporation to adopt for their protection and file for registry, or cause to be filed for registry, as herein provided, any label, trade-mark, term or design that has been used or is intended to be used for the purpose of designating, making known or distinguishing any goods, wares, merchandise or products of labor that have been or may be wholly or partly made, manufactured, produced, prepared, packed or put on sale by any person, association, organization or corporation, or to or upon which any work or labor has been applied or expended by any person or by any member or members of any association, organization or corporation that has adopted and filed for registry, or that may adopt and file for registry, any such label, trade-mark, term or design as aforesaid, or announcing or indicating that the same have been made in whole or in part by any such person, association, organization or corporation or by any member or members thereof. 2. Whenever any person, association, organization or corporation shall adopt and file for registry, or cause to be adopted and filed for registry, any label, trade-mark, term or design pursuant to the provisions of this act, the property, privileges, rights, remedies and interests in and to any such label, trade-mark, term or design, and in and to the use of the same, provided or given by this act to, or otherwise conferred upon or enjoyed by the person, association, organization or corporation filing the same, or causing the same to be filed, for registry, shall be fully and completely secured, preserved and protected as the property of those entitled to the same, before any such label, trade-mark, term or design has been actually applied to any goods, wares, merchandise or product of labor and put upon the |