(3) In establishments classified as dangerous, unhealthy or unsuitable; as well as in those where steam boilers or machine motors were used.
(4) In harbors, terminals and stations.
(5) In transportation by land or water.
It applied both to public and private establishments, even when they were of an educational or benevolent character. By virtue of this provision the law regulated, for example, the labor performed by children in the reform schools, in the lace-making schools, etc.
The law did not affect the family workshops, where only the members of a family are employed, under the authority of either the father, the mother, or the guardian; providing, however, that these workshops were not classed as dangerous, unhealthy or unsuitable,[[21]] or that work therein was not performed with the aid of steam boilers or machine motors.
It also did not affect, according to the admitted official interpretation, other workshops which could not be regarded as mills or factories, or which are not classed among the dangerous, unhealthy or unsuitable establishments. Hence, the greatest portion of the clothing factories, which employ a great deal of child labor, escaped the application of the law.
The principal legal provisions applying to children and youths of less than sixteen years are the following:
(1) Prohibition to employ at labor children under twelve years of age (Art. 2).
(2) The King can prohibit, or only authorize under certain conditions, the employment of children and youths under sixteen, at labor that is beyond their strength, dangerous or unhealthful (Art. 3).
(3) The length of the working day is twelve hours at the most, divided by recesses, the total of which shall not be less than one and a half hours.