Rights of Men Employed

Every man should understand that he is employed solely to work, on the Park, for his regular wages, and for no other consideration whatever. Nothing but his labor, compliance with the rules of the Park, and a civil behavior to all engaged on it, can be required of him.

No one has a right to receive a payment, in any form, for having procured any man’s employment, or for retaining any man on the work. If any such payments are made, or any presents or treats are offered, which can be considered as payments or bribes for such favors or services, they will be deemed proper ground for the discharge of the person offering them. Foremen and assistant foremen are forbidden to propose to their men to take tickets for raffles, or to offer them any articles for sale, to act as agents for landlords or boarding house keepers, or to collect debts, due to others, of their men.

It is entirely contrary to the intention of employing men on the Park that any influence of any sort should be brought to bear upon their political opinions or actions. Officers and foremen on the Park are required, therefore, to abstain from talking with the men upon political topics, and are forbidden to solicit their votes for any person or measure, on any pretense whatever. Men are requested to inform the Superintendent if they are ever told that it is their duty to vote one way or another because they are employed on the Park, or that it is necessary for them to vote one way or another in order to be kept at work on the Park.

Men who are absent three working days in succession, or who are habitually irregular in their attendance, will be discharged. But men bearing a good character, who have been absent on account of illness or for other good reasons, more than three days, may obtain from their foreman a certificate, on presenting which at the office, they will, if vacancies exist, be restored.

Men who consider themselves to have been improperly reported, unjustly treated, or otherwise aggrieved by the action of their foreman, or any other [297]officer of the Park, or who wish to make a complaint against any one, or to answer any complaint made against themselves, may call at the Superintendent’s office, between twelve and two o’clock each day, or may address the Superintendent directly, in writing.