COMPLAINTS AGAINST EIGHT-HOUR LAW VIOLATIONS. During the biennial period of 1925-1926, the agents and deputies of the Bureau investigated 1,343 complaints against persons for alleged violations of eight-hour law for women workers. In the preceding biennial period, the number of complaints was 1,147, an increase, during 1925-1926 of 196 cases, or 17.1 per cent.

The number and percentage increases in these complaints from the fiscal year 1913 to 1926 are shown in Tables 7, 8, and 9, and in Chart 8. The places of employment in which this law was alleged to have been most frequently violated are, in order named, as follows:

1. Restaurants.

2. Hotels, apartments, and boarding houses.

3. Laundries.

4. Retail stores.

5. Hospitals and sanitariums.

6. Candy and confectionary shops.

7. Manufacturing establishments (factories and shops).

TABLE 7-Total Number of Complaints Against Violations of the Eight-Hour Law for Women Filed With and Investigated by the Bureau During the Fiscal Years 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1926, by Industries.

TABLE 8-Number of Complaints Against Violations of the Eight-Hour Law for Women Received and Investigated by the Bureau from 1913 to 1926, by Years.

TABLE 9 Number of Complaints Against Violations of the Eight-Hour Law for Women, Received and Investigated by the Bureau from 1913-1926, by Biennial Fiscal Periods.

CHART 8.

COMPLAINTS AGAINST VIOLATIONS OF THE CHILD LABOR LAW.

It will be seen from Tables 10 and 11, and Chart 9, that in the biennial period covered by this report there has been a substantial increase in the number of complaints against violators of the child labor law. This is due primarily to the sustained efforts made during the last two years to stamp out the employment of children in the Imperial Valley, where children were found working in the fields during school hours. Owing to the arrests and convictions of many violators of the child labor law in the Imperial Valley, child labor in Imperial County has been practically stamped out. In its enforcement of the child labor law in the Imperial Valley, the Bureau had the whole-hearted and effective cooperation of the Superintendent of Schools of Imperial County.

The total number of child labor law complaints handled by the several district offices of the Bureau in 1925 and 1926 was 869, which was 538, or 162.5 per cent more than in the two fiscal years 1923 and 1924.

TABLE 10 Number of Complaints Against Violations of the Child Labor Law Received and Investigated by the Bureau from 1913 to 1926, by Fiscal Years.

TABLE 11-Number of Complaints Against Violations of the Child Labor Law Received and Investigated by the Bureau from 1913-1926, by Biennial Fiscal Periods.

CHART 9.