APPENDIX. LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ENACTED SINCE THE YEAR 1900. NOTE.--For Compilation of the Labor Laws of the State of California, enacted prior to 1900, see Ninth Biennial Report of this Bureau, page 126, et seq. LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. Lunch Hour for Laborers in Sawmills, Etc. (Stats. of Cal. 1901, p. 75.) SECTION 1. Every person, corporation, co-partnership, or company operating a sawmill, shakemill, shinglemill, or logging-camp, in the State of California, shall allow to his or its employés, workmen, and laborers a period of not less than one hour at noon for the midday meal. SEC. 2. Any person, corporation, co-partnership, or company, his or its agents, servants, or managers, violating any of the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars nor less than one hundred dollars for each violation of the provisions of this Act. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and one. Hours of Service of Policemen, Etc. (Stats. of Cal. 1901, p. 107.) SECTION 1. In all cities of the first class and cities and counties of this State where a regular police department is maintained, patrol captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and regular officers shall be required to serve on duty not longer than eight hours in every twenty-four hours; provided, that in case of riot or other emergency every attaché of the police department shall perform such duty and for such time as the directing authority of the department shall require. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Liens for Services for Laundry Work, Etc. (Stats. of Cal. 1901, p. 270.) SECTION 1. Section three thousand and fifty-one of the Civil Code of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 3051. Every person who, while lawfully in possession of an article of personal property, renders any service to the owner thereof, by labor or skill, employed for the protection, improvement, safe-keeping, or carriage thereof, has a special lien thereon, dependent on possession, for the compensation, if any, which is due to him from the owner for such service; and livery or boarding or feed stable proprietors, and persons pasturing horses or stock, have a lien, dependent on possession, for their compensation in caring for, boarding, feeding, or pasturing such horses or stock; and laundry proprietors and persons conducting a laundry business have a general lien, dependent on possession, upon all personal property in their hands belonging to a customer, for the balance due them from such customer for laundry work. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Number of Days of Labor in a Week. SECTION 653e. (Commissioners' amendment, approved March 16, 1901.) Every employer who causes his employés, or any of them, to work more than six days in seven, except in a case of emergency, is guilty of a misdemeanor, whether the employé is engaged by the day, week, month, or year, and whether the work performed is done in the day or night time. (Believed to be unconstitutional in the light of the decision of the Supreme Court of California in the case of Lewis vs. Dunne.) Hours of Labor on Public Work. (Stats. of Cal. 1901, p. 479.) SECTION 653f. (Commissioners' amendment, approved March 16, 1901.) Every officer of this State, or of any political division thereof, or any person acting for or on behalf thereof, and any contractor or subcontractor for any part of any public work or works done for such State or political division, and every person, corporation, or association which employs, directs, or controls the services of any laborer, workman, or mechanic in any such work, who requires them, or any of them, to labor more than eight hours in any one calendar day, except in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by fire, flood, or danger to life or property, and except work upon public military or naval defenses in time of war, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Believed to be unconstitutional in the light of the decision of the Supreme Court of California in the case of Lewis vs. Dunne.) Wages Due Laborers from the State, etc. (Stats. of Cal. 1901, p. 480.) SECTION 653g. (Commissioners' amendment, approved March 16, 1901.) Every person who employs laborers upon public works, and who takes, keeps, or receives any part or portion of the wages due to any such laborers from the State or municipal corporation for which such work is done, is guilty of a felony. (Believed to be unconstitutional in the light of the decision of the Supreme Court of California in the case of Lewis vs. Dunne.) Hours of Labor on Public Works; Provisions for Imposing Penalties, etc. (Stats. of Cal. 1901, p. 561.) SECTION 1. The time of service of all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed upon any public works of, or work done for, the State of California, or for any political subdivision thereof, whether said work is done by contract or otherwise, is hereby limited and restricted to eight hours in any one calendar day; and it shall be unlawful for any officer of the State, or of any political subdivision thereof, or for any person, corporation, or association acting in behalf thereof, whose duty it shall be to employ, or to direct and control the services of such said laborers, workmen, or mechanics upon any of the abovesaid public works, or who have, in fact, the employment, or the direction and control of the services of such said laborers, workmen, or mechanics upon any of said works, to require or permit them, or any of them, to labor thereupon more than eight hours in any one calendar day, except in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by fire, flood, or danger to life, property, or except to work upon public military or naval works or defenses in time of war. SEC. 2. In every case in which a contract is made for or on behalf of the State of California, or for or on behalf of any political subdivision thereof, which involves the employment of laborers, workmen, or mechanics to do work to be done upon the public works of, or work to be done for the said State, or for the said political subdivision thereof, under the terms of said contract, the officer, board, commission, or other agent or agency of the said State, or of the said political subdivision, acting for or on behalf of said State, or of said political subdivision, as the case may be, in making and awarding the said contract, shall cause to be inserted therein and to be agreed to by every person, firm, or corporation to whom said contract or any interest therein is awarded, as a condition upon which |