ing men, women and children, we find the following: Women 

 workers are protected by a law limiting their workmg hours to 

 eight per day ; a Workmen's Compensation law ; men and women 

 workers are protected by law against fraud at the hands of pri- 

 vate employment agencies, (a movement is now on foot to estab- 

 lish a free municipal employment agency) ; the work of mmors 

 under 18 is limited to eight hours per day; minors under 16 are 

 not permitted to work between 10 :00 p. m. and 5 :00 a. m. Much 

 better results have been obtained in the enforcement of these 

 laws since the recent opening of a branch office of the State Bur- 

 eau of Labor in the city, and the appointment of a special agent 

 to cover San Diego and neighboring territory. The state mini- 

 mum wage commission is now at work making an investigation 

 whch, it is hoped, will serve as a basis for establishing a mini- 

 mum wage for women workers. 



Needs of the community to be relieved further by state legisla- 

 tion may be summarized as follows : There are no adequate state 

 factory inspection laws ; minors under 14 should not be granted 

 working permits ; street trades should be regulated ; minors un- 

 der 16 should not be allowed to work between the hours of 8:00 

 p. m. and 6:00 a. m. ; newsboys should be issued badges. Further 

 legislation or a more strict enforcement of existing laws is need- 

 ed to check the apparently extensive operations of loan sharks, 

 or money lenders, at exhorbitant rates of interest, fattening on 

 the needs of the small salaried man or the working man and de- 

 manding from 100 to over 200 per cent, interest as a yearly rate. 

 The legal rate of interest in California is 24 per cent. A Provi- 

 dent Loan Association, or similar institutions such as operate m 

 Eastern cities, should be established to meet the real needs of 

 small borrowers. 



Foreign Population 



Of the city's population, according to the United States Census 

 of 1910, 18 per cent, were foreign born whites, 21 per cent, of 

 foreign or mixed parentage, 57 per cent, of native parentage. Of 

 California's seven largest cities, San Diego has, next to Pasa- 

 dena, the largest native population and the lowest percentage of 

 persons of foreign or mixed parentage and of foreign born whites. 

 Of the foreign born population in 1910 about 4000 were Northern 

 Europeans. Other foreign born were: Mexicans 1222, Italians 

 331, Austrians 182, Greeks 68, Chinese and Japanese a total 

 of 507. Unless there is a considerable development of the 

 others 516. Unless there is a considerable development of the 

 present limited industrial opportunities in the community, the 

 city cannot well become an important point for the landing of im- 

 migrants on the coast. However, a development of the back 

 country about San Diego, and the establishment of railroad con- 

 nections with Imperial Valley and Southern Arizona, the latter 

 already a definite undertaking, may make San Diego an immi- 

 grant station of importance. On the present basis of prices for 

 land in this part of the state, only immigrants with considerable 

 savings could be attracted for the purpose of purchasing mde- 



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