"SERVANTTAX" IN GERMANY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1373, 26 February 1912, Page 9

"SERVANTTAX" IN GERMANY.

• Mr. IJoyd-GcorgeVi Insurance Bill, .« allecfmg English domestics, has aroused such aii outer? in England that it is interssLing to know that nearly the same amount of industrial perturbation was canssd in tierniany over i r ) years ago, when a similar scheme was v mootcd there. Now every week in Germany, as a matter of cours", the mistress of a. household either goes to the nearest post-office or sends t. deputy to buv for her the two insurance stamps which she iorthivifh attnchss to a card for the benefit of. her maid or maids. In Germany, in .1 great many cases, the mistrrM pays the whole insurance—he" own share and the maid's as well. But then she can belter a fiord to d>) this then her prototype in England. Tho wages for domestics in the Jvathorlnnd arc nothing like those ruling in England, whiie two Gerinnn maids will do the work of a fairly liig house, where three or oven four are common in au English eslaWisli.u-int. The washing, too, is done at homo in Germany. The style of living is totally different, and on the whole less expensive than in a household, of the sa'no type clsuwhere. So the German unstress can better afford to nay tho whole insurance th.in her English sister, who, in addition to paying her maids n very much higher rale cf wages than those asked and received in Germany, has more household expenses What might happen if the "servant tax" came to pass in Australia is hard to prophesy, the situation ai it stands beiti? too acute and too distressful for solution.

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