SERVANTS’ RIGHTS
NEW ENGLISH “CHARTER.”
LONDON, June V2
That “badge of servility.” the. servants’s cap, must go, said speakers at the national conference of Labour women at Blackpool, which drew up the “domestic workers’ charter. v The' charter, which was adopted unanimously, demands revolutionary changes m domestic service," including a fortnight’s annual holiday with pay. maximum working hours and wages according to age. Miss Jessie Stephen, herself formerly a servant, advocated the servant’s •right to receive visitors in her kitchen, and said that . recreation facilities ought to be provided.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1931, Page 1
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