MISTRESS AND MAID
NEW UNION IN ENGLAND. LONDON, December 1. Mistresses are now to have their own “union” in England, the‘Household Service League. Its aim will be to help domestic workers. “We welcome it because it constitutes a body with which we can negotiate to fix standards of wages, hours, living conditions and other essentials,” Miss Bezzant organising secretary of the Domestic Workers’ Union, said this week. Miss Randle, the organiser, said: “We wish to make it a representative body of employers with branches all over the country. We may be criticised for starting the association during the war, but we are convinced that now is the time for it, if ever. Regular conferences will be held with the Domestic Workers’ Union, and we shall cooperate by every means to raise and fix- standards in domestic employment.” The immediate problem for both bodies is the unscrupulous mistress who is taking advantage of war conditions to dismiss employees at a moment’s notice or to engage them at very low rates.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 8
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169MISTRESS AND MAID Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 8
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