Show SERVANTS IN I D 9 HOMES QUIT WORK i Attracted by Opportunities in Factory and Business as Result of War REMEDY IS SUGGESTED ED Director of Amsterdam Labor LaborI I Exchange Discusses Why Situation Arises Rotterdam Netherlands JUlie June 26 For tile tho first time In iii history the Dutch housewife is today face to face Cace with a a. servant ant problem With 10 per cent of oC oftie the tie population of the country cOl called to the tue colors color the tile girl who ilo does docs not nol wish to be a servant can caner er very ery readily find well paid work as clerk or 01 factory hl hand Hl or In III an ll office or cenon even en on the tile farm Many Ian are arc doing oln no so and It ItIs Its itis Is s now rare to see sec in the Dutch Duth papers the customary form of oC advertisement I Ifor for Cor a place in domestic service I Following tile the Dutch custom domestic domes domes- tic lie servants are employed ed b by the year car I at yearly carl fixed wa wages es and in In case casc of ot dissatisfaction on either side a rupture rupture rupture rup rup- ture of C the contract can take tale place ploce lilly quarterly on the thc first of February February ary an anla May la August or November Xo Notice Notice XoI No Xo- I tice Ice b by either cither par party y mu mutt must t bo 10 given at atthe the th nt nGY h. h t. t 1 i i i k ok i i II 11 c III V Il L Ili in III 1 u v ti U II l j on Oil or bc before rp one of these dates and runs for full three from torn the tile next following term torn dat date Thus to lo discharge discharge dis dis- charge an tempered Ill-tempered or 01 incompetent girl the day after she has come to work olk requires six months toleration of her or the payment of six months' months wa wages es n t Not filch The wages however are not hl high h though h tho the war ar and th tile tho consequent servant ant famine is tending to raise then them A cook ordinarily receives a year ear with all her food and wa washing paid and 1 cent as commission in every en dollars dollar's worth of oC household supplies purchased which the cook collects from fron the tradesmen n A good housemaid receives 80 80 a year ear all found found wi with th the tho added hope of or fallIng fallIng fall fall- Jn Ing heir to some of or her mistress' mistress clothes A footman or re receives TC- TC about 1 to per year car al also o all found The housewife must In addition addi addi- tion pa pay workmen's compensation in In- In The Tile tipping system Is the tile cUr curse of domestic service in Tho The Netherlands In addition to the tile cool cooks cook's s 's commission each ench servant at the tue New ew Year and andAll andAll All 11 Saints da day receives es 5 S gulden ulden on every hundred of oC yearly carh ware wage or 1 51 on Oil every 20 O. O But these arc are not nol all no nor nOI Indeed the most important tips In Ina Ina ina a Dutch house Every en guest invited to dinner Is expected to leave a florin fiorin 40 cents with the butler on departing depart depart- ing All receipts from this tills source as aswell aswell aswell well from an equally Inexorable tax placed upon guests stopping stopping- in the house go so into a common pot under tinder the guardianship of or the tho butler to be distributed distributed distributed dis dis- at tho end of or the quarter amon among all the servants In the tile proportion proportion proportion tion of oC their yearly carl wages At a recent of oC The Tile Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands Nether Nether- lands Association of or Housewives Miss G G. G M. M van assistant director of ot the Amsterdam Municipal Labor ex exchange exchange ex- ex change made mado a spirited and frank Crank talk upon existing conditions In domestic service in Tho The Netherlands Vh Why Servants Object The Thc servant ant problem said Miss van an is rightfully an all International question which until now no his has re p 0 n alt altogether er too li little Ule serious a at at- at t- t ten HOlt The principal trouble Is la that the relationship between the housewife housewife house house- wife and her domestic employees Is r re regarded ie rather as a patriarchal one than thana thanas a as one of pure business with social and economic far aspects outweighing the purely personal considerations Many lan a girl Irl tolla today has left domestic service for factory factor or shop work solely because her personal freedom has been abridged b by the terms of or her lien employment employ employ- ment There Is Ib but on one solution of oC the social difficulties presented b by this problem That is to provide pro for competent competent competent com com- Instruction in domestic service an and to regard those thole who have availed a themselves of this tills training as skilled I workers pUr pursuing a trade for tor the tile exercise exercise exer exer- cise else of or which there shall be as man many and arid as definite legal leg guarantees as for tor forthe forthe the thc exercise of the bricklayers bricklayers' tailors tailors' or plumbers' plumbers trades trade The hours of or labor demanded of or domestic servants servant their rari hours of or freedom and the tipping tipping- s system in vogue here In ill Holland HOiland all need regulation regu regu- lat lation I o i |