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Show DOMESTIC SERVANTS MAKE BIG DEMANDS As One Way Out of Difficulty, London Newspaper Asks: "Why Not Marry the Girl?'' LONDON. Nov. 15. (By the Associated Press.) Domestic servants affiliated wfth the National Feneration of Women Workers, arc agitating for a standardized wage scale and the union's support of a program for enforcing improved conditions condi-tions of service. The proposals provide a minimum wage for all resident servants of $150 a year; set meal limes, a half-hour for breakfast, one hour for dinner and a half-hour for tea: better sleeping accommodations; two hours free each day and a half-day addition ad-dition each week: a twelve-hour day, in-chldlng in-chldlng time off, and fourteen days' vacation va-cation each year, with full board and wages. One London newspaper hi publishing these demands printed above the item , this caption: "Why Not Marry the Girl?" |