Of 270,000 vacancies for domestic servants registered at the employment exchanges in London during the_ last year only about 60 per" cent. were filled. Two out of every five would-be mistresses were sent empty away, and scores of thousands of girls who would not be servants went, directly or indirectly, to swell the ranks of the women, some 700,000, registered as unemployed and even those of them who found other work secured it in numerous cases at the expense of men whom they under sold. This is especially. the case in the clubs—Service clubs included—where once upon a time the waiters used all to be men.
Tea-house.and hotel waiters Canton are reported by the "Sin-wan pao" to be indignant because some houses employed girls and women as waitresses, thus throwing them out of work. Some 800 of them surrounded two of the places and refused to disperse in spite of the attempts of the chief of police to send them back to their homes.
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