If girls who have been freed from war service are not satisfied with the conditions under which they work as waitresses, why do they not take up domestic service where conditions are so much improved? Barause domestic service—necossitates their leaving their homes. Many of the London waitresses are obliged not only to keep themselves by their meagre earnings, but they have also to help to keep the home together. The brothers have perhaps has been killed or wounded, or else they ave maw¥ied and have families of their own. This factor is the most pathetic in the whole problem of women's labour to-day.
Cus axp Cantexxs.
An outcome of the war has been the establishment of canteens and clubs, run for the sole uss of employees in banks, the postal service, and wherever labour is employed on a large scale. It is very often in nich places as these that the wait-rosses are so badly off Such canteens and clubs are usually run jointly by the management and employees, and their object is to provide the Intter with the cheapest possible substantial meal; all expenditure must necessarily be cut down to a minimum; a minimum amount of labour is employed and a minimum price is paid for it.
Two waitresses' strikes that happened recently were the outcome of unnecessary hardships endured by girls v z in these canteens, The crying need of the moment where such branches of women's work are concerned is for the welfare worker and inspector. They did excellent work in factories and canteens during the war, but their services are being dropped now.
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