'The Princess Royal has accepted the presidency of the British Dairy Farmers' Association. From. the old association of maida and milking' fieems" natural' enough. But dairy work is stern business nowadays and the Princess's acceptance of the post {worth noting as she will be the frst woman to have held it, She said to be a very good dairy-woman herself, taking much interest in the} home farm on her husband's estate in Yorkshire. Since. Royalty is nothing! isnot democratic nowadays it Is to be Roped that Princess Mary will use the influence of her "office" to do something for the public Between {he Milk Board, which forbids a farmer to sell his surplus mili cheap his neighbours and would sooner see him throw it down the drain, and the big dairy syndicates. which' put up the price of butter and eggs by the calendar regardless of the stocks actually available, the public are' Sadly squeezed. But - Governments and middlemen are the source of host troubles.
These are questions which i¢ Royal: ty cannot avail, women trade union-[His might tackle. "Tomorrow—the annual conference of the Trade Union Congress opens at. Blackpool, and discovered that at the end of 1037 there were 528402 women. trade! unionists, 77,472 more than the year before, while the numbers continue {fo rise. "One woman, Mrs. Olsen. of the Dartford branch of the Municipal Workers' Union, is to be presented with "a silver cup. and "gold. badge Guring the Congress, for having received 259 new members during the Year. Already the women" trade Unionists have done much in getting Standards of pay' raised where eme Ployers clung to the old. delusion that a man should get more than a Woman for the same' swore Here, too, Is our new friend the Domestic Workers' Union being extremely active. "Only two months old, thas already put $0" cases in its lawyers' hands and has got redress every one. For example, cook teneral had to make up her bed each hight in the kitchen; manservant had to live in a sub-basement where there was-no light. even artiflal; a tirl's mistress, disiiiing her working lathes, confiscated them, bought her uniform and deducted $5, a week from her wages to pay for it, "But what one cannot understand, 1s that Servants should have gone' to houses where such things were poss Usually they have a°yery sharp eye for the conditions under. which' they are going to live. The majority of mistresses are much more in need of protection nowadays than the mald
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