It is general and permanent. There are, of course, reasons. What the household employers in this country ought to do is to study carefully why the manufacturers can hold labor when they cannot. The factory has no way of compelling girls and women to come to it. They go, it is obvious, because they prefer it.
Most housewives have traditional notions of the factory as something cruel, dark, distressing.
They are appalled that any woman should prefer to go into these places, of which they have such horror. Take the woman who might be the cook. It is not at all because she does not want to cook. It is because she does want a regular day of a fixed number of hours. It Is because she does want her Sundays and holidays.