New-York tribune., 1900-11-30
KITCHEN 4rTOCR4TS STIRRED Up.
Will FORM A LABOR UNION TO SECURE
REST OF BODY AND WORKDAT
OF ELEVEN HOURS

Housewives who have been grinding their down
trodden servants at SIS 50 a month and two nalr
davs off will have 10 watch out. The kitchen
queens are rising and they're going TO form them
selves into a labor union, with walking oelegates'
regular headquarters rules meetings, and. in fact.
thcv are going to get themselves in shape 50 that
their relations with the 'rnissus may be properly
..strafned' and all their grievances duly sifted
THEY'RE going to have a press agent, too, and any
CALLING Injustice will be properly exploited
The meeting for permanent organization Will
take place on Wednesday morning of next week at
II o'clock in the rooms of Mime Simcowttch, No.
PAS East Thirty -fourthst who IS to be assisted oy
Mrs St Justin Beale, the official organizer The
latter in order TO know whereof she speaks, has
within the last weeks taken six different situa-
tfons ir and around New-York. and in that time
has found out a number OF strange things. so she
saws Some of the objects of the union are: To
secure rest body and fair measure OF enjoyment
of life To secure an agreement whereby the rela-
tions between mistress and maid shall be OF a
purely business nature. certain amount of work
shall he given for certain price. be agreed upon
ar the time Of the engagement. Any extra work
shall be paid for at 81 much an hour. The hours
of labor shall be arranged not TO exceed
eleven hours each day. One half day OF recreation
and either Sunday morning afternoon shall be
given each week The sting of servitude shall be
removed References shall be exchanged at time OF
engagement or a months wages paid -Guiva-
lent An apartment shall be set aside. where the
receive her visitors during recreation hours Her
man Robinson will lecture to the domestics on the
dignity of labor. and how much they should ex-
meet each Wednesday night at the Social Reform
club No 70 University Place.
So there We are, Hereafter when the wives and
mothers of this town begin 10 be at all "bossy or
.snippv' they'd better watch out for Mrs. Sim
covitch and Mrs St. Justin Beale. H. after this
wave of reform has washed things up properly, the
mistress should discover that the baby has swal-
lowed a rubber rattle. and should scream TO Mary
through the speaking tube TO for the doctor.
this is about what she'll get in reply from Mary:
I'm receivin in private recreation room, an
accorfin' 10 the Smcowitch-St. Justin Beale
Handy Manual the Rights Of Domestics' you
can't break in without giving me twenty
four hours notice"
OF course the mistress. realizing the stupid and
wicked blunder she has committed will go for the
doctor herself
Mary have YOU done the brass?'' will receive
the following justly deserved rejoinder:
'Shure mssus ye forgit that Section Is. Sub
division 1877 Of the AuGalgama ted Association for
the Humbling of Old Shrews says as how the brass
nced,,t be secured when | have a cold in me head
num-
Then the misguided and tyrannical person who
GRASS will perhaps decorously and meeky get the
polish and scour the brass herself
Nine Smcowitch and Mrs. St Justin ReaIe are
determined that many of the shocking inequalities
which now make the maid servants of the metrop-
oils little better than the worms Of the dust
shall be swept away forever-forever. II YOU please,