The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-12-07
REIGN OF THE SERVANT.
New York Will Have a DOmeS-
tics Labor Organization.
ELEVEN.HOUR DAY PROPOSED.
Cooks and Chambermaids Will be Con-
troIled by Rules and Bylaws OF
a Union.

New York. Dec. 5.-This week. formal
steps will be taken in New York for the
organization of servant girls into
great labor union as was mentioned in
brief dispatch to the News Democrat
early in the week. The housewives of
the metropolis are watching the move
ment with the keenest interest. A regu-
lar organizer" has the work in hand.
In order to secure the information
needed to guide her in her work. she
announces that, within a few weeks,
she has taken positions" in at least
half a dozen families, with a view To
being able to speak from experience
concerning the hardships of the class
which she assumes to represent. Ac-
cording to the New York Tribune. some
of the objects of the union are: TO
secure rest of body and fair measure
of enjoyment of life. To secure an
agreement whereby the relations be-
tween mistress and maid shall be a
purely business nature. A certain
amount of work shall be given for
certain price, to be agreed upon at the
time of the engagement. Any extra
work shall be paid for at so much an
hour. The hours of labor shall be ar
ranged so as not to exceed IL each day.
One-half day of recreation and either
Sunday morning or afternoon shall
be given each week. The Sting Of
servitude shall be removed" Refer
ences shall be exchanged at time of en-
gagement or a months wages paid az
an equivalent. An apartment shall be
set aside, where the maid may partako
of food, rest or recreation and receive
her visitors during recreation hours.
Lectures will be delivered to tho
domestics on the dignity of labor. and
how much they should expect.
The Tribune adds: So there we are!
Hereafter when the wives and mothers
of this town begin to be at all "bossy"
or 'snippy' they'd better watch out for
Mrs. Simcowitch and Mrs. St. Justin
Beale, the two ladies at the head of the
movements. IT, after the wave of re-
form baby has swallowed a rubber rat
tie, and should scream to Mary through
the speaking tube to run for the doc
tor, this is about what she'll get in re-
ply from Mary:
I'm receivin' in me private recrea-
ton room, an accordin' to the Simco-
witch-St. Justin Beale Handy Manual
on the Rights of Domestics you can't
break in on me without giving me
"a hours notice"
OF course the mistress, realizing the +,
stupid and wicked blunder she has
committed, will go for the doctor her.
self. rr ..l.'
Mary, have you done the brassT'
will receive the following justly de-
served rejoinder:
"Shure, missus, We forgit that Sec
ton 16, subdivision 1877, of the Amalga-
mated Association for the Humbling Of
Old Shrews says as how the brass
needn't be secured when have a cold
in me head, num-"
Then the misguided and tyrannicaI
person who assumes to dictate to the
lady in charge of the brass will perhaps
decorously and meekly get the polish
and scour the brass herself. H.t.re.'
Nine. Simcowitch and Mrs. St. Jus
tin Beale are determined that many OF
the shocking inequalities which now
make the maid servants of the metro
polls little better than the merest
worms of the dust shall be swept away
forever-forever, if you please! f.