Arizona republican., 1901-12-07

employer and e7nploye. This would not mean the making of an inflexiole rule. No occupation admits of that. Book keepers, stenographers, secretaries, cashiers, overstay their regular hours as occasion demands. The essential feature is that there are regular hours and that after their work is done their time is their own. Elmer gencies arise in all classes Of labor, and would of necessity arise in household labor. Definite hours would mean the fixing of certain hours which, under ordinary circunnst tances would mark the time during which the employers serv- ices were at the disposal of her el1l- ployer.
 The objections to domestic service are treated un6cr the heads: Abuse. discussing which reference is made to tho fact that some people withhold wages from servants: indefinite hours; isola tion, under which is enumerated laCk of amusements and social inter course; restrictions, and the social stigma.
 Not only in association with other women is this social distinction made manifest It is TO less in evidence in association with men friends. Girls looking forward to possible marriage naturally hesitate to enter an occupa- ton to which is attached q social stigma which would operate to cut them off from association with a class of men such as they would be willing to marry
 In other counties social conditions are more marked than in the United States and are recognized and ac- cepted. Women coming from other countries. therefore, are not deterred ! from entering domestic service because of social stigma; but Americap-born women, accustomed to see other work CTS respected and rot regarded by the mass of the people as social interiors, are not willing to enter an occupation to which social stigma is attached. Be fore intelligent American women shall become willing to enter domestic serv- 1 ice in any large numbers. this social | stigma must be removed. Social dis tinctions gre. however. of all things most elusive. They cannot be re- moved by direct means, and the social stigma now attached to domestic service can be removed only gradually. 1 through the removal or inc conditions
 which have given rise to it.
 In speaking of the reasons which 1 prevent women from entering donles- tic service, Dean Marion F. Talbot. of
 the University of Chicago, expressed
 the opinion that the objections already | referred to. viz. Indennlteness of
 hours. unfit sleeping accommodations the impositions of restrictions. etc. were causes of which social position
 was the result The reasoning is valid
 but these conditions are themselves from an underlying cause. That un- derlying cause is the basic principle
 upon which the whole system or doues- tic service. as it ex---s today. rests; and that principle is that in domestic ser vice 1t is the person who is hired
 and not distinctively the labor of the
 person. In ali other occupations it i.
 labor which is contracted for; in do-
 nestle service it is, in effect, at least
 the laborcr. h other occupations th'
 contract is for the performance Of cer
 tain specified services; in dom=sti
 service the contract is, usually, for th'
 entire time of the laborer. who is thcT
 expected to perform not only ce-tai- labor which has been specified, but, il
 addition to that, is expected to per
 form whatever service may be re
 quired: who is expected. in short. to b.
 at aiI times subject to the call an,
 direction of the employer.