Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-21
BRITAIN'S LABOR STORM
SPREADS; EMPIRES
TRADE INVOLVED
Confined From Page One.)

Continued From rage one:)
bacon Wondering where Mr.. Hoover
could have found iD, and irritably re-
fleeing after a breakfast ON It that
the hogs must have been raised in
close proximity to the Great SaltLake
in Utah.
What the long suffering Mr., Tax
payer has to undergo in the way OF
restrictions is evidently of no moment
to anybody but himself when COM
pared with the wailings of the finan-
ciers that there are still so many re-
strictions and so much war red tape
around everything that there is no
incentive-and no choice-to go out
into the wide world to reclaim the
markets that had to be forgotten in
prosecuting the war.
30-Hour Week Dream.
Then there is the disconnected labor
rebuttal that while At hour week is
good enough for some people, it isn't
good enough for those who clamof
Tor a thirty-hour working week, and
supposedly competent labor leaders
who haven't very good batting aver
age in their own teams just now adVo-
eating a free flow Of better beer and
more hours in which to drink it as a
solution of the labor troubles.
1t is a meddening spectacle, in Mr.,
Taxpayers opinion, of two big class
es of body polite, the capitalist ana
the labor man, asserting their trou-
bes and taking steps to have them
redressed without the least thought
of the consequence to that mid por-
ton of the body politics anatomy the
common people, the real old-tash-
toned taxpayers, the men who have
fixed income, or used to have, but
fixed" now in such a low ratio TO
rise in the cost of living that it takes
all the strategy of all the free mo-
ments of a day to make ends meet.
Perhaps out of all this agitation of
tie laboring classes, the sober Briton
is led to believe, may come some sort
of Utopia when, through some form
of conference, labor disputes viii be
accommodated before it is time to
tie up the means of transport, the sup
ply of necessary food and the menace
of livelihood. But will it affect the
Bolshevism in the kitchen?
Household servants Vanish.
Before the war nowhere was it pos
sibe TO get better household servants
ut a moderate wage than in Great
Britain. 1t was the Promised Land
for an American housewife used to
all the troubles of hire and wage in
New York or other big American
cities But the war has changed all
this, as it has changed a good many
other things.
The mobilization of women in Brl-
tain to sustain her war effort and to
relieve thousands of men for the front
swept thousands of household serv-
ants into other occupations, either IN
France in auxiliary corps or INTO mu-
.litions works at home. The shortage
of women in many business houses, es-
pecally in the clothing and other re-
tail establishments, was too allurlng
for hundreds of household servants
to remain at their regular posts with
such high wages and better hours
dangling before their noses. Many
went into the land army, working to
help out the nations food chest, ana
at good wages.
The war has ended but the servant
problem has never been so acute.
Twenty thousand jobs for househlalds
have been registered in London alone,
but 10000 available housemaids desire
other occupations.
Thus, industrial unrest starts in the
home, forcing many wealthy people
to give up big town houses for much
smaller ones, which, in turn, reduces
the number of houses which ordlnar-
lily would accommodate the man of
moderate income.
one of the chief reasons for the
drift downward in England has been
the servant problem. Every family
hotel in London is full up" not to
mention many of the big ones, when
have regular population besides a
! limited transient clientele. Many
wealthy people have had to come into
! London because they could not gel
| servants in the country or to &c
| there
The hand that Yields the potato
! masher in the ordinary London house
| is a soviet in itself, the demands OF
which are rarely brooked by the
| diplomatic housewife, and many OF
! these kitchen inmates refused to ac'
| cept the full scope of the ratlohine
! program during the critical days OF
the submarine ascendancy, though i
would be unfair to say it was anything
like general.
Passing of Low Wages and PR ccs.
The war has seen the passing of
! country of low wages and low price!
to high wages and high prices, witt
many branches of labor trying to more
than keep abreast of prices by de
mands for higher wages without re
| gard to other elements of the popula
tion-the result of which, as always
is that the ordinary man with an ordl
nary income is reading daily of fisher
! men who in ten days make cater
of herring which nets them $500.
The pro-war office boy, who wa
anything but an extinct species, coui'
be easily hired for from So to "a
week. Now, with few to be had, the
don't come with their hats in thel
hands for a jobs, and are temporary
willing to go to work in "cushy' job
for from 81 to $40 week, fully awar
of their indispensabilty and the pow
er they have of making their demand
for attending the numerous funerals
which this particular grade of societ
seems to be addicted to. AS mum
ton maker in the golden war day
some of these boys were making fror
$40 to even $40 a week.
The economist here pictures a stat
of affairs where no one seems Wlllln