The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-18
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being offered-according to
a.. Henrietta Rothstein, superin-
.a"dout women's division. state en-
alignment bureau.
"Uhllc We are getting a plumber
~ applicants every day for house
.orE and cooking, the girls are not
mtuInp to accept more than a 10
rer cent reduction In wages CON
,irued Miss Rothstein. MANY of
them. rather ms work Tor lower
wages. are taking a few months va
r,Won They are able to do this on
,bsir mvings OF the last two years.
while we have so per cent more APP
,rsauts than we had a year ago,
we are not able TO supply the de-
raud for cooks at the wages being
nSfersd. People seem TO think that
,bere are So many servants out of
work that they will be glad to take
.%nythiug from S25 a month up. This
W not tho case. The high wages OF
7 mo last few years have made the
Girls very Independent and with no
',ore unemployment among do
,festic help than there Is at present.
there is small chance OF a marked
decrease in wages the next few
rtnuths. We have been able TO place
few maids for general housework
at $40 a month, but the cheaper
helm does not give entire satisfaction.
cooks are now peing paid from $50
10 $50 a month and general house
workers from $40 to $50 a month
These are average salaries. II In
not unusual for the specialized cook
20 receive a higher salary.
"Colored servants are plentiful,
but most Of them only work half q
day and they all want to go home
at night. Even on a 2 to s p. m
schedule they are asking so and $40
a week. There Is little demand
for the halliday servant. With few
exceptions our calls are all for full
time workers. We have at present
many more cleaning women applying
to us for work than we can find
Jobs for. This may be due to the
general reduction in the force Of
cleaners in both homes and office
buildings. The wages for these WON
Il ave dropped from $3.50 to $40
bday.
The general unemployment
among factory and Industrial work
ers will not affect the demand for
domestic help. The factory worker
rarely becomes a good servant In
the few cases where It has been
d tried out, II has not been successful
Most Of these girls had rather starve
than work in n kitchen. Neither
has the cight-hour day for do
mestics worked out successfully.
Housewives who have tried Il have
difficulty in finding girls living at
home who will give part time. The
best satisfaction is given by the
servant who lives in the house.
During the war man. OF the
cooks and housemaids went into
munitions plants to work. Almost
militant aNgnnFtnn .hn,r Ia,sn sc
turned to their old jobs. Factory
workers and clerks seem to try
many different branches OF work.
but once a cook always a cook. And
with wages what they are at present
4 the cook Is much better off than
the stenographer who gets hut S25
4 a week and must pay all her ex-
penses.'
Two thousand cooks from our
agency alone have recently returned
10 Europe to visit their relatives"
sald Andrew Lazare of the Lazare
employment bureau. This gives
one some idea Of the number of do
y mestics who have profitcd by the
recent period OF prosperity to save
enough for a long vacation. Many
OF these girls have written me that
they are anxious to return, but have
bSen held up by the immigration
$AN limiting the number of aliens
~ coming into the United States from
l each country.
Willis we placed nearly 1900
cooks last year. we will not by 10
4 per cent reach that number this
II year There has been a falling off
IN applications for domestic work
"a gs Many housewives are doing
. itr own work and others who
nave had five and six servants have
sduced their staff to two OF three.
inns rs. Of course, the duh season
n ana II IL impossible to tell before
INC lst 10 the 18TH of October
whether the number OF girls coming
IN from the country will meet the
usual tall demand. First class cooks
n are SUI getting from SIS to 500 and
nogsemaids from SIS to $40. There
n nds been n 10 per cent reduction
~ az wages and there il apt to be
+ another drop.
ihere are many more Irish girls
sppIylng for positions than other
II uu%uohauties NJ: clients prefer
ld~inavians make equally good
ones, The al very few French
.poks In this country and prac-
nraay no Italian cooks, at least
S"ohE the women. Italian parents
. y NOT let their daughters 60 into
SSnestic service. when Italian
IN falS come to the United States thew
III nv always accompanied by their
~ 1ulies. They have not the ag-
NeasVenes of other Europeans,
Inc rev French girls who come 10
usually want positions as gov
n.sses and ladies' maids. From
4 .nLIal Europe comes the strongest,
",u'est type Of general housework-
n on9 usually the most loyal. Sean
oornaVIans change their positions
liner than other nationalities."
y vrSbIopos or :he' migration Of the
II boen,N enriched servant girl 10
Ivy lGlherland, Is the story told by
II OF me older employment man.
,b,v's OF the Irish girl who had
" ,9 s his bureau secured several
vvcr' positions m had filled them
II sea rredltably. She came in n
n u,. MN n day, saying that she
& sos gong back TO Ireland to settle
N III ana get married.
IA ssLHoW much have you saved p
~ the employment manage
N aDn,t $4,000 said tho girl. you
"a Us" Ihat is a good dowry in Ire
III can buy myself a husband
81 ! Few months the girl reap.
IA 'ared and asked for a ioh