Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-09-03
HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS
Domestic Workers Losing Friends by InsOlence,
BOOrishness
By Joseph d. Bib

Almost the time the depression
virtually held monopoly jobs involving mental duties and
dudg They about holding down these jobs heery and
phlOsOphcay White people claimed and captured the most
owy these positions unemployment panic
cast ad and compelled appeal public charity in order
body and soul together But fate and destiny had other plans
and because of present conditions olored help and
old jobs and thousands of opportunities have been thrown
The advised attitudes
jobs and of their the of this discussion
Can m-AfOrd to Lose Goodwill
alleged boorshness grumbng grouhness
nsoenc independent attitudes colored domestic
menas rapidly arousng the ire many old
employers charged that domestic workers have taken them
selves the ake it leave" attitude and have adopted the disgusting
that you fire and do any better" Employers
whispering their friends and associates that they afraid speak
loud in their households because the ooed help" will quit
at the drop of a hat.
There moderng resentment everywhere and there are those
itching reckoning" which
strikes this observer that the coored Americans aord
lose the goodwill that they have built domestic workers through
the long and dreary years.
Made Valuable Contacts
outstanding
the wash
tubs and the kitchen get them school, Many OF them
aided people, whom their
worked We know of nnumerabe professional whose
offices fitted and who started out
by wespoed white for whom they had performed
chores and mental tasks
Americans their valuable
their friendships through the medium of
oy tasks would be the height of mprovdnce and fooness
these friendships these be destroyed
cood needs friend that he and the
distant when there will not be enough jobs around
experience expect
past has been poverty suffering, bread lines and beggary
Too Weak Stand Alone
Household workers. unsked domescs and handymen
commanding places dollar an hour for scrubbg floors and
washing perform their
anybody who along
They with urnss gumbng and contempt The tales of
told by househoders astonishing and sometimes
compelled marvel the unmgaed and frozen gall
people, who just months leaning WPA hoves
their freezing feet the breadnes the miseree of
"God give US bread"
destroying bonds of friendship that have
built period of time they continue and endure
people bound suffer- independent and
weak alone 1t time that
degn take these mental jobs should be courteous
sderate and enterprng.
There Is a Better Way
thought conending that
help included within the purew of the Wage and Hour
baed by the arocous
themselves We
how domestic help has been rhssy exploited We know
they human chat the past
cognant of how these menials have worked e fingers to
bone days by We have been told of the
overo hpn and dust We know of household sweat
learned that these prob
boorshnes surnss
better Domeics know how to ngratate them
of Efficiency courtesy and dpo
macy successful folk 1t me to burn
that have carried the turbulent storms of the
ALLEVIATE old friends and poison the minds of those
w newly meeting
dignity in human labor and
the bong hord Of the world place
is being organization intelligent direction col
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