HOUSE ORDERLIES

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 28, 1 February 1919, Page 10

HOUSE ORDERLIES

'A DOMESTIC HELP SCHEME,

Servants, trained and organised and working for stated' houre and i fixed scale of w*ges, may revolutionise the happy homes.of England out of all recognition. The Daily Chronicle understands that the scheme for something in the nature of a State Reserve of women is under consideration. Women in official post' tione, seen by tho Chronicle, were unanimously of opinion, that official action regarding domestic workers will have to bo taken before a serious attempt can be made to solve the problem ciKing from Hie rapid demobilisation of thousands of women war-workers. ;

A scheme for a. Honsfihold Orderly Corps, suggested by tha Women's Industrial Council, provided for a weekly wage of 30s, uniform, a 48-hamys week, training centres, hostels, and a board o£ iniamagoment ol employers and workers. _ Officiate of the Women's Industrial Council have, it is understood, been in consultation with Government departments in connection with the organisation of the suggested State Reserve. It is therefore not unlikely that a- Government scheme for a State service of household workers would follow the lines suggested for th© regulations ol the- Houeebold Orderly Corps. The/ Women's Industrial Council, which concerns itself with the conditions of women's employment of all kinds, was TesponsiHo for the formation of the Tijainod Charwomen's Association.