DOMESTIC WORKERS’ UNION.

Evening Star, Issue 22805, 13 November 1937, Page 9

DOMESTIC WORKERS’ UNION.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sir, —“ Sincerity in your issue of November 10 no doubt is sincere in her statements as regards the above union, but it is only natural that would be her viewpoint of things as she employs a maid, apparently; but the fact remains that the domestic workers have a very sorry time as regards hours of work and general conditions in comparison to those who have their 40-hour week (having two days a week entirely free) which is right so far as the latter are concerned. As regards your correspondent’s reference to girls preferring amusements such as dances, picture shows, and meeting, their boy friends, well, that is only quite natural; in fact, most of us are built on those lines, as there is nothing more. dreary than a union meeting, and this deadly social system we are living under makes us positively crave for amusement to break the monotony of life; but all the same, we must attend to union business in order to get fair conditions. I would like to state to your correspondent and others interested that the domestic worker has a very fair average of intelligence. I know this positively, and I believe that the hotelkeepers treat their servants exceptionally well as a rule. The writer has led a rather up and down life (more downs than up) and has. been engaged at times with housemaids, waitresses, cooks, pantrymaids, and knows that what Miss Muirhead states is correct. The first job ever I got was as a lad in a servants’ registry

office, and although it was years ago, I remember they used to call the home workers “slaveys ” and “Mary Anns,” but we have got ahead of that.—l am, etc., Arthur Pickard. November 12. THE ANTI-COMMUNIST PACT. TO THB EDITOR. Sir, —For those who still retain their power to think independently—to draw conclusions only from established facts, —the pact. entered into by the three Fascist Powers must be very enlightening as to the nature of Communism. Hitler, Mussolini and Co. are agreed that it is the very antithesis of Fascism. Therefore a consideration of the nature of Fascism will also reveal the true nature of Communism. We do not judge people by what they think or say about themselves, but by their actions, and the general characteristics of the Fascist Governments of Italy, Germany, and Japan have been internal oppression and external aggression. The very first step of each national group of Fas* cists on seizing power is to obliterate all forms of democratic expression. The industrial and political organisations of the people are wiped out. The Press and platform are prostituted to the service of that monopoly Capitalism for which Fascism constitutes the technique of despotic power. At home Fascism bring back the headsman’s axe and the torture chamber. Abroad, it gives us the object lessons of Abysinnia, Spain and China—everywhere tne destruction of human liberty and culture. Fascism is the deadly enemy of democracy in all its forms. Communism is truly the very opposite and negation of Fascism. It means the realisation of the ideals of democracy, both economic and political. It stands for the removal of all obstructions to the natural and free development of the creative energy of social humanity. _ To be condemned and hated by capitalist class rule is the surest guarantee that Communism represents the most truly moral and progressive movement in the world to-day. — I am, etc., A. B. Powell/ November 13.