EMIGRANTS OBJECT.

Grey River Argus, 9 April 1927, Page 4

EMIGRANTS OBJECT.

TO STATUS OF DOMESTICS. WOMAN’S FEELING IN BRITAIN. ’ LONDON, April 7. “It is a humiliating slur to suggest that British women can be useful in the Dominion only as domestics,” said Miss Wileman, founder of the Empire League for Overseas Settlement, addressing the Soroptimists’ Club. She complained that they were only invited to migrate as domestics, foi which women of the British professional classes, were wholly’ unfitted, and it was detrimental to British prestige Domestic work overseas was three limes as heavy’ as in England. “It makes my blood boil (she added) to see American women flaunting luxurious wealth, and sneering at the gently-bred middle-class British women working over the border in Canada as domestic drudges.” Sir L. Worthington Evans stated the sum required to carry out works at the Catterick migrants’ training camr was £1,438.000, which was 62 per cent, above the original estimate.