On Thursday new regulations were introduced in connexion with the
payment of out-of-work benefits to women described as domestic servants on the lists of the Employment Exchanges. Among all the abuses of unemployment doles these payments to domestic servants who profess to be unemployed but who refuse work when it is offered to them seems to us to be the worst. On the one side there are the thousands of would-be employers crying out for the help of resident domestic- servants, and on the other hand there are thousands of so-called- non-resident domestic servants refusing resident work and living at the expense of the taxpayer. It seems almost incredible that in a country which is in danger of bankruptcy such a scandalous condition of affairs should be possible. The new regulations must be applied very severely indeed.
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