EDUCATED ENGLISH DOMESTICS FOR AMERICA
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.].
am afraid your correspondent, Miss W. Wrench, in asking help to secure four maids for America on a two-year contract arrangement is seeking the impossible. In the first place they would have to come within the British quota for entry into the United States, which I understand is full for the balance of this year. Secondly, the proposed contract would be contrary to the laws in America as to imported con- tract labour. Thirdly, if these two conditions did not exist, the rates of wages proposed, being less than those current in America, would cause most " educated " domestics to break the arrangement soon after they arrived and secure employ- ment elsewhere.
If the problem in America of securing servants or " help " as they prefer to be called (very often a misnomer though) were capable of solution in the way Miss Wrench suggests, people over there would not be paying as high as £30 per
month for Japanese servants.—I am, Sir,. &c., .
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