Dr. Macnamara has instructed the Employment Exchanges to be less
officious in arranging the conditions under which domestic servants shall accept employment. The Exchanges were paying doles to all candidates who refused to take a situation unless the mistresses fell in with the requirements of the Juvenile Advisory Committees. Yet the aim of these Committees was merely to give advice to girls under eighteen years of age. In other words, the exchanges took a bit of advice to young girls about the standard of living they should try to sot up and turned it into a compulsory regulation. Dr. Macnamara would not, of course, acknowledge that such an accusation is just, but if it were not just he would not have reminded the exchanges of the strict limitations of their duties. Whether the advice of the Juvenile Advisory Committees was good or bad, it is really preposterous that the Employment Exchanges should have tried to give it a statutory validity and have freely distributed public money when the bogus law was disregarded!
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