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  |\n| --- |\n\nReproductionsmaynotbe made without permission from Columbia UniversityLibraries  \n### RESTRICTIONS ON USE:\n\n   \n   \n## TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\n   \nFILM SIZE:35mm9:/  \nREDUCTION RATIO:  \nIIB  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nIB  \n   \n   \nDATE FILMED:w 3-26-97  \nINITIALS:  \n   \n   \nTRACKING\\#:22920  \n   \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \nSERVANTS'REGISTRIESAND THESERVANTPROBLEM.  \nTHE  \nNATIONALREGISTRY,LIMITED.  \n308  \nZ  \n80x14   \nC132021351923  \nCOMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT:  \n(prorisional)  \nTHE REV.THE HoN.H.DouGLAS,M.A.,D.CL.,Vicar of StPaul's,Worcester,and Hon.Canon of Worcester and ofCumbrae.  \nMiss M.DoUGLAs,St.Paul's,Worcester,  \nN.C.GRAYSTox,Grayston's Printing Works,Ipswich.THE REV.G.F.HoOPER,M.A.,St.Oswald's,Worcester.  \nH.B.KENWARD,Chairman of the Worcester Board of GuardiansARTHUR E.LoRD,Hallow Mount,Worcester,Solicitor,ERNEST PRENTICE,The Arcade,Ipswich,Accountant.JoHx WALKER,Manager of Messrs.Berwick,Lechmere &Co.'sBank.  \nHONORARY TREASURER:  \n(pro tem)  \nMiss M.DoUGLAS.  \nHONORARY SECRETARY:  \n(pro tem)  \nCECIL.BuRCH,late of the Statistical Department of the Councilof Foreign Bondholders.  \nREGISTERED OFFICES:  \n8,9 &10,Rugby Chambers,Great Jimes Street,Bedford Row,London,W.c.  \n[The National Registry,Limited,will supply Menand Women Servants of every description,and isempowered to undertake and carry on any workwhich is conducive to the interests of Employersand Employed.]  \nThe National Registry,  \nLIMITED.  \nRegistered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act,r&93.  \nCbe Aims and Objects of tbe Society.  \nTHE NATIONAL REGISTRY,LIMITED,has been formedfor the purpose of organizing a National DomesticService Bureau.Its promoters hope to establish districtbureaux in the county towns and elsewhere throughoutthe country,with a central organization in London,thewhole forming one great Co-operative Society for themutual.advantage of Mistresses and Servants.Thevarious Bureaux willbe open to the three-and-a-quartermillions of Mistresses and Servants who form one-tenthof the entire population of the country,and specialprivileges willbe accorded to those—both Mistressesand Servants—who enroll themselves as Members.  \n4  \nDomestic Service is often regarded as an inferiorcalling,degrading to those engaged therein,and as aconsequence it is shunned by many of the most suitablegirls.The Society will endeavour to remove this stigmaand draw attention to the advantages of DomesticService,and thereby induce desirable girls to take upthe work.  \nThe rules of the Society provide that a portion of theprofits may be set apart for the establishment andsupport of institutions,such as Domestic TrainingSchools and Homes of Rest,and for the promotion ofa Benefit Scheme for Servants with all the advantagesof Friendly Societies.The profits will also be availablefor recognizing faithful service and rendering assistance,by loans or grants,to deserving servants in times ofsickness or other adversity.  \nCbe Reed for tbe Society.  \nThe difficulty of getting good domestic servants,whenand as desired,is so widespread that the servant difficultyis one of the most pressing social problems of the day.At the same time there are thousands upon thousands ofwomen and girls unemployed,or carrying on a lingeringand miserable existence on starvation wages.  \nAnd this state of affairs exists in spite of the fact thatthere are several thousands of registry offices scatteredabout the country,professing to provide mistresses withservants and servants with places,and drawing from themistresses a","cbCaiu9gWQLsc1up","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiu9gWQLsc1up","pdf",464289,"English","# The National Registry, Limited\n## Bibliographic Microform Target\n## Restrictions on Use\n## Technical Microform Data\n## Committee of Management (Provisional)\n## Aims and Objects of the Society\n## The Need for the Society\n## How Existing Registries Operate","[{\"question\":\"What organization is described in the document?\",\"answer\":\"The National Registry, Limited, formed to organize a national domestic service bureau with district branches and a central London organization.\"},{\"question\":\"What problem does the society aim to solve?\",\"answer\":\"The document frames the “servant difficulty” as a pressing social problem, noting widespread shortage of good domestic servants alongside large numbers of unemployed or underemployed women and girls.\"},{\"question\":\"Why are privately owned registry offices criticized?\",\"answer\":\"They are described as benefiting proprietors rather than solving the servant problem, lacking cooperation between offices, operating competitively without balancing supply and demand, and sometimes being inefficient or extracting fees without fulfilling obligations.\"}]","Servants' Registries and the Servant Problem | PDF",1789962227,25]